Blog08

Warning: you may like to grab a cuppa and take your time with this post. It’s a LONG one.

Since we announced the winner of the Blog08 competition I am very excited to say that our winner Epicurienne has already jumped on her promise of setting up a clog blog. Check it out. Apparently Epic has been spotted in her Klompen all over London, last at 51.4979 -0.131643, but also on the tube and walking through Trafalgar Square, although I’m not entirely sure how many of these clog blogger sightings are hoaxes… Keep up the good work Epic and we’ll all look forward to seeing your review of Blog08 in a few weeks time.

Well, in true X Factor style, I’m not going to tell you just yet… We received a handful of excellent contributions. Alison once again proved she is an excellent writer and I particularly liked the line about “not scaling Everest, fighting insurgents or hanging with the A-list…”. I might have to pick up some writing tips from you one day. Then again, Sandrine posted a pretty entertaining video, taking the please please please please let me win route. Nice work Sandrine, certainly made me laugh. Lolly’s video poem was pretty excellent too. Lulu’s approach was a bit different, although I’m not sure how pissing your children off would be a good thing : – ). No, for me, there was only one winner. I knew as soon as I saw it. Not only did it make me laugh, but I’m also very much looking forward to reading a clogblog, a blog all about clogs if you will. And then of course there was the music which was just the icing on the cake. So the prize of return flights to Amsterdam, travel insurance and a free ticket to Blog08 goes to Epicurienne for this video about why she deserves to […]

Folks, we have a new competition open to members of the London Bloggers meetup. The organisers of the Blog08 conference in Amsterdam have kindly donated a ticket for one lucky punter to attend the conference on the 24th October free of charge. These tickets normally cost 195 Euro, or at todays exchange rate around £154, so this is a fantastic prize for any blogger. Why would you want to go to Blog08 I hear you ask? Well, check out the website for more details but essentially if you want to meet high profile bloggers, network and learn about how to take your blog from good to great, you could do a lot worse than popping over to Amsterdam for the day. What do you have to do to win this ticket then? It’s another prize based on the quality of your comments, whether that is written, video or audio. Simply answer the following question: I am a blogger and I deserve to win the free ticket to Blog08 because…? The comments will be judged based on entertainment, the more entertaining your comment, the more likely you are to win. The deadline for entries is Friday October 3rd. Good luck everyone! […]