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Peeve Week 3 Update and Sponsors

I’m proud to announce that all the days for Peeve Week 3 have been sponsored. It’s now up to you to decide if you’d like to contribute a post for a particular day for a chance to win an awesome prize.

Here’s a break-down of the sponsors by day:

Monday April 7th – WordPress

This day is sponsored by various sponsors with a total potential prize of $50 via PayPal.

Posts are sponsored by:

All slots for this day are taken.

Tuesday April 8th – SEO/Make Money Online

This day is sponsored by the Reader Appreciation Project with a total prize of $50 via PayPal.

There are three contributor slots remaining for this day.

Wednesday April 9th – Web Design/Development

This day is sponsored by Vivien from InspirationBit, where she’ll provide one hour of professional design consultation.

There are two contributor slots remaining for this day.

Thursday April 10th – Social Networking

This day is sponsored by the Reader Appreciation Project with a total prize of $50 via PayPal.

There are three contributor slots remaining for this day.

Friday April 11th – Blogging

This day is sponsored by Premium Themes with the prize being a premium theme to the winner.

There are four contributor slots remaining for this day.

Rules for Winning a Prize are Simple

At the end of each day for Peeve Week, a new poll will be started and readers can vote for their favorite posts. Whichever author receives the most votes after a one-week period will win the day’s total prize.

For contributors, the odds are quite excellent with some days having 1/4 odds.

So What Are You Waiting For?

If you haven’t claimed a slot, there are plenty left. Head over to the Peeve Week 3 rules page and claim a slot. After claiming a slot, there are three easy ways to contribute:

  1. Write your own post on your site and let me know about the published post.
  2. Write your post and e-mail it to me (ron@ronalfy.com).
  3. Register as a guest-contributor and write your post in our admin panel.

The deadline for post submission is April 4th at midnight (EST).

Peeve Week 3 Update – One Month Left

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Peeve Week 3 is less than a month away, with the first post going live on April 7th (PW3 is April 7-11). The last date for contributions is Friday, April 4th, at 11:59pm EST.

Currently 12 out of 25 slots have been pledged. It’s never too early to pledge for a topic and time slot. All I ask is that the post be sent to me before the PW3 deadline.

Listed below are the topics and time slots available. If you’d like to pledge a slot, please leave a comment. Also, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments as well.

For more information on details, rules, and incentives, please visit the Peeve Week 3 information page.

Peeve Week 3 Update

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Peeve Week 3 is off to a good start. Ten slots have already been filled, and one day has already been sponsored.

Several readers have sent in questions and I’d like to address a few of those in this post.

What happens when I sign up for a slot?

Not a whole lot. I’ll put your name next to a slot and send you an e-mail for confirmation.

Signing up for a slot is just a pledge that you will get me your contribution by April 4th and is a way of organizing all of the contributors.

One thing to note here is you don’t have to have a post ready before signing up for a slot.

How do I get you your post after signing up for a slot?

You can write a post on your own blog about your peeve topic without mentioning Peeve Week. Once you’ve published the post, please let me know about it by sending me an e-mail.

If you don’t have a blog or if you’d like to contribute exclusively for RA Project, you can e-mail me your post (I’ll post it for you) or you can apply to be a guest contributor and write and publish the post yourself.

I do ask that the posts are at least 350 words and that the authors release under Creative Commons so that an e-book can be published at the end of Peeve Week.

What happens if others write about the same thing?

There are five themes, which are WordPress, SEO/Make Money Online,Web Design/Development,Social Networking, and Blogging.

If an author happens to post under the theme with the same topic you happen to be writing for, it should be fine. Chances are you will have a different view point on the same topic.

What’s the difference between a contributor and a sponsor?

A contributor has claimed a writing spot and will be contributing a post for Peeve Week.

A sponsor has contributed a prize (worth at least $10, or $50 for a full day) that will sponsor the contributed posts.

At the end of Peeve Week, a reader poll will decide which contributor for each day wins the sponsored prize.

Why should one sponsor a contribution?

Sponsors are an incentive for the contributors of Peeve Week. We do ask that the prize be worth at least $10, or $50 for a full day. The prize can be tangible (product or monetary based) or intangible (service based).

Sponsors will receive a “sponsored by…” at the top of the sponsored contribution and be featured in a sponsors page in the e-book distributed at the end of Peeve Week.

A post will also be written before Peeve Week which will be an informational post for readers as to what prizes are available.

