Viva la resolution!
Your New Year's resolution could win you a $1000, $250 or $100 mytreat VISA* gift card. (The prizes have doubled in size since last year!)
New Year's season is here and it is time to make resolutions for 2008. But every year, so many resolutions seem to start with the best of intentions and then... nuthin'. Well, this year, we're giving you a good reason to keep your resolution — in fact, 1000 good reasons.
ChangeEverything.ca is pleased to announce the second 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. People made some impressive changes in their lives as a result of this contest last year so we wanted to see what would happen if we upped the stakes by way of more prize money...
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 18th, 2007 and February 29th 2008.
3. Let us know about it. Make your entry official by tagging each blog post with the keyword "2008resolution" (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.
Be sure to upload videos or photos about your resolution to a media-sharing site like QuantumShift TV, Flickr, OurMedia, Revver, YouTube, Google Video, VideoEgg or NowPublic. (Be sure to tag them with the keyword 'changeeverything' and blog about them on ChangeEverything.ca!)
- Invite your friends to comment on your progress on ChangeEverything.ca.
- Link to your resolution on ChangeEverything.ca from your external blog or MySpace page.
- 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 29th, 2008.
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 "2008resolution", 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!
*VISA Int./Vancity, Licensed User.
