Win trip to India with Ashoka Tech as official blogger!
Posted by Nelson de Witt on November 15, 2009 under Social Entrepreneurship | 
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If you haven’t herd Ashoka Tech is running a competition during the month of November to find someone to be the official blogger during its Tech 4 Society conference in Hyderabad, India. The winner gets an all expenses paid trip to Hyderabad! But the lucky individual will up for quite a challenge, as he or she will have to cover 3 days worth of conference events.
In Hyderabad the winning blogger will cover the event from pre-event media day to the wrap up on the day after the event, producing 3-5 posts per day and at least 5-10 Tweets per days. The pace will likely be demanding and the winner should expect to work long hours. It is not required for all of the blogger’s output to be posted online immediately, but it is important for Ashoka’s records of the event and later data-analysis on the event for the blogger to keep good notes and share any unpublished posts that might be useful in these knowledge capture endeavors. All posts and tweets produced by the blogger will be broadcast from http://tech.ashoka.org and @AshokaTweets/@AshokaTech. The blogger is also welcome to cross-post the content on their personal site as long as they provide links to the Ashoka Tech blog in their posts from Hyderabad.
This is such a great idea and I’m so glad Ashoka is doing a contest like this. This could be a very big opportunity for individual who is passional about social entrepreneurship and social change.
I would encourage anyone who is interested in this space to apply. Entering into the competistion is very simple:
To enter, simply publish an article on your personal blog during the month of November which explores the interconnection between technology, invention and social change. The post must be no more than 600 words and must include this text at the bottom of the article (not included in the 600 words):
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public are hosting Tech 4 Society, a conference exploring technology, invention and social change, in Hyderabad, India, in February 2009. Find out more about the conference here. This blog post is an entry in their competition to find the official blogger to travel to and cover the event.
Once your post is published get the competition entry form and email it to tech4society@ashoka.org by November 30, 2009.
As someone who is passionate about social entrepreneurship and has been fortunate enough to travel a lot this could be a life changing experience. If you really want to understand how drive social change you have to experience other cultures and figure out how to work with those cultures. This is a very interesting and important conference. It is a huge opportunity, and I hope that if you are at all interested in this space you apply. For complete details: http://tech.ashoka.org/bloggerscomp
I will be getting to work on my post right away. Good luck!
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