Congratulations to all participants in yesterday's municipal elections across British Columbia -- candidates, campaigners, media, voters, and election administrators!
It ain't over: The VoterMedia B.C. Municipal blog contests will continue -- rules & (free) entry form here.
When we launched this competition, our plan was to fund each of 5 cities for 50 days x $20 = $1,000. No one entered in West Vancouver or Richmond, so we plan at least to fund the other 3 cities for $1,000 each.
North Vancouver got its first entrants on October 4, so it's funded for 50 days starting then. Last funded day will be November 22.
Surrey will use up its $1,000 on November 29.
Burnaby started later, and will not use up its $1,000 by November 30. As you can see in the rules, we only committed to funding through November 30.
However, we aim to keep the contests going forever in some form, with the goal of encouraging blogger coverage of any issues of interest to the community. So even without funding, the ballots will stay open. New entrants can come in, links will show their blogs & posts, people can vote on them etc. Shares will continue to be calculated daily, but with no funding it will be e.g. 47% of $0 = $0.
There are several possibilities for more funding:
- I might donate some more, and keep it going at $10/day for a while.
- We plan to solicit donations/sponsorships from readers &/or city governments &/or media organizations etc.
So I've updated the contest descriptions on the website to reflect these developments. Will post again here if/when there is more funding.
I welcome any advice, questions etc.
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