Group Writing Project – Day 1

Day 1 of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project is over and 55 submissions have arrived in my inbox from readers who are competing for the $2500 in prizes.

This round includes a few posts from our sponsors themselves (they’re not in the running for prizes but wanted to participate in the fun too). Alongside them we have a wide array of posts ranging from haikus, humorous pieces, lots of predictions and quite a few posts reflecting upon different niches this year. Together they make an interesting read.

Thanks to our sponsors – Rob Schaumer, DeveloperCube, eMoms at Home, Thrive Web Marketing, Dave Taylor, Poker on a Mac, Information for Her Australia for Australian Women, The Blogging Times, bloglinkr and 451 Press (see below for the full list of prizes).

There’s still 3 more days to get your submissions in and join the fun. Just follow the procedure outlined here.

• The Three Amigos by Scott
• Haiku #35: Consoles Reviewed by Tim
• The Top Five 2006 Money Topics on Free Money Finance by FMF
• Top 10 Sports Predictions for 2007 by Aaron
• Why People Hate Lawyers – Just Read their Blogs! by Andrew
• Why We’ll Fork Over $15.00 to Hear Britney’s New CD in 2007 by Roberta
• Predictions for 2007 by Jason
• Why I Won “Time’s Person of the Year” by Sarakastic
• 2006 Web Wrap-Up by Robert
• Creative Ideas for Business Games by Anna
• To Think a Lost Cell Phone Started it all by Mama Duck
• Looking Ahead in Homebrewing by Rob Zazueta’s Brew Blog
• Growing My Mind and Options by Deb/Jersey Girl
• The Year Ahead is What Looms by Colin
• The Rapper Cook’s Preview Into Her 2007 Menu by SimCooks
• Lessons Learned in 2006 by Basil
• 5 biggest mistakes in heart rate monitor training by Jesper
• The Five Biggest Movie Gambles of 2007 by Dave
• Whats the year going to bring by Marcus
• Reviews and Predictions from a Canadian Problogger by David
• I see the future and it is good by Captain Hops
• A History of My Preaching Websites and Plans for Future by Sherman
• The Year of the Client by Carolyn
• 2007 Prediction: Blogs will be replaced by Joshua
• Creating a Logo by Pawel
• 11 reasons why 2007 will be the year for plus size fashion by Glen
• New Year’s Resolutions For Bloggers by Domtan
• Reflections… without a mirror by Sarah
• Nostradamus’ take on Gardening by Stuart
• 2007 Psychic Predictions by Matt
• Sneak Peek : Top News Stories of 2007 by Xaymaca
• Blogs aren’t the story in 07! by Ted
• Looking back to look ahead by Rod
• 10 Reasons to Choose a Russian Blue by Simonne
• Reflections on a Self Made Blogger by Tyler
• by nakedpastor
• Looking Back and Looking Forward by Simba’s Mom
• 5 Technology Discoveries That Changed My Business in 2006 by Desiree Scales
• The Google Maps API: Predictions for 2007 by Cameron
• What I expect from the 2007 Chicago Cubs Starting Pitchers by Joe
• Reviews and Predictions by Doug Karr
• A Preview of What to Expect tfrom bloglinkr by Michael
• Motorsports Predictions from The Garage by Gary
• 7 predictions for ‘07 by Brandon
• Monetize This by Ken
• The Year That Was – For Digital Film Makers by Jason
• 2006: Revelation of a Video Games Blogger by Patrick
• The Biggest Blogging Mistake I Made In 2006 by George
• Qigong is the New Yoga by Martial Development
• Hopes for a More Conservative 2007 by Adam
• Thanks For Making My Year by Kamal
• Personal Review 2006 by Tony
• Incursion into the Blogosphere – A Post Fairy Tale by Yan
• 7 Things I Learned Since Becoming An Web Entrepreneur by Griffen
• The Top Headlines of 2007 by Stefan

Thanks to everyone who has participated in Day 1. Looking forward to seeing tomorrow’s batch.

Now as promised – here’s the prize list to inspire you to enter!

The Prizes

• DeveloperCube – a forum for web developers – is offering a $100 Amazon gift voucher.
• eMoms at Home is offering two free passes (worth $349 each) to a 12 week group coaching program that she’s running in January. The course (via phone) is about how to be more productive and build a business. Read more on it here.
• bloglinkr is offering $100 cash or $500 in advertising credit on their service when they launch in the first quarter of 2007. bloglinkr is a new ad network exclusively for blogs and sounds like an interesting project to watch in the next few months.
• Thrive Web Marketing are offering a medium level webhosting package for a year that includes 100MB of webspace, 4000MB data transfer a month and more (worth $240).
• Rob Schaumer is offering a $100 gift card (of the winners choice) at GiftCertificates.com.
• The Blogging Times has offered $100 cash to their winner. Thanks to Minic for this prize.
• Information for Her Australia for Australian Women is offering $100 cash (via PayPal). This is a site for Australian women giving information on health issues, rural women, indigenous women and more.
• Poker on a Mac (a poker site for Mac users) is offering a 30gb video ipod to their winner.
• Dave Taylor from Ask Dave Taylor Tech Support and The Intuitive Life Business Blog is offering a copy of his book ‘Growing Your Business with Google‘ and $100 cash as his prize.
• 451 Press is offering one lucky winner a Nintendo Wii (worth $250). 451 Press is a blog network.