New Design Contest Encourages Competition and Creativity

Marina del Rey, CA (PRWEB) July 11, 2011

For two weeks in early July, talented graphic designers from around the world will compete in DesignContest.coms community t-shirt design contest. The contest, which asks designers to use their sense of humor and creativity in their design, invites any and all members to create a killer t-shirt design for DesignContest.com.

We use our community contests as an opportunity not only for our members to have fun and win a prize, but to educate them, says Sergey Epifanov, who founded the popular design crowdsourcing website in 2003. Members wishing to enter the t-shirt design contest are directed to DesignContests daily blog, which features an article educating readers on how to design and prepare files for screen printing.

DesignContest.com uses crowdsourcing to connect designers with clients in need of top quality graphic design. Clients start a design contest detailing their wants and needs, and designers submit custom created entries especially for them. The client chooses the design they love best, and only pays for that one. Business owners, individuals and marketing firms most commonly use DesignContest for logo design, website creation, and t-shirts, but thesite offers 13 different design categories that also include business cards, stationery, wordpress themes, and print design.

In addition to winning prize money, the winning designer will be awarded with 10,000 designer reputation points. Designers earn points each time they enter a contest, with the highest rated designer being listed first on our designers list. In addition to the recognition of being a Top Designer, those designers with the highest rating are often hired for One-on-One Projects.

One-on-One Projects give clients and designers a unique opportunity to work together, outside the contest setting. Many times, a client will hold a successful contest on our site, and want to work with their winning designer again, says Epifanov. We created One-on-One Projects to allow clients to continue working with their perfect designer you just dont find this on other crowdsourcing sites. Its made both our clients and our designers very happy.

To check out DesignContest.coms Community T-Shirt Design contest, to see the creative talent and design skill of the over 32,000 design team members, or to start a contest, visit http://www.DesignContest.com or call 1-888-906-1888.

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PeoplePond Wins Spotlight Your Startup Contest Held by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Ferndale, Wash., (PRWEB) April 18, 2009

PeoplePond, a unique Internet service providing search engine optimized (SEO) profiles and online identity verification services for individuals, has been recognize by Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) as receiving the most votes in the Spotlight Your Startup contest.

Several entrees were selected from companies exhibiting at the 2009 SXSW Interactive Trade Show in Austin, Texas. Recorded interviews with each entry were produced and published on Sun’s Web site for people to view. People then voted via text-messages for their favorite startup. When voting concluded, it was PeoplePond with the most votes.

“We are so happy to have been recognized by the marketplace and by Sun as the best startup,” said PeoplePond president, Theron McCollough. “I continue to be amazed at how favorably the marketplace is responding to our new service.”

PeoplePond enables individuals to publish personal profiles to create personal SEO that will train the search engines to help pull their online content up in search rankings. PeoplePond also provides the ADAM API, WordPress plugin and Drupal module to make it easy for users and others to easily republish the profile across the Internet, each time increasing the audience it can reach.

About PeoplePond

PeoplePond is part of the Cranberry network of Web sites developed by Cranberry, LLC. Cranberry is home to an unmatched team of innovative developers led by Internet visionary David McInnis. McInnis is best known for founding the first direct-to-consumer news service, PRWeb, which changed the way the world uses press releases. WeaveMet is part of the Cranberry network of Web sites. For more information about Cranberry Network, LLC and the Cranberry network of products and services visit http://www.cranberry.com.

PRWeb is a registered trademark of Vocus.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision –”The Network is the Compute” — Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, and Java are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

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Nonprofit Charity Announces Online Video Game Design Contest to Increase Awareness of Dating Violence

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) March 17, 2012

Atlanta based nonprofit, Jennifer Anns Group, announces the 5th Annual Life.Love. Game Design Challenge with a first place prize of $ 5,000 for the video game that best illustrates the dangers of dating violence for teens, tweens, and young adults.

In 2008 Jennifer Anns Group announced the first challenge to promote awareness of teen dating violence through video games. The video game design contest was very well received, due in part to the restriction that the video game entries must increase awareness about teen dating violence but cannot include violence in the video game itself. Every year since 2008, the contest has received increased participation from the international community. Winning entries include video games from the United States, Thailand, Mexico, and Belgium.

The video game design challenge has been received with a great deal of praise from both the media and public alike:

“That Jennifer Ann’s Group uses game design to reach out to its target demographic is another example of how positive our medium can be.”

Leigh Alexander, SexyVideogameland

I approached Grace’s Diary (2010 winner) quite sure I had never encountered dating violence. But playing caused me to stop and remember back to when I was a teenager, and I realised that wasn’t completely true.

