Win a $500 Shopping Spree: Update & Reminder

A few weeks ago, Steve Gaitten, Master of all Things Community (and the guy that signs my paycheck   ), blogged about the first in a series of giveaways for Bamboo Nation. In that post, he asked participants to write up a simple use case describing how you are using a Bamboo product and post it in our forums. If you don't remember, prizes include a $500 Certificate to the Bamboo store, an iPod Shuffle, Bamboo Nation T-shirts and more.

While I have received some great entries there aren't as many as I had hoped. My guess is that the idea of writing a use case has some of you more than a little intimidated. Well, as Steve said to a friend of mine last week, "Get over it!"    I'm not asking you to write War and Peace. What I need is just a nice short description of how you are using a Bamboo product. You don't have to craft a laborious technical document that goes into great detail of every step that you follow. As long as you can describe the process enough to let me know what is happening, I will be happy. If you can use images in your use case as well, then you will make me even happier.

I have received a few entires that I wanted to highlight as good examples of what we are looking for. My hope is that if you see what other people are submitting, you may find inspiration and submit your own use case. The first example is an Agreements Repository Use Case, describing a scenario where SharePoint doesn’t include time-based alerts, but by setting up the Bamboo Alerts Plus Web Part helps take care of everything. The second example is The Spamminator Use Case, which describes how the Bamboo Alerts Plus Web Part can be used to provide automated announcement mail that can be scheduled in advance for holidays, time sheets, and other admin type reminders. Both examples are short, to the point, and do a good job describing the issue, and how a Bamboo product helps solve everything.

See, that doesn't look so hard, now does it? Great. Now drop everything and go write that use case. There is still plenty of time to enter and win.