Ms. Myers was awarded with a cash prize of $1000 for her insightful observations and remarks on the online market place posted on the LimeExchange website. The contest was the first in a series of such contests that LimeExchange is running in association with The Indian Blog and New Media Society (IBNMS). The blog contest was judged by a team of leading industry experts and analysts.

Congratulating the winner, Ms. Felicia Myers, Mr. Pawan Agarwal, Head of Operations, Lime Spot India said: “The online market place has immense potential for commercial proliferation especially for freelancers and small enterprises. Growth to its full potential is increasingly dependent on the level of awareness about the opportunities that the medium offers as well as on exchange of ideas. To encourage such knowledge-sharing, we have decided to launch these series of blog contests and we are extremely satisfied with the initial response that we have received”.

Mr. Ajay Jain, President, IBNMS said: “We are delighted that a member of IBNMS has won the blog contest hosted by LimeExchange. On behalf of IBNMS, I would like to congratulate Ms. Felicia for winning this contest. Her win should be a motivation to other IBNMS members to actively participate in similar contests in the future and come out as winners.”

LimeExchange will soon announce the launch of the second contest in this Blog contest series.

You can read Ms. Felicia Myers’ winning blog entry on the topic ‘PPO & Online Services Marketplace’.

More information is available on the company’s website: http://www.LimeExchange.com.

IBNMS & LimeExchange share the mission of promoting Indian Bloggers globally as not just aware, creative & talented but also as Subject Matter Experts.

For the same, LimeExchange is proud to assist you with your individual initiative to raise the level of visibility & the way global community sees bloggers in India.

If you think you have a need for any of the following to help market your blog or your individual online presence:

1. Any UI design needs – Logo, Theme changes, Widget creations, Flash or any attractive content creation.
2. Any special web programming (blog plugins, scripts) needs for you to monitor, track, manage your blog in your own customized way.
3. Any content specific needs – special writing / translation needs.
4. Any SEO/SEM needs to monetize your blog better.
5. Any Print Designs, Graphic Design, 3D modelling, Animation, Games etc. needs.

Then, please follow the following steps:

1. Register (this is free) on LimeExchange (please click here to register, so that your registration can be tracked and you can be awarded a free $50 promotional code), as a Service Provider & Buyer.
2. Send an email to support@limeexchange.com, with your contact details for LimeExchange customer support team to contact you and help you with the process, inform you of the promotional code, understand & help you post the project and get the same executed quickly.

Please do not hesitate at any time to contact LimeExchange guys at support@limeexchange.com if you have any queries; they are pretty good folks and will ensure that LimeExchange can help you in every way possible.

• BLOGCAMP DELHI: Saturday, May 24, 2008 in New Delhi. Click here to view the wiki and to sign up as an attendee or speaker. Sessions covered will include marketing your blog, technical elements of setting up your blog including various platforms available, avenues to make money from your blog, why businesses need to blog and more.
• BLOG & NEW MEDIA WORKSHOP: June 28-30, Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 6.30-8.30 pm daily. A 3-part workshop to cover the technical elements of setting up your blog, marketing your blog and exploring new media like photo and video blogging, video sharing, photo sharing, podcasting and more. Details will be available soon.

To make sure you can participate in and be informed in advance about these and upcoming programs, make sure you sign on to be a free member of IBNMS. Click here to apply.

We are also excited to have landed the URL ibnms.com – call it pure luck, and a sign that we are on to something good.

Watch this blog (or subscribe through RSS or Feedblitz for weekly updates). The adrenalin is only going to get pumping more and more in the days, weeks, months and years to come.