Phone System Installer and Toronto Dentist Make Lenzr Photo Contests
January 30, 2010 by deblewis
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Friends of Deb Lewis and City Events, and casual surfers who may happen across this blog update will know its time for an update at the end of January, 2010 from Lenzr. Let’s pause to remember that Lenzr is a serial photo contest website wherein the members rank user submitted content and choose the best photo. The member that uploads the highest ranked photo wins the prize.
Isabelle Seguin, who is otherwise known as Lenzr member Seguini was the photographer that submited the winning image in Medicinal Plants in Nature photo contest sponsored by an Ontario natural medicine clinic she is seen here holding a basket with eight different Neal’s Yard Remedies including Rosewater Toner, Yarrow & Comfrey Moisturizer, Orange Flower Facial Oil and Orange Flower Facial Wash, White Tea Eye Gel, Geranium & Orange Body Butter. The prize has a retail value of $330.00 all of these products are available for purchase in the sponsor’s online natural medicine store. You can read more about the winners and the results of all three contests and the January 1st 2010 Lenzr photo contest winners on the Lenzr blog.
Office Phone System Engineer Creates a Lenzr Quest for Everyday Tangled Webs – Ends March 1st
The excitement is building as the Top Ten photos are constantly moving up and down in this category. The eighth photo contest Everyday Tangled Web is designed to collect and display images of the tangles that we create and use everyday. This challenge has become a heated competition with several excellent photos competing for top position in the index. There are wires and telephone lines and speaker cables and computer cords all mixed up under desks, and AC electrical cords spider web octopuses at outlets. This contest theme and the mayhem that has resulted from the idea was the brainchild of an office phone system guru living and working in Toronto. That company conceived of the idea and has donated the wonderful prize, a wireless headset.
Toronto dentist sponsors Kids in Action
Also available on Lenzr this month is a rather interesting new photo contest called Kids in Action that gives shutterbugs lots of creative latitude on a wide open playing field.
The prize in this challenge is a high quality NiteWhite teeth whitening kit that’s an advanced enamel bleaching product and usually only available at a dental office as it requires a trained dental practitioner to make the molds.
Sponsored by Toronto dentist the unique challenge is designed to highlight the obvious connection between healthy teeth and healthy kids… and trust me there is a connection there somewehere!. When I look at that contest plate picture I wonder if that young fellow see riding the skateboard is about to fall and fracture his jaw, or tear his front teeth or mash his molars into the concrete. But please dont misuinderstand we dont want to see photos of tooth decay, dirty braces, gum disease or missing baby teeth or anything like that … just kids in action.
If the winner is local, that person who is super skilled with a comera will be invited to stop by the office at Bloor and Sherbourne for a chat and custom fitting for the NiteWhite whitening trays. If the winner is from out of province then admin will ship the prize PLUS extra tooth floss and toothbrushes, toothpaste, and mouthwash. WIN dental supplies for an entire year.Both Lenzr contests END March 1st 2010. Contest open to all Canadians excluding Quebec and those 12yrs old and younger. Thanks for participating. Good luck!
MyCellMyTerms Paves the Way for the Best Cell Phone Deals
December 13, 2009 by deblewis
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Did you know that Canadians pay on average $500 US a year for their cell phone service?
Canada has the third highest wireless rates in the developed world, behind USA and Spain. Thanks to the limited choice of wireless providers, Canadians are limited to the 3 major service providers: Bell, Fido, and Telus (which control the majority of the 25 other brands).
However, this is all about to change. 4 innovative individuals who founded MyCellMyTerms recently pitched their business model on CBC’s show, “Dragon’s Den.” They are giving a voice to consumers and helping users find the solution to their biggest question: “Where can we get the best cell phone deals?” Having worked on this for 2 years, MCMT allows users to go on their website and specify their dream plan and the price they’re willing to pay for it. MCMT then drives competition to the dealer by anonymously shopping the plan to national dealer networks, which empowers a voice for the consumers.
