We diversified and moved

artwork of my 10 year old daughter

This is another update after a year, ha ha.

Just keeping you on the loop, to and let you know of the latest development from this blogger who own this blog before it moved to a new domain.

This update is just quick, promise:

1. Sonnie’s Porch new home, in case you are not aware yet is www.sesantos.com.ph and  renamed to Sonnie Santos. This is home to the blogger’s personal reflections and lessons in life.
2. He spearheaded a cyber wellness advocacy in the Philippines and started Web Safety Philippines. Just recently, GMA 7 Network embraced his advocacy and launched  think before you click campaign.
3. At the start of the year, he started his own business. Because he believe that a changed mindset can lead to a changed behavior,  he started WSPH Training and Consultancy Services and offer values based but tech glazed training services.

Alright, If you happen to pass by this blog, please visit us on the sites mentioned above and share your thoughts too.

Happy Blogging

Welcome 2010

Stay Safe as we welcome the new year =)

How to lose your job

This is the 4th installment to my blog series “How To Lose Your Job”. The intention of this series is to guide entrepreneurs how to weed their organization of the “pasaways” the proper way, and at the same time educate employees of their rights and the parameters governing security of tenure and due process of law. Either way, this shall add value to readers. On this issue, focus is on the “authorized causes” spelled out in Art. 283 of the Philippine Labor Code.

You may read the post here

This series is far from over, I first thought this will end after 3-4 posts but the more I think about it, the series may turn out to be longer than I expected. Those who missed the previous posts, go visit these links:

1. How to lose your job: i n t r o d u c t i o n
2. How to lose your job: part i– killing you softly
3. How to lose your job: part ii– pull the trigger
4. How to lose your job: part iii– authorized causes

Cool…

Ohh OK, so the new Sonnie’s Porch is a B-List Blog?

Indeed, blogging has become a tool not only to express oneself but has evolved to be an industry of itself. Using Technorati as a launching pad, a lot of measuring tools has been formulated to give your blog the bragging rights. As long as you will not take this too seriously and trade your life with it, these tools can be fun.

One such tool is ratified.org and another tool to measure your bloglebrity is Kineda’s widget

Have fun and check the voice of your blog in the world called blogosphere!

I hope in the future though, they can come up with a widget that will measure the value added to the readers of a blog.

This one made me smile

 

 

Simple things in life can make us happy. Appreciation from people also encourage– replenish our strength and motivate us to press ahead.

This one made my day:

Manila Bulletin >> Technews>> Blog O Rama

Thanks to Annalyn S. Jusay

Office Politics

Power play, that’s how sportscasters describe a “successful” move of an athlete against the odds facing him.

In the corporate world, office politics thrive. Politics is a neutral word, however, because of power play, office politics developed a negative connotation. Power play in the corporate world “may” mean the negative use of power– using any of these

• connections
• control of information
• control of resources

to (1) send an underlying message that he is a person to contend with, (2) get what he wants, (3) intimidate, (4) protect his turf, and … (you can add your own observation/experience below).

Because of these, when one is in traversing the corporate jungle, a professional may not be aware that he’s slowly becoming what he hate– “corporate predators”.

And because “corporate predators” have succeded in destroying careers or have succeeded in making life difficult for another corporate specie, the notion that there may not be better alternative than becoming one was reinforced.

Is there a better way to handle office politics? Yes there is