How to Empower the Youth to Innovate

Self-taught African Teen Wows M.I.T. While I was on my way to the office and browsing through my mobile phone, I saw my friend Ryan Lee Cox, posted about how a Self-taught African Teen Wows M.I.T. The headline intrigued me and viewing the video of how a 15-Year-Old, Kelvin Doe, an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators…
Read more...First World Problems Aren’t Problems [VIDEO]

Your First World Problems Aren’t Real Problems WaterIsLife, the organization behind a portable filtration device designed to instantly provide clean drinking water from any source, together with DDB NY, produced the First World Problems Anthem which aims to make people realize that the so-called “first world problems” aren’t real problems. Living in a country where people complain about the smallest things like long queue at the fast food (not even considering that many people…
Read more...Why It’s Better to Talk than to Shout in Social Media

How Successful Marketers Use Social Media for Business Success Selling online obviously involves grabbing a customer’s attention, and this leads some individuals to act a little unruly in terms of their advertising materials. In other words, some marketers online, whether using Facebook or another brand of social media, outright “shout” at their market, pushing exceedingly too hard when trying to make a sale. Pushing too hard in the realm of social media isn’t…
Read more...I Did Not Buy the iPhone 5, Yet I Feel Good

Ditched the Plan of Buying iPhone 5 for Clean Water Today, I was supposed to buy my very first iPhone – the iPhone 5. I was thrilled with the idea of having the hottest phone in town. Just like everyone who wants to get their hands on the latest Apple product; I woke up early in the morning so I could walk in to one of the phone centers here…
Read more...Financial Education and Social Media – How They Can Help You Save Children from Dying

How Can Social Media and Financial Literacy Aid in Advocacy? The ills of our society are formidable challenges that ought to be faced head on. In this age of the internet and social media, we are (more than ever) connected as a people to unite for this work to be completed. These challenges are not new to Filipinos. The Philippines, after all, is still a third world country. Government data…
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