Make Money 2.0 Seminar
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On March 6, 2010
I put up HeaRty’s Haven because I need a form of release. I wanted to have a hobby to keep my mind off work & to have a work-life balance. I write about anything & everything as long as I experience it or have interest in it. Since I’m the kind of person who loves to try out a lot of things, you can probably see anything under the sun in HeaRty’s Haven.
I’ve been blogging actively for almost 2 years. Would you believe I’m not earning anything from this personal blog of mine?
I learned that my friend, Carlo Ople, along w/ Janette Toral, will hold their 2nd seminar about making money online this April 10, 2010. Make Money 2.0 is a seminar that shares with us proven & effective methods of how to make money online.
The 1st Make Money 2.0 seminar was very successful that I can’t help but make sure I won’t miss the next event. It’s going to be held at Victory Multipurpose Hall, located at the upper level of the Greenhills Promenade from 2-6pm on April 10, 2010. I’m thinking if my hobby can help me earn some money, then why not right?
Speakers are known to be the best in their fields:
- Carlo Ople
- Janette Toral
These are the topics that will be discussed (I’m especially interested w/ the 1st & 4th one):
- Make Money by Blogging
One of the first and most successful bloggers will share with you proven ways of how to make real money online through blogging. From advertising, leveraging communities, and affiliate sales, our speaker will show you a whole new world of income generating ideas! - How to Make E-commerce Work
Learn the ins and outs of putting up your own online store. Learn from several case studies as well as best practices from the pioneers of e-commerce in the Philippines. - Make money through e-lancing
Are you a web developer, graphic designer, writer or just someone who has a skill but you don’t know how to make money out of it? Make Money 2.0 will reveal the success blueprint for freelancers who want to rake in clients from other countries. - Personal Branding
The most important resource is YOU. Build and protect your personal brand which will translate to better opportunities for your career. Our case studies and insights will inspire and motivate you and you’ll never see Facebook the same way ever again.
Interesting huh? If you wanna join me and learn how to make money through our online ventures, then go ahead and register at the Catalyst Interactive Marketing website. Regular rate is at Php 650.00.
See you there! 🙂
iPhone App Review – Tawag Pinoy
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On March 6, 2010
This is the 1st pinoy application I downloaded on my iPhone. I must say that after just 5 minutes of using it, I’m impressed. Soooo impressed that I can’t help but brag about it. Filipinos are truly talented individuals. Hats off especially to Yves Gonzalez of Giro Apps who created Tawag Pinoy, such an awesome (I shall say it again, AWESOME) iPhone application.
Tawag Pinoy (Filipino Calls if translated in english) is an application that we can use in replacement of the default iPhone Contacts app. The thing that I like about Tawag Pinoy is that the application was specifically made to cater the needs of the people living in the Philippines.
My most favorite feature in this iPhone application is that it automatically sorts our address book contacts by carrier. By carrier meaning we can look at our list of contacts through Globe, Smart, Sun, Landline or all carriers. This is a feature that I’ve been wishing for in an application. Mainly because I’m a sun subscriber & since most of my friends have 2 cellphone numbers, sometimes I ended up texting their globe number even though they have their own sun number. You see, with Sun Cellular, my plan included unlimited calls & text to fellow sun subscribers. So Tawag Pinoy definitely addresses my need on this aspect.
Tawag Pinoy also comes with a T9 keypad that can help us search for our contacts easily. You just press some numbers then automatically any contacts who has those numbers in their phones will come up. Uber cool to the maximum level! Pardon me for my enthusiasm but I just downloaded the application and it’s just made of awesomeness!
Lastly, we can create our own group in Tawag Pinoy as well as add individual contacts as favorites. Pretty neat and it helps us to be more organized with our address book. I love it! 🙂
Tawag Pinoy is as perfect as it is. There’s just one thing that I’ve been wishing the iPhone to have. I’ve always wanted to see the picture of my contacts in my text messages.
Can the developer make this? Let’s see…
Tawag Pinoy is available at the iTunes App Store for $1.99.
