Reminiscinces – I was in America on September 11, 2001
Posted by m beduya on September 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) Towers, the Pentagon and the Capitol in Washington D.C that fateful Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001 is the international event of my generation. Most of us would remember where we were when it happened (the first attack was at 8:46 p.m. Manila time). In Las Vegas [...]
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SYNTHESiST Migrates to Nuffnang for Online Ads from Google Adsense
Posted by m beduya on April 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment
SYNTHESiST has shifted ad provider to Nuffnang from Google Adsense. Without explanation, Google stopped ad service to SYNTHESiST. I have tried to reach anybody for an explanation but I could not find an address that was human to communicate. SYNTHESiST itself is not designed as a commercial blog but one for advocacy and enriching the [...]
Filed under News and Stories · Tagged with AdSense, general purpose technologies, Google, Internet, Nuffnang, SYNTHESiST
SYNTHESiST Refines for Better Focus – Content – Experience – Reach 294.0
Posted by m beduya on March 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
SYNTHESiST Installs Facebook-Like Social Network Button 289.0
Posted by m beduya on February 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment
A few moons behind the leading edge, I have installed improvements in the social network and search capabilities supporting SYNTHESiST. As with the addition of the SYNTHESiST Facebook Page in early January (maybe a year late), adding the Facebook-like button is a response to the rapid growth of social networks and the mainstream acceptance of [...]
Google Penalizes SYNTHESiST for Slow Homepage Load Time
Posted by m beduya on January 13, 2011 · 3 Comments
You may have noticed the changes in SYNTHESiST home page layout. In another concession to search engine optimization or SEO, I had to simplify the home page after Big Brother Google penalized SYNTHESiST for slow homepage load time on December 14, 2010. The punishment was harsh. Google made SYNTHESiST unsearchable from the its index and [...]
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Shado Starts a Blog as I Pose Polls for Richer Conversations 277.0
It is great to start the year with good news! Of which I share two today. 1.0 Welcome, Shado, to the community! Shado is my nephew. After some agonizing, he decided to take the plunge and become a blogger. He is only 19-years old and the first among my immediate relatives to study in Ateneo. [...]
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Change Management by Co-evolution of Institutions 273.0
Posted by m beduya on December 15, 2010 · 6 Comments
Change management is part of my teaching focus and consulting practice but it clearly just applies at the firm level. At the sector or national innovation systems level, technical change with co-evolution of institutions and industry structure for catch-up by emerging markets seems more apt for SYNTHESiST. Thus to provide a focus with the apt [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, News and Stories · Tagged with appreciative theory, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, catch-up, change management, Christopher Freeman, co-evolution, competitiveness, Douglass North, emerging markets, evolutionary economics, innovation systems, institutions, Kathleen Eisenhardt, Richard Nelson, Social Innovation
Second Edition of Entrepreneurship Development Course at AIM 253.0
Posted by m beduya on October 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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SYNTHESiST Stirs Some Client-Initiated Advertising Interest 252.0
Posted by m beduya on September 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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Top Ten Philippines Websites by Alexa Rank as of September 8 2010
Posted by m beduya on September 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This is the third in a series of reports on the top ten Philippine websites by Alexa as of Sept 8 after the second on May 23 and the first on Feb 19. Overall, it is still the same mix of buy-and-sell, news, entertainment, job hunting and Cebu Pacific, the airline that I think has [...]
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Waiting for the 2010 Nobel Prize Winners 246.0
Posted by m beduya on September 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Learning and Teaching, News and Stories · Tagged with Akira Suzuki, Amartya Sen, Christopher Pissarides, competitiveness, Dale Mortensen, Ei-ichi Negishi, Elinor Ostrom, Kenneth Arrow, Konstantin Novoselov, Liu Xiaobo, Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize, Paul Krugman, Paul Romer, Peter Diamond, Richard Heck, Robert Solow
Teaching a Platform Program on Dealer Development at AIM 238.0
Posted by m beduya on August 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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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