A Time Line of Digital Publishing Buzz
Four weeks ago I tried to break WordPress here by releasing a blog post every minute to showcase 260 of your blogs. That event got the attention of BlogDesignStudio, who said to me, “We’d like to offer to your readers 50 of our Edge, Premium Theme, to boost their blogs.”
A new event came from the first.
Eleven days ago: We launched that event. It was called, That Brand New Blogging Feeling Event. Fifty participants each received a copy of the Edge WordPress Theme and a copy of my eBook The Secret to Writing a Successful Blog in return for submitting a photo with a caption describing the feeling of writing their first blog post.
I promised to compile the entries into a published whole.
Three nights ago, Tim Sanders and I were talking about the Responsibility Revolution happening in business. He spoke about green publishing which got me talking about the carbon free digital publishing platform I used to build the Brand New Blog slideshow.
Two days ago YUDU.com — that carbon free publisher, who now officially is my client — thought it was great idea when I said this a cool opportunity to sponsor a contest. So check out the slideshow of all your cool photos and captions on YUDU — where the site links actually link back from the photo pages.
But do remember to come back because what we have planned next is something also cool with cool prizes too.
OR click the link under the slideshow to see the ENLARGED version
in its natural habitat as two-page spreads.
ARE YOU READY TO KICK IT UP A NOTCH?
I made this slideshow. Now it’s your turn.
The folks I work with a YUDU are blogger friendly. When they heard about what I was doing they wanted to be a bigger part. We talked about the possibilites and the next thing you know we were defining
NOW YUDU IT! Challenge at 1pm 3pm Chgo Time Today
Start with a free YUDU account.
Get a chance to win a MacBook Air!
The TOP entry will get a US$180 professional acount at YUDU.com
Details will be on this blog at 1pm 3pm Chicago time today!
(See the clock in the sidebar to set your watch.)
Will you take the challenge?
C’mon, I did it. Now YUDU It!
If you would like a .png of the slide for your photo, you’ll find in the flicker set.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
See the Work with Liz!! for how to start some business rolling for yourself.
--Deb says
September 14, 2008 at 11:14 AMLiz, the slideshow is great! What a lot of work, and it looks fabulous. Chappy and I are honored to be in there (grin).
Margaret says
September 14, 2008 at 11:15 AMI just went out back and told the frogboys that one of them got to bat cleanup in your slideshow at #50. Thanks for a fun contest, and great prizes.
Amy Derby says
September 14, 2008 at 11:52 AMI love it!!! 🙂
ME Liz Strauss says
September 14, 2008 at 12:36 PMHi Deb!
It was work of love. I so enjoyed solving the problems of getting all of the photos to go together in just the right way. 😉
Chappy looks wonderful in that photo. A sailor dog for sure. 🙂
ME Liz Strauss says
September 14, 2008 at 12:37 PMHi Amy!
I’m a fan of the people who sent in the photos. I feel like I got to know each of you even more by doing this. 🙂
schizo says
September 14, 2008 at 1:43 PMwow.as usual.
*kicks himself for not having sent in his cation*
ME Liz Strauss says
September 14, 2008 at 2:53 PMHi Schizo!
It would have been fun to see what you added to the mix! Next time you’ll be here. Then I’ll know. 🙂
pelf says
September 15, 2008 at 2:09 AMThank you for putting together such an awesome slideshow 😀
ME Liz Strauss says
September 15, 2008 at 6:24 AMHi Pelf,
Your page is up at flickr too if you want a copy of just that one. 🙂
scatterbrain says
September 15, 2008 at 4:07 PMYou did an amazing job with the slide show Liz. I’m enjoying your e-book as well.
ME Liz Strauss says
September 15, 2008 at 5:05 PMHiya scatterbrain!
Thank you on both counts. Everyone deserved that kind of return on their investment.
SE7EN says
September 15, 2008 at 5:14 PMThank you for the prizes. I enjoy reading other entries 😀