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Great news! While I was away on vacation, The Wonder of Tech became a finalist in Philadelphia’s Most Valuable Blogger Award Contest! I was delighted not only to learn the news when I returned from my trip, but also to see the amazing support I have received from The Wonder of Tech readers. Thank you to everyone who has voted already.
The Wonder of Tech has been nominated in the Everything Else category, which has about 50 other blogs nominated (remind me next time to write a Local Affairs blog, much less competition!). So I need as many votes as I can possibly get in order to have a chance at winning the title.
If you believe that The Wonder of Tech is truly Philadelphia’s Most Valuable Blog, please click on the link below:
Philadelphia’s Most Valuable Blogger
Just click to vote. No registration is required! One click and you’re done.
[note]You are allowed to vote every day until September 9[/note]
Thank you very much for your votes and if you could spread the word about this contest, I would greatly appreciate that as well!
Thank you again for your support. I will let you know the results!
I voted… I’ll try to remember tomorrow…
Thank you so much for your vote and by spreading the word via Twitter! I really appreciate your help, Mike. 🙂
Jerry will vote for wonder of tech every day.
Thanks so much, Jerry. Every vote counts! 😀
Congratulations!
Voted! I’ll do it again tomorrow. 🙂
Thank you, Mouh, that’s a big help! 🙂
You got my vote.
Stan, thank you so much for your support! I really appreciate it! 🙂
That’s 2 votes! 🙂
Thanks so much, Mike, you rock! 🙂
I voted … of course, I had to. Hope I remember to vote every day.
Thank you so much for all of your support, iRewardChart! It’s a big help. 😀
I voted 🙂 Keep rocking 🙂 superb work on here 🙂
Thank you, Kavya. Your support is a big help! 🙂
Second time. Wheee!
Thank you, Stan! I greatly appreciate your incredible support! Whee! 😀
How exciting for you, Carolyn. Your blog is wonderful and deserving of a win. I voted today. Too bad people can vote everyday – I’ll try to remember to keep doing it (feel free to remind us :-)). Of course, I’m not in the Philly area, but can’t imagine there’s a better one on your topic in your area (there’s not in mine).
Hi Nanette, How delightful to see you again at The Wonder of Tech! Thank you very much for your vote and support. I will be posting the link daily on my blog until September 9. I want to help the readers who want to vote for me. You know, like Jerry McGuire, “Help me help you,” or something like that… 😉
Thanks again for your support!
Welcome home Carolyn, hope you had a great time on vacation. I missed you!
Okay, I voted and will do it every single day until the 9th. Yep, you can count on me young lady. You are very deserving of this title. Your blog is the best. Congratulations on being nominated. I know you must be so thrilled.
So, let’s see what we can’t do to keep you there now.
Adrienne
Hi Adrienne, I did have a great time on vacation, but what a delightful surprise to come home to! I am truly thrilled and very touched by the support I have received from everyone, including you!
Thank you very much, Adrienne, for your support every step of the way! 🙂
Hey ma’am; I’ll star this in my reader to make sure I vote and RT every day. Not quite like Chicago’s vote early and often theme but we will vote every day……….:)
Hi Bill, Yeah, early and often would be if it were Chicago’s Best Blogger Award, lol! But I deeply appreciate your votes and tweets in support of the blog. You rock! 😀
You have my vote, Carolyn, good luck to you!
Thanks so much, Lynn! I greatly appreciate the support and your votes! 🙂
Just voted! Congrats for the nomination Carolyn. I really hope you win. 🙂
Thanks so much, Alex! I appreciate the vote and the well wishes! 🙂
Hi Carolyn,
That’s awesome. I’m going to do my best to help you win this. I have voted.
Good luck.
Jens
Thanks, Jens, for your vote, your kind words and for spreading the news on Google+! And for your great blog post today too! 😀
This reminds me of when I voted everyday to help a friend win a modelling competition. I had to log into the site, select my friend and log in again. It wasn’t easy, the site was in Dutch!
Hi Mike, Wow, you are a great friend! Luckily, voting for this award only involves one click on the site. The site is in English too, but it’s American English. 😉
Thanks so much for your votes!
Great idea on the hyperlink. Made voting so much easier today :-).
Hi Nanette, Yes, I improved the link, no scrolling necessary! I will be including the link in all Wonder of Tech blog posts between now and September 9 to make it as easy for readers to vote as possible.
Thanks so much, Nanette, for your continued support! 🙂
You got my vote. Good luck Carolyn you’ll win by a country mile (as they say in the uk)
Thanks so much, Stacey! A country mile would be great. I really appreciate your support and I will be by your awesome blog soon! You rock! 😀
Hey Carolyn,
I am so sorry, it’s been so long since I am here but hey, I am so glad I saw this! I voted for you today!
