Social Media Explosion

some hard facts on social media usage, with Renzie Baluyut.

Do you still think social media is a fad?

They're already calling it a revolution-- the social media revolution. Quite possibly the biggest socio-economic shift since the Industrial Revolution.

I've been a traditional marketer for the better part of my radio career. While I've started blogging and getting into Facebook and Twitter some two-and-a-half years ago, I've only realized the value of social media for small business owners, entrepreneurs and internet professionals several months into immersing myself in the whole media scene.

I hope to post some compelling facts about new media usage in the Philippines in the near future. In the meantime, you may want to watch this video from TeacherTube.com.

This particular video was posted about a month ago (09 Sept 2009).

The video was made to some tuneage from Fatboy Slim. "Right Here, Right Now" was released in 1999, from Fatboy Slim's second studio album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby.

A similar post appears on my other blog, The Life and Times of The Renzie Man | A Blog on an Independent, Proactive and Stress-Free Lifestyle.

Cheers, everyone.

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Great Blogger Templates at Our Blogger Templates

blog-building tips and advice, with Renzie Baluyut.

There must be a lot of other bloggers out there like me- those who may have also spent a great deal of time trying on different blog templates for their Blogspot blogs.

It's both a good thing AND a bad thing: editing your blog template on Blogspot is fairly easy. Whether you make your own, or you choose one of many available free (or paid) blog templates already online, you can go right ahead and pick whatever design that suits your fancy.

Conversely, because it's so easy to customize a blog, you could just as easily lose yourself in selecting a template for your site. Or fall into the trap of changing every so often.

In any case, if you are looking around for a new blog template, you may consider these guys over at Our Blogger Templates. They got all kinds of free templates (and not just for Blogspot), so go right ahead and check them out.

In fact, I had gone right ahead picking one out for this blog, and a couple others. This one is for an old blog I plan to resurrect soon.

This one is for an entirely new blog. Generally, I'd say I'm pretty happy with how it all looks.

I almost always go for a 3-column design, with room for widgets on the side, and then put in some RSS feeds so I don't have to keep jumping from one site to another on a particular topic.

So go right ahead and check out Our Blogger Templates. They have so much going on that there's bound to be one you'd absolutely like for you blog.

Cheers, everyone.

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The Big Step Forward

It seems that life, for me, began at 33. I've never had this kind of clarity ever before. I've decided to take a major step forward in my life, and yeah, it's just awesome.

It would really be great to do nothing but sit around at home all day, playing games and watching DVDs- but after 2 months of that- it got incredibly boring!

Which made me think, really. What did I really want to do? I definitely want to make cash, but none of the responsibilities (at least as little as I could possibly have). So that's goal #1: Finding a fairly laid-back, but just as financially and mentally rewarding day job. Why laid-back? Because I also wanted to do other things OUTSIDE work: I'd like to hit the gym, I'd like to learn me some new skills, like SEO, internet marketing, etc, I'd like to have my own businesses. And more importantly, I'd like to spend time with the important things in life- my family and friends.

Yes, it can be done. And all this- this blog- is all about my new life. I love it that I have been in radio for the past 12 years, that I've run a floor with as much as 120 agents at any given time, and that I've been directly involved in making business better for the last radio station I worked for.

This is a time for making new friends and allies. A time for discovery and a time for learning. This blog, ambitious as it may be, is for everyone who has taken a brave big step forward- scary, yes, but terribly fulfilling in the end.

Good luck to us all! Cheers!

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