Microcosm Gamer, GamePeople.co.uk

Grace’s Diary manages to seamlessly integrate the theme of relationship abuse into a sensitive and moving visual novel.

JayIsGames.com

The game serves an important purpose, as it addresses an issue with youth not being talked about or taken seriously in a medium that its easy to get into, and get educated. The player feels for the characters, cares about their fate, and comes out feeling worn out from the ordeal.

Janette, jedko.wordpress.com

[I]t is relevant, simple and hits some of us close to home. Putting it in a game format like this just makes it more intimate and engrossing and I totally recommend it if you have twenty minutes to spare.

Strangeluv, MeridianDance.org

This is the first game to get a perfect 5 on this site, and I’m not just being swayed by the fact that it’s made to support a good cause.

GirlGameReview

I was surprised how much I learned about my own relationships as well as having some really useful conversations with my family about establishing healthy boundaries.

Geek Dad, Wired.com

Drew Crecente, Executive Director of Jennifer Anns Group, has this to say, Video games have traditionally been treated primarily as a source for entertainment and secondarily for education purposes but rarely as a tool for social change. Jennifer Anns Group is attempting to reach as much of our target audience as possible within the constraints of our small nonprofits budget. Every year the games are enjoyed by more and more of the public and this year were hoping for an even larger impact.

Rules, sign-up information, FAQs, and all previously winning games are available at Jennifer Anns Groups website: http://www.JenniferAnn.org.

ABOUT Jennifer Anns Group – Jennifer Anns Group is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to educating young people, parents, and teachers about danger signs, warning signals, and indications of dangerous relationships and then providing information leading to groups that offer assistance, counseling and protection. Jennifer Anns Group was instrumental in the passing of legislation in Texas mandating teen dating violence awareness in schools and has distributed over 1/2 million free educational materials to schools, churches, police departments, district attorneys, and organizations throughout the U.S. and U.K. at no cost to the recipients.

In 2006, Drew Crecente created Jennifer Anns Group in response to his daughters murder at the hands of her ex-boyfriend. Jennifer Ann Crecente was an honor roll student in high school; she was a camp counselor and a hospital volunteer; and she participated in the arts with her dad. She is missed every day.

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Video: Bill McIntosh Launches New Viral Marketing WordPress Plugin With A $10,000 Viral Contest & YouTube Promotion

Irvine, CA (PRWEB) September 16, 2009

In celebration of the release of the Contest Burner viral marketing WordPress plugin a $ 10,000 online contest has been announced. Some of the prizes include a complete website creation, marketing and coaching package, an online marketing services package & cash prizes. The contest will also serve as a live case study showing the power of the ContestBurner online viral marketing tool.

Also released is a new viral marketing YouTube video explaining the contest and demonstrating how the new website tool works. Viewers of the video will participate live in the contest by interacting with the video while the plugin keeps track of these actions and rewards the viewers with contest entry points. In addition to contestants earning entries by interacting with a YouTube video they will also be able to earn them by “Tweeting” about the contest on Twitter or telling their friends on FaceBook.

Additional options are available to make interacting with the website owner’s blog part of the contest. Contestants can also be rewarded for commenting on the WordPress blog or subscribing to the website’s newsletter. This dramatically helps make a website “sticky” by increasing repeat website visitors

It is really exciting how many different ways Contest Burner not only makes joining its contests extremely easy but it also makes telling others about the contest very appealing. This sets off a firestorm of viral activity centered around the website running a contest with the ContestBurner WordPress Plugin. This now brings viral marketing down to the price range or small businesses. “Instead of companies spending tens of thousands of dollars on viral advertising, ContestBurner.com makes it easy and affordable for any website to run a viral marketing campaign. I’ve designed our WordPress plugin so that a new webmaster can just upload a file, activate the plugin and have their very own viral contest in less than 10 minutes.” says Bill McIntosh, the founder of Contest Burner and online marketing expert.

During the launch celebration and contest Bill McIntosh will also be providing a free online web marketing course designed to teach anyone how to properly create and run an online viral contest. This will be provided in the form of a free eBook, online video tutorials and live coaching during his weekly Internet show streamed live every week. In addition, a special “lite” version of the ContestBurner plugin has been developed so that anyone who currently has a WordPress blog can download the plugin for free and use it to increase website traffic with a viral marketing campaign centered around a ContestBurner contest.

“I challenge anyone to find a method of creating a marketing campaign this easily and this affordable that automatically ties together all the major forms of social media, online video and tell a friend marketing and brings it all together in one easy-to-use dashboard.”

To find out more about the ContestBurner WordPress plugin or to join the $ 10,000 viral marketing contest, visit: http://www.contestburner.com or follow ContestBurner at http://www.twitter.com/contestburner

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