Speaker Spotlight: Manuel L. Quezon III

Posted by Alexis on Nov 17, 2011 in Blog | 197 comments

With BlogFest SOCCSSKSARGEN’s second speaker, is is safe to say that you’ll miss half of your online life if you fail to attend this year’s eyeball!

Manuel L. Quezon III, more popularly known as Manolo Quezon, is a essayist and blogger. He is currently an Undersecretary of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO). Prior to being appointed to the undersecretary position, he served as host of The Explainer and The Explainer Dialogues on the ANC cable news channel. He also headed the Speaker’s Bureau, columnist, and editorial writer for The Philippine Daily Inquirer and was the Assistant Managing Editor and an editorial writer for The Philippines Free Press weekly news magazine.

Undersecretary Quezon also previously served in government as Presidential Assistant for Historical Affairs and Deputy Head of the Chancellery of Orders and State Decorations, and Consultant for the Presidential Museum in Malacañan Palace.

He has received various awards for his professional work, including being named “Opinion Writer of the Year” in 1994 and 2005 by the Rotary Club of Manila’s Journalism Awards, the oldest journalism awards in the country, and First Prize for the Essay in English for the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 1997.

Undersecretary Quezon blogs at www.quezon.ph. Catch Manuel L. Quezon III during Mindanao’s Funnest Eyeball on November 26th as he talks about Effecting Change through Blogs & Social Media!