May’s Lucky Draw Winner!
Hullo!
I’m sure you’re all waiting for the announcement on who won the Digital Camera in May’s lucky draw.
The winner for the Olympus FE-230 Digital Camera is….jeng jeng jeng
Boon from http://boonage.pjss2.net !
Boon is a graphic designer who happened to have had a bad day when Timothy went to pass him his prize. He had a sore eye and was on leave but that didn’t stop him from leaping in excitement and joy when Tim passed him his new camera!
Boon, his new camera and his sore eye.
You can all check out Boon’s entry on winning the camera here!
-Suet Li of Nuffnang
Nuffnang Community Event: Penang Bloggers’ Meet
Now for the entry that all of you have been waiting for.
Here are the pictures from the big Penang’s blog meet at Food Loft Gurney Plaza.
Over 100 bloggers attended including the prominent Nuffnang supporters such as Kenny Sia and Chanlilian.
The event was even covered and featured by The Star Metro.
Anyway, back to the pictures.
Here is our registration counter with our excited early birds.
A few other early birds who cozied up with Food Loft, the main sponsor for this successful event.
Bloggers holding a “We Love Nuffnang” placard specially designed by Daniel.
Yes, everyone loves Nuffnang!
The prominent blogger, Kennysia showing his fans his legful of hair (which was plucked off without mercy to be auctioned off for charity purposes)
Three beautiful bloggers with the man who made it all possible, Cedric.
Warren throwing questions at a blogger.
The Nuffnang team behind all the buzz.
A group picture of the Nuffnangers who stayed till the end!
Until the next meet Nuffnangers!
-Samantha Wong of Nuffnang
Nuffnang Reduces Minimum Cashout Amount to RM50
Nuffnang traditionally required its bloggers to reach earnings a minimum earnings of RM100 before they can cash out and have us send them our cheques. It made sense to compile earnings up to that amount, but it also made it hard for smaller bloggers to want to cash out.
So… just in case you guys haven’t already noticed, we have just recently reduced our minimum payout so bloggers don’t have to wait till RM100 to get their cheques.
Now you can request that we send out your cheques as soon as you reach RM50 and we will send out the cheques at the end of every month. At Nuffnang, we don’t drag payments… we pay fast.
Kota Kinabalu Bloggers’ Meet
Fellow Nuffnangers in East Malaysia!
A fellow Nuffnanger Daniel contacted us a few days ago to talk about a bloggers meet that he is planning at Kota Kinabalu for bloggers in East Malaysia. It is set to be quite a blast for East Malaysian bloggers.
For those of you who can make it, here are the following details.
Don’t miss this one!
KOTA KINABALU BLOGGERS’ MEET
Friday 6th July @ 7:30pm
Venue: Toscani’s @ Waterfront (To Be Confirmed)
FIRST COME FIRST SERVED - LIMITED SPACES!
All food and drinks are at your own expenses, as the ultimate purpose here is to unify bloggers based in Sabah to come forth, intermingle and go bananas!
Kindly confirm your attendance by 28th June 2007 by contacting Gallivanter - gallivantings@gmail.com.
Brought to you by fellow bloggers:
Daniel AKA Gallivanter
http://danielfranklingomez.com
Jacq
http://caneeliea.com
Debbie AKA Lady Stiletto
http://deblai.blogspot.com
Nuffnang is Hiring Programmers and Blogger Interns!!!
Nuffnang has been growing so fast the work load has been coming in at full force from maintaining both the fast growing blogger and advertiser base of the Community.
As a result of that, we’ve had to expand our team drastically in the past few months.
Just in the past month alone our Nuffnang team in Malaysia has more than doubled and this is not even including the team we have in Singapore. We’re still looking for more programmers, web designers and even marketing/sales people for our KL office that we are already in the process of setting up.
We’re also kick-starting our Blogger Internship Programs as part of our community initiatives where bloggers will have the chance to work behind the scenes at Nuffnang.
So everyone… just in case you don’t already know.
Click here to contact us!
Nuffnang Community Event: The Orient’s Voice at Food Loft Penang (23rd June 2007)
FELLOW NUFFNANGERS!!!!!
It is time for another bloggers’ gathering.
Though this time for the sake of the North Malaysians who missed the Pirates event in KL, we’re holding one for over 100 Nuffnangers at Food Loft, Gurney Plaza.
Along with a panel of Nuffnangers like Cedric and Project010, we have put together an event where the lovely guys at Food Loft have offered to sponsor us the venue and food for our bloggers’ meet.
For those of you who’ve never been to Food Loft, it is the trendy and chic restaurant at Gurney Plaza with a breathtaking sea view of Gurney Drive.
Nuffnangers from all over Malaysia are welcomed to attend and mingle with bloggers, Nuffnang advertisers and some of the Nuffnang team members themselves.
There will be a mingling session with lots and lots of photos and even a contest with prizes sponsored by Exabytes.
