Blogging Idol
How about an intensive “reality” contest to find out who will be the next Blogging Idol?
Show time! All the competitors have until the July 31 (midnight) to prove their blogging skills and to improve their RSS subscriber base.
This contest, hosted by Daily Blog Tips, has begun! To participate, you must prove that you are more than capable of improving your feed subscriber count as a measure of your popularity as a blogger.
The Blog Idol winner will take home $3000 in prizes, so join now!
Unofficial International WordPress Day on July 1
WordPress fans, it’s time to toast to our love of this awesome blogging CMS on Tuesday, July 1, 2008. The Unofficial International WordPress Day is hosted by WPCandy, and it will be one whole day of showing how much people adore WordPress.
How do you participate?
If you love WordPress as much as we do, then we invite you to blog about it with us on Tuesday, July 1. It doesn’t have to be too formal or anything, just make a simple (or incredibly long) post about WordPress. Here are some topics your post could cover:
- Why you use it and prefer it over other CMSs
- How it’s helped your business or blog
- A thank you letter to Automattic
- Your top-secret tips and tricks
There will be 20 prizes given away, including themes, banner ads, plugins, and more. Complete details found here.
Answer a Blogging Survey, win the ProBlogger Book!
Contribute to this Global Blogger and Blogging Survey and you might just win the ProBlogger Book!
Ten lucky people stand to win this authoritative guide on earning money through blogging, written by no less than Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett.
No exact word on when the survey closes, so you’ll have to watch Chris’s blog for any new developments. Answer the survey here.
The Philippine Issues Writing Project
Filipino Voices is calling on Filipino bloggers and writers from all areas to join The Philippine Issues Writing Project. It’s a contest with exciting prizes, but more importantly, it’s a venue to voice out personal opinions and insights about the country’s situation.
This is about the issues that you feel need to be written about. Whether it is in the technology sector, our economy, social justice, politics, it’s all up to you, be thoughtful and creative.
There’s a maximum of 2 entries per person, which should have been written on or later than January 1, 2008. Leave a comment on the writing project page and mention the URL(s) of your article(s) or email nick (at) tingog (dot) com. Each Friday, Filipino Voices will feature the participants of the writing project and their entries. Deadline is on June 9, 2008.
Nominations Open for the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2008
A project that began in 2007, the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs 2008 looks like it’s going to be a major highlight in Philippine blogging history once more.
With week one already in, there are already 12 entries listing 33 blog nominations. So far, these are the frontrunners:
Rank #1
http://www.filipinovoices.com
http://www.mapiles.com
http://newphilrevolution.blogspot.com
http://delfindjmontano.blogspot.com
Rank #2
http://joanjoyce.com/blog/
http://moncasiple.wordpress.com/
http://www.pacute.com/
http://www.pinaymommyonline.com/
http://visitsagada.com/
http://www.jpsimbulan.com/
Ten lucky contributors to this writing project stand to win $100. The blogs in the entries should have been created on July 1, 2007 or later. The deadline for the writeups is on Saturday, July 26, 5:00 pm (GMT+9:30). Here’s your chance to highlight the very deserving blogs, with a cash incentive to boot!
Contests: Win Cash, Laptop Bag, Kubota Artistic Tools, Power Hits 2 CD, Web Hosting and Domain, Nokia N70, Sony Cybershot
More contests for Pinoy bloggers this month of April:
Win $50 from Makoy’s Memoirs of a Certified Blogger
Deadline: April 30, 2008
Win a Laptop Bag for Eee PC from AllAboutEeePC.com
Deadline: April 30, 2008 at 23:59:59
Win a copy of Kubota Artistic Tools v4 from Shutter Box Philippines
Deadline: May 1, 2008
Win Domain and Hosting from Pinoy Teens
Deadline: Unknown
Win a Power Hits 2 CD from Music Picks from a Music Lover Blogger
Deadline: April 30, 2008
Win Nokia N70 Music Edition, Sony Cybershot, or 15,000 Pesos from Kwentong Barbero
Deadline: April 30, 2008
If you will notice, a lot of these contests have unspecified deadlines. It’s not a very good idea to do that especially if you want to convince your audience to act on your offer.
What should the next WordPress Default Theme be? Share your ideas and win premium themes!
If you agree with that the current WordPress Default Theme is outdated both in looks and features, then head over to ThemeShaper and share what you think the next default theme should be like.
Either leave a comment or write your own blog post about the ideal next default theme for WordPress. You stand to win premium theme licenses courtesy of iThemes. The deadline is on March 24 at 10:00pm central time.
Tags or Categories? Or Both? Answer Our Poll and Win a Prize!
Answer our tags vs. categories poll over at the community forums and get the chance to win productivity software licenses from our friends from FruitfulTime. It’s simple: just tell us what method you prefer to organize your blog posts with: tags, or categories, or both. Then post a short explanation so we can easily include you in the raffle.
Trying to remember all the things that need you attention is insane… it will drive you insane. FruitfulTime TaskManager, with its simple and easy to use User Interface (UI) allows you to input your tasks and have them saved automatically. It saves you from having to remember who you need to call and to whom you need to send an email.
Contests: Win an iPod Touch, a Ne-Yo CD, 2 Domains, a Cellphone Game, FruitfulTime, or Cash!
Update: Check out our very own contest here at WordPress Philippines!
Okay, here’s another round of online contests in the Pinoy blogosphere. Hurry and join these contests before they end:
Win an 8 GB iPod Touch from I Share Happiness
Deadline: March 24, 2008 at 12:00am Manila Time (GMT +08:00 Hong Kong)
Win Ne-yo’s Because of You CD from Music Picks by a Music Lover Blogger
Deadline: March 23, 2008
Win 2 Domains from Pink Glamour
Deadline: March 19, 2008
Win Php2,000 from Pinoy Money Talk
Deadline: March 5, 2008
Win a cellphone game from Cellphone9
Deadline: March 5, 2008
Win a FruitfulTime productivity software license from The J Spot
Deadline: Until the 150th comment
Win up to PhP5,000 from Reyna Elena
Deadline: February 28, 2008 12:00 Midnight Eastern Standard Time (Time in New York and Philadelphia) and that would be 12 noon on February 29, 2008 in Manila (a bit late to add here but at least you’ve got several hours left!)
It’s amazing how generous these bloggers are, no? It’s not even a month since the last post on blog contests and some of them are not even done yet, so be sure join those ones too!
Contests for Pinoy Bloggers this February 2008
Karlo Licudine of Pinoy Blogero has written about the contests for Pinoy Bloggers for the Month of February:
- Filipina Stories Writing Contest by WikiPilipinas and FilipinaImages
- Free Digital Photographer Philippines Magazine Subscription Contest by Shutter Box Philippines
- Free We Want You to Be Rich Book by Melo Villareal
- Asus EeePC Design Contest by Asus Philippines
- JukeBoxPlus Blog Contest by JukeBoxPlus
- Pinoy Money Talk SEO Contest by Pinoy Money Talk
I’ve mentioned how active the Philippine blogging community is, and the evidence keeps on coming in!
