The IT History Society wanted to let you know of a contest to build for everyone’s reference on the IT History Society website an international database of all IT historical and archive sites.  This site will benefit IT professionals and students for research of our industry.

We want to point out that the Society wants to incentivize everyone to join in the creation of this site, we are launching a contest that is open to all IT History Society members and anyone else in the international IT community.

 

The prizes for the most submissions are –

First Prize – A Kindle 2.0 (You will love this!)

Second Prize – An Apple iTouch  (Very cool!)

Third Prize - An Apple iPhone  (Closing in on 100,000 uploadable apps soon – very hot!)

Fourth Prize – An Autographed Copy of "The Digital Hand"   which comprises of 3 volumes by Dr. James Cortada  (An ITHS Director and IT History Guru!)

Fifth Prize – Your choice of autographed copies between the Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation and Retail Industries, or How Societies Embrace Information Technology by Dr. James Cortada

The Contest Rules-

• Contest end date:  January 31, 2010.
• Submitters:  Anyone (a member of the Society or not) can submit an entry.
• Duplicate entries:  All entries may be submitted even if other submitters put in the same entry
• Submission of entries:  all entries are to be submitted via the following URL http://www.ithistory.org/resource_sites/resource-form.php  with the following required fields:  Institution, Country, Institution URL, Sector site services (Public, Private, Academia, Research, or Other), and your (the submitter) email address.  Any additional information would be appreciated.  There is no issue if each participant have aides submit entries under one email address.
• Minimum total submissions:  If there are fewer than 75 submissions, the contest can be terminated and no prizes will be awarded (We will extend the contest before the January 31 deadline, if we expect fewer than 75 submissions.)
• Winners:  The winners of all the prizes will be those entrants with the most legitimate entries.
• Award announcement:    Contest winners and their awards will be notified by email after the tallies are completed.
• Rights:  The IT History Society reserves the right to reject any entries and or participants based solely on its own judgment that the entries are not within the spirit of the contest.

We are optimistic that the contest will be a success and valuable to our fellow professionals.  Please spread the word and point colleagues to this email and the contest URL –

http://www.ithistory.org/resource_sites/resource-form.php

Anyone who wishes to join the IT History Society (membership of the IT History Society is not required to enter the contest), please refer them to the application for membership link at http://ithistory.org/membership/member-form.php

Questions?   Please address them to info@ithistory.org

Thank you,

Best regards,

Jeffery D. Stein
Chairman