SharePoint Buzz Contest - Win a FREE SharePoint 2007 Book!

Monday, March 26, 2007, 12:56
This news item was posted in Contest, Site News category and has 15 Comments so far.

Becoming a popular blog gives you certain responsibilities and hopefully I can keep improving on my content. I wanted to thank you, loyal visitors, by giving something back to you. I’m holding a contest for all members of the SharePoint community. However, in order to decide the winner, your participation is required. For this contest, I will be giving away a new SharePoint 2007 book.

What book you ask? That’s going to stay a mystery till the contest end date, but I guarantee that it will be one of the best books in the market available for SharePoint 2007. Click here to view a list of SharePoint 2007 books at Amazon [amazon search]

Giving Back to the SharePoint Community

To enter the SharePointBuzz SharePoint 2007 Book contest just follow these steps:

  1. Add SharePointBuzz.com to your Technorati favorites by clicking here: Add to Tecnorati Favorites
  2. Write a post on your blog on what book you would like and why you should win
  3. In your post link to www.sharepointbuzz.com with the anchor text “SharePoint 2007 Book”

or, due to comments below from MVPs and the like,

  1. If you dont have a blog, just comment below on what book you would like to win and why!

Here is an example of a post:

SharePointBuzz.com has a contest and are giving away a FREE SharePoint 2007 Book to the winner. The book that I would love to own is the Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed because I love reading Kevin Hoffman’s blog specially one of his post on SharePoint 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh - Hands-On.

Okay, thats a pretty bad example, but you get the idea. Hopefully, you write a bit more then just that. Write as much as you want - just make sure you follow the above three simple steps. This contest is open to everyone. If you have blog, you can enter. It doesn’t matter where you are or what language your blog is in. After you made your post, send an email to sharepointbuzz AT gmail DOT com with the URL to your post. Once I confirm the post meets the above requirements, I will print out your email and toss in to a draw bucket. Be sure to check out the SharePoint 2007 books at Amazon.

If you have any questions, comment below. At the end of April 8th, 2007h, I’ll draw one name from the bucket and that blogger will be the proud owner of a brand spanking new SharePoint 2007 book! The draw will be done here on April 8th, 2007. Good luck!

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    15 Responses to “SharePoint Buzz Contest - Win a FREE SharePoint 2007 Book!”

    1. Ishai Sagi said on Monday, March 26, 2007, 22:05

      Mate, this is a pretty lame way to get ahead in the technoraty scores. is this a blog or a commercial site?

    2. sharepointbuzz said on Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 9:40

      Actually this is less of a contest and more of a giveaway. The intent isn’t to get ahead in anything but to give back to the community. You can choose to read into this however you want.

      If you would not like to win the book, you can choose to promote this to your visitors.

      I just didn’t want it to be completely easy for someone to get the SharePoint book. In all honesty, someone just has to let me know they want it and I will randomly pick the winner.

    3. Bob Fox [MVP] said on Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 14:15

      Please contact me via email. I would like to discuss something with you. Thank you.

      Bob Fox
      MVP [Windows Sharepoint Services]

    4. Benny said on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 1:35

      Geez… what a lame effort to get traffic to come to your site in an effort to generate more AdSense revenue. Three AdSense sections on your site… to enter a contest, you are trying to get people to help you in a popularity contest? Sheesh… this is REAL lame. If this isn’t your true intentions, then you should double check your requirements and why two of the three requirements deals with generating more traffic to this lame linkfest. Consider me unsubscribed from the RSS feed… later.

    5. Cornelius J. van Dyk said on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 13:11

      I’m with Ishai on this. If you intentions was truly THAT noble, why not just say that people needed to leave a comment to this post?
      Why must the site be added to Technorati favorites if you’re, as you claim, NOT trying to boost your Technorati score?
      Why must contenstants’ blogs link to yours if you’re, as you claim, trying to GIVE to the community.
      I think most readers will see right through this ploy and clever though it might be, most people probably won’t participate.

      Later
      C

    6. sharepointbuzz said on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 13:42

      Like I said in my last comments and maybe I will make it clearer. If you would like to participate and want to win a free book, then comment here on which book you would like to win and why. I have made changes to the contest and will do a repost very shortly.

      For those that have commented already, thank you for your input.

    7. Francois said on Thursday, March 29, 2007, 10:04

      ha ha !
      one sure thing is that you didn’t attract the expected effect from this post.
      Basically I think the idea is: we are all professional so if we need a book we can go and get it, we also LIKE free stuffs but with no strings attached.

      Nicely rectified your post just in time though ;-)

    8. sharepointbuzz said on Thursday, March 29, 2007, 10:32

      Its all good. If anyone ever said that it was easy to give away FREE stuff was wrong!
      Its a learning process and I’m willing to work hard on it. One hurdle after another.

      Plus negative or positive comments, they are all part of the discussion; especially when they are from fellow sharepoint bloggers!

    9. L said on Friday, March 30, 2007, 21:54

      Hi, i’m just newbie at SharePoint and I wanna learn it today. So I took time for searching something that can improve my knowledge! And may be I was luck, I found this site.
      I’m vietnamese and have no credit card or some online payment cards. So it’s hard to buy any book to learn.
      Wish this site can help me solve the big problem and many thanks to you!
      Well, look at the list of books, It’s hard to make a decision because all of their titles are interesting. So, it may be a randomization, I choose the book: “SharePoint 2007 User’s Guide” by Seth Bates.
      And thanks for reading!

    10. Lam DS said on Friday, March 30, 2007, 21:58

      Hi, i’m just newbie at SharePoint and I wanna learn it today. So I took time for searching something that can improve my knowledge! And may be I was luck, I found this site.
      I’m vietnamese and have no credit card or some online payment cards. So it’s hard to buy any book to learn. Wish this site can help me solve the big problem and many thanks to you!
      Well, look at the list of books, it’s hard to make a decision because all of their titles are interesting. So, it may be a randomization, I choose the book: “SharePoint 2007 User’s Guide” by Seth Bates. And thanks for reading!

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