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Official KickOff! Fuze Meeting and SlideShare Presentation Contest

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We’re very excited to be sponsoring a contest with the team over at SlideShare… starting today!  Grand Prize is 5,000 bucks!!

Learn more about the contest here.

SlideShare.net, the world’s largest community for sharing presentations, today launched The Tell A Story contest sponsored by us here at Fuze Meeting. The contest boasts a Grand Prize of $5,000 and an impressive and accomplished panel of judges that include business, journalism, and social media celebrities.

The Tell a Story Contest challenges all presentation builders to tell a story about any topic they choose in 10 slides or less and will be rewarded based on four categories;

Best Design
Best Story Telling Ability
Most Popular
Best Use of Multi-Media

To participate in the challenge, contestants can upload their presentation files to SlideShare.net, and people from across the world will vote for their favorites. Judges will choose the winners from among the top voted presentations. Contest entries can be uploaded until June 15, 2009, and results will be announced on June 23, 2009.

We’re lucky to have this esteemed panel of judges working as part of the contest!

Don Tapscott (Author of wikinomics & Grown Up Digital ):
Don Tapscott is one of the world’s leading authorities on business strategy, with emphasis on how information technology changes business, government and society. He is the author or co-author of 13 widely read books, including Wikinomics, which was the best selling management book in the United States in 2007 and is now translated into 22 languages.

Tony Hsei: (Zappos CEO)
Tony joined Zappos full time in 2000. Under his leadership, Zappos has grown gross merchandise sales from $1.6M in 2000 to over $1 billion in 2008 by focusing relentlessly on customer service.  Tony focuses on continuing to grow the business at a rapid pace while maintaining the culture and feel of a small company.

Ann Handley:  (Founder of ClickZ, MarketingProfs)
Ann Handley is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs — which means that she heads up All Things Content on the MarketingProfs Web site and is the Primary Caregiver of this blog, the MarketingProfs Daily Fix. She also blogs at The Huffington Post as well as her personal blog, Annarchy.  Prior to that, she was the co-founder of ClickZ.com.

Om Malik (Blogger, Journalist, GigaOm) :
Om Malik has more than 15 years of experience as a journalist covering technology and business news. He was a Writer at Red Herring during its glory days, then went on to be part of the founding team of Forbes.com as a Senior Editor. Most recently, he was a Senior Writer for Business 2.0, covering telecom and broadband stories. His contributions have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and MIT Technology Review.

Pete Cashmore (Mashable)
Working as a web technology consultant in mid 2005, Pete Cashmore founded Mashable from an unlikely location: a small town in the north of Scotland. Focusing on up-to-the-minute news on social networks and new websites, it rapidly grew to be one of the top 10 blogs in the world according to the blog ranking service Technorati. The site’s writers have been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post and hundreds of technology publications. Pete was selected as a Top 25 Forbes Web Celeb in 2007, while Mashable was chosen as a must-read site by both Fast Company and PC Magazine. In mid 2007, BusinessWeek featured Mashable as one of the world’s most profitable blogs.

Be sure to create a Fuze Meeting account here but more importantly, get creative and submit your contest entry today!  http://www.slideshare.net/contest/fuze-tell-a-story-contest