Administrative Professionals Blog-a-thon April 1 - 30, 2011

Training, engaging, and unlocking the true potential of administrative professionals is what we do all year long at Office Dynamics. Celebrating Administrative Professional’s all month long is what we do in April!
Some celebrate the day by taking you to lunch, buying you a card or sending you flowers. Our approach is to provide you free information to better your career, allow you to connect with your peers and offer your own advice on the topics we cover by way of written and video blogs.
We have a very exciting theme this year. We know it's COOL to be in a profession that challenges you in a 100 different ways (sometimes all in the same day). Each day, in April, we will share our views of why it is COOL to be an administrative professional.
Here is how it works: To participate in the annual Blog-a-thon is easy. Read the blogs that are posted daily, drop a comment on the blog about your thoughts or additional hints, tips, or tricks and wait to be notified if you have won. Your comment must go through a brief approval process and will not be posted immediately so please do not repeat post if you don’t see it up right away. Winners will be selected randomly at the end of each week and prizes shipped immediately. Prize winners will be announced via the blog as they are drawn. Want to increase your chances of winning each week? We have over 400 blog postings at The Joan Burge Blog in our archives, feel free to sift through some of them and comment there, too!
What can I win? You will have the chance to win the following COOL prizes.
- MYSTERY PRIZES Randomly given away throughout the week, mystery prize winners will be selected and announced at random.
- WEEKLY COOL PRIZE Each week we will draw one lucky winner from the entire week's worth of comments. The winner will receive a COOL prize selected by Office Dynamics (see prize schedule below). Winners will be drawn on Friday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Winners will be announced the following Monday at The Joan Burge Blog.
- VERY COOL FINALE GRAND PRIZE Win an Amazon.com Kindle & COOL red leather case, Joan's favorite color! Winner will be drawn on Administrative Professionals Day, April 27, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. from a collected pool over every blog comment received during the month of April.
New to Office Dynamics? There are hundreds of blog entries already posted – get warmed up by reading and adding your comments today! Visit now.
Week #1 Prize - drawing held on Friday, April 8th

COLUMBIA Sunrise Peak Cooler Pack
keep your summertime goodies cool with this awesome little personal cooler
-high density thermal insulation cooler
-zipper pockets and back saver strap
-16 1/2" x 12" x10"
+ Your Choice of Book From Our Book Store
Choose one of our great books to enjoy on the beach!

Week #2 Prize - drawing held on Friday April 15th

JBuds rugged in-ear earbud style headphones with travel case
Whether you are chilling out at the beach or going for a run, walk or hike you'll
love these high end, rugged earbuds to listen to your favorite tunes or talks.
-rich dynamics sound
- fits in all mp3 players, computers and Kindle too!
Week #3 Prize - drawing held on Friday April 22nd

$40 Gift Card from Starbucks
Enjoy this great gift card form Starbucks and treat yourself this summer
to ice cold flavored lattes, healthy snacks or fun gift items.
Register the card and accumulate points for free drinks!
Week #4 Prize - drawing held on Friday April 29th

Smartpen from Livescribe
This pen is super cool! It records what you hear AND what you write so you can really focus
on your meeting and not worry about missing important information.
Check out the Livescribe website for more information on this baby.
