HAPPY 2011

Enjoying the old & the new: we look back at 2010 as a year that makes us happy & we welcome 2011!

2010 was an amazing year for JUSTPROUD. The first international shoot with the winning members, the new website, the first MAGAZINE and of course the involvement of over 10.000 members. We are very proud of meeting all the talents who all inspire the JUSTPROUD-team & together we won 3 International Awards! Soo cool!

In 2011 the 2^nd international contest will take place and we’re very excited. All members can participate to become the face of JUSTPROUD, the photographer and the designer. With or without experience in the fashion industry, you are invited! It’s the community who decides who gets the opportunity.

JUSTPROUD is an international community that connects fashion talents from all over the world. This makes the fashion processes so interesting.

We wish you the best for the New Year and lots of opportunities in the fashion industry.

Merry Xmas & happy 2011

Merry Christmas to all of you! Christmas means a spirit of love, peace, harmony and the celebration is not complete without a meaningful gift.
Therefore the JUSTPROUD-team presents you the first free MAGAZINE which was made possible by the community. With inspiring members, designs, looks and more!!


2011 will be an exciting year for all of us;


First of all we will present you some designs that will go into the pre-order stage; currently we are discussing with the designers & our production-team how to arrange everything; we expect to have it ready first week of the new year.


Second of all we will start the 2nd International Contest around mid January. We have almost everything ready & set to start this very cool event, with a very cool destination & the possibility for our members to expose themselves.


And last but not least we will include some new features to the site: to give more information to our members & fashionlovers & at the same time to provide more input to our designers.We hope to have this ready at the beginning of February.


Enjoy your holidays with family & friends!

Winners of the Tshirt giveaway

The raffle to win a JUSTPROUD Tshirt is closed and today we will announce the winners.
We noticed that some people only left a post on the article (instead of posting the link to their profile on our Facebook page). Because of our awards over the last weeks we decided to be mild, so here are the winners:

1. Queeny Zeshya 
2. Mallory vd Hulst 
3. Hannah Kassey Bacolod
4. Gabriela Vlad 
5. Mizz T-ny
6. Victoria Ranoe 
7. Amy Lee 
8. Shi Terrace 
9. Monica Ammerman 
10. Isaa Enguero  

All winners will be informed in person as well; Thanks everybody for your participation & looking forward to your contributions on Justproud.

& yet an other Award ...

Yes, we did it again: together we won an other award; Our mutual passion is clearly visible!  This time JUSTPROUD is an Innovator Award Winner in the 2010 Summit Emerging Media Award (Summit EMA) competition.

The Summit International Awards organization is devoted to furthering excellence in the communications industry. Throughout its sixteen-year history, the organization has established itself as one of the premier arbiters of communication excellence. Companies and individuals from more than 50 countries across five continents participate annually in its awards programs. 

Thanks everybody! This will push us even more to create extra value for all our members. woop woop!

Contest, navigation & charity

The beginning of this week we won the IMA Outstanding Achievement Award; a reward to all our members that we are on the right track; very cool!

Contest

We are very excited on creating our next contest; it takes some longer to implement this contest as we feel we had to adjust a part of the design (and a technical part of the site – to allow designers to connect to a contest, by submitting a design; for now the design was the center instead of a ‘general contest’ ). We are very happy with the outcome, but on planning it gives us some headaches. We aim to start the contest before the end of the year. Sorry for the delay, we try our hardest to get it started soon.

Navigation

On the design of the website we thought we should adjust the site, starting with the top headers. Currently we have 3 parts: the header, the login/connect section & the navigation. In the countries where we are integrated in MSN we even have the MSN template above it; therefore people have to scroll sometimes to see the page content (depending on resolution).

We managed to fit all functionalities in 2 parts: header with navigation & login-header.

Over the next weeks we will integrate this adjustment.

Charity

Besides our business objectives with Justproud, we also want to add value to society; therefore we support http://www.friendshipnederland.org/ (the dutch division of http://friendship-bd.org/ ) a foundation which identifies and reaches the poorest of the poor and the most marginalized communities in Bangladesh.

We encourage that you support this foundation as well.