One thing that might help you loads is creating a facebook event for this, works like a charm and votes pour in like crazy and people are wonderfully kind and always help!
Do keep reminding me 🙂 Good Luck! Hope you win! 🙂
Hi Hajra, What a great idea! I hadn’t thought of creating a Facebook event for the voting. I took your advice.
Thanks so much for all of your incredible support! 🙂
Checking in for the third vote.
Stan, thank you very much for your daily votes! I really, really appreciate your votes almost as much as I appreciate your awesome blog! 🙂
Shucks!
Good luck! You have my votes! 🙂
Thank you kindly, Jocuri! I am grateful for your daily votes. 🙂
You have my vote. I’ll try to remember to vote every day.
Good luck!
Carla, thank you very much for your votes! I need all that I can get. 🙂
Well done, I hope one day I can get my blog shortlisted to win something! I had a click for you, I usually hate those kind of things but becuse there was no need to register it was pretty quick and easy!
Hi Kev, I’m sure you will get an award someday. Keep at it.
Thanks so much for your votes. You’re right, voting couldn’t be easier, no registration required! 🙂
Hey Carolyn,
Congrats for getting notmiated. I am pretty sure that you are going to win it :). My best wishes.
typo : nominated 🙂
Hi Ashvini, Thank you very much for your votes and for spreading the word on Facebook and Twitter. Greatly appreciated! 🙂
Congratulations Carolyn.
Ask and you shall receive 😉
Mouh asked for people to come over from Facebook so I done just that 😉
I’ll try and get back tomorrow as well and re-vote 🙂
Best of luck,
Barry
Hi Barry, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! Wow, thank you so much. I really am grateful to you for your support. 🙂
Checking in for the fourth vote.
Thanks so much, Stan! I greatly appreciate every vote. Whee!!!! 🙂
Carolyn, aloha. Of course, I voted and will vote for you every day.
Congratulations to you on this nominations. How nice to see the recognition of your consistent efforts and quality content.
Will spread the word. Best wishes for a terrific weekend. Aloha.
Janet
Janet, thank you very much for your votes, your kind comment and for spreading the word! Your support is amazing and appreciated.
I will be trying my best to avoid Hurricane Irene this weekend. I hope you have a great one! Mahalo! 🙂
Will be voting for you as well Carolyn, and as always, best of luck and congrats on being nominated for this title!
Hi Vitaly, thank you for your votes and kind words! I really appreciate your support. 🙂
I voted… I went looking for a stainless steel microwave today and my friend came along. I stopped to look at the smart phones briefly. I didn’t buy anything, my friend spent £150 on a smart phone! I really need a microwave… 🙂
Hi Mike, yes, there are those who feel the need for a microwave more than a smartphone. Those are probably the normal people. I, as a polygadgetist, would find it much more difficult to live without my iPhone than my microwave. Hmmm…you just gave me an idea for a new Wonder of Tech poll!
Thanks so much for all of your votes, Mike! Greatly appreciated. 🙂
I missed this comment earlier, but I had just got out of bed! I need a microwave! I cook all the time because I’m a celiac and dislike most gluten free food. I started cooking extra in the evening and then put it in the microwave next day for lunch; it makes for efficient use of the oven and saves me time.
I wrote two blogs yesterday, one for today that was published at 9am this morning and one for tomorrow – whoops; that was also published at 9am this morning! I got the date wrong!
I have good news! I embedded a photo in an email to the organiser of the photo contest to impress her. The ‘rules’ are now guidelines and as a patient at the hospital and a member of the trust that runs it; I am now eligible to enter the contest. I dreamt my work would be exhibited in a place with high ceilings! You don’t get much higher than there; I took a photo from upstairs over the balcony and it gave me vertigo!
I shall send in photos! It’s the last day for entries and everything is a little messed up; so I stand a good chance with few entries. 🙂
Hi Mike, Best of luck with your contest! Can we vote online for you? I am so happy your work is being displayed in a prominent place so many others can appreciate the beauty of your work. And what a perfect venue for your artistry! You will brighten up the days of so many patients, visitors and staff. Which picture did you enter? Was it one you had posted on your blog?
On another topic, in the US we have toaster ovens. They are very small ovens, not much bigger than a breadbox. They are great for heating smaller things, though not nearly as quickly as a microwave. Toaster ovens aren’t new tech, but I was never able to find one in the UK. If you ever come across a toaster oven, you should consider getting one to save on power. It pays to be frugal! 🙂
I will stop by today to check out your blogs. I always learn from your great posts that entertain as well!
