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The Website is Down T-Shirt Giveaway on Twitter

michael.j.armstrong@intel.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:50:13 GMT

Who wants to win a free t-shirt? Follow these steps to enter the contest:

Between 10:00am and 2:00pm PST every weekday from 11/9 to 11/12, the @IntelOpenPort twitter account will announce the daily t-shirt giveaway in a tweet (UPDATE: Contest will end on 11/12, not 11/20)
Simply retweet the t-shirt giveaway message within an hour of the original tweet to be entered to win (5 winners per day drawn randomly from those who retweet)
Intel will publicly announce the winners weekly on the community site and through Twitter
Intel will contact winners for mailing address
Limit one t-shirt per person
We only have 50 Large t-shirts and they are going to go fast!
And if you haven't seen it, check out Episode 4 of The Website is Down: Sales Demolition.

Official terms:

No Purchase Necessary. A Purchase Or Payment Will Not Increase Your Chances Of Winning.

Eligibility

The "Website is Down" ("Sweepstakes") is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia and nine (9) provinces of Canada (Quebec excluded) who have reached the age of majority in their state or province of residence at the time of entry. Employees of Sponsor and its parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, distributors, advertising and promotion agencies and members of the immediate family (defined as spouse, parent, sibling, child and respective spouses regardless of where they reside) and/or those living in the same household of such employees are NOT ELIGIBLE to enter.

How to Enter (Twitter "Website is Down" Contest):

During the period from November, 9, 2009, at 12:01 AM PST through November 20, 2009, at 11:59 PM PST (the "Sweepstakes Period") entrants must retweet the IntelOpenPort tweet signaling that the contest has started to be considered an official entry.

Alternative Entry: To prevent limitations, if entrant is unable to enter via Twitter, he or she can submit a postcard version of his/her entry to 1900 Prairie City Rd, MS: FM4-19, Folsom, CA 95630 during the sweepstakes period.

Limit one entry per person per day. All entries must be received during the Sweepstakes Period to be eligible. Sponsor's clock is the official time clock for the Sweepstakes.

Prizes/Retail Value and Odds of Winning

Odds of winning depend on the total number of tweets received during the contest time period.

Five t-shirts will be given away each business day from November 9^th, 2009 to November 20^th, 2009, for a total of 50 t-shirt prizes.

T-shirts will be shipped to winners between November 16th, 2009 and December 31^st, 2009. These dates are dependent on timely responses from the winners with contact information.

Entries

Entries using macro, robotic, script or other forms of automatic entry will be disqualified. Entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned. No mechanically reproduced entries permitted. Proof of submission does not constitute proof of receipt. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, mutilated, misdirected, incomplete, inaccurate or postage due entries. If there is a dispute as to the identity of an online entrant, the prize will be awarded to the authorized account holder. The "authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person to whom the email address or Twitter account is assigned by an internet service provider, online service provider or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses or accounts for the domain associated with the submitted entry.

Conditions of Participation

Entrants agree to be bound by the terms of these Official Rules and by the decisions of judges, which are final and binding on all matters pertaining to this Sweepstakes. Winners may be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release and, where legally permissible, a Publicity Release within 7 days following the date of first attempted notification. Failure to comply with this deadline may result in forfeiture of the prize and selection of an alternate winner. Acceptance of the prize constitutes permission for Sponsor and its agencies to use winner's name and/or likeness, biographical material and/or entry (including an altered form of the entry) for advertising and promotional purposes in any media without geographic or time limitation, and without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law. By participating in the Sweepstakes, entrants agree to hold Sponsor, its advertising and promotion agencies and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, representative agents, successors, assigns, officers, directors, and employees harmless for any injury or damage caused or claimed to be caused by participation in the Sweepstakes and/or acceptance or use of any prize. Sponsor is not responsible for any printing, typographical, mechanical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Sweepstakes or in the announcement of the prize. Sponsor may be collecting personal information in accordance with its privacy policy. See Sponsor's privacy policy for details regarding Sponsor's information collection practices in connection with a Sweepstakes.

