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Posted by:
Will Strohl
1/26/2011 2:23 PM
 It’s always so cool to be able to tell you about the great things that the community gets to participate in and/or benefit from. This is perhaps one of the cooler things… A brand new program for competing to be the DotNetNuke site of the month! Anyone can enter their site to the contest, but the contest is being hosted exclusively within Facebook and open to anyone to submit and win (except for lowly employees like me).
(Be sure to check out the official contest rules on the site though.) How to Enter The Site of the Month Contest doesn’t have too many restrictions… You just need to have a site that’s built using DotNetNuke, and then submit it. Once a month, the DNN community all over the world will vote for your site to be the site of the month. Do you have a DNN site? Submit it! You need to have your submission for this month’s contest in by February 11th. Voting The community voting begins on February 12th. Anyone with a Facebook account can vote. How to Win  The winner is determined solely by a community vote. The site with the most votes wins! It’s that simple. Why might someone vote for your site? Perhaps your skin (design) is incredible. Maybe your site focus and structure is innovative. Maybe it’s just popular. Or you might just be a friend of the person that submitted the site. Why you vote isn’t important. That’s between you and the vote buttons.
You can vote for up to 10 sites a day, every day during the voting window. Voting ends on February 28th. What do you win? The winner this month gets 5 DotNetNuke t-shirts, and plenty of exposure on the DNN site, including: - Exclusive rights to use the Site of the Month badge
- Exclusive blog by DNN founder, Shaun Walker, talking about your site
- Featured during an announcement in the DNN Community Newsletter
Promoting If you love DNN, are excited about the contest, or simply want to help get yourself more votes, you should consider helping to promote the contest. This can be done any number of ways, including: Contest Banners Below are a couple of banners that you can use on your site. Right-click on the one you want to use and choose to save it on your local computer. Then, link it to the contest URL: http://www.facebook.com/dotnetnuke?v=app_95936962634 
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That’s about it… Submit your site. Vote. Have fun! This post is cross-posted from my personal blog site.
10 comment(s) so far...
Re: DotNetNuke Site of the Month Contest Announced
What a good idea! Sounds like fun - both as a contestant and voting.
Not to be a party pooper or anything, but I'm going to have to pass on the Facebook idea. I'm looking for ways to reduce my involvement with FB not increase it. However, if I were interested in having everything I do tracked, logged, archived, and sold to the highest bidder then FB would be an excellent choice.
Maybe you could find a good CMS system that would allow you to easily build your own site to host this on instead of relying on Facebook?
By Greg Brown on
1/26/2011 2:49 PM
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Re: DotNetNuke Site of the Month Contest Announced
@Greg: I am glad I know your sense of humor! :P BTW, I have an announcement coming that you're going to REALLY like!
By Will Strohl on
1/26/2011 2:50 PM
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Re: DotNetNuke Site of the Month Contest Announced
That's great news! I used to enjoy taking part in the DNN community here on DNN.com. (as well as the old asp.net forums) But watching the numbers of people online at DNN.com over the last few months I fear I may end up talking to myself! Not that that doesn't happen from time to time around the house but it has yet to happen in a public forum!! (grin)
BTW, I like your Twitter avatar better!!
By Greg Brown on
1/27/2011 7:45 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke Site of the Month Contest Announced
FYI. the tabs on FB page related to the contest (Enter, Vote, etc.) are all blocked by websense firewall rules for "Game" related content. I don't know if you can do anything about that.
By Mark ODonnell on
1/27/2011 7:45 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke Site of the Month Contest Announced
@Greg: There appears to still be plenty of activity here on the DNN Forums. Not sure what you're referring to. Internally, those numbers are reviewed on a very frequent basis for a variety of reasons - including the Community Recognition Program (Hall of Fame). While we could always have more involvement, I don't see the same lack of involvement you seem to be eluding to.
@Mark: I will let the appropriate people know here. Not sure if there's anything we can do either.
By Will Strohl on
1/27/2011 7:48 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke Site of the Month Contest Announced
FYI. the tabs on FB page related to the contest (Enter, Vote, etc.) are all blocked by websense firewall rules for "Game" related content. I don't know if you can do anything about that.
By Mark ODonnell on
2/4/2011 7:34 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke Site of the Month Contest Announced
We have about 30 employees working for Coding Staff. I guess, we need to enter the competition a few times to win all of those T-shirts for all 30 employess!
By Alex Pipe on
2/4/2011 7:34 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke Site of the Month Contest Announced
@Alex: I think you should make that your personal challenge to the company. ;)
By Will Strohl on
2/4/2011 7:35 AM
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Re: DotNetNuke Site of the Month Contest Announced
Sorry but I am a bit lost here. I can't find where to submit a site in FB.. do I write it the FB wall or... ?
Also, can someone submit two sites for the same contest?
By Loukas Bafatakis on
3/26/2012 12:56 PM
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Re: DotNetNuke Site of the Month Contest Announced
Hey Loukas. Looks like we stopped running this contest in 2011. We will make an announcement again when it starts again.
By Will Strohl on
3/26/2012 1:12 PM
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