If you wanted to try out the application without purchasing it first, then Tawag Pinoy-Tipid Edition is for you. You’d be able to try the full features of Tawag Pinoy for 30 days then decide if you want to purchase the full version.
If you ask me, I’d say go buy the full version. It’s super worth it! 🙂
The B.E.S.T. Workshop
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On March 5, 2010
Last weekend, I attended the most entertaining yet informative training. The B.E.S.T. workshop was organized by BizWiz Resources and it was about entrepreneurship. B.E.S.T. stands for Basic Entrepreneur Skills Training.
Quoting from their vision: “We shall be the most magical, enjoyable and dynamic source of entrepreneurial learning for Filipinos; helping to demystify entrepreneurship in order to create true WIZARDS of business, who will craft their own magical success stories.â€
I believe they did exactly what they promised/advertised.
If you’re looking for ideas as to what business go into or how you can put up a business, then you won’t find it in B.E.S.T. workshop. But if you want to have the right mindset to be a successful entrepreneur then B.E.S.T. workshop is for you.
This training was just fun, fun & fun! And we all learned a lot! Seems like experiential training is really the way to go. The usual training is just teachers presenting powerpoint slides or giving lectures. B.E.S.T. workshop however was full of activities that could show us how we react to things. In the end, through that experience, we were taught lessons on teamwork, path fulfillment, goal orientation, life balance, perseverance & some other entrepreneural skills.
Where can you find instructors performing like this?
And participants cheering like this?
My ultimate favorite video however was taken during one of the 1st day activities:
It’s all in B.E.S.T. workshopfriends! hehehe 🙂 There was never a dull moment during those 2 days. I also like the theme wizard too! See the names of the activities we’ve done:
- Wizard Search
- Bag of Mystery
- Manifest Destiny
- Vision Quest
- Wizard Qualification Exam
- FRAP
- Mystical Hat of Plenty
- Witch Hunt
- Sorcerer’s Alley
- King MiDAS Touch
- Wizard Idol
- Mystique
- Meet the Wizards
Kudos to the BizWiz Resources team: Jeff, JP, Gwen, Boom & Jason. Well done, folks! I’ll definitely be one of those who will vouch for this training, such a great learning experience! 🙂
You can just see at the look of our faces how satisfied we are with the training.
Such an honor & great opportunity to participate in a well-made training. I do encourage you guys to take the plunge & enroll in their next session (I think the next one will be on May/June 2010). You will not regret it. I myself learned a lot about entrepreneurship. You can find information regarding the workshop on their facebook page or contact them at email address: info@bizwizresources.com.
See the pictures from the 2-day workshop in my Flickr sets (Day 1 & Day 2).
Yahoo launches Election Microsite Purple Thumb
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On March 3, 2010
A few weeks ago, I was invited to attend the Yahoo Social Media Forum held at Hotel Intercontinental. As a writer for Blogwatch.ph, I had the privilege to be part of the event where Yahoo Philippines officially launched the Purple Thumb microsite.
Purple Thumb is an election dedicated microsite by Yahoo! that gives filipino voters the opportunity to share their thoughts, pictures & videos expressing their views on the upcoming May 2010 elections. Users can join real-time chat through the site and socialize with one another plus gain knowledge from each other. Users can also discover more about the candidates through Purple Thumb.
Technology really does progress so fast. Would you believe that we can now share real-time news online? With growing # of online users in the country, social media can now be considered as a great venue for important news & other stuff.
Aside from officially launching the Purple Thumb site, the event also touches on “How social media will change the way elections are covered”. Respected people in the blogging industry were invited to speak in the forum relating to the topic.
