Comments on: 2007 Philippine Elections: Will Online Campaigns Work?

By: And the award for Best Use of Plurk goes to… · Stellify

And the award for Best Use of Plurk goes to… · Stellify — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:19:04 +0000

[...] the 2007 Philippine local and legislative elections going online? We’re less than a year away from electing a new president, and online campaigning has gotten [...]

By: ABS-CBN Signs an Advertising Deal with Multiply * Stellify

ABS-CBN Signs an Advertising Deal with Multiply * Stellify — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:10:16 +0000

[...] One the one hand, this is great news for the Philippine state of new media. Someone from the mainstream recognizes its growth and wishes to take advantage of it. On the other hand, this is merely an ad deal, which means there doesn’t seem to be any significant drive by either company to create something ingenious on the Web, which this country is in dire need of. [...]

By: Pian

Pian — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:56:08 +0000

TO ALL
I know this to be out of place. Please bear with me. I just want to create awareness by choosing the busy forum or the latest.
Do consider Dr. Martin Bautista for the next elections obviously (a senatorial candidate of “Ang Kapatiran” together with Adrian Sison and Zosimo Paredes). He’s a 44-year-old gastroenterologist in the US who came home after 17 years. You can see from his background that he truly means service. For those who find him to be a hypocrite for working abroad, do understand he’s a family man who needs to sustain his family, that he will be able to keep his independence by not relying on public funds to support his family. He helps his countrymen in his capacity but it’s just not enough for there are millions of Filipinos. It’s a good start in Philippine Politics to have him and his party around.
I urge you to forward/text/inform all your contacts about them. I believe they only lack exposure that’s why I’m doing this. But I can’t do it alone so I’m appealing to everyone’s help. If all will inform their contacts about them and urge them as well to forward, we might hit a million.
We cannot afford to be indifferent now if we want meaningful change. Otherwise we only have ourselves to blame. BUT TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

By: Pian

Pian — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:53:53 +0000

I believe in the near future it will work but right now we’re still on the learning curve. Just like in TV advertising, the campaign should come to us, not the other way around. It should be more convenient for the public to know the candidates. To retain the free information, if a search should be performed, the candidates must ensure their websites would appear within the top 10 of the search. Right now what I did is to perform various searches from different choices by copy-paste from word, bookmarked the election sites where I will post the candidates I want to promote to widen their exposure and retain the cost-free exercise.

By: cyber istambay

cyber istambay — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:22:49 +0000

I like your article and the design is just fantastic, I feel so unworthy, hehehe.

I posted my email addy, I just don’t know if you can get it? If not here is my email pedestrianobserver@yahoo.com .

The data on internet users in the Philippines seems big, do you have the source?

I plan to write this story in my blog and will cite your article so can you please email me for the clarification on the data, thanks.

By: Online Guide to Election 2007 «

Online Guide to Election 2007 « — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:09:56 +0000

[...] “If you’re going to launch an effective online campaign, you need to consider the specific online behavior of Filipinos and not just assume that putting up a website will cut it. If a candidate’s online gimmicks grab the attention of mainstream media, that’s a good sign”. stellify.net : 2007 Philippine Elections: Will Online Campaigns Work? [...]

By: ia

ia — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:36:07 +0000

Ver, you can inspect the websites of the candidates who have in Regnard’s mini blog series. :)

By: Ver

Ver — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:49:44 +0000

Yeah, been wondering if any candidate in this year’s polls have actually harnessed the power of the internet.

By: ia

ia — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:55:43 +0000

Regnard, yeah, of course!

Corsarius, yeah, I know it’s the “try to know everything” complex/idealism whatever. But as I said, the first step is in realizing a plain old flashy website isn’t going to cut it. I’d love to see them try out YouTube or other 2.0 website that have become hits (“patok”) specifically in this country. E.g., Friendster did; MySpace didn’t.

By: Corsarius

Corsarius — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:44:31 +0000

this is a great and timely article. this passage made me think more than any other:

“It will take somebody who thoroughly understands the entire spectrum of the online and the Philippine culture. That’s rare. I can’t think of anyone who’s deeply rooted in both.’

i agree. however, what is exactly “Philippine culture” is open to debate, and thus a person who can be considered by some to “thoroughly understand the entire spectrum of the online and the Philippine culture” might not be the right guy for others ;) but as they, many things in this world are subjective.