give-away rules

A give-away is a great way to meet more people, to see blogs one would otherwise not find and to feel connected with people.

I've made new friends because of it.

Want to participate the give-away?

Here are the rules. (Can't do without them, can we?)

• Offer a gift at your site.
  
• Display the image above... first download it to your computer and then upload it to your site. You can use http://www.photobucket.com/ for hosting. No linking to my site please, otherwise they might block it.
  
• Link the give-away-image to http://laaneworld.blogspot.com/ or even better to:
  http://laaneworld.blogspot.com/2007/09/september-give-away.html
  That way others can come here and participate too.
  
• It's OK to offer books and other items that have been used as a gift, but you can't let someone win a broken item.
  Everyone can participate. We all have something to give. If you really don't have any, offer to blog about a certain subject as a guestblogger, or contact me.

• Enable comments for those who want to enter the drawing of your gift at the end of the month.
  It's easy when they're numbered, because you can use a random number to draw the winner(s).
  Make people aware they have to leave an url of an accessible blog, or emailaddress. Ofcourse a contactform at a site is fine too to get in contact in case someone wins.
  
• To get more people to your site, you can set the give-away entry as a sticky post. That means it'll stay as the first post all month, and you'll attract more visitors.
  
• Being a citizen of The Netherlands, I always value that people reach out across the borders.
  I pay for international mail, do you too?
  In case not, I have the adres of a pastor of a church in the USA that is in need of extra items for the people and the library. Feel free to contact me in case you want to give away the give-away you've won.
  If you have paypal you can order at ebay of the country your winner lives in.
  
• Sites that need registering for an account that is never used anymore are not accepted.
  Nor are sites that contain material that is not fit for children to see.
  Nor are sites that aren't accessible anymore when the month is over.
  If there's doubt, it's for me to decide.
  
• Don't burden people with things to do, like subscribing to newsletters, searching your blog for an answer to a question or something else to have them show they're more interested than others. You can let them answer a simple question like 5+5= in case you want to prevent computerised submissions.
  
• Don't use the emailadresses for anything else than contacting the winner. So no spam, advertising your site, your newsletter. Nothing.
  If you do I will get you off the list and report you to the authorities and your provider.
  This sounds terrible, but now and then some people.... ugh!
  
• If you offer more gifts, give them each a link at this site, so people can find them.
  You can find the link of the blogentry by opening your blog and clicking on the title. Some systems use the date to click to a seperate page.
  
• Enter the link to Mr. Linky, and to be on the safe site, also to the comment section at the give-away entry, so when one system goes down, the other can act as a back-up.
  
• Don't forget to enter my give-away!

Thanks for participating!!!

Do you have questions? My contactform is at the top of the sidebar.