Posted on November 15, 2011 by Stephan Wiedner

The folks here at Noomii would like to extend a heart-felt thank you and congratulations to all of the contestants who participated in this year’s Spirit of Giving blogging contest. It was a nice addition to the festive season.

Leaderboard, Last Updated Wed Feb 1, 2012 @ midnight PST

Photo	Author & Topic	2-Week Scoring Period	Social Scoring	Judges Scoring	Total Score
	Clarence Ceniza The Top 5 TED Talks on Giving	Nov 24, 2011 to Dec 7, 2011	Twitter: 17 Facebook: 55 Google+: 3 Comments: 21 Total: 96	Creativity: 20 Originality: 20 Style: 25 X-Factor: 20 Total: 85	181
	Katie Jeanes It’s Called A Gift Because You Give It	Nov 28, 2011 to Dec 11, 2011	Twitter: 9 Facebook: 0 Google+: 0 Comments: 1 Total: 10	Creativity: 15 Originality: 15 Style: 20 X-Factor: 10 Total: 60	70
	Dan Weigold Does Gratitude Matter?	Dec 2, 2011 to Dec 15, 2011	Twitter: 8 Facebook: 0 Google+: 0 Comments: 0 Total: 8	Creativity: 10 Originality: 15 Style: 15 X-Factor: 20 Total: 60	68
	Cynthia De Pecol Simple 3-minute Daily Meditations to Cultivate Gratitude During the Holidays	Dec 5, 2011 to Dec 18, 2011	Twitter: 2 Facebook: 0 Google+: 0 Comments: 0 Total: 2	Creativity: 15 Originality: 15 Style: 10 X-Factor: 15 Total: 55	57
	Naresh Kumar Popular Music that Fosters Kindness & Generosity	Dec 8, 2011 to Dec 21, 2011	Twitter: 1 Facebook: 0 Google+: 0 Comments: 1 Total: 1	Creativity: 15 Originality:15 Style: 15 X-Factor: 10 Total: 55	56
	Kara Exner Philanthropic Lessons from Two Boys Under 7 Years Old	Dec 9, 2011 to Dec 22, 2011	Twitter: 24 Facebook: 73 Google+: 1 Comments: 16 Total: 114	Creativity: 20 Originality: 20 Style: 25 X-Factor: 20 Total: 85	199
	Jordan Marr Give Companionship, One of the Greatest Gifts	Dec 12, 2011 to Dec 25, 2011	Twitter: 2 Facebook: 0 Google+: 0 Comments: 2 Total: 4	Creativity: 15 Originality: 15 Style: 20 X-Factor: 10 Total: 60	64
	Chris Hutton When Giving Hurts: A Guide to Thinking Through our Giving Choices	Dec 16, 2011 to Dec 29, 2011	Twitter: 1 Facebook: 1 Google+: 0 Comments: 0 Total: 2	Creativity: 15 Originality: 20 Style: 10 X-Factor: 15 Total: 60	62
	Elaine Taylor-Klaus Proud of Ourselves: the Story of a Mother and her Son’s Community Service Project	Dec 17, 2011 to Dec 30, 2011	Twitter: 2 Facebook: 2 Google+: 1 Comments: 1 Total: 6	Creativity: 15 Originality: 20 Style: 20 X-Factor: 10 Total: 65	71
	Rachel French Giving is Easy (Except When It’s Hard)	Dec 18, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011	Twitter: 18 Facebook: 91 Google+: 1 Comments: 26 Total: 134	Creativity: 20 Originality: 20 Style: 25 X-Factor: 20 Total: 85	219
	Jacob Share 27 Wackiest Gifts Sent By Job Seekers To Recruiters	Dec 19, 2011 to Jan 1, 2012	Twitter: 125 Facebook: 96 Google+: 25 Comments: 8 Total: 254	Creativity: 25 Originality: 25 Style: 25 X-Factor: 25 Total: 100	354 (2nd)
	Max-Michel Kolijn My Christmas Wish: Make Smiles Spread like Wild Fire	Dec 20, 2011 to Jan 2, 2012	Twitter: 22 Facebook: 76 Google+: 10 Comments: 20 Total: 128	Creativity: 20 Originality: 20 Style: 25 X-Factor: 20 Total: 85	213
	Madeline Binder Motivating Team Members with Acts of Internal and External Generosity	Dec 21, 2011 to Jan 3, 2012	Twitter: 12 Facebook: 19 Google+: 4 Comments: 15 Total: 50	Creativity: 15 Originality: 20 Style: 20 X-Factor: 15 Total: 70	120
	Wendy Alexander Give Christmas to the Dogs in Need	Dec 22, 2011 to Jan 4, 2012	Twitter: 5 Facebook: 49 Google+: 0 Comments: 35 Total: 89	Creativity: 20 Originality: 20 Style: 20 X-Factor: 20 Total: 80	169
	Karen Ashley Sharing Hope: The Priceless Gift of Healing at Christmas	Dec 24, 2011 to Jan 6, 2012	Twitter: 2 Facebook: 0 Google+: 0 Comments: 1 Total: 3	Creativity: 15 Originality: 10 Style: 15 X-Factor: 10 Total: 50	53
	Rick van der Pluijm 50 Ways to Give: A List Worth Putting on Your Fridge	Dec 26, 2011 to Jan 8, 2012	Twitter: 3 Facebook: 0 Google+: 0 Comments: 3 Total: 6	Creativity: 20 Originality: 20 Style: 25 X-Factor: 20 Total: 85	91
	Dylan Evans Reuniting with Hope (in the most absurd way)	Dec 27, 2011 to Jan 9, 2012	Twitter: 1 Facebook: 7 Google+: 1 Comments: 11 Total: 20	Creativity: 20 Originality: 25 Style: 20 X-Factor: 15 Total: 80	100
	Jonathan Cooper The World Changing Gift You Can Give Right Now	Dec 28, 2011 to Jan 10, 2012	Twitter: 42 Facebook: 174 Google+: 41 Comments: 14 Total: 271	Creativity: 20 Originality: 25 Style: 25 X-Factor: 25 Total: 95	366 (1st)
	Beth Meredith and Eric Storm The Giving and Receiving Spiral	Dec 29, 2011 to Jan 11, 2012	Twitter: 20 Facebook: 81 Google+: 4 Comments: 34 Total: 139	Creativity: 20 Originality: 20 Style: 25 X-Factor: 20 Total: 85	224 (3rd)
	Jon Wade Corporate Responsibility and Giving Back to the Community	Dec 30, 2011 to Jan 12, 2012	Twitter: 0 Facebook: 3 Google+: 1 Comments: 3 Total: 7	Creativity: 15 Originality: 15 Style: 15 X-Factor: 15 Total: 60	67
	Kayvon Ghoreshi Volunteerism from a Student’s Perspective	Dec 31, 2011 to Jan 13, 2012	Twitter: 0 Facebook: 1 Google+: 0 Comments: 1 Total: 2	Creativity: 15 Originality: 15 Style: 10 X-Factor: 10 Total: 50	52

