Going Online (Day 3)

Going Online (Day 3)

by Rey Laguda

(This is the DepEd USec Rey Laguda's Day 3 of 50-day journey being serialized here with his permission, culled from his Facebook account. - Blogger/owner)

Laguda

In 2010, social media was an important factor in the elections and the new administration intended to maximize the use of social media as a channel for effective mass communication and engagement. The Department of Education needed to take its communication and advocacy efforts to another level as well. Communication in a large organization with 700,000 employees spread over thousands of locations and with millions of external publics is a challenge. Traditionally, DepEd would communicate via traditional channels such as magazines and news dailies, interviews with tv, radio and print, and through events. A website was being maintained that was used mainly to post DepEd policy issuances. It was also funny that the website had such a busy look with so many organizational partner logos drowning out the DepEd brand.

My Secret on How I Write And Social Media Tips

The Author

Before I went home this afternoon after attending to the needs of my teachers and supervising the different classes of our pupils, I wrote the following things down for other newbies to learn why my 10-month old blog, randomthoughts! and 3-month old blog, tumandok received an award from the Philippine Blog Awards, Inc. recently.

Thus, I came up with the following 5 tips on how to write a quality and readable blog:

1. Write while your ideas are pouring out. Don't wait for an appropriate moment or by inspiration to write them down.