Not only that, in the show of support for our Nuffnang Community, Kenny Sia himself will be flying over all the way from Kuching to meet up with the Nuffnangers at this meet so sign up now before all 100 places are filled.
For more details of the event, click here.
To sign up for the event, click here to sign up.
Webhosting Discounts for Nuffnangers!!!
Months ago we announced that we were working on some affiliate programs with some advertisers to provide our Nuffnangers with discounts or additional benefits for being a part of the Nuffnang Community.
We always deliver what we promise… so here is the first of all Nuffnang Affiliate Programs.
A number of bloggers have actually e-mailed us in previous months to ask of our recommendations on which web host to choose if they were moving on to their own domain and if we could arrange for them to have some kind of discount.
Well now we can.
With our latest tie-up with Exabytes, Nuffnang bloggers can receive up to RM250 discount on a web hosting package and to top things off, for every RM1 discount that you get on any of these Exabytes packages, Exabytes will donate another RM1 to charity.
All you have to do is sign up for Exabytes and use the following coupon codes.
Coupon Code: Nuffnang07-1
- - RM50 One Time Discount
- - For Exabytes EBiz 1 Hosting Plan Only (Linux or Windows)
- - Exabytes will donate another RM50 to charity for every signup using this coupon
- - Coupon expires: 31st June 2007
Coupon Code: Nuffnang07-2
- - RM100 One Time Discount
- - For Exabytes EBiz Gold Hosting Plan Only (Linux or Windows)
- - Exabytes will donate another RM100 to charity for every signup using this coupon
- - Coupon expires: 31st June 2007
Coupon Code: Nuffnang07-3
- - RM250 One Time Discount
- - For Exabytes Semi Dedicated Server Hosting Plan Only (Linux or Windows)
- - Exabytes will donate another RM250 to charity for every signup using this coupon
- - Coupon expires: 31st June 2007
Fellow Nuffnangers, as we always say, this is just the beginning.
For more information, click here.
-Timothy Tiah of Nuffnang
Clearing Up Rumours
A wave of allegations have hit Nuffnang lately. If you’ve missed it, read about it at CNet here or even on one of our Nuffnanger’s blog here.
As a result of this latest controversy, we’ve been receiving an alarming number of e-mails from Nuffnangers asking us to verify a number of points made which is where we hope this announcement will clear up a lot of doubts.
Geolocation Targeting
Certain parties have claimed that Nuffnang does not have geolocation targeting for its advertisers. Well we do and to be honest we don’t shout about it because Geolocation Technology is not as sophisticated as it is played up to be. It’s very simple, you have a database which has a record where each IP address corresponds to a certain region or country. The accuracy of your targeting is dependent on how regularly updated and credible your database is. Ours is from a specialist company IP2Location.com that is updated regularly and is so sharp that we can even track the longtitude and latitude of each IP address.
Accepting Bloggers Below 20 Unique Visitors a Day
When we first started off, we required that bloggers have at least 20 unique visitors each day since we believe that is the very minimum in which we can use to serve paid ads to your blogs. In spite of that, many bloggers have e-mailed us about not meeting the requirements and our answer to them is that they are more than welcomed to join but note that we might not be able to serve them paid ads until they reach at least 20 unique visits a day.
Nevertheless, they are still welcomed to participate in our community events just like our Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Screening. A number of bloggers that fall below the minimum requirement attended the screening.
That being said, with our previous announcement of rolling out Cost Per Click and Cost Per Action schemes, we’re beginning to be able to include all blogs in these campaigns though we haven’t made any drastic changes to the so-called rule yet because CPC and CPA campaigns are still in its Beta Stages.
Paid Ads
Nuffnang today serves paid ads to over 1,000 blogs in our community which is impressive but is dwarfed when you take into account that our community has over 2,500 blogs signed up with us. When we serve paid ads, we don’t just rotate ad on your ad unit and pay you for each impression, we pay you for an entire week of ads… and we don’t just pay “Virtual Money” by crediting your Earnings account, we send actual cheques out with the 2nd batch of cheques being sent out to bloggers just a few days ago.
What we have found however is that because our advertisers now only pay for Unique Visits from Malaysian IP Addresses, the earnings for many of our bloggers in previous weeks have reduced greatly. Because of that, expect a number of blogger band revisions in the coming weeks with the first one as soon as next week.
Responses to Blog Entries
To the many bloggers who have written about Nuffnang on their blogs, regardless of whether it’s good or bad, I sincerely apologize for not being able to respond to your entries as quick as we used to. All of us at Nuffnang have been very busy in the past weeks planning the launch of new campaigns that you will see in the coming weeks, not to mention organizing a blogger event that Nuffnangers up in Penang will soon hear about.
If you have any pressing issues or complaints, please feel free to e-mail us at Nuffnang and we will respond to it quickly. Love us or hate us, we love to hear from you.
-Timothy Tiah of Nuffnang