Entry Details

The contest is open until December 16th, 2011. This is your opportunity to show the world your expertise, practical tips, feel-good stories, and creative genius. Here are just a few topics that you could write about:

• generosity
• volunteerism
• philanthropy
• reciprocity
• micro finance
• psychology of giving

Write about a topic that is near and dear to your heart. The contest is open to coaches, their clients, bloggers, and anybody else who would like to participate.

Entry deadline is Friday December 16th, 2011

Enter the Contest Now!

How It Works

1. Enter the contest by December 16th, 2011.
2. Email your post to stephan@noomii.com as a shared Google Doc or in Word (i.e. file extension .doc or .docx) format. All entries are due by December 16th.
3. If your post meets all of our posting guidelines (below), we’ll publish it on our blog. Articles will be published, one per day, in the order that we receive them.
4. The top three posts that receive the highest scores win cash prizes.

How the Scoring Works

Each blog post will be scored based on the amount of social sharing that occurs on the blog post during the first two weeks that it is published as well as a quality score provided by our judges.

Social scoring

One points will be awarded for each:

• Social share on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus.
• Comment on the post itself. Comments made by the author don’t count but we still encourage you to respond to all comments posted on your article to further engage your audience.

Judge scoring

Additional points will be awarded by our judges for

• creativity
• originality
• writing style
• x-factor

$1500 in Cash Prizes