There are potential long-term benefits of sponsoring Peeve Week posts since many are heavily viewed in the long run through search engine traffic.

Any other questions?

If you have your own questions, please feel free to ask in the comments or send me an e-mail.

Also, feel free to claim a slot or contact me regarding a sponsorship. There are fifteen contributor slots left and twenty sponsor slots left.

Three Ambitious Group Writing Projects YOU can Participate In NOW

I’m not trying to compete with our friend Jacob Share over at Group Writing Projects, but I wanted to bring your attention to three ambitious group projects going on right now that really need your help.

The type of bloggers running the projects are not your mainstream A-Lister type bloggers. These are bloggers like you and me hoping to give back to the blogosphere.

Presented below are three ambitious group projects in order of the deadline.

Graphic Design Group Writing Project

The Graphic Design Group Project is ambitious in the fact that there are so many incentives all coming from a grassroots sponsorship campaign.

Purpose: To bring all the design freaks, graphic design blogs and people who subscribe to them a bit closer together.

Deadline: Tuesday 4th of March.

Incentives to Contribute: Too many to name. There are over $5000 in prizes from sponsors that are legit (several are readers here).

What to Write About: Advice, tips, resource lists, tutorials, or whatever, as long as it pertains to ‘Graphic Design’.

Social Media Mega Project

The Social Media Mega Project is another ambitious project uniting 10 bloggers from all around the world to run a social media group writing project.

Purpose: Ten bloggers throughout the world organize and host their own Group Project dedicated to the chosen social media site(s).

Deadline: Saturday, March 22nd

Incentives to Contribute: Links, links, and more links. The opportunity to learn new social media sites, and giving back to the community.

What to Write About: Your experience with various social media sites. Please see the Social Media Project page for more details.

Peeve Week 3

Ok, so I admit I have a bit of a bias with Peeve Week 3 since it is being hosted here on RA Project, but Peeve Week 3 is another ambitious group project since it entails the collaboration of twenty-five unique bloggers onto one blog for one week. An e-book will also be created and distributed at the end of the week for all of the project entries.

Purpose: Twenty-five bloggers weighing in on various ‘Peeve’ topics.

Deadline: Friday, April 4th

Incentives to Contribute: Chance for a prize (worth at least $50 pending sponsors), a free e-book to distribute, a new audience, and links.

What to Write About: A peeve over one of these topics: WordPress, SEO/Make Money Online, Web Development/Design, Social Networking (yes, you can use your contribution for the social media project), and Blogging.

Conclusion

Throughout this post I highlighted three ambitious group writing projects that you can take part in right now.

The projects I mentioned were:

Thank you for reading.

Group Project: It’s Peeve Week 3 Time!

Peeve Week 3 Has Been Canceled

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The time is near for RAProject’s first group project. With the success of the first two Peeve Weeks, Simonne and I have agreed to host the third Peeve Week here. Part group project, part contest, part blog carnival, Peeve Week 3 will have just about everything for everyone. The dates for Peeve Week 3 are April 7-11.

What is Peeve Week?

A “peeve” is a cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful. And Peeve Week allows readers such as yourself to contribute in order to get your favorite (or least favorite) peeve off your chest.

How Does Peeve Week Work?

I’ll get into more of the rules and incentives further on in this post, but Peeve Week is more-or-less twenty five people weighing in on a series of topics over a week. All posts are published on one blog, with one contributor a day being selected for a prize.

What Are the Peeve Week 3 Topics?

  • Monday April 7th – WordPress (or other blogging platforms).

    Do you have a beef with WordPress? What about Movable Type? Theme or plugin issues? Here is your outlet.

  • Tuesday April 8th – SEO/Make Money Online.

    You gotta love the people that talk about SEO and Make Money Online all the time. Or, perhaps not.

  • Wednesday April 9th – Web Design/Development.

    Are you sad that IE8 is forcing developers to opt-in? Peeved because all your co-workers still design for IE6? Bad programming practices? Break free, my friend.

  • Thursday April 10th – Social Networking.

    Are you sick of Facebook application requests? Or annoyed at those people begging you to stumble or digg posts? Let it out!

  • Friday April 11th – Blogging.

    Feeling disrespected as a blogger? Did someone rip you off in a contest? Feeling unappreciated? Then this category is for you.

Want to Contribute? (Pretty please, with sugar on top?)

The first two Peeve Weeks were a tremendous success because readers like you chose to contribute and wrote in your own peeves.

