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Immediate Action needed: vote to win $10,000 towards first steps in developing a year-round Farmer's Market Eugene

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Posted by erinely on February 29th, 2008 at 8:33 am | 2 Replies

I know you don't know me but I am hoping you will be supportive of my cause, it will not cost you a dime and it take less than 5 minutes of your time to go to this site: www.ideablob.com

and vote for my idea so that we, the community in Eugene, can win $10,000 towards the first steps in developing a year-round Farmer's Market here.

It does not matter where you live, anyone in the US can vote for my idea.

The contest ends in less than 15 hours....

I need your help, please. Votes must be in by 10:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time) Friday Feb 29

go to: www.ideablob.com and vote for Permanent Indoor Farmers Market

I am one of the top 8 finalists for this month's Advanta www.ideablob.com $10,000 prize.

You can read about the project here: http://ideablob.com/ideas/894-Permanent-Indoor-Farmers-Market

Even if you have voted in earlier rounds, you will need to go vote again. This is the FINAL vote so you must vote again.

If you have not voted/registered before, it will require you to create a username, password and enter your name and email address, then you will have to verify your registration with a click through on the email they send to your email address, then you can go back and VOTE!!!

February 2008 Finalist * Please Make my idea the $10,000 idea! * Vote anytime * Feb 22 -Feb 29

I ask you to Please Pass this on to others who are supportive of the cause.

Regards,

Erin Ely
Eugene Oregon
Community Activist

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erinely
March 15th, 2008

Ideablob.com winner for Feb announced and.....

Hi everyone,
They announced the winner for the Feb ideablob.com contest.
http://www.ideablob.com/posts/171

Thanks to those of you who voted and sent the idea on to others.

The Farmers market idea came in second place. We were very, very close to winning, within about 20 votes or so...based on my calculations.

I plan on resubmitting the idea in either April or May of 2008. In the mean time, I am working on building a much larger email network and support here in Eugene to increase our chances of winning.

If we can continue to reach out to people in the community and help them understand the idea, I'm confident we can win.

In the mean time, I encourage you to
1) make sure you are registered on http://www.ideablob.com

Registering is a 2 step process.

go to: http://www.ideablob.com

1) sign up, create a username and password

you do not need to give them any more information than that if you don't want to.

Then there will instantly be an email that is sent to your inbox,

2) you must confirm your registration by clicking on the confirm link. You will not be registered unless you confirm it.

If you have problems with this let me know so I can pass this on to the company.

When I resubmit my idea it will take everyone voting twice to make it happen.
Once in the "sprint" and then again in the "final".

The Sprint Leaders are simply ideas that have GAINED the highest number of votes in that particular sprint.

Each month is one cycle. Each cycle is divided into 4 periods called sprints.

The Monthly Showdown begins at the end of 3 sprints. The 2 ideas with most overall votes and the 6 ideas that have gained the most votes during each sprint compete for the final $10,000 award. To level the playing field, each of the 8 finalists begin the monthly showdown with zero votes.

My plan is to submit the idea at the beginning of a week, and get enough votes to win the "sprint" for that week. This would put us in the final for that month.

This requires that people vote twice in one month, first in the sprint so that we can get into the final and then in the final which is always the last week of the month.

I will let people know when I resubmit the idea. In the mean time, if you can let your friends and neighbors know about this I would appreciate your help.

If you have comments or have ideas on how to network this better through out the community I would appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks,
Erin

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denise4peace
March 16th, 2008

Re: Ideablob.com winner for Feb announced and.....

I'm registered and ready to go!  :-)

**Denise**
Denise-Christine
Post Carbon Eugene
An Outpost of the Post Carbon Institute
www.relocalize.net/group/eugene


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Subject: [PostCarbonEugene] Ideablob.com winner for Feb announced and.....
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:20:05 -0700

Hi everyone,
They announced the winner for the Feb ideablob.com contest.
http://www.ideablob.com/posts/171
Thanks to those of you who voted and sent the idea on to others.
The Farmers market idea came in second place. We were very, very close to winning, within about 20 votes or so...based on my calculations.
I plan on resubmitting the idea in either April or May of 2008. In the mean time, I am working on building a much larger email network and support here in Eugene to increase our chances of winning.
If we can continue to reach out to people in the community and help them understand the idea, I'm confident we can win.
In the mean time, I encourage you to
1) make sure you are registered on http://www.ideablob.com
Registering is a 2 step process.
go to: http://www.ideablob.com
1) sign up, create a username and password
you do not need to give them any more information than that if you don't want to.
Then there will instantly be an email that is sent to your inbox,
2) you must confirm your registration by clicking on the confirm link. You will not be registered unless you confirm it.
If you have problems with this let me know so I can pass this on to the company.
When I resubmit my idea it will take everyone voting twice to make it happen.
Once in the "sprint" and then again in the "final".
The Sprint Leaders are simply ideas that have GAINED the highest number of votes in that particular sprint.
Each month is one cycle. Each cycle is divided into 4 periods called sprints.
The Monthly Showdown begins at the end of 3 sprints. The 2 ideas with most overall votes and the 6 ideas that have gained the most votes during each sprint compete for the final $10,000 award. To level the playing field, each of the 8 finalists begin the monthly showdown with zero votes.
My plan is to submit the idea at the beginning of a week, and get enough votes to win the "sprint" for that week. This would put us in the final for that month.
This requires that people vote twice in one month, first in the sprint so that we can get into the final and then in the final which is always the last week of the month.
I will let people know when I resubmit the idea. In the mean time, if you can let your friends and neighbors know about this I would appreciate your help.
If you have comments or have ideas on how to network this better through out the community I would appreciate hearing from you.
Thanks,
Erin




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