After long and busy months, I’m finally back and I have some good news to share with you!
I want to share to you a very interesting website that I stumbled just a few days ago. Web and graphics designers like me will benefit this most, as they will use their skills to participate.
So what’s the website?
The website I’m talking about is Prova.fm, which calls itself a “crowdsourcing” platform that takes social approach to business. Crowdsourcing is a brand new buzzword (for me!) that implies “the act of businesses outsourcing their talent needs from within a community.” It also connects to social networks like Facebook and Twitter, helps promote the work of graphic designers and improves the publicity of participating businesses.
Why it’s good for web graphic designers like me?
As a web and graphics designer, Prova.fm provides a great way for me to try monetizing my designing skills based on the quality of my work. Prova.fm enables companies that need graphic resources – for instance, a company logo – to run contests that designers can join and participate. These contests are listed in Prova.fm and they are open to all interested designers, regardless of their country of residence or nationality. That is so cool.
Designers who submit entries to Prova are ensured to receive feedback from customers, and fellow participants through its “I like” voting system. In most cases, popularity of the design will decide the winner. Designs submitted to Prova are also allowed to be included in the respective designers’ portfolios.
Update: To all other people who made something significant that I failed to mention on the list, please know that I remember you. You don’t have to be on the list to know that you’re special to me especially when you’re a friend. The numbering system below represents the level of influence or significance of the people in my 2009 life. Finally, I want to make it clear that this was not a competition. I came up with the list personally after assessing what happened to me this year.
This post is one of my year-ender posts for 2009. This is about the top ten people outside my direct biological family that brought happiness, helped me, or significantly influenced or contributed changes to the perspectives and ways of my life as a dignified human individual. It was difficult to come up with this list because there were many good people whom my life engaged with this year, but the people below are the creams of the crop and the roses among thorns.
You know in the past two weeks I’ve drawn my focus to campaigning for my video entry for HP You on You contest in YouTube. I really want to win because the prizes can improve my life, the lives of people directly attached to me online or offline, and my show, Tech Conclave.
Last night, I got a big surprise from my online friend named Bryce whom I met through a podcast and owns a tech reviews blog called Bilsta57. He has been helping me campaigning for my video entry in the past few days and last night he made me stunned and totally shocked when he announced on Twitter that he will do an iPhone 3GS giveaway if I ever win the HP contest. That’s extremely generous. I’m not even an iPhone owner myself nor can afford to buy it. He literally made me cry and my parents were very pleased as well. It’s just unbelievable for me: I’ve never encountered a compassion or help yet that big in my personal life. Bryce actually doesn’t actually talk or chat with me as my other closer friends do and I don’t even know what he looks like, so I firmly believe that his help is extremely sincere.
The video entry I submitted is included in the HP contest in YouTube’s Week #6 as an eligible entry. Watch my video here.
Unfortunately, the chances of winning for the major prizes are getting slimmer each day since September 1 because I have not received any notifications yet that my video is included in the Semi Finals. However, there’s still a way for you to help me bag a prize and you can do this by voting for my entry for the Community Award. Please vote for me and my video… It takes only 3 minutes of your time.
My friend Gerardo from Alhambra, California, USA, informed me about another cool HP contest. This time the contest takes place in YouTube with the title "You On You" where entrants create videos featuring themselves in a creative way for one minute without exposing a face. I decided to join the contest because I strongly believe I have a good story that may motivate some people in the world. Here’s my entry and the full script:
If you’re looking for an instant web presence whether it’s for your business or just to express yourself online, I suggest that you check out Web Studio at NetIDNow. Web Studio is a website builder that lets you create a website without suffering the complexities of web coding or the lack of web tools or IT expertise to start something from scratch. If you run a business and you’d like to establish an identity or port that online, Web Studio lets you build an ecommerce store as well. And guess what, you’ll just create them through your favorite web browser. Isn’t that cool?
On August 6, 2009, I marked my official second year (unofficially, it’s more than 2 years LOL) anniversary of my work here at home as a freelance web developer. Well, I’m more than just web developer. Time flies, as they say, and it really just flew in my case. My 48 months were not bad at all and it wasn’t bliss to work at home everyday either. There were lots of interesting and dramatic changes in my personal and professional life as witnessed by this blog.
