Tucows/Serious Magic’s "Cow Tipping Contest"

(This article also appears in Tucows Farm.)

It’s a Contest!

The company for whom I work, Tucows, and Serious Magic, a company that develops video communication software, have joined up to launch a contest called “Cow Tipping”. Contest participants have to create a tutorial video on their favourite software, hardware or web service using Serious Magic’s Vlog It! software, and the best ones will earn great prizes and be featured on the Tucows download site.

What Can You Win?

The best tutorial video will be deemed the grand prize winner and will be featured on the Tucows.com site. Its creator will receive:

• Creative Labs Live! Cam Voice webcam
• Creative Labs Labs Zen Video Player
• Serious Magic’s Visual Communicator Studio software
• A Blogware account, paid up for one year

Two runner-up videos will also be featured on the Tucows.com site and their creators will each receive:

• Creative Labs Live! Cam Voice webcam
• Serious Magic’s Visual Communicator Pro software
• A Blogware account, paid up for one year

In total, 30 videos will be selected from the entries and showcased on the Tucows.com site. Those videos that didn’t make the grand prize or the runner-up positions will still earn their creators these prizes:

• Serious Magic’s Vlog It! software
• A Blogware account, paid up for one year
• Green screen
• Microphone

How to Enter

• Get your hands on Vlog It! You can either buy it or simply download the free trial. Remember, the videos must be made using Vlog It!
• Make a video no longer than 3 minutes. Once again, it has to be a tutorial video for some piece of software or hardware or an internet service.
• Submit your video before the deadline! The deadline is 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on August 10, 2006.

Coming Up

I’ll post the full contest rules a little later on. In the meantime, if you’ve got an idea for a tutorial video, get to work!