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Globe DUO service goes national in 2012


Expands to 49 areas, targets nationwide coverage by 2012

Globe DUO, the breakthrough mobile and landline service in one that allows subscribers to make unlimited calls to landlines and other DUO users with only one phone, one SIM and one billing, has expanded coverage to 49 key areas in the country, staying close to its target of nationwide coverage by end-2012.

The combined mobile and landline service is now available in Iloilo, Misamis Oriental, Ilocos Norte, Albay, Cagayan, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Aklan, Biliran, Compostela Valley, La Union, Occidental Mindoro, Saranggani and Sorsogon.

Globe DUO has also strengthened its coverage in Metro Manila, Cebu, Cavite, Bulacan, Laguna, Pangasinan, Negros Oriental, Leyte, Antique, South Cotabato, rizal, Bohol, Negros Occidental, Capiz, Batangas, Quezon, Northern Samar, Davao del Sur, Pampanga, Isabela, Ilocos Sur, Zambales, Nueva Vizcaya, Palawan, Marinduque, Oriental Mindoro, Southern Leyte, Eastern Samar, Western Samar, North Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat.

The old Globe corporate logo.

Globe is the first to offer unlimited calls to landline through Globe DUO in April 2009. Further strengthening the service, Globe subsequently launched Globe SUPERDUO, which allows subscribers to make unlimited calls to all local exchange landlines and all Globe DUO, Globelines as well as Globe and TM mobile phones nationwide. Globe DUO was named as a finalist in the Best Mobile Service Category in the 2010 Mobile Excellence Awards.

“Globe DUO is an innovative service that has dramatically changed the way people communicate by providing subscribers with a more convenient and more affordable calling service. Globe is extremely proud to say that as Globe DUO expands to more areas nationwide, we are able to bridge more people and provide them with better value services,” said Peter Bithos, Globe Senior Advisor for Consumer Business, “Globe DUO has also effectively helped small and medium enterprises to grow and become more productive partners towards nation-building. And as we continually beef-up our network capacity, we also look forward to increasing coverage for both Globe DUO and Globe SUPERDUO across the Philippines.”

“Globe DUO is a testament of the company’s commitment to continuously provide our customers with the most affordable and most convenient ways of communication using only the latest wireless services. With Globe DUO, a subscriber enjoys the world’s first fully convergent solution that works across both fixed and mobile networks, using only one SIM, one phone and one billing statement,” he adds.

Globe DUO/MY DUO allows subscribers to make unlimited calls to any Globe DUO or MYDUO number, Globelines nationwide and local area landlines for P450 for 30 days. For Prepaid users, Globe DUO is available at P350 for 14 days. To register, prepaid subscribers may text DUO <area> 450 to 8888 while postpaid subscribers can text MYDUO <area> ON to 8888.

On the other hand, SUPERDUO, which is a combination of Globe DUO plus unlimited calls to Globe and TM mobile numbers, is available at P599 a month. Text SUPERDUO <area> 599 to 8888 for prepaid and MYSUPERDUO <area> ON to 8888 for postpaid. To get the complete list of DUO coverage areas, text MYDUO AREA to 8888.

You may also register through the newest and easiest self-service menu of Globe by simply dialling *143#.

To know more about Globe DUO and SUPERDUO, visit www.globe.com.ph.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Yoly C. Crisanto
Head, Corporate Communications
Globe Telecom
Tel. No. 730 2627
Fax no. 739 3075
E-mail: globe.corpcomm@gmail.com

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Nokia dual-SIM units: high-tech yet affordable, practical


Nokia C2-03

Many Filipinos are practical in our preference for cell phones. We prefer the most high tech units but useful in our everyday lives and within our budget.

Thanks to Nokia for providing us precisely with several dual-SIM phones with modern designs and full of practical features that help us to be always connected. Phones with dual-SIM standby capability allow us to use two mobile phone accounts from different telecom companies using just one device. Isn’t that great!

