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It's like they read my mind. I was expecting a long and dauntfull road ahead, but communication was great, the team is really friendly and very open-minded.
Arash Rahmani,
Da Bomb Entertainment VoF
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The Next Best Brand Contest Launched!
October 22, 2004 -- Minyo Biz is proud to announce it's first brand development contest. The contest will have 4 distinctive stages/aspects. During the first stage, members of the general public will have the possibility to submit their requests. The requests will consist in written essays in which members of the general public will outline which industry is in need for a new brand and why. After 100 submissions are received, this part of the contest will end. A comitee will evaluate all the essays and will pick 5 submissions based on various criteria. These 5 essays will constitute the basis for the second contest level, in which Minyo Biz will make this essays available to the general public. At this stage, designers and branders alike will have the chance to enter the contest which will consist in developing a brand for each or one of the 5 projects. After all submissions are received, a board of respected members from the branding, design and advertising community will judge the entries and will choose 10 contestants to enter the final level of the contest. After a final evaluation, made both by the general public and the members of the board, 4 winners will have their name written in the branding history book. Please read below for the contest rules and prizes!
The Next Best Brand Contest Rules & Prizes
Contest Rules
- All initial essays must be at least one page long (A4 format)
- Essays must contain relevant reasons why that particular industry needs a new "best brand"
- Contestants entering the 2nd level of the contest (designers and branders) can either represent themselves or a company
- The "branding" process will be constituted of: corporate logo design, tagline creation, business card design, sample webpage(screenshot-jpg or gif image, full scale)
- Contestants that will provide extra brand informations (internal alignment, company direction, employee brand-feeling etc) will acquire extra points
- All submissions must be sent by e-mail to contest@minyo.biz.
- Deadline for the essay submissions is 15th of November 2004. Winning essays will be posted on our site on the 17th.
- Deadline for the second level of the contest is 20th of December 2004. Winners will be announced on the 23rd of December 2004.
- The contest is open to all designers, branders, from all continents, in disregard to their religion, age, sex or political orientation.
- We strongly suggest that teams should apply. One person should write the essay and the designer should do the rest of the hard work
- Members of the board, as well as the companies they are affiliated with are not eligible to enter the contest
- Minyo Biz reserves the right to change the prizes or the rules of the contest at any time, but not after the second stage of the contest has started
- Minyo Biz, it's affiliate companies or the members of the board will not be held responsible for late submissions or misscommunications
Contest Prizes
First Prize - (we're not going to tell you yet, but we can assure you it will the best thing that happened in your career so far)
1st Runner Up - One year of Online Internship at Minyo Biz or one of it's affiliates(maybe we'll even hire you full time)
2nd Runner Up - Career Management Services (yes, we'll get you the best job available based upon your skills)
3rd Runner up - Contract with a major design company(if you're a designer) or a copywriter job (if you're into advertising)
The writer of the winning essay on which the contest will be held on will win an interesting prize as well!
Best of luck!
Corporate Alignment: ITIL and ISO 17799
Corporate Alignment
We are pleased to announce our long term strategy of alignment with both ITIL and ISO 17799 (BS7799). These are both important developments in the information technology market. ITIL is the emerging standard for IT service management, whilst ISO 17799, sometimes known as BS7799, is the standard for IT security. Although our long term objective is full compliance and potentially certification, in the short term we will be aligning our services accordingly. General information on these topics: ITIL: ITIL, ITIL and BS15000. ISO 17799: ISO 17799, ISO 17799, BS7799