The founders of MCMT went on the show Dragons Den and were ultimately offered 35% of the company for $400,000. Ms. Dickinson approved of the concept and the entrepreneurs. Many believe that this small start-up company will revolutionize the way that rate plans are bought in this country. Now, rather than have consumers go to the carriers, the carriers will be going to the consumers to satisfy their needs.
About MCMT: myCELLmyTERMS matches cell phone users with their ideal cell phone plans. You tell us your wish list for cell phone services, and we shop it around to our exclusive dealer network, rank their bids based on what you asked for and you choose what’s best for you. Essentially a one-stop shop for your cell phone needs.
Join the movement. Spread the word.
Lenzr: Prizes For Canadian Photographers
December 10, 2009 by deblewis
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Photographers take notes. Smart phone users listen up, there are three new photo contests on Lenzr to help beat the winter blues. These competitions will give Canadian shutterbugs something to do in the cold winter months of November and December, even if that’s just scrounging through their collections to see if they have shots that match the criteria.
All three photo challenges showcase the warn tropical environs of Mother Nature as they program environmental awareness into the hearts and minds of visitors and voters. On Lenzr anyone can vote for the pictures, but registered votes are worth 5x more, and the score is a combination of both types of votes divided by the number of votes. On Lenzr the membership decides the winners, and the system builds buzz and attracts local photographers to help business make art.
Win Prizes in Lenzr Toronto Photo Contest
July 22, 2009 by deblewis
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City Events Proudly Supports Lenzr
a new photo contest website allied with Toronto City Events.
This urban photo challenge website awards real prizes to real people who upload good pictures. User submitted media is judged by visitors to the site, and the membership.
Lenzr is a win win win website. The online contest scenario lets any local business sponsor contests and award prizes to gain market advantage in a specific city. Photographers gain exposure and links and the chance at winning cool prizes. And the public gets free online entertainment, coupons and access to archives full of great local photos. Someday soon the site will allow members to make calendars and postcards. There is already a Lenzr photo contest widget that decorates the sidebars of some popular Toronto blogs.
SEPTEMBER CONTESTS
Ontario Tourist Attractions photo contest on Lenzr is sponsored by Kanetix.ca insurance & mortgage rate quotes, and is a search for pictures that celebrate of our province’s most interesting destinations. This web challenge asks users to upload scenic shots of small town main streets, beaches, museums and monuments.
How about shots of the CN Tower? Or the Hudson’s Bay Trading Post in Moose Factory? Submit shots of the steam train in Totenham? Added together with the location information, the 140 character caption beside each photo should somehow capture the essence of people enjoying the great outdoors in the Province of Ontario.
Ontario Tourist Attractions photo contest commenced Sept 2nd 2009, and will end at 12:01 am on the morning of November 1st 2009.
The Prize is what everyone most wants, and almost as liquid. There’s a $200 value first prize, followed by a $100 second prize unit.
SUMMER CONTESTS:
The website provides compelling entertainment that contest sponsors recognize as good interactive storytelling. Three events launched in July, and will end midnight August 31st 2009.
Upload pictures of the Toronto skyline from interesting vantage points, and you could
win a Pentax Optio P90 compact camera courtesy of Lenzr, a Toronto based photo contest website, that will someday be ‘local’ in every city across Canada.
Lenzr.com hopes that someday people will come to their archival image library and search for cool local photos from local photographers. The site also intends to build a hall of fame component that showcases the most active photographers and rewards the folks that consistently upload the best and most popular images.
This basic Lenzr.com photo contest asks the people of Toronto and anyone living nearby to take pictures of the skyline from interesting and unusual vantage points. Let’s see the mega city from all directions.
Pentax Optio P70 compact digital camera is prize for Best Toronto Skyline shot.
