I’d sure would love to win one of the 3 themes he is offering for free! This blog has seen theme changes and would love to settle down with a premium theme for good. Revolution News Theme fits perfect for my blog, since I share a lot of news as it happens, in addition to my own content.

I love the way headlines have been setup – I’d use Latest Technology news here. I use different categories and keep them few as far as possible, hence news for categories would be great – like SharePoint, WordPress, Vista, Microsoft, Google.

In other featured stories, I’d use my featured content. I look forward to winning this contest.

Brian, this indeed is a great gesture on your part. Thank you.

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David’s got great sponsorship going there. Just to sum them up …

Gold Award

The ultimate business blog package

• Logo design from David Airey.
• Custom WordPress theme design from Nate Whitehill.
• Personal marketing / advertising plan from Maki of Dosh Dosh.
• One year’s hosting and blog setup from John Boardley
• Signed copy of Blogging Tips by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress.

Silver Award

• A second logo design from Tara Roskell of Graphic Design Blog.
• Website critique from Randa Clay of Randa Clay Design.
• One hour SEO consultation with Lyndon Antcliff of Cornwall SEO.
• $60 of books from Amazon courtesy of Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.

Bronze award

• Logo / blog header design from Jonathan-C. Phillips
• One hour blog optimization consultation with Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips.
• Revolution Premium WordPress theme package (personal package) from Brian Gardner.
• Blog review and email interview published on Make It Great! with Phil Gerbyshak.

Bonus prizes

The following prizes will be drawn individually.

Podcasting kit

• Behringer Podcastudio USB Podcasting Kit, by Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog.

Free money

• $25 via PayPal – Gayla McCord of Mom Gadget.

USB storage keys

• 2GB USB storage key x 3 – Jamie Clague at Terinea Weblog. Three USB sticks will make up three separate prizes, with free worldwide postage.

Blog reviews and design help

• Full blog review with deep links and images published on Blog-Op with Chris Lodge.
• Blog review from Aaron Russell of miLienzo.
• Expert WordPress blog help from Lakshmi Mareddy of Chilligavva.
• Blog review from Hock Ng of Marketing Tools Review.
• Blog makeover from Charles Jordan of The Queer Chef.

Telephone and Skype consultations

• Blog writing consultation with Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog.
• Two 45 minute coaching consultations with Mark McGuinness of Wishful Thinking.
• 4 hour business growth consultation with Rebecca Caroe, via telephone / Skype, or face-to-face in London / Cambridge.
• Tele-Coaching with Tammy Lenski.
• One hour product launch consultation with Design Translator (DT) of Design Sojourn.
• Blog improvement or monetization advice with Easton Ellsworth of Business Blogwire.

Art and literature

• Two premium quality books designed and produced by David Hyde of david the designer.
• Copy of Brand Aid by Brad VanAuken of The Blake Project.
• Watercolour print from Ed Roach Watercolours.

Online advertising

• 728px by 90px banner ad for 30 days above the fold on The Blog Experiment, courtesy of Sara.
• 125px by 125px image ad for 30 days on Smart Wealthy Rich.
• Ad icon located site-wide in the top left of Blog-Op, courtesy of Chris Lodge.
• 30 day text link ad shown site-wide on Contest Blogger.
• 125px by 125px image ad for 30 days on Freelance Folder.

Forum membership

• Lifetime membership to the paid membership site that Andy Beard, WordPress SEO and Niche Marketer, will launch on Andybeard.eu (eta and value yet to be determined).

Prize draw details

The deadline for entries is Wednesday, September 26th 2007, and the winners will be announced here on Monday, October 1st 2007. Names will be drawn using a random generator.

Now that’s some bounty I’d like to get my hands on! Good one!

Happy Anniversary Dave!

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Continuing on… I clarified that I wasn’t Ken. I introduced myself to him.. “I am Alpesh” and he was “Ah, Alpesh, you crazy blogger!”

Out came FrankArr sticker  and off it went on my passport (tech.ed passport). In reality to have FrankArr remember you, you have gotta do the right things as a blogger in Australia coz FrankArr is a top notch Aussie Microsoft Blogger, father of TechTalk Blogs and now he is headed to Redmond.

That’s a 3rd Aussie headed off to Microsoft, Redmond.

For FrankArr to remember me, means I have struck the right chords ….

I had a chat with him and I told him that I just could not miss this tech.ed and how passionate I am about it. He told me you are into SharePoint, go meet with Aaron and tell him G’day. Tell him Frank has sent me.

Now that was second shocker. First he remembered Alpesh and second – Alpesh was into SharePoint. Wow!

Thanks FrankArr. It was so nice to meet up with you and say G’day as you had twittered a reply back to me. I wasn’t shy this time around

I look forward to being in contact with FrankArr and maybe can meet up with him in December – January, when I will be visiting U.S.A.

FrankArr, I think you received the feedback from last year and I was happy this year. I will write up my feedback for this year. I won’t be able to do the official one and go in for a draw to win blackjack, but nevertheless, I think you do take each and every feedback and have your team work on it Wish you well, FrankArr.

I think that’s what FrankArr means to me. Cool dude, twitter mate,  real technologist, maybe my boss someday …

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A big issue. It does not matter if you are a A blogger or a blogger. What matters is your privacy! Once you have stopped redirecting your blog’s feeds to feedburner, you will need to do the following steps:

1. Keep the feedburner account active.
2. Stop redirecting your feeds to feedburner
3. Inform your site visitors and rss readers of the change of feed address.

Never ever let go your feedburner address. It’s just like your domain name!

I had once written about Microsoft bloggers (some) using feedburner. However in last couple of months, I have seen quite a few of them dropping out of feedburner, since Google’s acquisition of feedburner.

Is feedburner now that evil? Honestly, if I were working for Microsoft, I would do exactly what other Microsofties have done. Maybe, I would have never subscribed to feedburner at all. Maybe.

What’s the point of this post?

The point is: if you stop using feedburner, don’t let go of your feed address and don’t delete your account.

Look at what has happened to Angus Logan’s feed. I knew he had changed his feed address. I know his blog address top of my head, so I didn’t change his address in Google Reader.

But today I saw an update on this feedburner address – which was is http://feeds.feedburner.com/anguslogan. This feed is now being used by BSPCN.

Lesson learnt well. Don’t delete your feed address!

What do you think? Isn’t this banking of someone’s credibility? In reality, feedburner should have a system in place to prevent this from happening.

Digg This!

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Doug, you are cool dude! Highly appreciated!

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I am glad that Google acquired Feedburner, this converts into atleast 2 advantages so far:

1] PRO is now free, and

2] FAN getting more and more advertisements.

I am looking forward to Adsense integration with Feedburner. Go Go Google

Have you spotted Microsoft bloggers move away from Feedburner? I have

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I was shocked to see this

Where in this page do you see any content related to SharePoint?

I write a lot on sharepoint on my blog, but this ad? How does that all fit in here? How was the related ad displayed? Was it to do with my site or cookies on my laptop?

It’s scary hey?! The ways of the internet are weird and scary sometimes

Check out your whois record and share with us your story.

I’d like to see what these bloggers come up with… let’s see how this goes Pass this on…

1. Everton Blair
2. QuickOnlineTips
3. JohnTP
4. JohnChow
5. Marketing and Technology – Douglas Karr
6. Mr. Byte
7. Freakitude
8. Technix

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