Internet

Sponsor is not responsible for electronic transmission errors resulting in omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions or limitations of any kind, or inaccurate transmissions of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor or presenter on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site or any combination thereof. If for any reason the Internet portion of the program is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes. Sponsor reserves the right to select winners from eligible entries received as of the termination date. Sponsors further reserve the right to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process. Sponsor may prohibit an entrant from participating in the Sweepstakes if it determines that said entrant is attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes by cheating, hacking, deception or other unfair playing practices or intending to abuse, threaten or harass other entrants.

Caution: Any attempt by a participant to deliberately damage any Web site or undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such participant to the fullest extent of the law.

Disputes/Choice Of Law

Except where prohibited, each entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by state or federal courts situated in Santa Clara, CA, (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, but in no event attorneys' fees; and (3) no punitive, incidental, special, consequential or other damages, including without limitation lost profits may be awarded (collectively, "Special Damages"), and (4) entrant hereby waives all rights to claim Special Damages and all rights to have such damages multiplied or increased. Delaware law governs the Sweepstakes and all aspects related thereto.

Sponsor

The Sponsor of this Sweepstakes is Intel Corporation.

Winners List

The winners list may be obtained by contacting:
Mike Armstrong
1900 Prairie City Rd

MS: FM4-18

Folsom, CA

95630

Get social with Open Port

michael.j.armstrong@intel.com — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:28:23 GMT

With the popularity of social networking tools becoming more widely used, we've made the decision to expand the Open Port presence in an attempt to not only keep up with what's happening and where people are hanging out but also to connect the members of the Open Port community with each other in new and engaging ways.

That's why we've started a number of social media profiles to connect with interesting people and distribute Open Port content where they are, hopefully prompting them to come back here to Open Port and further engage in the conversation.

To that end you can follow us on Twitter, subscribe to our profile onFriendFeed, see what we find interesting on Delicious and become a fan of Open Port on Facebook.

We hope these profiles will be useful to all of you. Those sites and networks have a ton to offer in the way of two-way conversation, which is why we're using them.

If you're an Open Port community member and are on those networks we'd encourage you to share your profile in the discussion forums so that not only can we connect with you but so that other members of the community can find you there as well.

thanks

Mike (Open Port Community Admin)

IT Managers Refuse to Play in the Playground

michael.j.armstrong@intel.com — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:12:08 GMT

In the spirit of continuous improvement and site optimization, Intel has decided to begin consolidating communities here within Open Port. The IT Playground was launched about a year and a half ago and was designed to be a fun zone dedicated to games and funny videos and other entertaining content.

There were some really cool rock videos posted for the Hard Rock Soft Rock campaign featuring Christopher Guest of Spinal Tap. I think this was the only time I ever saw people rocking out to value propositions like "hardware based remote manageability" and "even while the OS sleeps you can make your updates". Those songs were really catchy and I found that I couldn't get them out of my head for a couple of weeks.

There were promotions for games like Robobrawl and IT Manager 2 online games. There were funny PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and chair) videos showing typical problems that IT managers face on a daily basis and how those could be resolved with Intel technology.

But at the end of the day, there just wasn't any value created for you - our users. What have we done? Well, we still have all that content, but it was merged in with the vPro Expert Center. The message that we got was that the community just wasn't being cared for the way it needed to be, so we consolidated so that we can continue to focus on what matters.

Welcome Back.. We Had A Face Lift

robert.p.duffy@intel.com — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:19:54 GMT

If you haven't noticed things look different on this site. The core site has a name change. We are now Intel Communities. Open Port and all the personas and content is still here, we've just expanded the role of community on this site.

So please join and participate with thought leaders in the technology industry. Join discussions and ask questions of our engineers. Even better yet, make your own experience by creating your own groups, blogs and discussions.

