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Viva La Resolution! part 2

A year ago, we ran the Viva La Resolution! contest on ChangeEverything.ca for people to name their New Year’s resolutions, and if they blogged about them at least three times, they could win $500.

The entries last year were amazing. The story of EnviroWoman, who resolved not to use any new plastics in 2007, provided amazingly inspirational stories and drew a ton of new visitors to the site. She won the contest, and had to be paid in an alternative to the Visa gift card we were giving, because we just couldn’t give her plastic as a prize.

LJMK came in second with her resolution to de-clutter her life. And degan came in third place when she resolved to run a marathon.

Now, a year later, we’re re-running the contest, looking for people to name their 2008 New Year’s resolution and blog about it. The prizes have been doubled, so the winners will receive $1,000, $250 or $100 in the form of a Vancity mytreat Visa gift card.

Please spread the word.

I need your help with my Net.Finance presentation.

Responding To Bloggers - Playing On Their TurfFor my upcoming Net.Finance presentation Responding To Bloggers – Playing On Their Turf I am focusing on the pros and cons of responding to bloggers when they write about your company.

I have a few examples of bloggers writing about their experiences with and opinions about their bank, credit union, credit card company, or other financial services provider, but am looking for more. Do you have examples of:

  • a blogger letting an FI have it on their blog
  • a blogger praising an FI
  • a company responding to a blogger
  • a company who SHOULD have responded but didn’t

Examples don’t have to be FI related, but it would help if they were. I have never heard of a Dell Hell happening in the FI world, but it’s just a matter of time.

If you have an example please either leave a comment here or email me at william (at) azaroff (dot) com.

Thanks for the help. I’ll credit you in my presentation if I use your example.

A whole ‘nother level of online community.

I love Open Source software. The self-organizing of people to collaboratively create something they feel is worthwhile is an amazing model.

I’ve written a lot about ChangeEverything.ca here, but I have never written much about Drupal, the platform CE was developed on. This week we launched a small bit of new functionality to the ChangeEverything community called nudge. It’s a fairly simple application:

…you use it to tell the creator of a change or the writer of a blog post that you’re inspired by what they’re doing… and you want to hear more. Click it, and ChangeEverything.ca instantly sends that person an email – including, if you want, a personal message from you.

But the thing I love most about it is that when we wanted to add this feature to the site, there wasn’t a module available that did this. So after custom-developing “nudge” for the CE community, we released it free to the world as a module for any Drupal site.

Now that’s community!

UPDATE: Here’s a post on the subject from Social Signal.