It's out! Fly Love Yourself with Sebastian Castro of Bubbles

Making videos for The Love Yourself  has been very important in communicating our efforts for the advocacy. We aim to extend what we know through a media that can easily be understood. We involve a team of creatives to execute critical info into something that young folks (who are considered to be at high risk by health sectors) can take notice of.

The project was well anticipated as we feature the internet celebrity +Sebastian Castro . During the production, I got a chance to talk with him where he expressed his creative ventures as a painter, composer, and even his plans in the future as an artist. "Sebby" (as most of his pals call him) is indeed a sweet guy to hang-out with. I did ask him about his career plans as I have noticed that there were numerous media coverages about him from various TV networks, magazines, and more. He even shared that he will release an album within this year that includes Bubble, and this was confirmed by his talent manager +Dennis Sebastian .

I further asked if he has any showbiz plans, well he wanted to go into acting but aimed to improve his knowledge in speaking Filipino first, for the meantime he's taking roles where his script is written in English. I feel his eagerness to really collaborate with the industry and we do hope that he won't simply be typecast in roles that would limit his talents.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank a couple of my friends, advocates, and other entities who have shared this video online. As of the moment, we are reaching nearly 35,000 views since it was published last May 8, 2013 (Fly Love Yourself: How to Have Sex and Avoid HIV (featuring Sebastian Castro). Please take time to click play and feel free to share this link as well - http://youtu.be/-Xak0Q_IY5E

This May, the organization has numerous activities lined-up, we have the remaining Saturdays of May as TLY-oke at Fab Malate. This is for all folks who likes to sing in a videoke. Then on May 21 at 7pm, we are having our Silver Screenings at Robinsons Galleria and we're bringing two (2) independent films: Juana Change the Movie & Slumber Party The Movie. You can get both movies for only P500.00 and the proceeds will go to the various activities of the organization which includes, but not limited to, free HIV Counseling and Testing.

Slumber Party was shown earlier in limited independent film events and the chemistry shown in this film is so good to revisit and this time at a bigger venue! +Markki Stroem , is indeed one of the promising actors of his generation. Aside from his charming looks is his beautiful voice (Click this LINK to listen)

 

For anyone who wants to hear the song i composed about the golddigger experience :). I give u, iron curtain :) twitmusic.com/markkistroem/s…
— Markki Stroem (@Markkistroem) April 24, 2013

Aside that Juana Change is a indeed a comedy satire, it also features a gorgeous guy +John James Uy one of the male models of Bench Clothing.

Indeed May is a busy month for the Lovers, and we ask for your support. Enjoy the movies while sharing our vision for a healthier HIV/AIDS-free country!

Thank you. 

Warner Music Philippines to Zendee: I Believe

Finally, another Pinay who amazes +Ellen Degeneres is achieving her dreams and a big recording studio is helping her to fulfill it. The label behind international artists like +Josh Groban +Jason Mraz and +Bruno Mars, along with local artists like Rico Blanco, General Luna and many more.

Warner Music Philippines proudly announces the release of debut album of  ZENDEE titled “ I BELIEVE. ”

Watch and discover more of Zendee by clicking play

Senatorial Candidates 2013 and The Surveys Online

There's much hype of who's leading the pack, even candidates considered to be teammates are unbelievably distrusting of each other.

Few more days before the elections and definitely things could go nastier and more issues to rock the survey results. Let me express my kudos to the team behind the following websites, from media, who are taking commendable efforts just to either provide a good insight about our senators or probably just making things more fun for this elections.

Gone are the days, where netizens would just be baffled on the results from SWS or Pulse Asia surveys. Since social media is owned by people, then let the real voice be heard, or let's say be viral:

• ABS-CBN Halalan2013 - As part of their continuing service to the Filipino people :) Halalan2013 with sets of actual debates happening on screen. They came up with sort of mood meter, or as expounded as the online buzz around your senatorial bets in terms of search volume and social media mentions.

Engage 2013: From London via Live Stream

390 GBP (British Pound Sterling) to 24,819.09 PHP (Philippine peso) exclusive of airfare, visa and more. That's how much I saved in exchange of staying late at night just for me to attend the highly anticipated SocialBakers.com's annual conference for digitally savvy professionals and very engaged brand stakeholders. 

+Socialbakers.com  is a user friendly social media analytics platform which provides a leading global solution that allows brands to measure, compare, and contrast the success of their social media campaigns with competitive intelligence. Its name has always been mentioned to state the ranking of brands all over the world in terms of their social media performance - number of likes, engagement in Facebook, number of followers on Twitter and other significant social media platform. In Philippines, the number 1 rank is owned by Nescafe Philippines with nearly 6.5 million fans. 

As a social media professional, it is important that I have to keep myself abreast to global practices too. Apparently  global or multinational companies are more aggressive in exploring internet marketing. According to +Pete Blackshaw, Nestle use social in three (3) main ways: Listening, Engaging, Inspiring and various events were done in eight (8) months straight for community management, hackathons, thought leadership at the corporate headquarters and many other endeavors. It has over 600 Facebook pages alone, Nestle posts over 1,300 pieces of unique content. Utilizing Socialbakers to analyze data, benchmark against competition and increasing listening skills has significantly assisted Nestle’s social strategy.