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Thanks so much to everyone who entered the WordCamp UK 2009 Free Ticket Giveaway.

We have a winner!  Of the 7 comments left after the blog post since it was published on May 12th, 5 have been entries to the contest.

I ran the numbers 1 and 5 through the Random Number Generator at random.org and 5 was chosen!

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I’ve just installed Disqus, a neat blog comment management system on this site, joining over 4000 blogs.

Disqus is a blog comment management system that effectively turns comments on a blog into a community.

I like Disqus because the profile page provided for each commenter at Disqus.com adds an additional level of accountability to each comment, something I think surpasses its ‘threaded comments’ feature which is what initially attracted me to it.

However, as fantastic as it is, Disqus lacks something I really need:

Comment Voting

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Look out for the iPhone review by Kuli, winner of the first British iPhone Giveaway later on this week.

He will actually be posting it on here himself, complete with pictures, which is pretty exciting.

Look out for more news on gadget giveaways…

Photo Credit: www.intomobile.com

Following today’s fantastically insightful comments by Imran and Chris Fleming on how to run gadget giveaways, I am currently thinking hard about revising how sponsored gadget giveaways work to make them really effective for all involved: the entrants, the sponsoring company and Real Fresh TV.

Imran made some brilliant suggestions about promoting sponsored giveaways using blog widgets via WidgetBox and by approaching respected bloggers and offering them a commission to promote the campaign to their readers.

The commission, provisionally pitched in the $50-$100 range, would only be payable if a regular reader of the partner blog goes on to win the prize.

The idea itself is worthy of merit if only for its promotional benefits. I will be approaching a handful of respected social media bloggers about this and putting forward how it could work for the mutual benefit of all involved after I’ve resolved current issues with how the giveaways work.

Which leads nicely on to my next point…

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A 5 Day Gadget Giveaway Promotion combines a quick poll with a reader competition to promote your company’s product or service on Real Fresh TV.

Designed to get instant feedback on your company’s product or service and engage our readers at the same time, a 5 day Gadget Giveaway allows you to promote your company’s product or service to Real Fresh TV’s actively engaged audience and receive valuable feedback at the same time.

I will illustrate what I mean by way of an example:

Say you run an online business selling bottled fruit juice.

You would like to promote your business online over the Christmas period.

You are also thinking ahead to your January sales and would like to know what sort of fruit juices your customers would like to imbibe as they start the traditional healthy living kick in January.

You can do both by running a sponsored 5 Day Gadget Giveaway on Real Fresh TV.

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Thanks so much to everyone who entered the first British iPhone giveaway.

Finally, fifteen days after the competition started, I’m pleased to announce we have a winner!

Congratulations to Kuli for winning the first British iPhone Giveaway!

I had planned to announce the winner at 9:00AM but as Sukey rightly pointed out, I need to do so earlier as people still seem to be voting even though the deadline has now passed.

Here’s how the leaderboard looked at 00:02AM GMT, Monday 19th November:

1st | Kuli | Monkey | 445 votes

2nd | Joe Akers | Peep show 424 votes

3rd | Imran | The A Team 74 votes

4th | Lunny | Lost 23 votes

5th | Mr Singh | Only Fools & Horses 4 votes

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There’s less than fifteen minutes to go before the deadline for the first British iPhone giveaway and it’s apparent that this giveaway, even with its ups and downs has gripped the imagination.

I will be writing a lengthy ‘post giveaway review’ tomorrow highlighting some interesting facts and figures from the competition.

For now, I’m updating the ‘leaderboard’ with a summary of the votes so far:

1st | Kuli | Monkey | 428 votes

2nd | Joe Akers | Peep show 404 votes

3rd | Imran | The A Team 74 votes

4th | Lunny | Lost 21 votes

5th | Mr Singh | Only Fools & Horses 4 votes

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Image courtesy of T3

Now we’re cooking…

Competition in the first British iPhone giveaway is hotting up as the deadline approaches.

In the running so far we have:

1st | Kuli | Monkey | 86 votes

2nd | Joe Akers | Peep show 65 votes

3rd | Imran | The A Team 16 votes

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Most of you will now know that today’s voting mishap has been resolved and that the deadline for the iPhone giveaway has been extended for the last time to midnight on Sunday to accommodate it.

For those unaware, my web developer inadvertently broke the voting system for a few hours this afternoon when he uploaded the changes I requested back on Tuesday (he has been having email problems), oblivious to the fact that I had already fixed the problems with voting earlier this week.

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Arrghhhh, I can’t take much more of this!!!

Apologies for those who weren’t able to vote for a few hours today.

My web developer, who has been off email for the last few days finally received the frantic email I sent him on Tuesday and made the modifications to the Comment Karma plugin I suggested back then.

Obviously, this broke Comment Karma and set the voting system back to the no-voting-state we had all day Wednesday and most of Thursday.

I’ve fixed it by uploading the fix I wrote yesterday so you should be able to vote again.

Please resume voting.

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