We've started notifying our
Toolstravaganza winners-- and a big thank you to everyone who entered. Since our notification email contains words like "giveaway" and "prize" we urge you to check those junk mail folders. Many filtering systems are easily confused, and we'd hate for you to miss the prizewinner email.
Also, we require a bit of paperwork in the form of an Excel document. If you don't have a copy of Microsoft Excel, there are actually a few free alternatives that will allow you to open, edit, and re-save the .XLS format.
There is an entire office suite for your machine, be it Linux, Mac or Windows, called
OpenOffice. This open-source project includes a word processor, spreadsheet app and presentation tool, just like MS Office. Did I mention it is free? Now if you'd rather not install something and you have a Gmail account, there's always
Google Docs, an online suite of office apps (no presentation tool yet, but they have a private beta). Lastly, there's
Zoho, which adds CRM, wikis and more to their office suite. Zoho is a commercial enterprise, but you can use the office apps, with some restrictions, for free.
Thanks for reading, and stay tuned in the future for more great giveaways!
UPDATE: The email will be from weblogsinc, as Weblogs is an AOL company. Sorry about the Excel requirement, but you are free to refuse to participate and we'll pick someone else.
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Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)
What e-mail address would the mail be coming from so people can add it as trusted?
ReplyDoes it seem kind of odd to you that you must fill out a from in Excel to get a prize. I mean how "Web 0.1." How about this:
Reply1) reply to this email with the following information __ ___ ___
2) click this link and fill out the web form
But WHY oh WHY enclose a junky looking (yeah I won a prize, the workbench) excel spreadsheet clearly intended for another use inside AOL?
It kinda makes the whole thing look cheap and ill-concieved.
Either that or it could be a slow day at work
Josh had a good question. I got an email saying I won... but I am a little skeptical because the wording in the email doesn't make very much sense and they are asking for my social security number.
ReplyDitto Josh. I don't like giving away my SSN. I am sure it is for tax purposes (the prize counts as income for FIT purposes), but how about an email addie for Victor Agreda, Jr?
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