Corporate Blogging in the Philippines

Jan emailed me yesterday and asked me about the state of corporate blogging in the country:

Hi and good day! I’m currently looking for companies in the Philippines who allow their employees to blog about their products, processes, etc… Companies who embrace corporate blogging. Is there a company right now who openly does this? If not, do you know of an employee who’s allowed to blog about his company’s products, processes, etc…? Even a company who do corporate blogging internally would be appreciated.

I’m helping a friend with her thesis and we need someone whom we can interview regarding the subject matter. I’ve been googling for a while now and it seems that not a lot, if any, of companies do corporate blogging in Philippines. And the I saw your post about corporate blogging so I figured that you might be able to point us in the right direction.

Thank you very much for your time. A kind response would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Jan Alonzo

I thought I’d share my response to the rest of my readers here.

Around January 2005, Kokoro Works launched with co-founder Gabby Dizon evangelizing corporate blogging especially for small businesses. They have a corporate blog here and a related interview here at Inq7.net.
January 27, 2005, Trends and Technologies (a leading Solutions Provider in the Information and Communications Technology. With extensive experience in Voice and Data Communications, we are capable of delivering the best services to the customers, from design and consultancy, to installation and maintenance.) launches its corporate blog called BlogIT.
Last month, Sheero Media, a local web development company based in Quezon City, sought my help in looking for corporate bloggers for their clients which I posted here.
Last month, Outsource2Philippines (O2P) added a section on their corporate website a blog which allows company executives to share information and industry news. Inq7.net covered the story here.
Domain Registrar dot.PH and provider of blogging server i.PH was actually hunting for a corporate blogger last year. An offer was given to Connie of houseonahill.net but she declined. dot.PH has since scrapped the idea of corporate blogging.

There are a couple of other people I know who are into corporate blogging but I’m not sure if I am at liberty to disclose about them here. However, the companies involve are not really based locally but they have the bloggers working from an office in Makati.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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5 Comments

moncler spaccio says:

13 years ago

Together with every little thing that seems to be building within this specific area, all your opinions are actually rather stimulating. Nevertheless, I appologize, but I do not give credence to your entire strategy, all be it radical none the less. It seems to us that your commentary are generally not totally justified and in fact you are yourself not really fully convinced of the assertion. In any case I did appreciate reading it.
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Wauks says:

17 years ago

I’m not sure if this counts as a corporate blog but I cater mostly to the gamers of Level up (where I work).
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Miguel says:

19 years ago

This is a very good topic for iBlog. I hope someone can present on it. Unfortunately, holding it on a work weekday rules it out for many people.
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Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

Ahh, J, that’s one of the things I actually discussed with Wilma in our last meeting. I did mention to her that you seem to be th e”unofficial” blogger of dotPH but since you’re not with them anymore, no one else has replaced your “position”. ;)
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J. Angelo Racoma says:

19 years ago

I don’t think dotPH scrapped the idea of corporate blogging altogether. That’s part of what I did when I was still there–though only part of my responsibilities, and not exactly in the TOR on paper.

The firm actually has a blogging policy that encourages staff to blog, especially since the company develop a blogging service itself.

Wait, am I one of “the couple of other people”? Nah, I don’t think so.
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