Mozilla Firefox 4 launched in the Philippines with Alab as Mascot

Mozilla Firefox launched its latest Version 4 together with the introduction of a mascot for the Philippines, Alab for Filipino flare, attired as a revolutionary Katipunero. The image above shows community leader, Regnard Raquedan, introducing Alab, as the Mozilla Firefox mascot for the Philippines that was created by Martin Jimenez. I am happy to be [...]

SYNTHESiST Refines for Better Focus – Content – Experience – Reach 294.0

Fast changes in Google search and Facebook social graph technologies dictate continuous learning of new skills and techniques for SYNTHESiST. On top of these internal changes, I have put in place changes to refine its focus, content, experience and reach to better serve her community – a relentless challenge indeed. I am sharing on a [...]

Rice Commodity Price Increases from Quantitative Easing 285.0

There may be a way to take off from Ben Bernanke and get a better price for imported rice this year in the Philippines if we go proactive. Ben Bernanke at the National Press Club. Speaking more about fiscal policy and deficit, Chairman Ben Bernanke absolves the Federal Reserve from the emerging commodity price bubble [...]

Smart Phone and Social Media Advances Make SYNTHESiST Adapt 284.0

The second year anniversary for SYNTHESiST is coming up on February 25, 2011. The need to improve content and advances in technology are driving me to innovate. SYNTHESiST has progressed some ways. Still, a lot more work needs to be done in the coming twelve months to improve itself in content and technology to improve [...]

The New York Times Truly Takes up Social Media 267.0

I was pleasantly surprised to see my good facebook friends, Atty. Luie Guia and Denis Du, on the front page, onscreen of my online New York Times in the box, Latest in My Network. It turns out that they have used the links button on New York Times online to recommend articles on Facebook. As [...]

CARD MRI Fosters an Army of Entrepreneurs with Microfinance 266.0

In December 1986, the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) Inc. was organized as a social development foundation to address the growing poverty incidence in depressed communities in Regions IV and V. From the beginning, CARD sought to achieve this goal by turning poor, landless, rural women into an army of entrepreneurs by granting [...]

15 Books – My Favorites from Top of Mind

I hope the microblog post 15 Books on Facebook Notes becomes viral. My gifted friend, James Matthew Miraflor, who I hailed in my February 25 (SYNTHESiST anniversary and People Power) post, started the microblog. And I linked with my own favorite 15 Books and tagged fifteen friends with it. James has his heart in the [...]

8th GLOBELICS – Making Innovation Work for Society 257.0

Through SYNTHESiST, my work to enrich the conversation on innovation systems and change management in emerging markets like the Philippines gets me to meet interesting people – scholars who move their worlds with knowledge work. In two weeks, I will attend my first GLOBELICS, the 8th Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence [...]

Second Edition of Entrepreneurship Development Course at AIM 253.0

The second offering for 2010 Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) at the Asian Institute of Management will commence tomorrow, October 4, through October 15. I will be teaching many of the modules in the next two weeks in addition to two modules for a growth strategy short course at the Executive Education and Life Long Learning [...]

SYNTHESiST Stirs Some Client-Initiated Advertising Interest 252.0

For what it’s worth, SYNTHESiST has generated its first real advertising interest from the Web. SYNTHESiST already accommodates AdSense; Google’s program to install context-related ads on spaces allocated to them by blog publishers. These first expressions of interests validates two hypotheses: Firstly, SYNTHESiST already has some traffic to justify the interest; and, Secondly, the traffic [...]

Waiting for the 2010 Nobel Prize Winners 246.0

Th 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was updated on October 11, 2010: Peter Diamond (MIT), Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University), Christopher Pissarides (LSE) shared the prize for research that improved the understanding of search frictions in markets. Their work allowed a more realistic case than classic perfect competition in [...]

Teaching a Platform Program on Dealer Development at AIM 238.0

For the first time ever, I am teacher and Program Director for an executive training course – a five-day customized management development program for dealer-entrepreneurs – at the Asian Institute of Management. As Program Director, I designed the course and selected the teaching staff. I am also the production manager and thus far this week [...]

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