Ok, so in case you didn’t get the newsletter or you missed it in the discussions section of BC I thought I would fill you guys in on the BIG IDEA CHALLENGE we have going on right now. To sum up the whole thing as simply as possible, send us an idea for a new feature or service. We will pick our favorite and award that person $2,500 dollars. What we are looking for are ways to make BlogCatalog even better from adding a new widget or service, to an idea on how to drive more traffic to users blogs.
I have already seen a whole lot of entires pouring in; most are great, some are interesting, and a couple are just plain hilarious! Seriously folks, all it takes is an email and as far as I know there is no limit as to how many emails/ideas you can send in before the deadline. It only takes 1 good idea to win so if you think of something between now and sunday email us at webmaster@blogcatalog.com
Here is the breakdown straight from Tony on the discussions thread a few days ago:
The First Prize has been increased to $2,500.
We are asking for amazing ideas & Angie our Blogger Evangelist was right when she said that $1,000 is too small a prize when we are asking for ideas that will make BlogCatalog an Extraordinary Social Community.
THE CHALLENGE
Develop, create and submit an idea/innovation plan that when implemented will make BlogCatalog the most extraordinary Blogger Social Community on the internet.
SUBMISSION DATES
Open July 12th, 2007.
Close August 31st, 2007 (11:59pm EST)
AWARDS
First prize will be awarded $2,500
Second prize will be award $500
HOW TO ENTER
Submit your plan via email or regular mail (with links to applicable online presentation if applicable).
Via Email Send To:
webmaster@blogcatalog.com and gvrrentals@aol.com
Via Regular Mail (if applicable):
BlogCatalog
7126 Eckhert Road
Suite 208
San Antonio, TX 78238
Judging:
A panel of judges from the BlogCatalog Team will select the winners.
Judging wil be based on creativeness, disrputive innnovation potential, value to bloggers, and impact on accomplishing outcome of making BlogCatalog the most extraordinary blogging community.
Rules:
Your plans/ideas must be submitted by close date.
BlogCatalog reserves the right to implement at any time any of the ideas submitted whether or not they are included in the winning entries.
That is, you are entrying this competition for the chance to win prize money and the ideas become BlogCatalogs to implement or not implement without any other prize money or payments to you.
The decision of the judges is final.
No employees or owners of BlogCatalog are allowed to enter this competition.
JOIN IN THE BLOGCATALOG BIG IDEA CHALLENGE
We really hope you will take part in this exciting challenge by submitting your entry, and by sharing your big ideas on how to transform BlogCatalog so that it becomes a more useful and extraordinary online social community.
Winners will be announced before September 30th, 2007
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