http://pamela.ramali.net Create and prosper Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:03:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_479" align="alignright" width="170" caption="This is your splash page"][/caption] For most cases, they shouldn't even exist in the first place. The exceptions are obvious: When you don't really have any other content to display, and the splash page IS your website. When you are legally required to confirm the user's identity, age, purpose of ... http://pamela.ramali.net/2009/10/splash-pages-are-extinct/ So I'm Pamela Ramali, MBA now - officially so since June 20, 2009. Kellogg was an amazing ride, and I will never forget the two years I had there. I learned so much, but as any other Kellogg MBAs would tell you, it's the people I got to meet that ... http://pamela.ramali.net/2009/08/kellogg-mba-the-aftermath-a-k-a-the-was-it-worth-it-post/ Before I write a long blog post on The Amazing Greece Summer Holiday That Was, or an even longer post on life post-Kellogg graduation (who woulda thought? I'm now an MBA), I'd like to jot down a few things about Greece that I thought were worth noting, during my visit ... http://pamela.ramali.net/2009/08/greece-baby/ Why do we negotiate? Obtain favorable terms: you try to win the biggest share of the pie for yourself, e.g. buying a car for below market price, get an increase in salary or a better terms of employment Build personal relationships: negotiation isn't always all about winning - it can also create ... http://pamela.ramali.net/2009/06/negotiations-just-another-board-game/ You and the brands: Brand tags: what do brands say to you? ("childhood", "banana", and "smile" are amongst the most popular tags for Crayola) Creative advertisements around the world use the environment in inspirational ways. Logo inspiration: Inspiredology inspires any aspiring logo designers with 120 brilliant logo examples. LogoPond is a cornucopia of ... http://pamela.ramali.net/2009/06/inspiration-assets-one-happy-me/ Gender targeting is one of the Kellogg topics that piqued my interest. Men and women are clearly different, but I found it interesting how some of the different factors of their personalities can be used in targeting a particular advertising campaign towards either gender. Men and women, apparently, differ greatly ... http://pamela.ramali.net/2009/06/gender-targeting-in-advertising/ So after about 14 years of hand-coding my personal website (the most current one would be apsylus.com), all while developing and working with various CMS'es professionally, I've decided to re-start my online existence with WordPress. Why? Because these blogging and CMS platforms are becoming so much better and easier to use ... http://pamela.ramali.net/2009/05/a-new-start/ I was asked to do the branding, logo design, and marketing materials for the Kellogg Annual Fall Ball 2008. The theme for the ball was "masquerade". Since it was to be held at Chicago's fancy Navy Pier Crystal Garden, the marketing material had to convey an upscale and dressy theme ... http://pamela.ramali.net/2009/05/kellogg-fall-ball-2008/ This was easily my biggest project while at Kellogg. As the Marketing Co-chair, I was responsible for everything involving marketing the conference - it was my job to sell the conference out as quickly as possible. Starting with the logo (which is different from the past years' Kellogg Technology Conference ... http://pamela.ramali.net/2009/05/kellogg-technology-conference-2009/ Rocket Pockets is Kellogg's pop and rock band, of which I may or may not be a groupie. They had a few photos taken for their promotional material, and I created this poster out of the photo they picked. [gallery] http://pamela.ramali.net/2009/05/rocket-pockets/