Want $10,000?  Microsoft is hosting a contest to promote its Express product set.  Sign up at http://www.madeinexpresscontest.com/ You can also download flair to put on your blog if you're interested:

KBAlertz is giving away XBox 360s to two Arizona Children's centers and could use your help.  Basically if you sign up for a TextPayMe account through their promotion page, you'll get $5 and they'll get 1/36 of an XBox 360.  The promotion ends March 18th. KBAlertz XBox Giveaway Page

Ron McDaniel who is into Buzz Marketing posted about the TextPayMe marketing effort that I’m participating in.  When I last checked, they’d given away 11 $300 XBox 360 systems (5 of which appear to be to the same CP from Washington).  That works out to about $3300 assuming they’re paying retail, which is unlikely.  Considering the ...

Axosoft is doing a social marketing experiment (blogs, Digg, etc.) where they're selling a $500 copy of their OnTime Small Team (5 users) bug tracker and project management tool for just $5 and donating the proceeds to the American Red Cross. The experiment expires Friday Feb. ...

I've recently received a few emails from a component vendor announcing their new product, which includes this quote: And finally, the component developers have been eagerly awaiting for months…[productname will remain anonymous-ish] is the first-ever collection of a full suite of validation controls with built-in security, for the ASP.NET ...

A recent forum thread on AspAdvice.com dealt with this issue.  It's far better to use 301 redirects than 302 redirects within your applications if the page in question is permanently at the new location.  One example of this would be when handling site moves from an old architecture to a new architecture -- you want to avoid tons of 404 ...

If you don't know me, just click here. If you do know me, you should read this interesting article (ok, blog entry) by Seth Godin, marketing guru, about why we are overly verbose when we're trying to get information across to strangers, but typically too curt when we're seeking to win over our friends and colleagues.  I'm only ...

A few years ago, I worked for a consulting company for five years, which during that time (and somewhat still today) was quite a long time to remain with one company.  It was a common occurrence for clients to offer me positions in their companies, but this practice was strongly frowned upon by my employer, who actively discouraged such ...

Seth Godin (Seth's blog) has written several books on a term I believed he coined, 'viral marketing'.  I was talking to some folks at TechEd this week about ways to generate buzz for their products, and two topics dominated my advice: blogs and viral marketing.  If you're reading this then I probably don't have to explain why I think ...