Says Philippines: A new portal to discover relevant news from real people
There are a lot of news and information sites around the web but it is not often that these news and information are easily heard or broadcast. Sometimes, it only reached the masses when it gets viral in Facebook or when it trends on twitter--where most Filipinos stay online. But if you're always up to what's the latest around may it be news, lifestyle, sports tech and others and you love sharing them, you might just like Says Philippines, a new portal for relevant and trending information just around the web focusing the Philippine scenes.
As a social network, Says Philippines provides forms for debate, vote, comment and central chat room for the news at the different channels making it more engaging.
SAYS PHILIPPINES AS A SOCIAL NETWORK
Think of Says Philippines as a social-network inspired news portal where its members are its broadcasters! When you sign up to the site, you're given a chance to share your stories or even other's stories that are not yet broadcast to the site and allow your news easily heard by a lot of people. What is interesting is that, they also select top broadcasters at different channels so you can establish yourself and become an authority!As a social network, Says Philippines provides forms for debate, vote, comment and central chat room for the news at the different channels making it more engaging.
A GIANT VIRTUAL PIN BOARD FOR NEWS
As I've mentioned a while ago, Says Philippines is a social network-inspired news portal and at the first look, it will immediately reminds you of Pinterest. Yes, there are a lot of similarities and the concepts seems identical. The one big difference though is that Says Philippines extends from photo-sharing to video-sharing, links with an excerpt texts of an article, making it more complex in terms of sharing capability.
Most of the contents that users post in the site are organized into boards, where each board represents one central topic. Each board can have more than one contributor/s so collecting and sharing of relevant information is easy. Also, quick statistics such as shares and views which differs from the number of views in each post is available to help you take insights of the performance of your board.


