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How Winners Work: The Great HowStuffWorks Contest of ’11
by Josh Clark | December 9, 2011
First, let me say they made me write this. They being the marketing department, the people who make others write about themselves in blog posts about contests that the writer figures into as a prize. Would it be too unsettling to write about myself in third person instead? Let me try that.
Back in September, a challenge was issued on Treehugger’s web site to create a 420 square foot living space that can do everything a space twice that big would normally do: Help Design, Build an Ultra-Low Footprint Apartment: The LifeEdited Project Specifically: One reason New Yorkers use less energy per capita is that they live [...]
Are you looking for Venture Capital? GE is sponsoring a venture capital competition. It is called the Ecomagination Challenge. You submit an idea for a business in the smart grid arena. They evaluate it and, if you win, they fund it. Here is a quick description…
The t-shirt contest has been going on for so long, that it’s come to feel like a recurring character on the podcast; like Jeri or the fight or flight response or my speech impediment. We first announced it several months ago, it went on hiatus and then was relaunched triumphantly (and within legal guidelines). And now, it’s time to announce the five winners of the first-ever Stuff You Should Know T-Shirt Design Contest!
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