There’s going to be a gathering of more than 100 Malaysian bloggers this weekend, and we’re going to be there too!

We at Josh Lim & Associates will be exhibiting our latest project - an asian blog advertising network, Advertlets.com.

Other than that, we’ll also be spreading awareness about the lack of proper broadband facilities in Malaysia - and yes, that’s this very site, RedesignMalaysia.com.

Be there! Its happening on 9th March 2007, Federal Hotel, KL, 6PM Onwards! Read here and here for more details.

Just a side note about Advertlets.com - it’s basically a blog advertising network, where its killer feature is real time demographics, through the use of polling. The poll engine is particularly impressive, and formed the bulk of the development - you can test it out right here on this site, by scrolling down and looking for the Personal Survey / Advertlets logo. Main reason is, demographics help make advertising messages count - as there’s no point advertising on a site when you have no idea who the visitors area.

And of course, you’re probably wondering what RedesignMalaysia has to do with Advertlets - firstly, both are initiatives from the same company. Which means that when Advertlets takes off - so does the fight for better broadband in Malaysia.

A question for the bloggers here :

1. Do you have a high traffic blog?
2. Are you currently involved in any blog/website advertising programs?
3. If you could make money advertising on your blog, what kind of percentage of the total profits you make would you consider to sponsor RedesignMalaysia? 10%? 25%? 50%? (If you’re wondering what RedesignMalaysia needs your sponsorship for, read here and here. The funds would be used to continually develop the site, including advanced features such as community network monitoring/choose the best ISP for your area, and also to run media awareness campaigns to put pressure on service providers.)

Some of you have been asking how you can contribute further to the development of RedesignMalaysia.com, and further ways to improve broadband in Malaysia.

I’m not sure how many of you are aware, but the web development, design, content, planning, media relations and marketing (basically everything) behind RedesignMalaysia.com is fully sponsored by Josh Lim & Associates, including our full time staff, contract workers, and volunteers. Altogether, it has proven to be quite a mammoth effort, taking up more than 1500 man-hours and counting.

Our position as a web design and marketing company puts us in a good place to run the website - seeing that we have a history of putting sites together, and publicizing them. However, RedesignMalaysia.com is our own company grown initiative, and wasn’t commissioned by any client, hence its kind of different (ie, also costly).

The start of the year has brought us quite a bit of projects, and we’ll like to have more people involved, ideally, people with some time to spare. We are looking for people to fill fulltime positions mainly, however we are also open to contract workers and volunteers. Why its going to be fun, in one sentence: We do a whole range of exciting client projects, including RedesignMalaysia.com - and we’re also planning to launch a few Web 2.0 services this year to do with blogs, Malaysia, advertising and community.

Our clients include companies such as CIMB, Proton Berhad, Pernod Ricard Malaysia, Manhattan Fish Market and more! Other than that we also work together with our technology/advertising partners on projects for various telcos and organizations.

So, this is what we’re looking for:

1. Do you know Wordpress/Joomla/PHP/CSS/AJAX/HTML and more? We need web developers & web designers.
2. We need more hardcore Adobe Flash Actionscript/XML developers. I know there are more than 6 of you existing in Malaysia, why are they so hard to find?
3. Are you a good illustrator/animator/video editor? We’re also looking to populate this site and others with some cool illustrations and motion graphics. We’ll also like to come up with a RedesignMalaysia.com infomercial to put on Youtube.
4. Is your England very the powderful? We need writers and researchers.
5. We would also like to know if anyone here can volunteer legal assistance, for us to research the implications on things such as contracts, consumer rights and the National Broadband Plan.
6. And of course, client servicing people, project managers & strategists are required to keep it all from getting too crazy.

Your boss and comrade would be a relatively okay dude, which has been on Fear Factor Malaysia, hijacked a RM30 million dollar ad campaign, speaks at seminars to everyone from students to government officials, used to be a theatre actor (Dataran Merdeka Actor’s studio, before it got flooded), and has been designing web sites for over 9 years. You’ll also be working with other people who have won student short film awards, composed music for Malaysian hip hop artistes, and modelling around the world (did you know he’s also very good at numbers?). Your office environment will have free junk food, designer furniture, indie rock/pop music, and a trendy 1600 sq. ft. SoHo ambience.

Send your resume to info@redesignmalaysia.com or josh.lim@josh.com.my. Even if you don’t think you fit the bill, you can still help - tell a friend or link to this post using the banner image. Don’t know a lot, but willing to work hard and learn? We also take interns (so far we’re had interns from MMU, Universiti Malaya, University Putra Malaysia & The One Academy). Thanks!