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To celebrate, the company is giving away Small Biz Tech Makeover -- more than $5,000 of stuff.</p> <p>They want to know what you think about the new site features, advice and solutions. If you like it, or if you don't, and you want to write a review, please be sure to tag your post with AT&TInSite so it appears on the Technorati tag page.</p> <p>You can also give your readers the chance to enter the AT&T Small Biz Tech Makeover online contest (you can enter too!). Expert advice and one year of free AT&T products and services will be awarded to the small business owner who can best explain his or her need for a technology makeover.</p> <p>All you and your readers need to do to participate is complete an online form and send us a short video with your story. You can enter <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://smallbiz.att.com/OSB/Tech+Makeover+Contest.page">here</a>.</p> <p><em>Disclaimer: AT&T is a Technorati client.</em></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 09:56 PM in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://blog.technorati.com/contests/">Contests</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://blog.technorati.com/2009/07/get-a-small-business-makeover.html">Permalink</a> </p>   </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">08/05/2008</h2> <div class="entry-category-contests entry-author-jennifer_mclean entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a0111685695c8970c0120a583a547970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://blog.technorati.com/2008/08/a-free-web-20-expo-ticket-anyone.html">A free Web 2.0 Expo ticket, anyone?</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> Technorati is bringing you that much closer to attending <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home">Web 2.0 Expo NYC</a> next month – we’ve got free tickets to give away! As a media sponsor for the event, Technorati has complimentary promotional tickets for the conference taking place Sept. 16-19 at the Javits Center in NYC. For your chance to snag a ticket, email <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/mailto:WebExNY@technorati.com">WebExNY@technorati.com</a> by August 12, 2008. You’ll be entered into the drawing, and notified by August 14. Good luck! </div> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">Posted at 07:37 PM in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://blog.technorati.com/contests/">Contests</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://blog.technorati.com/2008/08/a-free-web-20-expo-ticket-anyone.html">Permalink</a> </p>   </div> </div> <h2 class="date-header">06/24/2005</h2> <div class="entry-category-contests entry-author-jennifer_mclean entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a0111685695c8970c0120a5da19b1970c"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://blog.technorati.com/2005/06/prof-grrrrl-is-our-blogher-contest-winner.html">Prof Grrrrl is our BlogHer contest winner!</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> Congratulations to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://playingschool.blogspot.com/">Prof Grrrrl</a>, winner of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000316.html">Technorati BlogHer contest</a>. We asked the female bloggers to let us know how blogging has changed their life and how a trip to Santa Clara for next month's <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://www.blogher.org/">BlogHer conference</a> would help her accomplish her goals. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://playingschool.blogspot.com/2005/06/how-blogging-has-changed-my-life.html">Prof Grrrrl's winning entry</a> was selected from a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091121125945/http://www.technorati.com/tag/TechnoratiBlogHer" rel="tag" title="Technorati BlogHer contest entries">selection of entries</a> representing blog entrepreneurs, mothers, cooks, and authors. Prof Grrrrl is a public school teacher who shares many of her life experiences with the community she created on her blog. She sends postcards to her readers while on vacation, audioblogs while on dates, shares job advice and recipes, and conducts fashion polls to help her pick clothes. Prof Grrrrl jumped into blogging not knowing quite what to expect but it is obvious from her winning post just how much creating a blog and engaging a community has changed her life. Prof Grrrrl blogs under a pseudonym and asked that we not use her name or location in this announcement. 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