Viva la resolution!
Your New Year's resolution could win you a $1000, $250 or $100 mytreat VISA* gift card.
The time of year to be considering what we want to change in the coming year is upon us. It is time to make resolutions for 2009!
Every year, so many of us make resolutions that come from our best intentions and then... nuthin'. So we have this little tradition here at ChangeEverything where we try our best to inspire you to hold strong to the things you intend to change in the coming year. We do this by giving you some incentive to keep your resolution - money. .
ChangeEverything.ca is pleased to announce the third annual Viva La Resolution! contest – where the best entry, with the most progress, will win a $1000 mytreat VISA gift card!* Second place wins a snazzy $250 card and third place scores a not-at-all-shabby $100 card.
Here's how you enter:
1. Create a New Year's resolution by selecting one of the changes already underway at ChangeEverything.ca, or creating a new one.
2. Blog about your resolution. Write at least three (3) blog posts linked to your change on ChangeEverything.ca between December 5th, 2008 and February 28th 2009.
3. Let us know about it. Make your entry official by tagging each blog post with the keyword "2009resolution" (without the quotes). Here's how you tag a post. This is really important otherwise we will not be able to find your entry.
What are we looking for? Extraordinary, inspiring, achievable changes. Exciting, genuine progress. And an engaging story of your resolution, and your work toward keeping it. You'll find your own way to tell that story, but here some of last year's entries to get you thinking.
-video and pictures - since the launch of the new ChangeEverything, you can now upload videos directly to the site. Videos and photos go a long way to helping to tell your story so be sure to upload a few.
-invite your friends to comment on your progress on ChangeEverything.ca
-post your entry on your Facebook page so that your friends see it and know to come and check it out. Be sure to ask them to comment on your entry at ChangeEverything
-link to your resolution on ChangeEverything.ca from your external blog
-find other ChangeEverything.ca members who are working on the same change, and comment on their blog posts. Get a conversation going.
-ask a mentor or expert for help, and write about their advice.
-find blogs and web sites that deal with your resolution's subject, and post on them asking for help.
-add photos to your blog posts.
-find a way to make news about your resolution – in a community newspaper, on a talk radio show or (hey, shoot for the moon!) the CBC national news.
We'll select five semi-finalists and the community will vote for the three finalists in mid-March. Remember, you have to publish your ChangeEverything.ca blog posts no later than 5:00 PM Pacific time on Friday, February 27th, 2009.
Handy links:
- Read the full rules and regulations in all their legal glory, including exciting references to skill-testing questions and prize acceptance/release forms.
- Since you need to tag your blog entries with the word "2009resolution", here's a refresher guide on how to tag.
- Stumped for resolutions? Check out what people did last year.
So get changing! And viva la resolution!