The goal here is to have five posts a day for five days. That equals out to twenty-five posts total. In other words, twenty-five reader-contributed articles. It is an ambitious goal, but with your help we can make it.
And there are incentives for pitching in. If you are interested, please continue reading.

How to Contribute

Pick a day and a time (see posting schedule below) and give me an e-mail (or leave a comment or e-mail me directly at ron@ronalfy.com) of your intention to contribute. I will update the posting schedule (see below) with your pledge (and a groovy link to your site) and anxiously await your contribution. You can also contribute multiple times, but I do limit you to one contribution per day. If all slots are filled (sound of Ron begging again), you are still welcome to write your post on your own blog and I’ll link to it at the conclusion of Peeve Week.

Here are three ways to contribute after you have claimed a day and a time slot:

  1. You may write the post on your own site before Peeve Week, but I ask that you don’t mention Peeve Week in your contribution. After you let me know about the published post, I’ll convert it over for publishing for Peeve Week and in the e-book. If you have any imagery that goes along with your post, please ensure that these are released under Creative Commons (otherwise we’ll have to pick out our own imagery for the post).
  2. You may write your post and e-mail it (ron@ronalfy.com) to me. Doing so gives me permission to use your post.
  3. You may register as a guest contributor (please apply) and use our WordPress dashboard to write your post. I will publish the post for you after ensuring the formatting and imagery.

The deadline for all contributions is April 4th, 2008 at 11:59pm (EST).

Incentives for Participating

  • Chance to win a reader prize. Odds are 20% (see Rules below).
  • A new audience reading your stuff.
  • Dedicated author page on this site (with room for images and links).
  • Dedicated by-line at the end of your post and on the sidebar.
  • Your post is published as part of an e-book at the conclusion of Peeve Week, which you can distribute to your own readers.
  • Being able to read what everyone else wrote (this is what makes Peeve Week fun).

Oh, and did I mention the e-book and a prize given out to a contributor each day?

Incentives for Being a Sponsor

To help cover the prizes for the contributors, we are asking for sponsors for each post. Here are some incentives for being a sponsor.

  • Dedicated spot at the top of the post with a blurb such as: “Sponsored by…” If you wish to have a graphic, graphics must be no larger than 200px (width) and 125px (height).
  • You will be featured on a “Sponsors” page in the e-book.
  • Potential for a large amount of visibility in the long run. There are several original Peeve Week posts that have over 20,000 unique views.
  • A post will be written before Peeve Week highlighting the sponsors and their planned contributions. This will be an informative post that will benefit the Peeve Week contributors and readers.

The Posting Schedule

Here is the planned posting schedule. You may choose a day and a slot. Sponsor slots have been filled for all posts. Posts will be published at Central Standard Time.

Rules

Contributed posts are published under Creative Commons

In order to compile and distribute the e-book at the conclusion of Peeve Week 3, it will be necessary for each author to release their work under the Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States license.

Post Content

The post should be at a minimum 350 words with care taken to ensure proper grammar and spelling. You may link to relevant sites that have to deal with the post topic.

It shouldn’t have to be said, but spammers will not be tolerated.

Sponsors of Posts

In order to make the reader prizes possible, we are asking for sponsors of each post. Each sponsor is asked to set aside at least $10 for each post. Sponsors will be given a “sponsored by:” notice at the top of the post and a dedicated “sponsors” page in the e-book. If you are interested in being a sponsor, please e-mail me or Simonne with your proposal. We request that sponsors are family-friendly and work-safe products or sites.

You may sponsor an entire day’s posts, but your prize should be equivalent to about $50 dollars (can be tangible or intangible).

In the event that all sponsor slots are taken and you still wish to be a sponsor, we can work something out so we can give prizes to the readers of Peeve Week as well. Again, please e-mail me or Simonne with your proposal.

Picking the Prize Winners for Contributors

A poll will be posted at the conclusion of each day of Peeve Week. The poll will be opened for one week and we will ask the readers to chose their favorite post. The winner will receive the prize contributed by the sponsors for that day.

Deadline for Posts is April 4th, 2008

April 4th is a little over a month away and it’ll get here fast!

Sit Back, Relax, and Let the Peeves Begin

If all goes to plan, there will be twenty-five awesome posts for Peeve Week 3. Pick a slot, tell a friend, and let the fun begin. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a comment. Thank you for being a valued reader.