I came across this wonderful contest with a grand prize of an eco trip up for grabs and would like to participate in it but unfortunately, it is only open to legal residents of the 50 states of the United States of America. Anyhow, even though I am not eligible to participate, you could try your luck.
Besides the grand prize of an eco trip which includes airfare for one person, the is the first prize of a Nintendo Wii system, and the game for Wii, Endless Ocean, a second prize of a Nautica watch, third prize of a$100 gift certificate to Nautica.com and a Nautica rope bracelet.
Even though one may not be lucky enough to win the grand prize, all these prizes look attractive enough to me. What do you think? Are they worth your time?
Some of you may know that I participated in Exabyte’s Snap & Win Contest lately to try to win the prize of a Canon EOS 1000D DSLR camera. I took some photos of valid URLs from magazines lying around the house and submitted them but I am just not happy with the shots.
Over the weekend, I surfed around for free tools to enhance my entry to the contest and found this PhotoSnack slideshow maker, a fuss free website that allows us to upload our photos and turn them into a slideshow by selecting one of the preset layouts.
Uploading photos can be a pain. It took me almost half a day just uploading twenty odd images because I had to do it one by one; but I have to admit that the size of my images contributed to the speed. However, the finished result is awesome especially when viewing my slideshow on my new 20in widescreen LCD monitor. Check it out here:
PhotoSnack is highly customizable and what I like is that if you make changes to your slideshow, it will automatically be reflected in your slideshow that you have embedded on your blog or other social sites. You don’t have to embed a new script or make manual changes.
By the way, I will be updating my slideshow with new photos from time to time before the close of the contest and this is going to be my new entry to Exabyte’s Snap & Win Contest! Wish me luck!
I thought it had been a long time since I updated my blog and true enough, it had been a week! My mind was willing but the heart was not. Instead, I spent the past week playing one game after another on Facebook, hopping from Pet Society to Restaurant City to Mafia Wars to Underworld to Hatclings, Sorority Life, Glamour Age, Farm Town, FarmVille, Fantasy Farm, Barn Buddy, Happy Harvest, Happy Farm, Gardenhood, Happy Ranch, and the 101 other farming games that I even forgot their names. That’s why my friends were screaming that my crops are dead! LOL
Coincidentally, someone contacted me this morning; I am sure I am only one of the hundreds or even thousands of bloggers that she has contacted. Fair enough, she wants some publicity for the Opus Hotel contest that she is touting called Red Carpet Ready Contest.
Firstly, let me just say that if anyone wishes to have their contest mentioned on my blog, please at least leave me a link to the contest site. I really do not appreciate wasting time searching for it on the web.
Anyway, this Red Carpet Ready Contest is a photo contest for Facebook users who are in Canada only. If you fit the bill and would like to take part and have a shot at winning the Opus Vancouver 2009 Much Music Video Awards Package OR Opus Hotel Montréal 2009 Much Music Video Awards Package, check out the link I have enclosed in this post.
If you do not have a Facebook account yet, register now. It’s free. Besides being able to socialize and keep in touch with friends, family and associates, play games but don’t play as much as I do, please, you would also be able to participate in many contests and grab some freebies, particularly if you are living in the United States. More and more companies are engaging in social media marketing and Facebook is currently the top choice.
The other day, my friend asked me where I purchase my domain names from as he has been buying from GoDaddy and wanted a cheaper option. I told him that I get mine from Namecheap because it’s cheaper. Well, only sometimes!
Who Is Hosting This has collaborated with GoDaddy to give away $10 GoDaddy gift cards to blog reviews on web hosts. Of course, there are requirements to be met so not every review will earn this gift card. Only high quality ones with a minimum of 200 words will be considered.
Also, this hosting review is limited to a number of popular web hosts so you should check the list before you start writing your review! By this way, this is a limited time promotion so get into action early if you fancy a free $10 GoDaddy gift card.
My sister tells me that almost everyone in the United States own one model of iPod or another. She, like me, is too cheap to buy her own and is planning to win it. If I could win an iPhone, why can’t she win an iPod touch?
This twitter page is giving away an iPod touch a week and all you need to do to stand a chance to win one of the weekly iPod touch given away is to follow them. So far, it looks like they have given away just one free iPod touch but at this time of writing, there are less than 300 followers only so chances are pretty high if you ask me.
Anyway, it looks to me that this giveaway is only open to residents of the United States. Guess my sister’s in luck!
Ever since my WordPress hosted blogs were suspended three weeks ago due to server overload which caused my blogs to be offline, I have been looking for a new host. I shudder to think what would happen to my account if my post was on the front page of Digg.com!
As I was asking around for opinions of friends, coincidentally, I was informed of Wordpress Blog Hosting services offered by Mulyoo. This is not your typical blog host like WordPress.com.
No doubt, Mulyoo blogs are also powered by WordPress but Mulyoo actually encourages bloggers to monetize their blogs and make money online. Moreover, Mulyoo uses BuddyPress to integrate social networking into blogs so that bloggers would quickly gain readership and followers. This is especially useful for people who are new to blogging.
Although new Mulyoo blogs are assigned subdomains, Mulyoo is currently running a contest where twenty lucky Mulyoo users who are subscribed to the annual plan will stand a chance to win a domain name for one year with NameCheap.
If you are planning to start a new blog, this is a very good chance to kill two birds with one stone. First of all, register with Mulyoo Hosting and select your subdomain. You will be able to easily create your blog within minutes and customize it from the thirty different blog templates to suit the niche of your blog.
The author of GadgetLite sent me a message about a contest that’s running at the GadgetLite blog. Yes, you could do the same if you are running a contest, giving something awesome away, or know of a good deal or freebie on the web. But do use the Contact form instead of leaving a comment because those get sent to the Spam folder, which I never sieve through.
It looks like anyone could take part in this contest, anyone as in no matter which part of the world you are as long as you are a blogger or a blog reader.
The prizes given away in this round of contest (it looks like they have contests regularly) are:
