[UgaBYTES] Do you Know your BLOG can win an award?

[Belayet Hossain]

Now it is time to give due recognition and incentives to you as a deserving
blogger. Blog and share your stories on *telecentre.org English website*.

The telecentre.org *English website* is staging the first ever blog *contest
* which will run from *April 20 to May 20, 2009*.

Haven’t written any blog ever? Do you think blogging is something hard? Not
at all. Just try it. It is nothing but your diary. All you need to do is to
keep writing and express yourself. *Only your focus needs to be related to
ICT4D.*
*
Background and Objectives*
The telecentre.org community has grown tremendously over the past few
months. In less than a year, membership in all four language sites (English,
Spanish, French and Arabic) has grown to over a thousand, with the English
site alone having around thousand members. A lot of interaction has been
going on through groups and forums, blogs and comments, with a good number
of members participating actively and contributing content to the website.
Blogs being a major form of knowledge sharing and in an effort to further
engage the members of the telecentre.org community, the English team has
decided to hold the first ever blog contest at telecentre.org.

The contest has *two specific objectives:*
o to provide an incentive for and give due recognition to active and
deserving bloggers; and
o to encourage and inspire the rest of the community to share their stories
and post blogs at the telecentre.org website

*Check now if you are eligible or not. You can contest it you:*

*Are*
Registered member of the telecentre.org English community and at least 18
years of age;

*Are Not*
community facilitators, officers and staff of telecentre.org and its social
investors;

*Are you thinking on what theme would you start writing? The Blog themes
should be within the below 12:*
1. Telecentres and Disability
2. Telecentres and Education
3. Telecentres and Environment
4. Telecentres and Governance
5. Telecentres and Health
6. Telecentres and Socio-Economic Development
7. Telecentres and Inclusion
8. Gender and Telecenters
9. Technology and Telecenters
10. Telecentre Sustainability
11. Telecentre Success Stories
12. Telecentre Best Practices

To participate in the contest, blog entry must be posted at the
telecentre.org website with the following compulsory contest footer to
identify it as a contest entry:
*Submitted as an entry to the telecentre.org Blog Contest*

*NOTE: Insert this code at the end of your blog post.*


*Don’t forget to follow the instructions below:*

A member may submit only one contest entry. In case more than one entry is
received from the same member, only the latest submitted entry will be
considered for evaluation.

Telecentre.org reserves the right to reject entries that are incomplete,
invalid, or that contain any inappropriate information (e.g. spam and other
controversial or offensive material).

Blog post must have a *minimum of 400* words and a *maximum of 1,000* words.

Blog entry may be accompanied by a *maximum of two images*. Images used must
not exceed 500 pixels in width and in height. While images are not required,
having them in the blog entry is an added advantage.

Blog entry, including accompanying images, must not in any way violate any
intellectual property right. By submitting a blog as a contest entry, member
certifies that it is his or her original work and that the same does not
currently exist in any other publication, blog or website.

By participating in the contest, member automatically grants
telecentre.orgthe right to use, copy, adapt, transmit, distribute,
publish and display
submitted entry, whether whole or in part, and this will be applicable
worldwide and in perpetuity.

All contest entries must be posted at the telecentre.org website by *5pm GMT
on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 .*

All contest entries will be subject to validation and shortlisting by
telecentre.org, and all shortlisted entries will be submitted for evaluation
by a distinguished panel of judges to be appointed by the former. The
decision of the panel of judges is final.

Evaluation of entries shall be done based on the following set of criteria:
o Content
o Organization
o Relevance

Based on the given criteria, the panel of judges will determine the top
three blogs from among the contest entries.

Winners will be announced via the telecentre.org website within one month
after the deadline for submission of entries. Winners will likewise be
notified via email by the telecentre.org Blog Contest Committee.

Winners will each receive special surprise tokens from telecentre.org.
Winning entries will also be featured in publications such as the
telecentre.org newsletter and the Telecentre Times, among others.

-- 
Belayet Hossain
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=597135861
Knowledge is universal
             ...so share it.