Great news!

I have just completed the initial installation and design of my own Picture/Photos Gallery site at myPhotos on my http://www.on-myweb.com/ site.

It is powered by Gallery2, a simple, yet powerful gallery software that provides easy upload of photos, and even videos and music. You can upload photos from your harddrive, from your mobile phones, from another website, from another Photo gallery site (such as Picasa, Multiply, Myspace, etc.).

You can select from different Themes for your album and/or photo pages based on your preference of design and colors, and you can set PERMISSIONS as to who can view, or add comments or give ratings. It also has a Random Image slideshow on the left sidebar, and you have an option whether you want your pictures included in the Random Photo slides (which can be viewed by all members) or not.

I am still currently working on the integration of myPhotos with myWorld (an online content management/collaboration site) that's also on my on-myweb.com site.

With this latest addition, I hope to be able to provide a complete Online Community website with all the things that you need - Forum Board, Picture Gallery, Online Collaboration, Stories and Events sharing, among others.

Hope you guys support these sites, oh, by the way - of course, REGISTRATION is FREE. And reward points are also given everytime you use the sites.

Happy New Year everyone!

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Hello everyone!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This Christmas break (for a while, I thought I had a break), I was busy configuring my new website, on-myWeb.com. It was hard, considering I don't know anything about web programming, much more with PHP, ASP, and other tech stuffs.

Anyways, I envisioned a site where I can provide the users (and registered members) a way to collaborate online - work on certain project, or articles and publish it for sharing to the general web public or for private groups. The basic idea is, have an online publishing tool/site to enable posting and archiving all discussions, communications of each members, and other document that may just be forgotten. And, oh, those lengthy email threads, which you, have to delete anyway as soon as your mailbox gets full. All these can be posted (optionally shared if you want) on myWorld Workspace and have it stored in our Archives.

Cool? It is, and if you have a term paper or thesis project, or any business project with lots of documents, and want to share your work with your Team wherever they are, then myWorld Workspace is your site.

But that's not all. To give the members more reason to participate and check back at the Site, I opted to put add-on features for Blogging (Journal), for Stories sharing, Downloads, Forum Board (my favorite!), start online Surveys, meet new online friends and start new connections, sell, buy, look for OJT, new jobs, think of it as a total content management site. And the sweetest feature? You get POINTS for each activity that you do at myWorld Workspace!!!

Points can be accumulated to qualify for the Site's POINTS & EARN rewards program. Yes! I thought this would be cool. No time wasted. You got the powerful Online Collaboration, Content Mangement system, and you get points for every post, story, news, event, topic, survey, link and many other activities that you do at myWorld Workspace.

So check this out (and your support to this Site will be greatly appreciated). Register for free now.

See you there.

Companies planning to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, or any business systems application should consider the following - before jumping into something that would led to lots of regrets later:

1. Requirements Definition

A good way to start a business systems project (like an ERP solution- Oracle, SAP, etc., or functional solutions like a Sales and Distribution software) is to clearly define your objectives, and specific requirements that you want to be addressed. Objectives and requirements should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound (S-M-A-R-T). Details on how to prepare a requirements definition document will be posted soon.

2. Readiness

A project is sure to fail, if readiness checking is not thoroughly done. I got a client who spent millions of pesos for a reputable software, including paying big time Consultants - only to realize they're stuck in a quagmire of issues, and it was hard to get out of there.

Readiness checking should be focused on the following areas:

• Is your Organization ready?
• Are your Business Processes ready?
• Are your infrastructures ready?

Details of each of the above readiness check will be posted here soon.

3. Budget

Yeah, systems implementation will cost you an arm and a leg - if you don't manage it very well. Make sure your requirements definition also outlines the bound of your spending, and includes proven alternative ways to get the same results - but at a more competitive cost. The following can spell the difference between spending all your money or spending within your budget on a project:

• Choice of software solutions
• Choice of implementors
• Choice of third-party providers

Tips on how to save on your implementation costs will also be posted here soon.

For information, leave your comments and will get back to you.

Today, we started on the roll-out of the last 4 sites for the Mindanao Roll-out project of my Client. Two from CDO Plant (Iligan City and Don Carlos, Bukidnon) and two from Davao Plant (Digos and General Santos).

As experienced in the past (and this is an area of improvement to be focused on the remaining 3 Plants early next year), data preparation is still the biggest stumbling block - especially for Don Carlos, Bukidnon site.

We hope to conclude the Mindanao leg by next week, before the team take a few days rest and vacation.

Early next year, we will commence the roll-out to the three (3) remaining plants in Leyte, Bicol Region and North Luzon.