Reminiscinces – I was in America on September 11, 2001
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 [...]
SYNTHESiST Blogroll Links to Malou Tiquia and The Lobbyist 323.0
Curator’s Wand will be a recurring section in SYNTHESiST that records significant links on relevant subjects from the Internet links that I curate regularly in my Facebook page. This first edition of the Curator’s Wand is about a post by Malou Tiquia in her blog, The Lobbyist, on the newly launched book, Ambition Destiny Victory. [...]
Social Innovation in Campaign Finance to Boost the Art of Associating 313.0
Quietly, many groups are working for better political institutions like campaign finance and program-based political parties as social innovations in the Philippines. I attended a high-powered symposium yesterday – except for the absence of representatives from the key constituency of political parties – on Increasing Transparency in Campaign Finance. Symposiums like these are done to [...]
SYNTHESiST Migrates to Nuffnang for Online Ads from Google Adsense
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 [...]
Are the bloggers fury well spent on Willie?
First, my short response … [I do not think so! The bloggers must go deeper beyond the exploitation of Janjan and even beyond Willie. He is merely exploiting a structural problem in our society, in fact a messenger.] I have not seen Willie Revillame on TV for a long time. Before Janjan, I have never [...]
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 [...]
SYNTHESiST Installs Facebook-Like Social Network Button 289.0
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
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 [...]
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. [...]
Change Management by Co-evolution of Institutions 273.0
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 [...]
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 [...]