12-megapixel camera has a wide-angle 4x optical zoom lens which is the equivalent of a 27.5-110mm zoom lens. It has a 2.7-inch LCD on the back and something called Advanced Face Detection, with Smile Capture built into the software. It even has Blink Detection. The camera features the latest Pixel Track Shake Reduction “to assure sharp images with low noise even in poor lighting.” And it shoots video too. The Optio P70 can also capture 720p HD video at 15 frame-per-second. All three Contests end August 31st 2009. And the prizes are awarded at everyone’s convienence in September. The event periods in Lenzr are two months long, so there will be three more contests and three more prizes on September 1st.
This challenge invites local photographers to post pictures of the megacity experiencing summer in some fashion. The contest is so wide open in hopes that it will engender some ‘phone camera’ photos. Perhaps pictures from Caribanna will be popular soon? (But will there be shots of garbage in the streets?) How about shots from the volleyball games on Cherry Beach? or Ashbridges Bay or any of the activities at Sunnyside Pavilion?
What does this warm and sunny season mean to you?
The event seeks to index images that warm viewer’s hearts in the cold drab November thru March months, and make them reflect back on their own memories of July and August in this exciting city.
Submit pictures of Toronto’s emergency response units in action and you could win a luxury watch. Capture the precious minutes that EMs technicians and Toronto Fire and Police need to respond to a crises . Record the details of the emergency and if your image becomes the most popular picture in the match, you’ll win an Esquire Verve 2020 mens watch that can be switched for an Esquire ladies watch btw
The Emergency in Toronto photo contest is the hardest challenge on the site this summer. It requires being ready and in the right place at the right time , and timing is everything!
The theme was selected by a motivational speaker that is an expert in time management, and this sponsor’s vocational seminars are worth spending time listening to and absorbing. Time is definitely precious to Toronto’s first response workers, and the organizers hope to harvest images that suggest speed and action. But please dont risk your life or anyone elses chasing firetrucks in Kensington Market this summer, but if you happen to catch a three alarm fire on your way home from work…
Digital Beauty Pageant: Miss Teen Canada World
June 1, 2009 by deblewis
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On July 25th at the Metro Toronto Convention Center, Divine Brown will serenade a crowd of spectators eagerly assembled to watch the exciting conclusion of The Search For Miss Teen Canada World.
Tickets are on sale now and the best seats will be those closest to the action as the final twenty five contestants demonstrate their skills and abilities.
This year each of the contestants must keep a personal blog. In fact they are graded 10% of their final score on the quality of their web journal. And that’s because social networking is breathing new life into the beauty pageant.
Now the pageant director actually depends upon the reigning champion to be able to manage her share of the expanding MTCW social net. Its not a one sided relationship anymore; now they are partners who go to work promoting events and sponsors together.
Katie Starke keeps a blog right on the Miss Teen Canada World website.
And all the contestants are now blogging on the Sugar blog network.
Here are some of the contestant blogs,
http://kylawills.onsugar.com/
http://wendyhuang.onsugar.com
http://karmenguillas.onsugar.com
http://oliviawolter.onsugar.com
http://cassandratracy.onsugar.com/
http://taylorstronski.onsugar.com/
http://genevievejones.onsugar.com
http://annissacheyne.onsugar.com/
http://chelsaedurocher.onsugar.com/
http://sarahstriga.onsugar.com/
http://azlynnyablonski.onsugar.com/
http://alexandrahanasz.onsugar.com/
http://jessicacatorc.onsugar.com/
http://genevievetucker.onsugar.com
http://taralynwolfe.onsugar.com/
The Search for Miss Teen Canada has become more than a beauty pageant; now it’s a real quest for an new internet celebrity to represent our nation in Houston Texas at the Miss Teen World competition in August.
The four MTC-W judges, Elmer Olsen, Lorraine Zander, John Eltom and Clarence Ford have been asked to award high scores to smart girls with great personalities. So believe it or not, a girl’s physical appearance is actually not that important anymore. Now the succesful candidate must indeed be a leader, and be able to take command of a powerful blog army.
