To all Canadians around the world, Happy Canada Day!.

With this being my birthday month, recently purchasing a new MacBook Pro (am enjoying it so much) and SharePoint Buzz just going into our 3rd year, I decided it was also a good time to celebrate!.  Instead of one prize giveaway at the end of the month, why not giveaway prizes through out the month.

Without further adue, lets start by listing the prizes for our July SharePoint Buzz Giveaway!

Prizes:

• Software
  • One (1) - Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008
  • Four (4) - One Year Subscriptions to Windows Live OneCare
  • One (1) - Balsamiq Mockups
  • One (1) - Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1
  • Two (2) - Microsoft Expression Studio
  • One (1) DVD - SharePoint Server 2007 Training Videos - Learn to Setup Your Own SharePoint Server - Step by Step!
• One (1) Hardware - VCC-300 Virtual Console Connection - control two computers as if they were One
• Book
  • One (1) - The SharePoint Sheperd’s Guide for End Users by Robert L. Bogue
  • One (1) - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices by Ben Curry and Bill English
• One (1) Service - 3 hours of SharePoint Branding Consultation by Kanwal Khipple

Why Giveaway all this stuff?

Well, the community has been so helpful in getting me closer to my goal of sharing knowledge, I wanted to give back.  Majority of the prizes have been won at community events or purchased by me.  The remaining are products that have donated by company’s that would like to be a part of the SharePoint Buzz Giveaway.  Any company that is interested in participating, then contact me via comments.

Rules

The rules are going to be different based on the giveaway.  Here is how you can win a prize:

• 1 point - Comment in the post
• 5 points - blog about the contest and link to sharepointbuzz.com
• Duplicate submissions for the same prize will only be counted once

Today’s Giveaway

Starting off with a new service for all visitors, anyone who wants a sharepointbuzz.com email address can now register via the sidebar.  Now anyone, can have an email address that ends with @sharepointbuzz.com.  There is no need to comment, browse to sharepointbuzz.com and click the link via the sidebar.  This will be available from now on.

The domain services are hosted by Windows Live. So you get all the additional benefits of:

• Hotmail, Messenger, Contacts
• Spaces, Skydrive
• Events, Gallery, etc.

Click on the Sign Up to register your new email address. Look forward to the next giveaway!