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:
- Melaka3 home page – www.melaka3.com
- Melaka3 social medias:
- Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Melaka3
- Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/#!/melakapromo
- Sponsored JCI IAB 2012 at Dataran Pahlawan Melaka.
- Discovered and review a cafe with lots of good feedback from our followers.
- 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.
- Sponsored to students to participate in a beauty contest.
- 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.)
- 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.