ChangeEverything.ca launches contest to help community with their 2007 goals

Our good friends (and clients ) at Vancity are running a contest on ChangeEverything.ca . The $500 first prize is great, but the cool thing about it as far as I'm concerned is, it's the ideal way for a beginner to dip their toes into the blogging waters.

Here's how the _Viva la resolution!_ contest works in five easy steps:

• You sign up on the site . (It's free, and no salesperson will call.)
• You decide on a resolution – something you want to change in 2007 about yourself, your community or your world.
• You blog on the site about your progress in making that change and include the tag (i.e. keyword) "resolution".
• A panel of judges checks out your resolution and blog posts, and picks out the top three resolutions.
• If yours is one of them, you walk away with a $50, $100 or $500 Visa gift card.

So why's it ideal for a beginning blogger? Here are five handy reasons:

• ChangeEverything.ca is a friendly community. Your chances of getting helpful, supportive comments are excellent.
• It takes just seconds to set up a blog, and you have an instant built-in readership: the hundreds of other members of ChangeEverything.ca, and the thousands of visitors to the site.
• Site moderator Kate Dugas is happy to help you if you run into a roadblock.
• If you made New Year's resolutions, you have built-in fodder for writing blog posts.
• A $500 Visa gift card would be a pretty good reward for a first outing.

So if you know someone who's been itching to start blogging, this could be the ticket. (And feel free to download the poster [PDF, 250kb] for the contest if you want to spread the word.)