Fun and meaningful time at #BoomPH, the 3rd Social Media Day celebration in the Philippines
The Philippine National Anthem playing at the start of #BoomPH's main event. Cool lights, huh? Yesterday, June 28, hundreds of netizens trooped to the Samsung Hall at SM Aura Premier for the 3rd Social Media Day in the Philippines. Social Media Day (#SMDay) is an annual global event launched by Mashable in 2010 "as a way to recognize the digital revolution happening right before our eyes," where people and communities are encouraged to organize local meetups in their respective cities. In the Philippines, in Metro Manila in particular, the first such event was organized in 2012 by Tweetup Manila (@TweetupMNL), an online community of people who I can say are genuinely into social good, be it about disasters, rescues, and many more. It's their passion, one that's good and one that brings even more good. Anyway, yesterday was the third, which was dubbed #BoomPH , short for "The B est o f O nline M edia in the Ph ilippines." Since 2012, #SMDay has