UPDATE: Our listener survey/prize giveaway has now closed. Thanks to everyone who participated! Winners will be drawn and announced live on phpBB Weekly #061 and will receive an e-mail notification to obtain any necessary additional information.

We are launching a special promotion today which gives us the opportunity to learn more about what you think of this show, and gives you the opportunity to possibly win some great phpBB prizes.

We’re going to be having a giveaway drawing on phpBB Weekly sometime in April or May. The top prize will be a copy of Patrick O’Keefe’s new book, Managing Online Forums. We will also have a few additional prizes available, including Douglas’ Conquering Olympus Bertie. Patrick will be joining us again for an episode of phpBB Weekly in April or May, around the time that his book comes out, and on that episode we will be drawing the winning names.

The way to enter is to participate in our listener survey. The eight-question survey asks you about how you found phpBB Weekly, how you listen to phpBB Weekly, and what you think about the show. Your responses will help us to better understand the expectations of our audience and make our show better for you. The end of the survey will ask you to supply your valid name and e-mail address as the entry to the drawing, but if you don’t want to enter the drawing, we hope you’ll complete the survey anyway.

The survey is hosted at two locations because each one has a maximum of 100 responses. Both surveys are identical, so please just fill out one–if one of them has had the maximum responses, choose the other one. We regret that we can only accept the first 200 responses to the survey, because we would have to pay these survey hosts in order accept more responses than that. Please only fill out one survey; multiple entries will be disqualified.

So, go ahead and Fill out the Survey!

RULES: Only one entry per person; multiple entries will result in you being disqualified. Entries are only valid when the survey has been completed in its entirety. E-mail addresses must be valid or the entry will be disqualified; if you win a prize, you will be required to confirm your e-mail address before you receive it. We will continue to receive responses to our listener survey after the drawing (unless the 200 response maximum is reached), but to qualify for the drawing, your response must be completed by 11 AM EDT (1500 UTC) of the date of the live drawing, which will be announced at least a week ahead of time. Winners outside of the continental United States or Canada might be asked to assist with shipping charges, depending on the prize that they win. These rules only pertain to the giveaway drawing; you do not need to supply your name or e-mail address if you do not wish to be entered in the drawing. The giveaway drawing is not open to any person who is a phpBB team member on or after March 8th, 2008, nor to the family members of the phpBB Weekly co-hosts (although they’re certainly welcome to complete a survey anyway).

UPDATE: We will be doing the drawing during phpBB Weekly #061, which will be on Saturday, May 10th, 2008. The deadline to qualify for the drawing will be one hour before that episode begins.

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