Fourth Week's Prizes Drawn
The Simcoe Day holiday delayed this a little, but check your email--we've drawn the prize winners for the July 27 - August 2 period and sent emails to the winners.
Full details on prizes here.
Congratulations to the winners! If you didn't win a prize--there's another four weeks of prize drawings to go!
Yay! First of comment! Congrats to the winners! Best of luck to the rest!
Posted by: Shel | August 04, 2009 at 01:56 PM
Congats to the winners!!!
(whoever the mystery ppl are...)
Posted by: Tasfia | August 04, 2009 at 02:36 PM
Congrats and keep on commenting! Hey, does anyone know where to go or write if u know what the secret book title is??
Posted by: Hamdi | August 04, 2009 at 02:43 PM
And another question: Does anyone know how many people joined Word Out just curious i'm also full of questions :)
Posted by: Hamdi | August 04, 2009 at 02:46 PM
Congratz to the winners!!
(i know who one of them is! ;D...but no, it's not me)
Posted by: Tashnuva | August 04, 2009 at 03:36 PM
Hamdi: I do, since I manage the web presence. Obviously we can't disclose any personally identifying statistics, but what we can say publicly...
As of today (August 4) we've had somewhere in the range of 1500 signups via the online registration.
So about the same # as the # of students in a big high school (at least, a big high school when I was in high school, which was some time ago...)
The other big # is # of comments--we're approaching 2000 comments now. To satisfy my own curiousity I exported them all and pasted them into Word, and discovered they make a 202 page document in total. So give yourselves a hand, you've collectively written about a novel's worth of comments, recommendations, book reviews, etc. :)
Posted by: Alan H. | August 04, 2009 at 03:45 PM
Congratulations to all winners! Keep reading everyone!
Posted by: Iris | August 04, 2009 at 04:07 PM
Awe so sad.
Posted by: Lynn | August 04, 2009 at 05:39 PM
Congrats!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Devi | August 04, 2009 at 08:00 PM
Congrats
Just Curious: Where can the giftcards be used (what store/company are they for)
Posted by: Nare | August 04, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Wow! So many signups...Word Out is getting better and better!!!
Congratulations to all the winners!! And good luck for those who didn't...I'm sure you'll soon be picked!
Posted by: kiu | August 05, 2009 at 12:15 AM
I am also curious about the same thing Nare is curious about: are the giftcards only for like bookstores? What store can the giftcards be used??? :)
Posted by: Tashnuva | August 05, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Well Once again for thos who won congratulations you deserved it no matter what. but for those who didn't let's jsut keep tyring there are still 4 weeks to go
Posted by: Mary | August 05, 2009 at 06:20 AM
OMG is that number real. I'm acutally a little surprised that the wordout became so huge. but also not the surprised i'm happy for them
Posted by: Mary | August 05, 2009 at 06:21 AM
And hopefully with this huge awesome turnout there will be a wordout next year. 'cause i'm really starting to love this program
Posted by: Mary | August 05, 2009 at 06:22 AM
Nara/Tashnuva: The gift cards are for a variety of stores. I don't have the complete list at hand (I do the prize draws and contact the winners, but don't actually handle sending out the prizes).
Posted by: Alan H. | August 05, 2009 at 06:23 AM
Congrats everyone for winning a prize you guys worked hard and it payed off. Sadly though i didn't win again we gotta keep trying there are still a few more weeks left so yay
Posted by: MaryAnn | August 05, 2009 at 06:25 AM
Mary: We'll definitely be back last year. It may not be exactly the same, but hopefully whatever's different will be better. :)
Closer to the end of the summer we'll have a thread to get feedback from teens about what they think next year's Word Out should look like.
Posted by: Alan H. | August 05, 2009 at 09:47 AM
Alan, i really think this year's wordout looks really coool!!! the background suits both guys and girls.... i have no complains. ;)
by the wayz, is this wordout's first year?
Posted by: Tasfia | August 05, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Congrats to the winners!
Posted by: S.Sivanesan | August 05, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Tasfia: This is the second year, though last year was quite different. We have more emphasis on the web presence this year.
Posted by: Alan H. | August 05, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Oh, so that was what the holiday was called!Simcoe Day.lol.Had no idea WHY. neways, CONGRATS 2 ALL THE WINNERS! Can't wait to win again!!
Posted by: Oshin | August 05, 2009 at 01:07 PM
CONGRATZ to the winners!! :) have fun with ur prizes!! Good luck to everyone else!!:) wordout ROCKZ!...keep reading :)
Posted by: Yvonne | August 05, 2009 at 04:59 PM
Wow the prizes are amazing, congrats to everyone who has won and to those who havn't also like me. we just have to keep going and try out best
Posted by: Pickford | August 05, 2009 at 08:51 PM
Becuase if we do our best, when this is all over we can all proudly say that we did our best and never give up and sincerly congrat the others who won. and remember there is always next year
Posted by: Pickford | August 05, 2009 at 08:53 PM