If you have many friends using different mobile network operators, you’ll like the Nokia C2-00. With the Easy Swap, you can now change SIM cards with the phone still on. Just open the SIM card slot at the side and change SIM cards. It can even remember five different SIM cards that you can personalize.

Better yet, the Nokia C2-00 gives you fast internet access for your personal e-mails. It also has a built-in camera and media support up to 32 GB.

For Pinoys who like sounds, you’ll definitely like Nokia X1-01, a stylish dual SIM phone with an MP3 Player and a battery for lengthy calls and listening to music up to 36 hours. You can always play your favorite music using the Mp3 music player dedicated keys, tinker with the playlist based on what you want, and play it loud with the loudspeaker.

But if you prefer simple and hassle free communication, try the Nokia 101. This classic Nokia dual-SIM phone means more conversations and listening to lively music. Use the Nokia Speaker MD-11 in your Nokia 101 for a delightful entertainment experience.

Fashionistas, on the other hand, should find the Nokia C2-03 great. This is a Touch and Type dual SIM phone with a slide feature. use the keypad for creating documents and email and touch the screen for browsing for music or navigating your phone.

The Nokia C2-03 also has the Easy Swap feature like Nokia C2-00. You can personalize five different SIM cards and give each a different name, including ring tones.

Aside from these great features of different Nokia dual-SIM phones, you are assured of warranty and after-sales support ng Nokia. You can easily bring your concerns regarding your mobile phones to any Nokia Care Center in the whole Philippine archipelago.

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About Nokia

Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people use their Nokia to capture and share experiences, access information, find their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia’s technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visit http://www.nokia.com.ph.

Media Enquiries:

Nokia
Nikka Abes
Corporate Communications Manager
Tel. + 63917 8590783
Email: nikka.abes@nokia.com

Fuentes Manila
Tina Cabanayan
Tel. 893-9355 / 892-6184 / + 63917 7934362
Email: tinacabanayan@fuentesmanila.com

PRworks Inc.
Doris Mongaya
Tel. 032-4169159 / 09167639463
Email: prworks2003@gmail.com

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Public Relations in southern Philippines this 2012 (c)


Cebu City Mayor Mike Rama (center) poses with Miss Earth 2011 candidates and Charlyn Macaraeg, image model of GT Cosmetics, during the second Visayas Blogging Summit held in Cebu City. Charlyn was promoting GT & Me, the Facebook community of GT Cosmetics. PRworks helped organize the event.

Emerging social media communities.

Since the first Filipino bloggers began writing online at the turn of the century, their numbers and significance have grown as the years passed. In 2010, Visayas and Mindanao bloggers have separately organized blogging summits and awards for several years now. Globe Telecom, Nokia Philippines, and the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) have found engaging an increasing number of bloggers effective in promoting products, services and advocacy online and offline.

Meanwhile, Facebook communities have likewise grown around places to several hundreds of thousand members like ‘I love Cebu.’ Groups such as “Barkadahan Tsika Tsika Cebu” have reached over 20,000 members. More locally-based SMEs have begun engaging these online communities for promoting products and services. GT Cosmetics has gone the route of creating GT & Me – a Facebook community that celebrates “Gandang Tunay” or true beauty.

The growth of social media communities is abetted through active engagement by traditional print, radio, and television media outlets.

The power of these social media communities was seen in how fast the spread of information about the tragedy wrought by typhoon Sendong in Northern Mindanao and the mobilization of resources to help the victims. Thus aside from the traditional media, top Philippine corporations like Globe Telecom posted advisories about its relief efforts through social media.

Come 2012, PRworks anticipates that public relations will continued to be defined by developments in social media. Social media will grow as the information-dissemination avenue for both top corporations and SMEs in southern Philippines. Read part D. Back

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Public Relations in southern Philippines this 2012 (a)


Helping Honorary Russian Consul Armi Lopez-Garcia promote Philippine-Russian relations.

The Visayas and Mindanao, the central and southern islands in the Philippine archipelago, have been the public relations playing field for the Cebu-based PRworks for several years now.

