MyPhatBreak - New Aussie Startup For Models

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Hat Tip to Nick Holmes à Court (considered #63 out of the Top 100 Influential Twitterers by Shifted Pixels) for bringing this to my attention!

Here’s a screenshot of MyPhatBreak:

myphatbreak.com frontpage

A cursory search of “myphatbreak” eventually lands you to a site of someone (an intern named Steph?) who might be working for their ad agency (Shifted Pixels?) as several of their learning goals (about 5 of them) can be gleaned from the posts:

Learning Goal#1: Learn what online strategies can be teamed up with traditional understanding

“Gain understanding of the benefits of a pure online advertising campaign.
Create an online advertising strategy for one of Shifted Pixels current clients based on an existing creative brief. List the advantages and disadvantages of an online campaign.

MyPhatBreak.com”

Learning Goal#2: Learn how the two way communication in online advertising can be and an advantage and disadvantage to the agency and their clients.
Be part of the online blogging process Shifted Pixels uses to start a conversation with influential parties on the internet. List the advantages and disadvantages.”
Learning Goal#3: Understand the effectiveness and accountability of an online advertising campaign
How these are measured by the agency and communicated to the client
Use Shifted Pixels Buzz Numbers system to track brands and word of mouth.

Track how campaign for MyPhatBreak.com is going

Used Google Analytic s to measure how many people had been refered to the web site from face book. - have some work to do ! “

Learning Goal#4: Be involved in the process of creating an online presence for current agency clients.
Strategy
Social Media Engagement
There are groups of Australian aspiring models and talent that currently congregate and communicate within existing Social networks. Facebook will be used as a social networking medium to communicate to these existing social networks the target markets. These networks have been found through groups that are related to both the main target audiences and related target audiences. Our Facebook profiles will be used in phase one to stimulate online Word of Mouth conversations about MyPhatBreak and sign up new members. The Facebook profiles must be a real as possible including friends, photos and online interaction with friends.
Identities Created to relate to the Target Markets
Two fake profiles have been created in Facebook that will interact with the target market and related markets. The fake profiles will join groups that will relate to the target markets and post messages recommending the MyPhatBreak website. The messages will be simple and in casual messages recommending the web site as they have already signed up and they have found it great.”
Learning Goal#5: Gain understanding of the account management process in a digital agency.
“Learning Goal 5: Gain understanding of the account management process in a digital agency. Strategies and Resources: Be involved in the communication process between the agency and its current clients and the internal communication process throughout the agency. Write a creative brief based on my understanding of the clients needs. Day one researched target market and created a creative brief for online cocktail website, researched 3 different Target markets. Received the MyPhatBreak.com Briefing and discussed how each member of the agency will contribute to the social networking campaign. contributed to a report that is used to communicate and update the client what Shifted Pixels have been doing on the account and how.”
What’s myphatbreak.com about in a sentence? Konstantlab has a short brief:
Site Brief – MyPhatBreak is a model hunt site where the models as well as the agents register themselves and contact each other for further business.”
If you’re a male or female model based in Australia or New Zealand looking for a break, myphatbreak.com might just be for you!

Posted by Paul “The Pageman” Pajo

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Microsoft BizSpark - Free MS Dev Software And Support For Startups

Yesterday, Steve Ballmer re-announced, during his presentation at Liberation Day in Sydney, the launch of BizSpark.

BizSpark is a new initiative from Microsoft that gives startups access to a wide range of MS development software and support services for free, for 3 years.

Actually “for free” is a bit of a fib. Enrollment is free but there’s a $100 exit fee from the program.

To qualify you need to have a business that’s less than 3 years old, does less than US$1Million in revenue and has been approved by a “Network Partner

There are a few Network Partners listed under Australia already, so if you’d like to develop on the Microsoft platform definitely get in contact with them.

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Steve Ballmer in Sydney - No Monkey Dance But Maybe A Windows App Store?

I managed to pop in and catch Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, speak at “Liberation Day“, in Sydney yesterday and was pleasantly surprised, not only by his presentation style but also by the things that he had to say.

Unfortunately there was no Monkey Dance during his arrival on stage - but there was enough quirkiness and passion in his speech that, whether or not you buy into the Microsoft dream, it’s hard to deny he is a refreshing change from the robotic CEOs of many other leading tech firms.

As expected, he continued the recent PR around Microsoft’s new Cloud Computing Services Platform - Azure (can someone please work out the correct pronunciation for this one quickly? Already we’ve heard “ajour” “assure” “asia” “azooer” …).

I thought the best stuff came in the Q&A session, though.

The first interesting remarks came in response to a question about whether Microsoft intended to create an app market, following on from the iPhone and Facebook lead, so developers building apps on the MS development platform would have the same chance to make some money. 

…No one is making any money out of iPhone or Facebook apps

First of all Ballmer claimed that no one is making any money out of iPhone or Facebook apps. It was a little disappointing to hear him say that. People are making money by coding for these platforms…maybe not Ballmer-style dollars, but money never the less. Discredit your competitors, by all means Steve, but try to stay factual.

Secondly, he hinted at a Microsoft App store coming soon that might be similar, but not exactly the same, as iPhone / Android / Facebook app markets. This may very well be further proof that the rumoured Windows Mobile 7 “skymarket” may actually become a reality. Then again, I got the feeling that this would be more than just a pure mobile play - but time will tell.

What else did he have to say? I’m glad he jumped in on the Telstra/Government debate saying that hi-speed broadband is critical for enabling next generation services and that rather than continue bickering it was “time to get onto it”.

He also mentioned that technology is making software development one of the most creative and interesting jobs going round at the moment. I tend to agree, and I’m not even a coder.

You can check out his whole presentation at the Liberation Day website.

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