Here’s the list:
- Jack Madrid (General Manager, Yahoo! Philippines) — Background to Purple Thumb
- Allan Soon (Managing Director, Yahoo! Southeast Asia) — Introduction to the ‘now’ revolution
- Joey Alarilla (Social Media Editor, Yahoo! Southeast Asia), Ellen Tordesillas (Vera Files/Political Blogger) — Ethics & news in the age of Twitter
- Howie Severino (Editor-in-chief, GMANews.tv), Arlene Burgos (Head of Social Media, ABS-CBNNews.com), Katrina Sandejas-Manosa (General Manager, Philstar.com) — Integrating Social Media in your newsroom
- Manolo Quezon III (bloggers/PDI columnist/TV host), Janette Toral (DigitalFilipno.com) — Why Social Media Matters in this Election
- Comelec Representative (on behalf of James Jimenez) — How are candidates using social media to engage voters
- Mong Palatino (blogger/lawmaker) — A Tweeting Life
- Margaux Salcedo (Estrada spokesperson/blogger) — Tweeting a candidate
- Mong Palatino, Gang Badoy (RockEd), Noemi Dado (BlogWatch) — Benefits & risks of social media in covering this election
Here’s a video taken by Blogwatch.ph editor Noemi Dado on Allan Soon discussing the ‘Now Revolution’:
Lastly, I would also suggest you go and create a Yahoo Meme account 🙂 Do share with the world why you are voting this May 2010, your message would really make a lot of difference. Take a stand & encourage fellow filipinos to do so.
See sample below. That was my purple thumb post last February 24 letting people know that we should make our vote count as the future of our children relies on it. You can upload a picture relating to why you are voting, type your message & add #YourPurpleThumb at the end of your post 🙂
You can see more pictures from the Social Media Forum organized by Yahoo in my Flick account.
Me, Parking & My Sprained Ankle
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On March 1, 2010
Parking fees at our office building is pretty expensive (Php 130/day). Usually the slots are also filled up already when 9AM comes in. With that in mind, a lot of us decided to park somewhere far away in a parking lot owned by A. Venue. Parking costs just around Php40/day but disadvantage is.. we have to walk like 10minutes to reach the office. For me, I thought of it more of an advantage because:
- we can save like Php90 per day for the parking fee
- we can use the 10-minute walk as an exercise
I usually bring slippers as I can’t walk 10 minutes wearing high heels. However, I decided to just wear my high-heeled wedge shoes today. Since they were wedge shoes, I didn’t think it would be dangerous for the walk. Unfortunately though, I fell on the street today.
I fell hard… fell on my knees with lots of people around. Noone helped me though, they just looked at me. I sat a bit on the floor for a few seconds as I felt the pain in my foot. Anyhow, I managed to get up and continued walking towards the office. This time, I walked really slow as pain really started to set in.
When I arrived at the office, the pain became unbearable such that I couldn’t walk anymore. I went straight to the clinic. Here’s what they did to help me:
- Asked me to sit in a comfortable chair.
- Held my feet up high
- Put ice compress on the pain area
- put inflammatory cream on the area
- asked me to take some pain meds
- put some elastic bandage on my ankle.
They also asked me to go to a hospital and have an x-ray. Unfortunately, I couldn’t really walk so I ended up just glued to my seat. The x-ray is needed to check if there are fractures. I really just hope I don’t get any. I don’t think I have the energy to drive myself to the hospital because my right ankle is the one that is injured.
The pain really gets worse as time passes by. I don’t know how long this will be. I decided to just work from home until I get well. Hopefully it does heal soon, I hate staying at home. Internet connection is really slow as well (I work more effectively at the office).
A close friend of mine asked her brother who’s also a doctor for medical advice (she’s such a sweet friend!). A great advice that I will follow while I’m nursing this sprained ankle. Here are the useful information I got (maybe this could help some of you too):
- cold compress for the 1st three days and continue as long as it is swollen.
- should completely rest the ankle & let ligaments heal.
- take pain meds for 1st two days. Take it as needed after if pain still persists.
Learned a lot from this experience. Though I assume my friends would think that I would quit wearing high heels, well they’re wrong. I’ll still continue to wear my high heeled shoes hahaha! I’m sure though that I won’t be walking that 10-minute activity with high heels (no matter if wedge or not), I’ll just wear my friendly slippers…