Started a CSR project with a group of students – melaka3.com

Three months back, we started a project with a group of students. They were hired into the company to help setup and run a CSR (corporate social responsibility) project of my company – Melaka3.com

Melaka3.com is a brain child of these students and me, we were challenged to kick start a CSR project with limited funding (from my company) and technical support from the staffs. We came out with a few ideas and decided to go with Melaka3.com project because we think that it’s a sustainable and achievable project to run given our limited resources. So, what Melaka3.com is all about? and why it’s a CSR project?

Melaka3.com is a non-profit website to promote Melaka as a tourism spot, we share travel-related information and review interesting places around Melaka that we have personally visited. We thought that this is an interesting project to work-on given all of us been staying here for at least few years and each have some special places or recommendations to share (it’s a good excuse to explore Melaka too). :P We believe we could help promote Melaka as a must stop place for tourist travelling to Malaysia (a lil’ Melakanism here :D), and we believe we can do this efficiently given the IT expertise available in the company (which i soon found that we need more than IT expertise, for example, we need designer and marketing talents. :( Well, let’s deal with this later).

These are what we have done so far:

1. Melaka3 home page – www.melaka3.com 
2. Melaka3 social medias:
• Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Melaka3
• Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/#!/melakapromo
3. Sponsored JCI IAB 2012 at Dataran Pahlawan Melaka.
4. Discovered and review a cafe with lots of good feedback from our followers.
5. Give away a 2GB DDR3 Ram to our Facebook follower (a second hand RAM we got after upgrading some of the laptop in the company) via a simple competition.
6. Sponsored to students to participate in a beauty contest.
7. Made 71 blog posts (yup, we know our blog posts are not in good quality but we are working on this. yes, please trust me, we notice.)
8. Sending out weekly newsletter to our subscribers about the latest happening and promotions in Melaka.

I personally hope this baby will grow and help contribute to Melaka tourism. Kudos to the dedicated and talented who help setup and running this project; they are Edwin, Teck Chia, Shin (aka Monkey), YS Hon, Sang Heng, Jaclyn, Matthew, Yeishyan, and Tian Lee. And thanks to our followers.