July 3, 2010
nominate somebody you know to receive a $10K cube grenade
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[“Sacred Zombie Cow”. A cube grenade I did for organpreneur.com.]
Back in June, we started a competition to give away a free “Cube Grenade”. All you had to do was submit an idea for your own business or non-profit, and from all the entries we’d pick the most interesting one as the winner.
Well, I’m happy to say, the competition is still on. And, I’m utterly delighted by the responses submitted so far.
However, as we went through the submissions, and emails from people still working on their submissions, it became clear that A) There are lots of people who would submit, but don’t know about the offer, and B) People have asked if they could submit on behalf of people, businesses or causes that they loved.
So, we’re extending the contest until August 1st, and until then, If you’ve already been working on your own submission, we will give you till the end of the US July 4th holiday weekend to get it in.
Then after that, you can’t submit an idea for yourself. You have to submit an idea for a friend, business or cause that you love. (*)
Know someone with a great idea, business, start-up or nonprofit? Submit something on their behalf. Tell them that you’re doing this if you want to, or don’t.
To give y’all more time, I’ve pushed back the deadline to August 2nd. Same deal as before: Submit your idea on the gapingvoid Tumblr page, and/or leave a comment below with a link to your blog. We’ll answer emails with questions as quickly as possible.
I look forward to hearing about your friends. Thanks!
[*That’s right, it has to be something that just your friend is involved in. You can’t have a stake in it yourself. No cheating 
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People submitted for themselves? Lame. Toss those ones.
@tyler, Nothing wrong with people nominating themselves. I did ask them to originally, after all.
Like everything I do, this is a work in progress, so no big deal.
But yes, you and I will agree, people nominating their friends is a bit more fun and “social”, somehow. Hence me tweaking the rules
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I’ve solicited nominations!
BTW, I looked at my entry on your Tumblr page, and the HTML formatting is messed up. Specifically, most everything is just one paragraph. Do I need paragraph tags? Can I resubmit?
I nominate Lindsay Manfredi’s nonprofit. The nonprofit is all about a rock camp for girls ages 8 – 16, self-esteem, and self expression through music. zine making, body image, instruments. the girls form bands on day 1, and by day 6, they’re performing their own original song to the city in a showcase. you’ll laugh. you’ll cry. you’ll cheer. http://www.girlsrockindy.org july 19-24th 2010 bring.it.on.
I hope you will consider donating money to a cause that gets almost no attention, people with myalgic encephalomyelitis, which is also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, a better known name but one rejected by those who suffer from it because it makes it sound like a psychosomatic illness.
My daughter’s boyfriend suffers from this, which is where I learned about it. He used to have a great job in artificial intelligence, and now he finds it almost impossible to leave the house. The ME/CFS community is frantic just to get people to study myalgic encephalomyelitis, and they are making a little progress, but the cause can use as much help as it can get.
For more on this subject, visit my daughter’s blog, which is mostly about her music but has occasional posts about ME/CFS. Her address is http://cinderbridge.blogspot.com/
Thank you for your consideration.
YOU ROCK.… once again.. anyhow, just submitted a project on behalf of an individual i had the pleasure of helping out a few weeks ago.
It’s the I Love You Guys foundation:
http://www.iloveuguys.org
cheers
–brent
I don’t know if you’ve met him when you came to Brazil. I nominate Marco Gomes and his Boo Box, a system to monetize blogs.
He is a young entreprenour, 24, who makes the best for brazilian publishers to get an extra money with our content.
He deserves a Cube Granade, IMO.
http://boo-box.com/
his personal blog (in pt-br): http://marcogomes.com
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