I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who participated in the First Annual 
askBINC WebMadness Competition. We had a great time planning the competition and are incredibly appreciative of everybody’s participation. We’ll definitely be planning more events like this later into the year. A big round of applause and thanks to:
- The initial 16 competitors for being such great sports as they faced off against one another rallying their employee base in hopes of voting them into the second round
- The 8 second round teams who battled head to head and after recognizing that voting alone wasn’t going to win the round, resorting to what they know best to propel them into the next round – building great software
- Sasha Strauss, CEO of Innovation Protocol for being the brilliant brand strategist and friend that he is and helping me refine the scope of this software development competition
- Alex Holderness and the team at Volunteermatch for taking interest in our competition and helping us come up with a real world and relevant problem for our competitor base to tackle
- The competition judges, Alex Holderness, Mamoon Hamid, David Weekly and Jerry Kirkheli for taking the time out of their schedule to help refine our competition criteria and for offering to serve on the judging panel
- The employee ranks of all 8 competition finalists for taking the time to review and consider taking a stab at our proposed problem
- The askBINC crew for helping to come up with the initial idea for this competition, working late into the evening and weekends to help refine the competition once it changed faces and pulling together in true Apprentice Style to make sure everything was in place for the competition be as successful as possible. You guys are the best!!
- And lastly I’d like to thank our winner Expedia.com for being a true class act and delivering a world-class solution that will hopefully be successful in improving the connectivity between volunteers and non-profits throughout the world.
*sniff, *sniff – that was beautiful