WPWebHost WordPress Story Contest
My WordPress Story
I have only been blogging for slightly more than a year. I have used WordPress for about a full year now (pity I did not note down the official date of initiation). Yeah, I too started blogging on the Google Blogspot (Blogger) platform before summoning enough courage (and money too, mind you!) to try out WordPress. What can I say?
I am head over heels and madly in love with WordPress now. I tried to learn as much as I could about this fascinating blogging platform but I am still surprised by its new features, plugins, improvements and innovations every single day. I am but a small insignificant “contest blogger” but I have seen some creative uses of WordPress. It has been used as a CMS, Digg-like social bookmarking site for WP fanatics, job recruitment and employment (board) websites, auctions site like eBay, membership site, photograph gallery and much more possibility depending on your creativity and wants.
I am so confident with the capability and possibility provided by WordPress, indeed I have several big projects which will involve WordPress (duhhh!!) to be launched soon.
How do I get to know WordPress?
In early 2008, WordPress is the most popular blogging platform, outperforming the likes of LiveJournal and Blogger (sorry but I have no experience with LiveJournal, to be honest). With so many bloggers singing its praises and with access to other popular social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, etc., I could not possibly overlook it. Indeed I took a look and I fell in love.
Why WordPress?
Like I mentioned above, the possibility of WordPress is endless, more features and plugins are developed to further extend WordPress. Indeed its code has been reused for other projects like bbPress discussion board or forum platform and also BuddyPress social networking plugin. In time to come I believe WordPress will extend beyond a blogging platform, it will be the coding and development platform for many future projects based on LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) platform.
My experience using WordPress.
OK so far nothing fancy yet. I have only used it as a blog, this blog is my only actively supported WP blog at this moment. However I have learnt a great deal and like I said, I will be using WordPress a lot in my future projects and I plan to integrate it with many other scripts and present it in the most unconventional way possible.
Any of your story related to WordPress.
I believe my so called “great story” with WordPress can only be summarized when I have really done great things with it and when the end is near (no, hopefully that would not be in 2012, LOL!), not now. At this moment, just allow me to share the major prizes I have won blogging with WordPress at TheContestBlogger dot COM.
These are my major winnings made possible by WordPress at TheContestBlogger dot COM, they are other minor winnings such as EntreCard Credits and advertising spots not represented here (no offence to those sponsors, hehe). I certainly hope to win and achieve more with WordPress, especially the My WordPress Story Contest organized by WPWebHost.
Yes, WPWebHost is a web hosting company providing dedicated WordPress hosting and support and is now organizing a contest with prizes worth in excess of $3000 sponsored by various sponsors. All you need to do is write a post on your WordPress powered blog and tell your story. Submit your story by 28th June 2009 to be eligible for the grand prize. Good luck now, for more information please follow the link below:
Believe it or not, my WordPress story doesn’t end here, there is plenty more that I would like to share with you. I promise, if I manage to win this contest, there will be at least 1 more feather to the cap which means I will continue writing the second and even subsequent part(s) of my story here. Is my story interesting? Do you want me to continue? You can make sure that I win by voting for me and I ensure you my other stories with WordPress and what I plan to do with it will be much more interesting. Thank you!
Cool Site of The Day Cool Contest
Wow, I am stunned. This is indeed the year of Twitter. Don’t believe me? See the amount of contests which is based on following the contest organisers on Twitter. No doubt contest is one of the quickest ways to up your number of followers in the shortest time possible. Twitter is everywhere and permeating every sphere of our (web) life. Let me say this out loud, year 2009 is the year of Twitter.
Anyway, this post is not about Twitter. Did that surprise you at all? This post is about a cool contest organized by Cool Site of the Day.
It is very easy to enter this contest, just follow Cool Site of the Day on Twitter and tweet the following to your followers:
“I just entered to win some cool prizes from Cool Site of the Day! You can too-just follow @cnotes and retweet http://budurl.com/twitterprize”
Yes, it is as simple as that and anyone with Twitter account can join this contest. Here are sneak previews of the prizes:
Week 1: Winners:
- 5 Cool Site of the Day T-Shirts
- 1 One-on-One The Fat Free Guide to SEO Copywriting
- $50 Amazon.com gift certificate
Week 2: Winners
- 5 Cool Site of the Day baseball caps
- 1 One-on-One Website Review with Mike Corso
- 1 copy of The Fat Free Guide to SEO Copywriting
Week 3: Winners
- Cool Site of the Day T-Shirts
- $50 Amazon.com gift certificate
- 1 One-on-One Website Review with Mike Corso – TBD
- 1 copy of The Fat Free Guide to SEO Copywriting – TBD
Week 4: Winners Announced April 24
- 5 Cool Site of the Day baseball caps
- 1 One-on-One Website Review with Mike Corso
- 1 copy of The Fat Free Guide to SEO Copywriting
Week 5: Winners Announced May 1
- 5 Cool Site of the Day T-Shirts
- 1 One-on-One Website Review with Mike Corso
- 1 copy of The Fat Free Guide to SEO Copywriting
- $50 Amazon.com gift certificate
There is also an additional bonus prize to be won if you are a blogger and you blog about this contest. One lucky blogger will be selected randomly from those blog posts that link to the contest post and will be rewarded with $100 through PayPal.
