As of today, we have exactly one month until the start of the Fall 2008 Blogging for Progress contest! Are you ready?
The Fall 2008 Blogging for Progress scholarship will run from midnight on September 15, 2008 (PDT), and will run through noon on December 15, 2008 (PST). So, you have a solid three months to blog your heart out.
In the next few weeks, our staff will be working hard to update scholarship listings... and everyone who participated in past contests should take note of this change. Due to lack of funding and other circumstances, we have changed the funds distribution for this contest. Instead of offering a $1000 scholarship, and 2 $500 scholarships, we will instead give the first place person a check for $1500. Up to four individuals will be named honorable mentions and will earn a gift certificate in the amount of $25 in order to offset the cost of books.
The second big change we are pleased to announce is that we are opening the contest up to international residents. So, if you're not a resident of the United States, you can now participate in the scholarship contest. Which means that there might just be a little bit more competition in this contest.
For more information, be sure to read the updated Official Rules
Of course, as many of our veterans will tell you, it's not really about the scholarship in the end. It's a plus if you do get it, but most people end up staying for the atmosphere of the site, rather than for the scholarship.
Those are the biggest changes to this next contest, but we want to take this time to remind you of some of the standing rules. For instance, you cannot have more than one account in a household without the permission of the staff. You can e-mail us at info[at]progressiveu.org to request permission. Also, we have a zero-tolerance policy regarding spam. Your account will be deleted if we see you are using it for spam purposes. And, perhaps the MOST important rule on this site... personal attacks are NOT permitted. Multiple violations of that rule will get you banned from the site. If you have to resort to personal attacks, you should be backing off anyway, because you're not arguing the right way.
For more information regarding these rules, make sure to check out our Terms of Use.
As always, we have the flagging feature (the report this page link at the bottom of each post and comment), should you think that anything is in violation of the above rules.
I'd also like to point out that we do have a separate creative writing site (writing.progressiveu.org). Any poems and/or short stories posted as blogs on this main site will be moved to the creative writing site immediately. All comments will be lost when this is done, so just don't do it.
If you have any questions, feel free to comment on this post, or shoot us an e-mail, or any of our moderators a PM, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. We hope you enjoy this next contest!