I entered the fairyland pictures from the woods, I renamed them ‘enchanted’ and a picture of the hospital itself.
I saw one of those little ovens when I was looking for a microwave, but our electricity is 3 times the price of gas… I put the gas oven on one a gas and tend to microwave at lunchtime.
f you get an email from Twitter saying you have a direct tweet, check the link is to Twitter, there is a fake site with a similar name. I’m not too used to Twitter and so fell for it. I changed my password immediately after.
I was hoping you entered the fairly land photos. I thought those would be perfect.
Thanks for the Twitter tip! I almost fell for one earlier this month. A friend on Twitter sent me a Direct Message asking me about a link I had posted. When I clicked on the link, it asked me to log into Twitter. I started to, then remembered I was already logged into Twitter so I stopped. Sure enough, it was spam.
I was thinking that the odds of my winning the contest are about 50 to 1, just like your winning horse. I’m so glad you’re voting for me in the contest! Thanks again.
Hi Carolyn,
I’m going to vote again. That risky stock I mentioned in my blog has gone up 8% this morning and it’s not lunchtime yet! I must get in quicker! 🙁
Hi Mike, You might try taking the long term view of the risky stock. That’s great that it increased 8% in one morning. But such a volatile stock stock could go down 20% in the afternoon. Best to watch it for a bit before jumping in too deep.
Thanks a lot for all of your votes, Mike! Nine more days to go! 🙂
Yes, Carolyn, I can’t invest for at least another 2 weeks and I have been following the shares for months! That particular one is above my target price now so it would have to drop again before I invest. I am annoyed because my bank won’t pay the money into the account I use, only transfer between accounts. Strangely enough shares in that bank is one I’m considering because they have a new CEO who will hopefully sort out such silliness and return them to the sort of profit they had a few years ago. That would be serious money! I am cautious but we have to take a calculated risk. My horoscope says I’m going to be lucky for a while. I have 4 winner on the horses last night when I was bored and I had one at 50 to 1 last weekend; so who knows?
Hi Mike, You know I was thinking about your wonderful win on the 50 to 1 horse when you talked about investing in risky stocks. Sometimes it’s worth betting on a long shot.
Good luck in your bets and your investments. I hope they all give you good payouts!
Check-in for vote no. 8 or 9 – I forgot the count!
Hi Stan, Thanks for voting and for checking in! I truly appreciate all of the votes on my behalf! 🙂
Big hug to you, Carolyn! Yet another check-in on the vote! Is there somewhere where your standing in the contest is listed?
Hi Stan, Big hugs to you too! Thank you so much for voting. I so wish they would post the standings, but they haven’t yet. I have written to them twice with no reply on other matters (I wanted to correct the title of my blog, but perhaps people won’t be confused by “wonder of tech” vs. “The Wonder of Tech”), so I don’t think it makes sense to write them again. I’m hoping they are too busy counting my votes to reply!
I hope your day is awesome, Stan. Thanks again! 😀
Mmm, it says I have already voted today. 9.15 here so not the time zone, difference? I’ll try again later…
Hi Mike, I believe the voting is a 24 hour cycle. So don’t give up! Just wait a little while and try again.
Thank you very much for your support! 🙂
It wouldn’t let me vote yesterday, but I have voted this morning. If it’s a 24 hours cycle, better to vote early – it’s 8:35! I tried out a PhotoShop program last night, interesting but not intuitive. It asked me to install the Flash driver and it’s already installed; I had just played Farmville! I never did get to see the video explaining it all, I’ll try later. I have it on 30 day trial, but I can get a 20% discount. I’m not an Adobe fan really; all their stuff make my CPU get hot.
I have voted today and I did use a smart phone yesterday, the virtual keyboard is slow but no as bad as I thought. I send a message to myself using Window Live. That was a Samsung Galaxy something, uses Android. It would be useful when I’m out but I don’t go out that much. My young friend used his to talk to me while he was walking his dog! I’m going to check out a new art gallery one of the days now I know I can park at the rear; it had just closed yesterday but I got some photographs of the exterior and the waterfront.
I just found this and would have voted for you. 🙁 Wouda, coulda, shoulda — the three saddest words in the English language. But your DoFollow CommentLuv site is great! Wish I were more of a tech gadget freak.
Hi AstroGremlin, Thank you for your kind words. I was deeply touched by how the blogging community and other Wonder of Tech readers rallied to vote in this contest.
No need to be a tech gadget freak to enjoy this blog! I write for every day people who aren’t into tech but feel they want to catch up to developments in the world of personal technology. I try very hard to stay away from Geek Speak or tech terms and use plain English so everyone can understand The Wonder of Tech!