Hurry up now, not much time left. Good luck 
No Brainer Blog Contest? Agreed!
Ben Pei has come up with a no brainer contest on his make money online blog Pei Profit Dot Com. It only requires you complete four simple tasks like copying and pasting. The only reason that he is making it so simple to bring home those attractive prizes is that he wants to make winning easy for his readers. Prizes include $50 cash prize via PayPal, Atomic Blogging 3.0, Ultimate Blogging Theme, Banner Ad On GarryConn.com and 1 Year Membership On AdTracker.
Well if you are not heading over and grab your chance, others will! No more complicated reviews, no more linking to 10,000 sponsors. ONLY copy and paste and you could walk away with these big prizes!
Check out all the details of how you can enter the Ben Pei’s No Brainer Blog Contest now.
Cold Hard Cash Contest from Great Sites to Visit
Great Site to Visit, as the name suggests, is a resourceful site that reviews great sites, apps, and web based tools that can benefit people (web users mainly).
As is the tradition with this site, I am proud to participate in and introduce to you the first contest by Great Site to Visit. It is very simple to enter this contest, you could win the prize of $100 or Amazon Gift Card or Visa Gift Card of the same value just by blogging about this contest and linking to Great Site to Visit using the pre-determined anchor text, such as what I am doing below:
You can double your chance of winning by following Great Site to Visit on Twitter and posting a tweet about the contest.
You should hurry up now to be eligible for the contest, it is ending 30th April 2009. Good luck!
Vote for your favorite WP Story at WpVote
Social bookmarking, social networking, and Twitter are definitely ruling webspheres in 2009, aren’t they? In short, social media is the focus of most trend and traffic conscious internet entrepreneurs.
At the same time WordPress‘ influence as a force by itself is also on the rise. When you combine the hottest social bookmarking site concept with the coolest and greatest blogging platform ever (individual opinion applies here), what do you get? WpVote!
Visit WpVote now: http://wpvote.com/
Mind you, WpVote is a “Digg site for WordPress fanatics“, it is a social bookmarking site for any story related to WordPress only. WpVote is based on Digg’s voting system but totally powered by WordPress. WpVote has been totally redesigned since August 2008, and now integrates a function for users to share the stories they like through Twitter. So basically the formula for WpVote would equal:
WordPress + Digg concept + Twittering function = SUCCESS!
OK, maybe I have overhyped the success part or maybe it just too early to predict how successful WpVote will be. However, I am pretty sure that the owner’s decision to breathe a second life into the site and hang on to it is right, especially when the economy is bad, recession will devalue the price of the site in the market if he had chosen to sell it instead. Besides, as news related to WordPress continue to grow exponentially (again, am I boasting? you decide), WpVote will serve as a good repository for WP fanatics to find and read only the best and most popular stories.
How could WpVote improve further and become more popular?
I don’t mean to say that WpVote is currently not popular, it already has over 250 RSS subscribers. But I see the potential for this site, or rather this idea, to grow mainstream and attain at least a fraction of Digg’s popularity among web users.
For minor improvement, it would be easy for anyone on the street to suggest. Integrate more social bookmarking/networking buttons, promote it through established sites like Facebook (create a group or something), create a contest, a chain and viral twittering campaign, create press releases, give away some freebies, etc.
To achieve a major break though, Mr. Jean-Baptiste Jung should consider approaching prospectful investors, even big names in the web industry like Digg owner Kevin Rose and other internet entrepreneurs. Offer them a percentage of future profits or ownership or give the contributors a permanent individual page each at WpVote or something.
I think that’s about as much suggestions an insignificant (The)ContestBlogger like me could give. Good luck and I certainly hope to see a site gets its major breakthrough in my very eyes, it will be a great experience. Allow me to add some parting words to Mr. Jean-Baptiste Jung:
“You have stumbled upon a goldmine, now mine it the best way you could”
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