There’s supposed to be a rule about writing something witty on your blog’s About page, but I thought it best to be straightforward.
As it is said on the sidebar, I’m a social media strategist. I run various Internet-related businesses for a living. I’ve written on a lot of websites, blogs, and other online publications. I also offer consultancy services for businesses, brands and individuals who want to establish authority in their respective niche or industry. Check out my resume for more details.
Racoma.com.ph is my personal blog on technology, economics and other serious stuff. You can find more personal- and writing-related material at racoma.net.
If you want more frequent updates, you can also catch me via Twitter through my lifestream @jangelo and my Google Buzz profile, where I have been active recently.
From 2006 to early 2010 I was part of Splashpress Media and Performancing.com in various capacities as editor, assistant editor, technical point person and marketing maven. Previously, I was also part of WordContent, Bloggy Network, dotPH and the Philippine National Economic and Development Authority.
My new venture is WorkSmartr, which is an outsourcing company that provides new media consulting, content, virtual assistance and other services. I am also a freelance writer and a tech columnist at the Manila Bulletin.
I am an economist by profession, and a writer by passion.
Yes, I do look like my gravatar.
Navigation
You may search the articles by entering keywords on the search box to the right. You may also browse more than three years’ worth of blog posts by date.
Elsewhere
If that’s not enough, you can find other articles stuff at these sites I either publish, manage or contribute to:
Splashpress Media
For several years, I contributed to, and helped manage, Splashpress Media’s various blogs and portals. You can find some of my more substantial articles at the Blog Herald, Performancing, and Forever Geek.
BloggyNetwork
I wrote for the Bloggy Network from March to December of 2006. Most of my blogs were tech and gadget-related blogs, including Forever Geek and Apple Gazette (both of which are now Splashpress Media properties)
I also write or have written for various Philippine-based networks/team-blogs:
Columns
Here are columns I’ve written for Manila Bulletin So far:
Featured Posts
I have also compiled a short list of featured articles on this site—basically my favorites:
- PayPal: One Great Way to Improve the Philippine Economy
- Problogging Options – a must-read if you want to get in the pro-blogging business.
- Stay Focused. Stay Motivated. Get Things Frickin’ Done!
- How to Blog and Get Noticed
- Misunderstood
In Other Media
- A recent interview with talk show Mel & Joey, and my reactions thereto.
- ABS-CBN Father’s Day Feature interview
- Insider Interview Video
- Guesting at Ricky Carandang’s morning programme at the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC).
- Sun.Star Cebu – A print copy of my Blogging 101 article on the Sun.Star Blog Chronicles was published in October of 2005.
- FM Radio – The same intro article on blogging was aired on 90.7 Love Radio in Manila in November of 2005, albeit translated in Filipino (and not citing the original source).
- Entrepreneur Magazine – Interviewed about online consultancy in November 2006
- PC Magazine, Philippines – Interviewed by fellow problogger Abe Olandres about problogging
I’ve had various other media appearances, and I shall update this list when I have the time.
Problogging
If you’re intersted to know how I became a full-time pro-blogger (well, I’d say about 80% pro-blogging, actually), you can check out these posts I’ve made here and elsewhere:
- My Journey: From Full-time Employee to Full-time Professional Blogger (at ForeverGeek);
- Problogging Options – Read about the different ways you can earn from blogging and other online activities;
- Other articles about problogging.
I also publish tried publishing a podcast, or an audioblog, which is very much like a radio show, but downloaded from the internet and usually played on portable music players or personal computers. Do check out the J Spotter Podcast, Episode 1: Business Blogging.
I’m making it a point to blog only about serious and relevant material here on the J Spot. If you feel you’re not getting enough content, please do visit my Elsewhere page for links to my other blog posts. You can also see links to interesting stuff I happen to stumble upon and bookmark on del.icio.us and DIGG.
Interests and Advocacies
- You can check out what I’ve been reading up on at my del.icio.us account – del.icio.us .
- The PayPal for the Philippines Advocacy, which I helped initiate
Citations
The J Spot was given the “Successful and Outstanding Blogger” badge on June 3, 2006.
Feedback and Contact
Please feel free to leave a response to any of my articles, using the forms provided at the bottom of each post. You may also email me directly at jangelo (at) racoma (dot) net. I try to respond to all my (relevant) emails as promptly as I can, except perhaps when I’m busy or down with something bad. I may also be reached via my mobile phone (call or SMS) at +63-927-5360123 or at +1-425-906-3733—this is a U.S. number routed to my VoIP client.
You may also use the contact form below to send me email.
Subscription
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Comment Policy
Being a co-author of the Blog Herald Comment Policy, I subscribe to the same in letter and in spirit:
We do not pre-moderate any comments and welcome all kinds of thoughts, supportive, dissenting, critical or otherwise.
We do not delete or censor comments unless they have content that:
- is abusive
- is off-topic
- contains ad-hominem attacks
- promotes hate of any kind
- uses excessively foul language
- is blatantly spam
All comments are filtered through spam filtering technology; the kind we uses varies over time, but we are currently using a combination of Akismet, Spam Karma 2, and Bad Behavior 2. The spam-filtering technology isn’t perfect, and from time to time it flags legitimate emails (false positives).
If you find that your comment isn’t immediately showing up, it may have been erroneously flagged as spam. Please contact the author to follow up on the status of your comment if it hasn’t shown up after 24 hours and we will do our best to sort it out.
This is with the added disclaimer that:
- All comments made by third parties on this site are considered copyright their respective authors; and
- This site and its author is not liable for comments made by third parties. We do our best to keep the comment threads clear from potentially harmful content, as long as it is within the above-cited comment policy.
Interview Policy
To avoid being taken out of context, or being misquoted, any media or new media interviews would have to adhere to this policy:
- Interviews have to to be shown or published in full, as much as possible.
- This author reserves the right to post or publish the interview on this site in full. If not possible, such as in the case of television shows, the author reserves the right to require a copy or duplicate recording of the entire proceedings. This may be posted or published here in full, or as transcribed, where necessary.
- If the interview is in email form, the author prefers that that the entire question and answer exchange be published. If the interviewer is to construct an article out of this author’s responses, it is preferred that the interviewer submit a draft first before publishing the content.
Final words
In case you would like to quote, cite, or refer to articles I have written here, please refer to my site license page, for information on fair use and copyright.
Sorry if this took quite long. Have so much to say, with so little time.
I hope you enjoy your stay!
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