Monday Happy Hour

Written on March 30th, 2009 by Graham

Hey there Entrecarders,

Most days, like today for example, I work from a co-working space in Santa Cruz California called NextSpace.

There are a lot of freelancers, graphic designers, developers, and programmers in my neck of the woods. So one day some Santa Cruz entrepreneurs got together and created a comfortable and bright place where all these people can come together and work in an “office environment.” The benefits to co-worker are clearly evident:  you get to meet lots of people who are up to lots of interesting things, make new friends, share new ideas, and if you are trying to get one of them off the ground, you can find all the talent you need here under one roof.

Every Friday at NextSpace everyone gets together in the lounge area and gives each other updates with their various projects and companies. Lots of pizzas are involved.

At the last Friday happy hour, I was sharing with everyone details of the ad platform Entrecard is launching. As I was talking about it, I couldn’t stop thinking about how Entrecard members could really benefit from this same group announcement / interaction time. Its great for building relationships with our co-workers, and when you run a blog all the other bloggers in the blogosphere are essentailly your co-workers. But how many of your co-workers do you really know?

Entrecard wants to play a role helping you meet your co-workers in the blogosphere. So, without further ado, I have lots of updates from the Entrecard community for this weeks Monday Happy Hour! (PS: I’ve also taken the time to respond to each one. You should too, in the comments!)

It’s been a busy week!

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From Larry:

Let me bring for your attention and consideration my having posted the March Top Ten for card drops and traffic-generating blogs I advertised on–perhaps one of the earliest in the month for it–@ http://exaggerator.blogdrive.com/archive/1073.html when you have the time for it.

reply:

Thanks Larry! It’s always good to see members linking to their top card droppers for the month (our post is coming out tomorrow!) and I know that many Entrecard members are always looking for tip-offs to good traffic-generating blog to advertise on. Right on!

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From Victoria:

bikudesigns is having a jewelry giveaway.

I am giving away a signature bikudesigns Nest Wrapped Silver Ring (in your size) on my blog.

The winner will be drawn on Monday 6th April. Check out this link for more information.

reply:

Whoa, that ring is way cool! Someone is going to be super lucky to win it! Are you selling any of them in the Entrecard market??

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From Gengen:

I just want to share about my ongoing contest at Wonderful Things In Life. They can win jewelries, lots of EC credits, blog makeover, web hosting plus domain, ad spaces and many more. The details of the contest is here: http://mommyko.com/2009/03/chris-birthday-bash-contest-win.html This contest is in celebration to my son’s 3rd birthday which is this coming March 31 but the contest will end April 10. The mechanics of the contest is very easy and i will use the random.org to proclaim the winners.

Another news is DarlingRose Designs which is my online store have on sale items. I hope many of the people will visit and buy the items. Thank you very much. God speed.

reply:

Gengen, Tell you son I said happy birthday! Have you thought about setting up an EC trust fund for him so when he starts blogging, he’ll be able to buy enough advertising to launch his blog to great heights! Thanks for updating us on the contest and good luck with selling your on sale items!

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From Lou:

My blog Peregrination.today.com is holding an Entrecard competition. There are over $45, 100 000 ECs and 40 ad spaces to be given away. The contest ends on the 9th of April.

The link to the contest is here. http://peregrination.today.com/awesome-blog-contest/ . There is a poster for the competition. The link is below.

http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww103/loutianren/3322385563_1798fb2900.jpg?t=1236366538 (333×500)

http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww103/loutianren/3322385563_fd424a34b1_o.jpg?t=1236366928 (600×900)

Thanks,

Lou

reply:

Thanks for updating us Lou! Good luck with the contest and I hope you consider getting a free blog at blogspot and being a continued member of our community after the new Entrecard ordinance from Today.com goes into effect.

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From Nips:

Well my news is that I’ve moved my Nipplelicious blog from Today.com to its new home of  http://www.nipplelicious.blogspot.com/. I’m still trying to work my way around there, but it should be interesting. I’ve also removed my mother for life blog from the entrecard list for now. I’m going to wait and see how one move goes before I attempt another..

P.S. Still looking for a blogger mentor to help me learn the ins and outs..

reply:

Awesome to see that you moved your blog to stick with Entrecard! I hope the move went smoothly. We should be able to find you a mentor amongst our many members. Hey Everybody! who wants to show nips the ins and outs of blogging?

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From Krystal:

I have one of the bags on my blog reduced til the end of the month ( Tuesday 3/31)

reply:

Those are cool bags. I might have to buy one for a girl friend of mine! Why not put some for sale in the Entrecard market?

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From Heathen Mom:

Heathen Homeschoolers will have two contests beginning on Monday.  The

Monday Happy Hour contest will have entrecard credits as the prize.  The

other contest will have books as the prize.  Visit my site at

www.heathenhomeschoolers.com for details on Monday.

reply:

Rock on Heathen Mom!! Who doesn’t love a good Entrecard contest? It’s one of the best ways to build traffic. Way to take advantage of your resources!

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From Mr. Elusive:

I am running a contest giving away a free BlackBerry Bold; details can be found here http://mrelusiveblog.com/free-st/twitter-users-win-an-unlocked-blackberry-bold/

Regards,

Mr. Elusive

reply:

Whoa! A blackberry! Now that’s a prize!! What’s next, an iPhone??

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From Kunal:

Hey Graham,

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