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By: Contests : Productivity501

Contests : Productivity501 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:45:53 +0000

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Belkin Contest : Productivity501 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:34:58 +0000

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Contests : Productivity501 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:33:02 +0000

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Paperless Update at Productivity501 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:50:07 +0000

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By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:19:50 +0000

@Markus – Hm. Something must be messed up because I usually have over 7,000 subscribers. But to answer your question, the email subscribers are a subset of that number. I’ll be choosing a random email address from the list of subscribers. Since RSS only readers don’t have email addresses registered they won’t be part of the drawing.

@Arjun – I understand what you mean, but any type of RSS entry has to rely on giving the prize to the person who sees it first. That kind of discriminates against people who are in different timezones.

If you want to enter the contest and are already subscribing with RSS, just add your email address and then remove it once the contest is over. I’ll see if I can come up with a better way to make things more fair for RSS only subscribers in the future. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

By: Arjun Muralidharan

Arjun Muralidharan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:03:43 +0000

I personally think this is unfair towards those already subscribing via RSS – but I’ll enter anyway, because I like the idea of that power strip

By: Markus

Markus — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:30:53 +0000

I noticed that you don’t include the 3630 RSS followers in your count. Does that mean they aren’t included in the drawing.

I ask because I follow your site via RSS and really don’t lile cluttering up my inbox. Even so, I will subscribe to the email long enough to partake in the drawing…

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How to Create a Scanned Signature at Productivity501 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:53:25 +0000

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