Best Results Organizing

There’s always something going on at Paper Doll. 

In the past, we’ve run series on topics like setting up your family file system, preventing and recovering from identity theft, coping with lost important papers, dealing with magazine clutter and organizing your wallet (what to keep, what to toss, etc.).  And, of course, we’ve covered a wide-variety of single-post paper topics, like selecting the right calendar and organizing all variety of papers, from recipes to maps.

Earlier this month, we had our first official Paper Doll product review.  I reviewed the Internet Password Organizer™.  Well, the folks at Innovention Lab must have been pleased with what I blogged (even my suggestions for making a second edition of the product even better), because they wrote to say they want to reward you for your readership of Paper Doll.

That’s right, three weeks into the second year of this blog, I’m running my first contest.  I’m so excited, I’ll need to password-protect my glee! If you are the winner of this contest, you will get a fabulous Internet Password Organizer™ of your very own!

Maybe you’ve never entered a blog contest before.  (That’s OK–I’ve never run one before.)  Or maybe you’ve done lots and are your neighborhood’s champion blog contest winner, like The Prize-Winner of Defiance, Ohio.  No matter–everyone (who follows the instructions) has a chance to win.

First, the INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Reread the original post so you can be really excited about the prize you might win!
2. Post a comment in THIS post thread, here.  (You can still post comments in the original review’s thread, but those won’t count towards the contest.)  Just scroll to the bottom of this post, and you’ll see something that looks like:
   

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   You’ll be asked for your name and your comment.  You can provide feedback for our friends at Innovention Lab, the creators of Internet Password Organizer™, or you can tell me what you’d like to see discussed in future Paper Doll posts.  Just share your thoughts (on Paper Doll or paper-organizing issues). 
3. Because OnlineOrganizing.com’s Blog Central does not capture email addresses, I need a way to make sure the people posting the comments are who they say they are.  (You wouldn’t want someone to pretend to be you and take your prize, would you?) So, as soon as you post your comment, copy it into an email and send it to me at contest at juliebestry dot com (I’m assuming all of you savvy enough to be reading Paper Doll know that this configuration is designed to keep those evil spambots at bay.  Just replace “at” with an @ sign, “dot” with a period, and eliminate the blank spaces.  I know you can do that!)

Be assured, your email addresses will be kept completely confidential and won’t be stockpiled or used for nefarious (or any) purposes.  Once the winner has been announced and contacted, all of your email addresses will be deleted.  Poof. 

I figure, if you wanted me to keep your address, you’d sign up for my electronic newsletter, Best Results For Busy People:  Organizing Your Modern World, where I help you save time and money, reduce stress and increase your productivity, one fabulous monthly email at a time.  (Go ahead and check out the sign-up page.  I’ll wait.  Of course, signing up won’t improve your chances of winning this contest, but it will help you become more organized!)

Next, a few RULES AND CLARIFICATIONS:

• To ensure fairness, the winner will be selected by Paper Mommy.
• The winner will be announced on Wednesday, November 5, 2008. 
• Please enter only once.  You can always add as many (polite) comments to any blog posts as you like, but only your first entry here (copied to me via email) will count.  Any duplicates or additions will not be counted.
• We are only able to ship the prize to addresses in the United States and Canada.  Apologies to Paper Doll readers residing elsewhere; we’ll work to include you in future contest opportunities.
• Use family-friendly language, please.  While Paper Doll (and Paper Mommy) are not averse to colorful language, our hosts, OnlineOrganizing.com, run a family-friendly site.

Got all that?  Read (or reread) the original review, post a comment here, copy it to me at contest at juliebestry dot com and watch this space for the announcement of the winner on 11/5/08.

Finally, please spread the word about this contest.  The more attention we get, the more likely vendors will want to offer up goodies for future Paper Doll contests.  So spread the word on Twitter and Facebook, via text message or email–even over the telephone.  Digg it, Del.icio.us it, social-bookmark-of-your-choice it.  But you know how Paper Doll feels about floozies, so don’t pass notes in class or leave Post-Its for your pals.