As announced at the last Third Wednesday meetup, Michelle and I are holding a contest. She'll be posting a location in Halifax and your job is to find the spot and take a pretty picture. Then, add your picture to Twitpic with the hashtag #hfxgeophotoentry0409 and you'll be entered into our voting pool where it will be up to the tweeting public to choose the winner. What's in it for you besides a tour of the city? Well, of course there's a grand prize. The winner receives this lovely set of eco-books (retail value of approximately $72) AND a gift basket of natural skincare products from skinEdipN (retail value of approximately $40): Ecological Gardening: Your Path to a Healthy Garden, by Marjorie Harris Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada, by Adria Vasil True Green At Work: 100 Ways You Can Make the Environment Your Business, by Kim Mckay, Jenny Bonnin and Tim Wallace But that's not all! The winning entry then becomes the subject of a poetry and short prose contest for All Rights Reserved literary journal. All fun, right? For all the details, subscribe to updates here on the Halifax Tweetup Wiki page or follow us @myogis and @aliasgrace.
Special thanks to Random House Canada for the books. Be sure to follow them on Twitter @booklounge.
![]() Regards, @aliasgrace And now I'll pass it along to @myogis for details: Guidelines It's April and it's here! A photography contest for Halifax Tweeps! You all seem to like photography and I've seen some of your work and if past pics are any indication....this will be a contest with some AWESOME entries! The original concept (still is really) for this contest was to publish a GPS location where your pictures are to be taken....but snowfall, an exhausting last 2 weeks and lack of handheld GPS on my part (it's coming) has forced me to take it easy on you! You still have to take your picture at a set location but instead of GPS coordinates...I will TELL you the location! So how do you know where to take the picture? If you miss the tweet, just search the hash tag #hfxgeophotolocation0409 (in May it will be #hfxgeophotolocation0509 see the trend?) So how do you enter? Take your picture and send it to twitpic with this hash tag #hfxgeophotoentry0409 as the title of your picture. You may enter up to 3 photos -just title them as #hfxgeophotography0409 a #hfxgeophotography0409 b #hfxgeophotography0409 c You will have 3 weeks to take, post and pimp out your photo(s)....then the one week of voting begins! Have your followers search the entry hash tag and encourage them to vote for their favourite photo using (OMG yet another) hash tag..... #hfxgeophotovote0409 followed by your @ twitter name and a, b or c if you entered more than 1 photo. The photo with the most unique votes wins!! And YES there is a prize! This month you are vying for a skinEdipN gift basket ($45 value) and some great paper products called BOOKS! Oh..BTW...if you just want to tweet about the contest, use #hfxgeophotwography Have fun! I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures! @myogis :-.D |


