Seed has upped the ante in the Donors Choose Blogger's challenge. Now if you donate to any of the challenges, you can have the chance to win any of an astonishing array of prizes! They're not only matching your gift up to a total of $15,000, they're also personally rewarding you for contributing. Here are some of the prizes you can win:
- 1 fresh, new iPod nano
- 21 "Seed Hearts Threadless" tee shirts (design here)
- 21 ScienceBlogs mugs
- 21 subscriptions to Seed magazine
- 9 copies of "The Best American Science Writing 2007"
So what are you waiting for? While last week's two graphs post did cause a bump in donations, we've still got a long way to go before we reach our goal. Here's an update on our status:
We are now solidly in the middle of the pack in terms of donations received. But we don't want to be in the middle. We want to be all the way over to the left.
There's also been a subtle (okay, not so subtle) change to the other graph I showed you last week. An elephant has entered the room:
But you're not going to let a biologist intimidate you, are you? Let's make CogDaily the top-donating blog in this challenge, regardless of whether some loudmouth squid fanatic decides to enter the fray!
Here's the fine print on the Seed contest:
Here's how it will work: interested donors can forward their e-mail receipt from DonorsChoose to scienceblogs@gmail.com.
Readers who have already donated are still eligible for the prize drawing -- just forward you receipt on to the scienceblogs@gmail.com address.
We'll have three prize drawings, each on a Tuesday: Tuesday the 15th, Tuesday the 22nd, and Tuesday the 29th.
We'll give away seven tee shirts, seven mugs, seven subscriptions, and three books each week to donors whose emails we have received before noon (East Coast time) on the day of the drawing.
At the end of the whole DonorsChoose drive (which is to say, after the last moment of October 31st), we'll take everyone who ever entered the drawing and draw one final winner for the iPod.