Young Market Masters Awards

Mansmith and Fielders, Inc., an advocacy-based company that aims to uplift the level of marketing practice among young professionals in the Philippines, announced that the search is on for the new batch of nominees who will vie for the 7^th Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (Mansmith YMMA) 2012.

The 7^th Mansmith YMMA 2012 is open to Filipinos 35 years of age and below with at least 2 full years of service with a company at the time of nomination and who is described as an innovator.

There will be three categories: “marketing,” “sales” and “entrepreneur.”

The “marketing” and “sales” categories are open to marketing and sales achievers, whether they are marketing managers, brand managers, trade marketing managers, account managers, sales managers, business development managers, etc., and were responsible in uplifting not only their company’s status against its competitors but also built the sustainability of the brand.

The entrepreneur category, on the other hand, is for the owner or part owner of a business considered as the catalyst of the business. The business should be an innovative and pioneering enterprise that offers either a new product or an enhanced product but nonetheless should be out-of-the-box and inventive.

The independent judges for the 7^th Mansmith YMMA 2012 are all recognized experts in the field of marketing. The official awarding ceremonies for the 7^th Mansmith YMMA 2012 will be held on February 9, 2012.

The Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards was conceived in order to encourage and inspire today’s young marketing professionals to become innovators and catalysts of change for a progressive Philippines. Awardees are chosen based on how they create and implement ground-breaking, responsive and creative marketing and sales approaches that help build businesses and brands and achieve greater heights.

The Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards 2012, supported by its learning partner Abenson, and officially endorsed by the Philippine Franchise Association (PFA), the Philippine Retailers Association (PRA), with TNS and Kantar World panel as research partners, is an advocacy project of Mansmith and Fielders, Inc. The group was founded and established in 1989 by industry leaders led by Chairman and Chief Marketing Strategist Josiah Go, and is composed of successful practitioners and entrepreneurs who specialize in the fields of marketing and sales, strategy and innovation training.

Deadline for submission of entries is on October 31, 2011. For inquiries, call (02) 584-5858 or (02) 584-8989 or email info@youngmarketmasters.com. Entries can also be sent via fax at (632) 722-2318 or 412-0034.

For more details about the 7^th Mansmith YMMA 2012 and to download nomination forms, go to http://www.youngmarketmasters.com.

Winners of the  6^th Young Market Masters Awards for 2011

Designs for Sweets and Yummies

Designing up a good menu design is not that easy as eating pasta and steak. Sometimes it will take for about 2 days to one week to come up a good one.  As an artist myself it's a tough challenge for me on how to make the food more presentable, yummy and satisfying even just in matte printed paper only.

Chefs needs do the tasting, cleaning, choosing the appropriate plate to use and even calculating the time in serving the dishes to their guests from the kitchen all the way to the dining table are their main concerns.

Photo/s by Patisserie Manila Pavilion

Concepts and Designs by Lance

Artists does almost the same thing too, in designing such menu for food like this we (artists) see to it that we have the right/good photos (from a good photographer  of course) as our main ingredient, following and arranging grids, measurements and applying colors  as a background must always be observed and needs to do the trial and error in  printing and sometimes bring this to a panel discussions if needed before printing and give it away to the guests or to your target market.


For food artists / chefs its always the smell that comes first. And for the design artists, It's always the colors that matters.

Life from UP and Down Under

BORACAY -  A great vacation and relaxation, together with my friends.  It was my first time having a simple yet kinda romantic vacation in the said island. We stayed at one of the hotels in station 2 for three days. I have three memorable experiences to share.

1.  During the landing of the plane in Kalibo International Airport I was amazingly staring at the window with my camera ready to take some birds eye view shots, I was so surprised when I saw a green field from above mid air like farm ville  so fresh to my eyes, so calm and I can even feel the simplicity of life. 

2.  Island hopping, like most visitors / tourists do when in Boracay,  we did our group date Island hopping, we were able to visit from one island to another, swim and play with the colorful fishes in some of the undestroyed Islands. 

