| Today, more consumers are becoming aware of the power of the blogosphere. We believe this is because of the passion that goes into blogs each day from successful bloggers making a personal connection with the world. Consumers are able to move away from traditional processes for valuable, life-changing information right at their fingertips.
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| What Can Entrepreneurs Learn from Bloggers? |
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| TiECON and Chitika want to give bloggers the opportunity to be featured as part of the TiECON East Conference just by sharing their blogging success. Because we believe entrepreneurs could learn from the success of bloggers, we are hosting a contest to encourage successful bloggers to share their success stories with entrepreneurs attending the TiECON East Conference. Three winning entries will be selected by a panel of experts from TiECON and Chitika to be spotlight featured bloggers during the Entrepreneur Forum, at the TiECON East Conference. Winners will also receive promotion on the TiECON and Chitika blogs and a priceless TiE Boston plaque.
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| The Blogpreneur Contest |
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Attention all bloggers! Publish a blog post highlighting how you were able to successfully get your blog up and running. Include the contest badge within your post to represent that your post is an entry in the TiECON Blogpreneur Contest.
Copy and paste the code below into your blog post to ensure your entry into the Blogpreneur Contest.
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| Contest Rules |
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Bloggers must publish their story on their own blog. The blog post should be 250 words or less and must include the contest badge to ensure your entry into the contest. Once bloggers have posted, they must forward the URL to Blogpreneur@chitika.com
The entries need to be published by May 8, 2008. 3 Winners will be chosen by May 25th and announced May 29, 2008 at the close of the Entrepreneur Forum @ TiECON East 2008.
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| Winners Booty |
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Winners of this contest get:
- A year-long subscription to Technology Review Magazine
- Plaque (awarded at TiECON East 2008, at the Westin in Waltham MA; if the winner cannot make it, the plaque will be mailed to him/her)
- Chitika will promote the video of the prize announcement -will blog about it
- The Video will also be sent to the 3 winners to put on THEIR respective blogs
- Winning bloggers will be promoted on our (TiE Boston) website via a news story
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| About TiECON Conference 2008 |
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TiECON East is TiE Boston's largest annual flagship conference held on both coasts as well as in India. The conference (at different locations) attracts a total of 5000 people each year.
"The newest secret in success is the use of networks- social or business." And that is why the theme for TiECON East 2008 is 'Harnessing the Network: Communication, Collaboration, and Convergence: The 3 new Cs in Success.'
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| About TiE Boston |
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| TiE-Boston is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to foster and support entrepreneurship, either in a start-up context or within a larger company. The organization represents a diverse set of industries, including software and information technologies, biotech, financial services and other services.
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| About Chitika |
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| Chitika is a full-service online advertising network specializing in the blogosphere and social networks. Today, it engages buyers, brands and bloggers by serving interactive, user-controllable ads directly within relevant posts. Recently, Chitika expanded micro advertising into social networks by enabling independent Facebook application developers to earn revenue as ad-supported micropublishers. For all publishers, Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue. For advertisers and media buyers, Chitika is a proven channel for targeting online consumers and qualified buyers - as they are actively considering a purchase - and engaging them in relevant, brand-specific or product-specific conversations. Founded in 2003, Chitika now serves more than one billion ads per month and counting.
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