Hey, 2010 is finally upon us!  A new year coming is a great cause to celebrate!  This past year has been exciting for me and my online endeavors (in no particular order)!

• I began a corny little photo blog on Posterous.com,
• I began to write for one of my favorite tech blogs, MakeUseOf.com!
• I began Tweeting (finally)
• We had an interesting series of Techie Interviews
• We did some testing of Google Voice and Gmail
• I tested Wetoku a few times (a really cool online video interviewing tool)
• We also got to witness a great new Christian blog (GodlySheep.com) start up by my good friend and fellow blogger Brett Barner
• Part of the year I did pretty good keeping up with Timmyjohnboy.com but I also have become lazy during some points (please forgive me).
• I also helped build a few other sites and pages including a church’s site for a friend (firstbaptistfernwood.com – still needs some theme work) and the teen site for Friendship Baptist Church (friendshipbaptist.us/teens)

Sounds pretty busy huh?  It was a blast!  Keep following because I’m sure there is much more to come!

I want to thank those of you who have not forsaken following Timmyjohnboy.com!  MANY of the email subscribers that joined us from last New Year’s contest are still subscribed so my only conclusion is that you’re still readers!

I want to have a contest to kick off 2010!

In the past year I had two contests (I believe), the New Years contest asking for people to subscribe for email updates and another contest looking for Twitter followers.  This time there are a few hoops I’d like to see people jump through, so hang on to your socks!

What do I need to do?

To enter, all you have to do is subscribe to my feed!  In fact, you can even unsubscribe after the contest ends!  Leave it to me to make you WANT to stay on!  Choose either to subscribe to receive updates in your email OR subscribe to the feed in a feed reader!  THEN stop back by this post and wish a Happy New Year to all my readers (and me of course!).  When the contest ends, I’ll randomly choose a winner from commenters that are subscribers.  If you leave your happy wishes via an audio comment or webcam comment, and you win, I’ll add a $5 Amazon.com gift card! NOTE:  YOU MUST ENTER THE CONTEST CODE GIVEN IN THE FOOTER OF EACH POST IN THE FEED - In other words, when you subscribe and you begin to receive updates via email or feed reader, you’ll find a special contest code at the bottom of each post. When you get the code, enter it into the TEXT of your comment NOT the audio or video comment!

What will I win?

You will be entering to win a brand new t-shirt from my Zazzle store!  There are SEVERAL shirts to choose from but for some reason thePing Pong shirts sell the best.  To be totally honest, the winner will actually be receiving a Zazzle gift card which I HOPE will in turn want to purchase a t-shirt from my Zazzle store!  Remember, if your comment is either audio or via webcam, and you win, you’ll ALSO get the $5 Amazon.com gift card!

When will it start/end?

The contest starts NOW January 1, 2010!  I will end 2 weeks later, January 15, at exactly 11:59PM EST so any comments left after that time will not be counted!  The next day I will contact the winner and make an announcement as soon as contact is made!

OK, in summary:

1. Enter by subscribing and find the contest code, comment on this post wishing me a Happy New Year (entering the code into the text area of the comment)
2. Enter to win a free shirt from Zazzle (actually a Zazzle gift card) – BONUS: If the winner has left an Audio or Webcam comment, they’ll also get a $5 Amazon gift card!
3. Contest dates: Begins January 1, 2010 and ends January 15, 2010 at 11:59PM EST

Look forward to hearing from ya’ll!!!!