This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Contest Factory for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
Pimp My Cube Contest is a contest with a mission: to find the worst, the most pathetic, the messiest office or cubicle in the known universe.
Contest Factory, the brains behind Pimp My Cubicle, is offering $1200 in prizes for those who create videos that best explain the nightmarish surroundings in which they work and why Contest Factory should come in and ‘Pimp’ their cube.
Winning packages include a new high-end computer system, a new desk chair and decorations, and a new high-end stereo and espresso machine.
What does a workplace need in order to win? Mess, old technology, bad furniture, dirt, darkness, utter lack of organization, and various and sundry other attributes that it a horrible, dismal place in which to work.
Once a video is uploaded to the Pimp My Cubicle page and approved, contestants are encouraged to alert family, friends, co-workers (and even competitors) to vote for their entry.
Videos can be uploaded by phone and webcam.
According to the Contest Factory, the funnier and wittier the video — ie, the better its story — the better its chances of winning. Anything goes, they say.
The cubicle to determined to be the best (really worst) by the Contest Factory judges
The latest word from Contest Factory is that the chances of winning could not be better as no videos have been uploaded to this point.
At first glance, the homepage of the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava would appear to be the gateway to your average, run-of-the-mill website.
Yet appearances can be deceiving. For this website — for which the kid who mows your lawn on Saturdays or your nephew in Wichita might charge a hundred bucks or so – came with a price tag of over 25,000 euros (or $33,000), according to a report by Slovak daily SME.
The director of the gallery told SME that it was money well spent for the minimally designed site, though many a comment under the article disagreed with that assessment.
Of course, the Slovaks who are footing the bill for the site should be delighted that they got such a bargain. A couple of years ago, their neighbors to the south, Hungary, paid exponentially more for a presence on the worldwide web.
As we are only conversant in a mere 40 languages we cannot vouch that each of the greetings in the accompanying video is pronounced perfectly and/or grammatically correct. And of course we don’t know that there are any native Latin speakers around these days.
Nevertheless, requests by our sister site, Simple English News, to embassies, culture houses, students, teachers, priests and rabbis have enabled this multilingual New Year’s greeting. A special thank you, from Arabic to Yiddish speakers, to all those who contributed.
We would like to wish our loyal reader(s) a happy, successful, productive and peaceful 2012.
Frankly, I was a little surprised to receive word from the board of directors at Apple that they wanted me to become the company’s next CEO. They needed me immediately, they said. I was not sure about leaving my present post as a teacher of English as a Second Language in rural Lithuania all of sudden. This would certainly not sit well with the local head of the Peace Corps in Vilnius.
LinkedIn has added a distinctly Web 2.0 twist to holiday well-wishing.. Anyone who has checked the "Who's Viewed Your Profile" section on the right-hand side of the business networking side will have noticed that Snow E Mann, an independent snow management consultant, has perused their information.
