A Visit Malaysia Blogging Campaign

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If you haven’t heard, the government is pumping billions of Malaysian Ringgit into the Ministry of Tourism next year. Why the large investment into that specific account? Well, if you’ve been counting the years of celebration, next year is our 50th birthday.

Other than the Tourism Malaysia website that I think needs a new refreshing outlook, we’ve also got a cyber campaign running in conjunction with Visit Malaysia 2007. The Visit Malaysia Cyber Campaign (duh!) targets to invite the world to visit Malaysia by relying on pure Malaysian spirit to send out email invitations, e-card invitations and even SMS invitations to your friends overseas.

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Why Advertising Position Planning is Important?

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I got this of one of the blogs I daily visit. I think it’s really worth sharing with everyone who’s thinking of buying advertising space or is planning to offer advertising space to others in their website. If you view the image, without careful planning of the positioning a big problem such as this can … Read more

The Important 60 second Moment

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One of the hardest things I’ve learnt in a business network is being able to present yourself, your job and your company in merely 60 seconds. It’s like one of those scenes in a movie where the boss is too pre-occupied and the lowly employee with a groundbreaking idea ends up too tense to even blurt out a word.

Imagine you were given 60 seconds to secure a job from everyone in a board room who’s interested to build a website. All of them have the general requirements to build their website but all that’s between them and you is the confidence to pass on the job to you. In that one minute they want you to tell them why they should hire or give you $5000 to build their website and not someone else outside the boardroom awaiting their turn.

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Recognizing a Blogger is AlwaysWow

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Being in a hall full of formally dressed businessmen and women is rather scary with everyone trying to exchange business cards with you. Some times you don’t even have the chance to actually ask about their business let alone getting to know personally. Well, now I know how scary a business networking event can be.

The most unexpected happened at the event where I met a former college friend and someone that I only met once in my entire life of blogging. Sitting down at the same table his face was just too familiar to put aside and brushing the feeling that I really didn’t know this guy. But his identity was revealed after giving an energetic speech about his business and later shouting his tagline; Always Wow!

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Merdeka Bloggers Recruitment still Open

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There wasn’t much advertising done to promote the Merdeka Blogger Project (MBP) this year especially by senior or already popular bloggers. I probably could start listing the excuses and assumptions of why the project isn’t so popular this year but I’ll not. I’d rather just like to say the project registration will still be open until the next Merdeka 2007 and bloggers can still celebrate the Merdeka message MBP is communicating this year.

The weird thing I’ve noticed is that everyone assumes the celebration of Merdeka is all about the history involved. It’s all about Mr.Tunku Abdul Rahman standing on a podium and lifting his hand a couple of times screaming the words, Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka! The criteria of unity is one of the things to celebrate on Merdeka but haven’t you ever looked beyond that?

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The Definition of a Merdeka Blogger

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One of the biggest events is coming to Malaysia in just 2 days; Merdeka Day. While everyone’s trying to place the biggest Malaysia flasgs available on their ‘Kancil’ cars, why not blog on this proud day and become a Merdeka Blogger. I’ll tell you what’s a Merdeka Blogger and what makes a blogger become one. :)

Bloggers who blog on Merdeka day are called Merdeka Bloggers not just because they’re writing an article for that day. They can only be called a true Merdeka Blogger if they’re writing with patriotism for their country and most importantly, themselves.

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Learn to Make Your Website User Friendly

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I have to first say I’m no usability guru like Jakob Nielsen. But I can say I’d be a proud apprentice derived from the teachings of Steve Krugg. Both are names mentionable in usability while one’s more known but that’s not the point here. The point is that we all know a user friendly website creates happy visitors thus converting them to be happy customers.

Aren’t you tired of having to dig through dirt to get to the information you’re looking for? Or don’t you find reading the content on the grand looking tourism website just difficult because of the background or the non-contrasting text? The worst scenario, basking in joy with the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but not having a way back. Well, we know all about that.

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Virus via a Family Member Postcard

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I have noticed many may have fallen prey to this when I saw my keyword search report therefore I’ve taken the initiative to add this piece of information below to help you. I hope that helps. – July 1, 2007

Q: Oh no! I clicked on one of the links in the Aunt Edna email! What should I do?
A: First thing: delete the email. Then use a newly-updated virus scanner to check your machine for any infection. Next, download the free version of Ad-Aware, and check your computer for spyware and adware. And finally, if you really want to be safe, you should stop using Internet Explorer (which is very, very unsafe to browse with nowadays) and download Firefox, which is a safer, faster, more modern and totally free browser from the fine folks at Mozilla.

Source: 1001Postcards.org

If you’ve recently received a postcard allegedly from the provider 1001postcards.com, make sure you double check the suspiciousness of it being sent by a family member. I recently received one and curiosity led me to the finding of the Aunt Edna virus.

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Become a Logo Designer 2.0

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Any logo designer or designer or anyone for that matter should view this mad Yay Hooray thread on; redesign famous logos in web 2.0 format! What these people do is basically take an existing company logo like McDonalds, BBC, CNN, Adidas, Nike and even Coca Cola and redesign it into a fitting web 2.0 logo. … Read more

Cover Your Bases or Be Legally Slapped

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One of the items freelance designers aren’t armed with is a contract or an agreement that should be signed by the designer and the client. As much as the printed material isn’t all legal without a certified seal but the signature on the paper strictly certifies its officiality and authorization by both parties. This paper can’t rush the deposit or payment remainder from the client to you unless you sue them – which I don’t think you’d want to do.

However, this paper signed on can be your shining armor against some legal actions a client might take on you. For instance; if the client wanted to slap you with a legal suit for not offering what you say then your documentation of the list of items both parties have considered is in the agreement. Don’t get it? Well, legal agreements aren’t made for easy reading.

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