Top Philippine corporations like Globe Telecom and Nokia Philippines along with small-medium enterprises like GT Cosmetics Manufacturing has precisely engaged PRworks because of its Vis-Min niche.

In Cebu and Central Visayas, we are helping several friends, corporations, and agencies like Honorary Russian Consul Armi Lopez, the San Remigio Beach Club (SRBC), the KEPCO-SPC Power Corporation (KSPC) and SPC Power Corp. (SPC), the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC), the National Nutrition Council (NNC) 7, and the Department of Tourism (DOT) 7.

As we approach the end of 2011, we begin looking into the year ahead. And we ask, what’s in store for public relations work in central and southern Philippines for 2012?

Increasing market share of online news media.

English-language community papers will increasingly feel the pressure of the increasing market share of online news media.

A growing segment of urban and provincial population is going online and spending more time in social media especially Facebook through the years. They are learning the habit of accessing news, not by buying anymore their favorite English dailies. More often, they now merely click on news shared by friends, go to search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing for more related information, or enter the online versions of their favorite community paper.

This trend has led to the emergence and growing audience of online versions of practically all community papers in major Vis-Min urban centers. This also paved the way for the rise of online news and opinion blogs and the shift of local news syndicates like Minda News to being online publications. The forward looking management of Sun.Star network of community publications has closed weak publication affiliates in the cities of Ilo-ilo, Zamboanga, and General Santos and shifted news coverage to the online Sun.Star news exchange (Sunnex).

This means the community papers will be using only the best stories – and that includes press releases and news pitches – especially with the more intense competition and declining news space. For PRworks, this means adhering to its belief that the best PR uplifts lives. Read Part B

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PRworks list of CDO journalists affected by Sendong


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Houses totally washed out:

1. Cong Corrales – Mindanews, Gold Star Daily, TV 5, and Reuters

2. Joe Felicilda – Mindanao Daily Balita

3. John Paul Barsopia – Newsline Mindanao

4. Henry Lasola – GMA 7 CDO

5. Aping Bergacio – Reuters

First floor of houses totally inundated:

1. Erwin Mascariñas – Associated Press

2. Jigger J. Jerusalem – Gold Star Daily, Phil Star

3. Mike Baños – Business Week Mindanao

4. Joe Palabao – Business Week Mindanao

5. Joe Pantoja – Business Week Mindanao

6. Gerry Gorit – Business Week Mindanao

7. Bingo Alcordo – Gold Star Daily

8. Nicole Managbanag – Sun.Star CDO

9. John Michael Bustamante – dxJR Radyo Higala

10. Ditas Gualberto – dxIM Radyo ng Bayan

11. Andrew Jularbal – dxIM Radyo ng Bayan

Houses filled from knee to waist with water:

1. Terry Betonio – Sun.Star CDO

2. Stefanie Berganio – Sun.Star CDO

3. Annabelle Ricalde – Sun.Star CDO

4. Jennifer Besere – Sun.Star CDO

5. Lynde Salgados – Sun.Star CDO

6. Butch Enerio – Business Mirror

7. Candy Macabale – Newsline Mindanao

8. Abigail Malalis – Newsline Mindanao

9. Ronald Jagonal – dxIM Radyo ng Bayan

10. Ric Occiones – dxCO, Oro Gazette

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Globe’s Libreng Tawag in CDO & Iligan


Employees of Globe Telecom did not let-up on relief operations, working through Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to help thousands of families in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan affected by Typhoon Sendong. Globe volunteers repacked relief goods over Christmas and continued to extend free all-network calls and SMS as well as free internet access. Relief work will continue for the rest of the week, with funding from SingTel. Photo shows relief operations in Montalban, Bgy 14, Cagayan de Oro last December 23.

PUBLIC ADVISORY

Globe Telecom continues to run its Libreng Tawag facilities to help families affected by Typhoon Sendong communicate with their kin. Residents can make FREE calls and send text messages to ALL networks as well as two-minute international calls. Selected facilities are also equipped with free internet connections.

