Right now Dole is promoting a DoleCookOff contest.
To enter, provide an original recipe for an entrée that highlights at least one can of Dole Fruit or Juice, and no more than seven additional ingredients. Judging criteria for the Grand Prize Winner will be based on best use of Dole Canned Fruit or Juice, creativity, and flavor and taste.
Five lucky finalists will win a trip for two to Los Angeles where they will participate in the California Cook-Off event with celebrity chef Ben Ford. Airfare, three nights’ accommodations, a rental car and spending money are included.
The California Cook-Off event will be held at the Epicurean School of Culinary Arts, where winners will be teamed up with a professional blogger as a "sous" chef, who will chronicle the cooking process and feature the dish on their site! Plus the Grand Prize winning recipe will appear on cans of DOLE Fruit nationwide!
If you don't have a recipe to enter, you can also participate in the instant win game. When you register at DoleCookOff you’ll be automatically entered to win one of more than 100 great prizes from Cooking.com, and you can earn extra entries for telling your friends. The contest runs through May 7th.
Dole has also provided some coupons for free Dole products for me to give away to my readers, as well as a coupon for a free Dole product as a thank-you for writing this post. To enter, post your favorite way to use/eat Dole products.
To earn extra entries, do any of the following:
- Follow me on Twitter and tweet about the giveaway
- Blog about the contest, then link to this giveaway
Each entry should be its own comment or email to cobberreb@yahoo.com. Deadline is April 15th!
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Website Spotlight: eBay Classifieds
Those of you who have used Kijiji in the past know that it is now being relaunched as eBay Classifieds. As part of the launch, there is also an iPhone app for free. It contains the following features:
- Auto-Locate: The app automatically identifies your location for easier searching and browsing in your local area.
- Uploading Images: Sellers can post up to eight images per ad -- select from images already in their photo library or take a picture directly from the application using the iPhone‘s camera.
- Watch List: Users can keep track of and manage ads they are interested in.
- Correspond with Users: Users can directly reply to any user who posted an ad, right within the app.
- Share with Friends: Sharing an ad with a friend is made easy within the application interface.
- Auto-Locate: The app automatically identifies your location for easier searching and browsing in your local area.
- Uploading Images: Sellers can post up to eight images per ad -- select from images already in their photo library or take a picture directly from the application using the iPhone‘s camera.
- Watch List: Users can keep track of and manage ads they are interested in.
- Correspond with Users: Users can directly reply to any user who posted an ad, right within the app.
- Share with Friends: Sharing an ad with a friend is made easy within the application interface.
Parenting Pointers: Photo Displays
Try displaying black-and-white photos with colored mattes in black frames for a sharp look.
Giveaway: Stirring Up Wishes
I have been asked to share about a new initiative from Betty Crocker called Stirring Up Wishes. Betty Crocker is launching this to raise awareness of and money for the Make-A-Wish foundation. You can donate online, or you can purchase specially marked boxes of Betty Crocker baked goods. Each box creates a 10-cent donation. Betty Crocker will donate up to $500,000 (with a guaranteed minimum donation of $250,000).
A special bonus: now through April 15th, when you donate $5, you'll get $5 in Betty Crocker coupons!
I'm sure you are already familiar with Betty Crocker products - boxed and pouched mixes that make it easy to prepare baked goods. Although making from-scratch baked goods is great, I don't always have time to do it (or the ingredients on hand). I love that Betty Crocker makes tasty mixes that are easy to use.
As a thank-you for promoting this initiative, MyBlogSpark and Betty Crocker provided me with Betty Crocker brownie and cookie mix, and made a $25 donation on my behalf, and another $25 on behalf of the giveaway winner.
In addition, they have graciously offered a prize pack to one of my readers! To enter, visit the Stirring Up Wishes website and read the wish kids' stories. Leave a comment with the wish you would most like to see granted.
To earn extra entries, do any of the following:
- Follow me on Twitter and tweet about the giveaway
- Blog about the contest, then link to this giveaway
Each entry should be its own comment or email to cobberreb@yahoo.com. Deadline is April 15th!
A special bonus: now through April 15th, when you donate $5, you'll get $5 in Betty Crocker coupons!
I'm sure you are already familiar with Betty Crocker products - boxed and pouched mixes that make it easy to prepare baked goods. Although making from-scratch baked goods is great, I don't always have time to do it (or the ingredients on hand). I love that Betty Crocker makes tasty mixes that are easy to use.
As a thank-you for promoting this initiative, MyBlogSpark and Betty Crocker provided me with Betty Crocker brownie and cookie mix, and made a $25 donation on my behalf, and another $25 on behalf of the giveaway winner.
In addition, they have graciously offered a prize pack to one of my readers! To enter, visit the Stirring Up Wishes website and read the wish kids' stories. Leave a comment with the wish you would most like to see granted.
To earn extra entries, do any of the following:
- Follow me on Twitter and tweet about the giveaway
- Blog about the contest, then link to this giveaway
Each entry should be its own comment or email to cobberreb@yahoo.com. Deadline is April 15th!
Giveaway winner!
Congratulations to Grampy who won the Goby.com giveaway!
Those of you who checked out Goby might be interested in this press release:
Goby.com has gone mobile with the launch of its free iPhone application.
Goby’s location-aware iPhone application allows users to quickly and easily find nearby activities, make weekend plans or explore a new location with just three taps.
Not only does Goby understand where a user is, it understands a new dimension to mobile search – time. Finding out what’s happening now, this weekend, or even on the 4th of July is quick and easy. With one more tap users can share activities with friends via social sites such as Facebook and Twitter, creating an easy way to share plans and receive recommendations.
Goby is currently working on applications for other smartphone platforms, which will be rolled out later this year. The iPhone application can be downloaded on iTunes.
Those of you who checked out Goby might be interested in this press release:
Goby.com has gone mobile with the launch of its free iPhone application.
Goby’s location-aware iPhone application allows users to quickly and easily find nearby activities, make weekend plans or explore a new location with just three taps.
Not only does Goby understand where a user is, it understands a new dimension to mobile search – time. Finding out what’s happening now, this weekend, or even on the 4th of July is quick and easy. With one more tap users can share activities with friends via social sites such as Facebook and Twitter, creating an easy way to share plans and receive recommendations.
Goby is currently working on applications for other smartphone platforms, which will be rolled out later this year. The iPhone application can be downloaded on iTunes.
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