Winners of 4th Globe Media Excellence Awards in Visayas Announced

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Globe Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications Yoly Crisanto (extreme left) poses with the winners of the 2015 Globe Media Excellence Awards. They are from left, Eileen Mangubat, Editor-in-Chief Cebu Daily News; Isolde Amante, Editor-in-Chief of Sunstar Cebu; Cherry Ann Lim, Managing Editor of SunStar Cebu; Patricia Andrea Patena of TV 5; Ador Vincent Mayol of Cebu Daily News; Rowena Capistrano of DYRF; Glady Reyes, a blogger from Bacolod; Jasmine Garrido, Globe Regional Marketing head for VisMin; Globe Legal Counsel Atty. Manuel Gordon, Ayala Corp. Corporate Communications Associate Gale Launio.

Outstanding media professionals and social media practitioners were honored at the 4th Globe Media Excellence Awards for their exemplary work in bringing most relevant social issues to the fore through the different channels of print, broadcast and digital media.

The most anticipated premier award-giving body that gives recognition to excellence in journalism in central Philippines, the Globe Media Excellence Awards event was held at the Grand Convention Center of Cebu, coinciding with celebrations of the Cebu Press Freedom Week.

“As Globe strives to be at the forefront of the Filipino digital lifestyle and as we ensure that our customers are ready to face the future, we hope that together with media professionals and social media practitioners, who take on relevant social issues, that we can all contribute in effecting meaningful transformation in our society for a more wonderful Philippines,” Globe Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications Yoly Crisanto said.

Short+Sweet Theater Manila 2015 Winners: Congratulations Everyone!

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The winners of the Short+Sweet Theater Manila 2015 festival of 10-minute plays were announced last night, September 27, 2015, at the Samsung Hall of SM Aura in Taguig city during the awarding ceremonies following the final presentations of the 12 finalists.

Congratulations to the sensually humorous "Voicing Up the Marriage" (above photo) for bagging the Best Play award for the Short+Sweet Theater Manila 2015. The Best Actor was also last year's winner of the same recognition, namely the truly astounding Eshai Mesina for "Captain Everything" which also won as an audience favorite for the Wildcard category. The Best Actress of the festival was the highly protective and caring "Nanay" of the play "Si Nelson, Ang Nanay, Ang Pancit Canton" which also won for the writer as the Best Playwright. There were two highly deserving winners for the Best Director category namely the directors of "Thank You, Mr. Pongpat" and "Decision, Decisions."

Also announced were additional winners for the Audience Poll from the weeks and wildcards of the festival. We still need to get the official list of winners so we can give you the accurate names and categories but from what I remembered the recognized were "Speaking Freely", "A Good Deed for Mr. Stinky", "Afterwards", "Lunes", and an award for best poster which a friend, Martin Vicencio, were among the guys who came up on stage to receive the award. We will update this post as soon as the organizers of Short+Sweet Theater Manila send us the official list of winners.

Actually, the winners were already determined the previous night after a few select unannounced and secret judges who were among the audience evaluated all the performances of the 12 finalists at their 2nd to the last performance on September 26, 2015.

Halinat's Bumasa and ThinkBIT at Vigattin Radio of Radyo Inquirer

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It's another techie Saturday with our very special guests at Vigattin Radio of Radyo Inquirer on September 26, 2015 as we discussed a remarkable app designed for 2 to 4 years old - the tender age when they are not yet still in school but are already appreciating words, images and sounds, and an IT  (Inventory and Apps) and Digital Marketing Solutions ( Events and Websites) provider.

Our special guests were the founders of Halina't Bumasa namely husband and wife team Terry and Nico Tuason, and two of the founders of ThinkBIT namely Zennon Jean Gosalvez and Lord Christian Gosingtian.

Halina't Bumasa offers a fun children's app downloadable for $3 only starting with the Body Parts module that's available in four languages (English, Tagalog, Ilongo and Cebuano), but you get to have the other new releases like the upcoming Bahay Kubo for free.

ThinkBIT, with BIT being short for Business Information Technology, is a passionate group of friends who decided to form their own company to offer quality solutions for your IT and Digital Marketing needs. They also mentioned as an example an events management system that would greatly help events organizers deal with the huge information about attendees as they automate the tedious process with their solution.