It's Birthday Bash Time and you know what that means! Time for our Facebook fan page party with free gifts and, of course, our contests where you can win free prizes like this one! PRIZE: From Beth Greer of Life and Godliness My Soul Sings CD A praise and worship cd with these songs: Mighty to Save, Open the Eyes of My Heart, Come, Now is the Time to Worship, Come Thou Fount, He is Exalted/I Exalt Thee, Oh, the Glory of Your, Presence, How Great is Our God, There is Power, All in All, Jesus Messiah, As the Deer, and The Greatest Thing. (One winner will be chosen) TO ENTER THIS CONTEST: to win a copy of My...
I'll just bet you weren't aware, but this is National Scrabble Week and it's also Weird Contest Week. In honor of both, we're having a Weird Scrabble Contest. In true Scrabble style, we are asking you to find words among the following random letters you might have if you were allowed this many letters when playing Scrabble. RULES: 1. From among the letters listed here, find all the possible you might put down on a Scrabble board if it were your turn. All the words have to have something to do with communication. For each word, you cannot reuse letters unless there are more than one of that letter listed (just like it is in real Scrabble). Each word is...
Did you know that June is Effective Communications Month? I wrote about it last week on my Examiner column. Since communication technology has changed so much in the past few decades, I'm going to be writing articles on my column about the influence of each type of communication technology and how you can best take advantage of it. To kick off Effective Communications Month here on the blog, I am starting off with another quarterly contest! This one is a YouTube Contest. Here's how it works: 1. Go to the Art of Eloquence channel on YouTube and subscribe (if you are not already a subscriber). 2. Write a comment on any one of the videos you like. 3. Come back here and leave...
Saturday is Limerick Day! To celebrate, I thought I'd issue a challenge to my blog readers to write their own limerick...or...you can just post one you like. Please make sure it's family friendly! According to Merriam Webster, a limerick is "a light or humorous verse form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three feet and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet with a rhyme scheme of aabba" Here is a limerick I wrote: x There once was a very shy girl Who grew up and gave speaking a whirl She liked it so much She deveoloped her touch And now they say "Attagirl!" Your turn! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ If you liked this post, read…Seven Reasons...
We haven't done one of these in a long time, but they are such fun! Introducing the... Art of Eloquence SIMPLE Blog Contest! I've been hearing a great deal of grumbling about some of the latest trends in contests--contests so incredibly complex that people don't have any idea what they are supposed to do. I've heard about contests so time intensive that the prize just isn't worth it: Counting points, making videos. writing essays... Well, welcome to the Art of Eloquence SIMPLE Blog Contest! Here's the deal: Contest: We're running this contest to create awareness for our newly redesigned newsletter and we've added two new gifts just for subscribing! Click this link to read Seven Reasons to Sign Up for the Art of...