3. Walking Under The Sea, we spent 15 minutes down under interacting with some sea creatures  face to face, feeding them like  cheerful babies. There's this one thing I observed some corals are dying and  destroyed, why? because of the high number of curious visitors diving in one day (just in one spot/place) .. (sigh)

Overall  the Island is still awesome, and offers unlimited happiness.

Pusong Pinoy CHILDREN FIRST International Photography Exhibition

HOW DO I SUBMIT EXHIBITION PHOTOS?

Before you submit your photos be sure that you're already a member of Pusong Pinoy, how to become a member? it's simple, just like them on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PusongPinoy.org and learn more.

Pusong Pinoy is asking ALL professional and amateur photographers, Heroes and PP Superheroes to submit images which will help us to tell the Pusong Pinoy story and raise awareness of its cause. Sharing your photographs will help us to further our cause – to help eradicate poverty through the improvement of literacy for Filipino children.


WHAT HAPPENS TO MY PHOTO?

It will join others in a selection process. If selected, your photo will be printed to A3 size and exhibited in the Pusong Pinoy “Children First” International exhibition in Edinburgh. Your valuable contribution will be acknowledged. You retain copyright.


WHAT KIND OF PHOTOS ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for photos which illustrate Filipino child poverty as well as the positive actions that Pusong Pinoy has taken to alleviate it. Here are some ideas on which photos will qualify for exhibition consideration.

-  Pusong Pinoy: the beginning (how it all began)
-  Donors with collected books
-  Book drives (books being collected at events, in cars, in garages, etc.)
-  Mobile or transportable libraries / reading centers (ex. BOOKlatan sa Taal, Baclayon’s Books on  Wheels, De La Salle Book Mobile Reading Program)
-  Boxes being shipped
-  Reading programs showing shelves or crates of books, volunteers and children
-  A volunteer reading a story to a child
-  Kids reading
-  Recipients themselves showing different kinds of emotions
-  Scholars at De La Salle Lipa
-  Turnovers of books, school supplies, Christmas packs, food to recipients in the Philippines
-  Christmas project (Pamaskong Pusong Pinoy)
-  Birthday blowout
-  Kids eating, reading, listening to storytelling
-  Kids happily inspecting their goody bags School supply distribution
-  Pictures of sad kids, or happy kids in a sad background.
-  PP Superheroes working
-  PP Superheroes delivering packages


WHICH ASPECTS WILL GET VISITORS CONCERNED AND INTERESTED?

- The Philippines
- Poverty in the Philippines

- Filipino childhood
- Filipino kids at play
- Filipino life street life in the Philippines
- Learning in the Philippines
- Children’s successes

- PP work- making a difference
- The work of recipient organizations


HOW DO WE SUBMIT OUR PHOTOGRAPHS?

If you feel that you have strong images, please get in touch with Pusong Pinoy, through any PP Superhero, via Facebook, or email your entries directly to:

Douglas Inness (PPC Link)

Scottish Pusong Pinoy Coordinator

Email address: douglasinness123@btinternet.com

We prefer the original photo files from your hard drives. Jpegs are fine. This ensures the best quality for printing. Photos posted on Facebook are reduced in size, decreasing their resolution. To ensure that we get the best quality photos, please email the photos in their original sizes. Of course, if you have a great image, just get in touch!

PLEASE VISIT  https://www.facebook.com/PusongPinoy.org

The New Face of Facebook

Is it true that Facebook is at war with some subscribers for some major reasons?

1.  FB created a pane on the side bar, same "looks"  like the twitter real time posting has where you can see updates scrolling every second counts.

 

2. The  left side bar of the home page was added couple of lists like the location, school, family and etc. In the google+ they set it as "Circles"

3. The update box turned into almost the same as the google+ where you can add location and choose a group or friends who can only read your post.

4. When you upload photos the system will automatically arrange them into a set card or  grid type,  some are still in loved with the previous version way, but for me I like it.

Personally I like this new format this is more interactive, well engineered and well planned. but the only thing that I believe that's gone is the "uniqueness. Well, this 6-year old networking site is evolving willing to show to the world what is the meaning of endless POSSIBILITIES.

Read more at http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/future-facebook-profile-pages-timeline-005820123.html