I hope you enjoy the site. And please let us know what we can do to improve the experience.

Is Intel's Open Port community site too commercial?

kelly.r.feller@intel.com — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:16:16 GMT

There's nothing like a little criticism to spark reflection and introspection. Well, usually after a hefty dose of denial and defensiveness first. But we're all about community self actualization here so I thought I'd take this opportunity to open up the dialogue and invite your feedback~~positive or constructive~~on this site and our efforts in various new media forums across the web. Here goes.

Holding up the mirror

As a background, recently Open Port and our community managers received some criticism from the community-at-large that the site, and our technical experts, were too focused on marketing objectives. IT Blogger rodtrent on his myITForum.com blog complains that when he attempted to find vPro information on Open Port, he noticed in a discussion that the community was "inundated with responses from vendors about how their management product was the best." Additionally, in an Intel-sponsored forum on popular IT fansite Ars Technica a community member laments how he is tired of hearing the product name vPro in the forum.

So these criticisms are valid. We want you to know we hear you. And we wanted to ask more of you to join this conversation. What do you think? Are we "doing it right?" And by "it" I mean does Open Port enable tech enthusiasts and IT professionals like yourselves the opportunity to engage in technical discussions and connect with others who have similar interests in Intel technology?

The Nacho Analogy

In the spirit of engaged dialogue, I wanted to propose an analogy that might help frame the discussion. My colleague Bob Duffy came up with a brilliant one I thought I'd share with you. It has to do with nachos. He noticed that nearly every restaurant you visit includes nachos on their menu. And let's face it, some nachos are better than others, depending on the restaurant. So what makes a good nacho, you ask? Bob says it is the "cheese to chip ratio." The best nachos, Bob claims, have a well balanced ratio between cheese to chip. Too much cheese can drown the chip. And too much chip can be dry and difficult to swallow.

The same holds true, he argues, for commercial information in community conversations. Since this site is on Intel.com, there is going to be some element of cheese (aka marketing). But the chip (aka non-commercial information) is the foundation of the information that is shared among the community and should be the crux of the community conversations. So what is a good community chip-to-cheese ratio? Is it 20% commercial information (or marketing) and 80% technical data?

You decide. And while you're at it, can someone please figure out how to make the real cheese as liquidy and gooey as the fake cheese product they put on nachos?

Open Port Launches

robert.p.duffy@intel.com — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:00:00 GMT

Intel launches Open Port today, a site dedicated to direct communication between Intel's product & technology experts and IT community. Community Managers Josh Hilliker, Laurie Buczek and I explain what this site is about in this video.

Here's a what you will find in Open Port

Intel® vPro^TM Expert Center:

The Intel VPro Expert Center will focus on the needs of IT professionals with the goal of providing information and best practices about Intel® vPro^TM processor technology. Users can share information with an array of Intel's client management experts, key industry players, and community members.

IT@Intel

Stay informed with the latest updates in technology. With a focus on technically detailed blogs, discussions and resources from Intel’s own IT department, IT@Intel is a place to get the inside scoop on what is up and coming. In addition to this, community participation includes access to Intel’s best practices across a wide range of topics ranging from security, mobility, client management, data centers, to innovation & leadership.

General Community Zone

Users can visit the general community to access a wide array of content ranging from member's personal blogs, member generated discussions, as well as information on Intel's key technologies. This area further aims to provide an area for users to interact even if their question/topic does not specifically relate to another sub-community.

Product Reviews

User generated reviews integrated within new product pages on Intel.com. Users can read the latest user comments at the bottom of the page, submit their own comments, or browse the full discussion at Open Port.

Gateway to Premier IT Membership

Open Port is a part of the value added Intel Premier IT Professional member program. Visitors to the community have the option to register for program events or opt in to Premier IT membership. Once registered, they will get access to exclusive expert materials, event presentations, e-newsletters and the highly acclaimed Premier IT magazine.

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