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Pleasant surprise: my Bubbles Underwater & Beyond are selected for the ELLE 2011 Bloggers' Grand Prix, in the Travel category! It's up to you to vote, by clicking on the little heartuntil December 2.
Vote until December 2
It feels good, I admit. I didn't ask for anything, I didn't sign up anywhere. But SHE has selected me for its Grand Prix des Blogueuses 2011.
It is by an e-mail received this Tuesday that I learned that my Bubbles Underwater & Beyond were among the 10 blogs chosen in the Travel category. Not very proud.
The vote of Internet users counts, in the final choice of the jury. If you like Bubbles Underwater & BeyondIn order to access to this site, please click on the banner below, then on the small heart in the page that will open:
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The system is not very practical: you then have to validate your vote by clicking again on the link you receive by e-mail. (By the way, they are building up quite a mailing list at SHE.)
You can only vote once a day. That's normal.
But what skews the thing is that there can only be one voter per IP address... I realized this at the office. A few of my well-meaning, click-worthy (too nice) colleagues saw the message pop up, "You've already voted today." Yep, all computers share the same connection....
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Well, that said, you who don't work with me, you have the right to click every day, from home or at work, until December 2nd!
I am not a beast to contest
The truth is, I'm not really the kind of person who runs around blogging contests. I don't like to beg for clicks all the time...
Of course, I'll do a little stimulus on Facebook and Twitterbut not too much either. It pollutes the walls, begging for votes, like that. And then it can annoy, in the long run.
Nevertheless, after Glamour and Marie Claire in 2009 and then the Info Cup in 2010, this blog will end up making me look like a contest beast... Even if, by not wanting to ask for too many clicks, I have the art to end up being an eternal second!
This time, as in Marie Claire, maybe I can hope to finish at the top of my category, namely Travel. But the jury's final choice will probably be on a Beauty, Fashion or Cooking blog ... We're at home SHEI don't care. I don't really care, though. I'm already very happy to think that this contest should help people discover Bubbles Underwater & Beyond to new readers.
As for the lots (Olympus compact cameras), I must admit that they do not fascinate me especially, since I am already more than well equipped with my Canon Eos 7D and some valuable objectives. In fact, the idea of being in the SHE of December 23 is titillating me much more, I confess...
But I'm not going to sulk. So I'm playing the game! Hence this post and this call for clicks... Here's to your heart, ladies and gentlemen! (And I'll take you back to Indonesia in the next post, I promise.)
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