My Switch to VMware Fusion Video Contest: Mac Users?

videocontests — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:23:34 +0000

Are you running Windows on your Macbook? Have you heard about VMware Fusion or even used to it to make your switch easier? You can participate in a video contest and win a Macbook Air.

content: make a short video about VMware Fusion, i.e. “My Switch to VMware Fusion” (Or you can also write a blogpost and win an ipod touch)
eligibility: it’s an international video contest for over 18 citizens (except for residents of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria)
prize: Macbook Air of Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): 2000 USD
deadline: May 15 2008 (every video contest entry gets a Fusion t-shirt and a “My Mac Loves VMware” bumper sticker.)
criteria: your video
* Shows value of virtualization on Mac (20%)
* Production value of video-crispness of editing, sound quality, inclusion of screencasts, music, etc. (20%)
* Describes why switching to VMware Fusion was important (20%)
* Originality and interestingness of video’s storyline line (20%)
* Demonstrates applications not available for Mac OS X (20%)

further info: VMware Fusion

Here’s a sample video entry made by Chris Pirillo alias lockergnome:

SAS Internal Video Contest Taps Employees’ Creativity

videocontests — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:28:59 +0000

Employees created video entries for SAS internal video contest. SAS is right to tap the creative resources of its own folks who know SAS – well, internally. Team building, show-casing, career building, etc.

Here’s the winner video, which promises that SAS helps in life sciences:

And the winning team is “Marlow Film Institute”, Marketing with Richard Peace, Philip Male, Jason Goodwin, Petra Shuttlewood, Cheryl Mallows, Mui Luc, Kenneth Ellis, Matthew Mullerworth, Naomi Woolford, Michelle Watts.

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