The Globe Libreng Tawag facilities are located in the following areas:

Cagayan de Oro

  • West City Central School
  • City Central School
  • Bgy. Hall, Macasandig

Iligan

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council reported that over 53,000 families in Iligan and Cagayan de Oro were affected in the worst floods to hit the region in 25 years, of which over 11,000 remain in 42 evacuation centers.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Yoly Crisanto
Head, Corporate Communications
Globe Telecom
Tel. No. 730 2627
Fax no. 739 3075
Email: globe.corpcomm@gmail.com

 

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Mediamen, bloggers among Sendong victims


A father loses his daughter. (Photo from http://twitpic.com/7udfiz)

TWENTY-FIVE media practitioners and bloggers in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities were among the victims of flash floods wrought by Typhoon ‘Sendong’ over the weekend.

Two of them, unfortunately, lost their lives as the violent flood swept their homes in Iligan. They were Michel Kundiman of dxRJ and Leonisid Alsonado of dxIC-RMN.

The media people affected by the tropical storm are:

 English: Political map of Northern Mindanao Re...Bloggers who were likewise victimized by the flash flood in Cagayan de Oro are Michael Abonitalla, BabyJane Lacaba, Eleanor Aguilar, Rob Bana, and Vic Madriaga.
PRWorks Vis-Min is calling on fellow media practitioners and charitable individuals and corporations for donations to help these affected journalists and their families get back on their feet and start living afresh.
Donations will be received at the PRWorks office right across the USC Main gym along Sanciangko st. until Monday, Dec. 26. Please coordinate with Doris (09167369463) or Mafe (09173829016) at 416-7159; or email dorismongaya@gmail.com or prworks2003@gmail.com.

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GT Experience Video Contest for Pinoy Bloggers


GT Cosmetics Manufacturing is inviting Philippine bloggers especially those based in the Visayas and Mindanao to document their GT (Gandang Tunay or Gwapong Tunay) Experience with the use of GT Cosmetics products in 2-3 minute video clips and win exciting prizes in the process.

All participating bloggers will get attractive packages of GT Cosmetics Products. But the blogger producing the best video and the most popular video will get P2,500 cash each!

You can use the samples we distributed during the Visayas Blogging Summit 2011 and the Best Cebu Blogs Awards Night. Or you can always grab one from any Watsons outlets.

We will be announcing additional prizes as the December 30, 2011 deadline for submission nears. So what are our blogger friends waiting for?

Here are the mechanics:

1. Video contest open to all bloggers old and new.

2. Each video must be at least 2 minutes but not more than 3 minutes (For easy download) and about your personal experience with GT Cosmetics. It could be a review or the act of using one or several products or any other creative ways one can portray your experience

3. Video entries must be posted in contestant’s blog(s) and linked to GT & Me. It could be uploaded directly to the blog or using Youtube.

4. Use familiar video formats mpg, .avi, .wmv, .mov including mp3 and flv.

5. Deadline for submission Dec. 30, 2011.

6. No obscene, inappropriate content. No use or reference to competing products.

7. Content to focus on the experience of using GT products.

Ms. GT Cosmetics during the USC TC Days beauty pageant Charlyn Noble Macaraeg has already been using GT Cosmetics products when she won. She went out of her way to help promote GT Cosmetics during the Visayas Blogging Summit 2013. Click this photo to bring you to GT & Me where there are more Charlyn pictures.

8. Criteria for Judging:

  • Category one: Best Video
    • Depiction of GT Experience – 50 percent
    • Creativity – 25 percent
    • Technical Execution – 25 percent
  • Category two: Most Popular — Most likes at the GT & Me Page.

10. Prizes for the Best Video and Most Popular Video:

a. P2,500.00 cash

b. Special package of GT Cosmetics.

c. Gift Checks from San Remigio Beach Club.

11 All participating bloggers shall have one gift pact for each video entry.

12. Winners shall be notified via GT & Me and email. All prizes and gift items shall be claimed at PRworks office. (Sent via JRS to entries outside Metro Cebu).

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