The Web Innovation 2007 : Web design contest by NID and Microsoft India

National Institute of Design (NID), Microsoft Corporation and Trade Fairs & Conferences Internatiaonal (TFCI) Brings to you Web Innovation Designer Contest 2007

It is the Perfect Platform for the students and professionals involved in disciplines such as Design & Development, Media & Advertising, ICT, Software Development etc. The Participants need to use Microsoft® Silverlight™ 1.0 and Microsoft® Expression® for their website projects.

The area of designing involve User interface Design , Animation , Digital Advertisement , Web Design , Video. Web designers can develope website of any of the categories like Travel , Matrimony , Finance Management , Social Networking , Jobs. Hotel Booking , Classifieds , eCommerce , Media & Entertainment.

The last date for filing your nominations is December 10, 2007.
For More Information write to manoj@tfci.com

Digital Photo Contest : Upload Original Photo and Win Kodak Camera

Kodak and Tech2 presents "Click 2 Style" , a Digital Photo Contest. You can be professional photographer or amateur photographer. You can take part in this contest if you know the photography.

All what you need is to take your mobile or digital camera. Take one picture and upload it here in jpeg/giff format with maximum 1 MB which represents your style quotient . And win Kodak EasyShare M883 rel="nofollow" Digital Camera.

The Google Online Marketing Challenge Contest

Google , World's No.1 Search engine has come out with Global Online Marketing Challenge which will start in February 2008 and is open to any higher education institution from any part of the world. The Google Online Marketing Challenge is a great opportunity for the students of Advertising , ecommerce, integrated marketing communication, management information systems, marketing

and new media technologies.


How to Enter the The Google Online Marketing Challenge :
Various groups of students from higher education institutes can take part in the competition. But it is professor who will register the groups. Students themselve can not register a team. Any professor at any Higher Education Institute can enter any class, graduate or undergraduate, regardless of discipline.


What is the The Google Online Marketing Challenge ?

1. Professors divide students into groups, who then receive free online advertising vouchers for Google AdWords worth US$200.

2. The groups or professors recruit a small-to-medium business, under 100 employees, who have a website but don't currently use AdWords.

3. Each group works with the business to set up an account and structure an online marketing campaign.

4. During a 3-week competition window, the groups optimize and refine their campaigns. They will need to submit two competition reports – one before they begin and one after the campaign has ended.

5. Entries are judged and winners chosen based on the success of their campaign and the quality of their reports.

students can compete over any three consecutive weeks between the 10th of February and the 24th of May 2008.


What are the awards and recognition for the winners?

The global winners and their professor will receive a trip to the Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California to meet with the team that developed AdWords. In addition, regional winners and their professor will receive a trip to their local Google office.

All winning students, professors and institutions will receive recognition through the competition website and Google merchandise. All students will receive certificates of participation.


Are you Ready for The Google Online Marketing Challenge ?

Indian MBA Entrance Exams other than CAT

When We think of Indian MBA entrance exams - CAT ( Common Admission Test ) is the 1st name comes in the mind. CAT 2007 is over and CAT results will be declared on 2nd jan. by IIM's on respective IIM websites.

But there are other Indian MBA Entrance exams like IBSAT for IBS , SNAP for Symbiosis , NMAT for NMIMS Narsee Monjee university , XAT for XLRI to name a few - which you must be appearing for. I would suggest MBA Aspirants to refer to some forums to get insight on these exams ,student life and actual placements and to discuss various doubts directly with current MBAt Students and fellow MBA aspirants.

Here is details about Indian MBA entrance exams and links to MBA forums.

IBSAT 2007 for IBS ( Icfai business School )
December 16, 2007 (Sunday) : 9.30 am – 12.00 noon
Reporting Time : 8.30 am at Test Center
Discuss IBSAT 2007


SNAP TEST 2007 for SIBM , SCMHRD , SIIB , SIMC and other Symbiosis colleges
Date of the SNAP Test - December 16, 2007.
Test Time : 2 pm and 4 pm.
SNAP TEST Results 8th January, 2007
Discuss SNAP 2007


NMAT 2007 for NMIMS University ( Narsee Monjee )
Date : 30th December, 2007
Time :10.00 am to 12.00 noon
Discuss NMAT 2008


XAT 2008 for XLRI , XIMB , BIM and other Participating Management Institutes
Date : January 06, 2008
Test Timings: 10:00 am to 12:30 pm
Discuss XAT 2008