So, there are a lot of people out there in the world telling you to vote these days. Voting is important, many argue it is a civic responsibility. I am writing today in support of that point of view. But not in that other big race. This one is pretty local.
A couple weeks ago, Daniel gave you a prompt to submit ideas for a new IMA Blog t-shirt slogan. We had a couple dozen contributors, many of which are IMA employees. So before you get all worked up about the unfairness of our contest, we decided to go ahead and be the good guys and give every person who submitted a comment(by April 15th) a free t-shirt with the winning slogan.
That being said, it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try harder next time. I mean, c’mon, 3 out of 5 of the best slogans were submitted by IMA employees, and 2 of them were mine! To be fair, we might have chosen some of the other submissions if we could have reconciled the concerns surrounding them. An IMA favorite was “Lose 30 pounds in 30 days,” submitted by Ben, but we figured there was no truth in that advertising. Another fan favorite mentioned some names in a certain CEO’s title. We feared this might leave those outside the IMA circle clueless and that we might have some explaining to do if we selected that one.
I expect that you are reading this post and thinking, “My submission was SO much better than what they picked!” and that is okay. You can disagree, but we just want you to know that we took this assignment really seriously, and had an hour-long meeting to argue about which slogans should be selected as finalists. So, without further ado, please have at it. Vote for your favorite slogan and we’ll make a t-shirt with the winning phrase.
Pick your favorite blog t-shirt slogan.
- "Blog your art out" submitted by Eric (35.0%, 91 Votes)
- Front: "Ping" Back: "www.imamuseum.org/blog" submitted by Lindsey (25.0%, 64 Votes)
- "When you need a good poll." submitted by Despi (21.0%, 54 Votes)
- "Like you have something better to do." submitted by Henry (12.0%, 32 Votes)
- "Future IMA Guest Blogger" submitted by Despi (7.0%, 17 Votes)
Total Voters: 258
Loading ...The poll closes on May 5. You can only vote once (sorry, but it is the only fair way!).
We’ll be in touch soon to collect info to distribute free shirts.
April 21st, 2008 at 9:43 am
Just in case anyone was wondering about the origins of “Ping.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogroll#B
April 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
My submission was SO much better than what they picked.
How about an annual t-shirt slogan contest?
..or maybe you could have some blog pencils made? or those irritating little flags people put on their cars? or one of those caution signs for your car window (IMA blog on board)?
How about you pick one of my many fantastic suggestions next time?
Here’s your next slogan: Ping This!
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Cool idea!
April 24th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
The ping submission is clearly superior to the rest.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
No its not.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I voted for “Ping,” too, and was happy to see Lindsey’s list of blogging terms. Though, after reading those, I’m surprised no one else used and of the terms from the “P” section. It seems like there are plenty of IMA bloggers that have things that they “can’t wait to show the blogosphere.”
April 24th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I have it on good authority that Richard is a closet 10 inch fan.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Hey!
What about a collaboration?!
Front: Blog your art out.
Back: Ping! http://www.imamuseum.org/blog
April 25th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Is this because you’re worried you’re gonna lose, Lindsey?
I like the idea, though.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:42 am
How about a photo of Richard with the “Ping This” slogan below?
April 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
What do you mean by “photo,” John?
And someday I will find out who No Name! is and have coffee with him/her (incidentally, I have no fans of any size in my closet, No Name!).
May 7th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Hey Richard, I just edited wikipedia’s entry for “photograph” just for you.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
is anybody on here
January 19th, 2009 at 2:48 am
one of those caution signs for your car window (IMA blog on board)?
How about you pick one of my many fantastic suggestions next time?
Here’s your next slogan: Ping This!
January 19th, 2009 at 2:48 am
good shirts
nice blog
Regards
Thea
http://medical-job-australia.com
January 19th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Hey, Nice blog and T-shirt ideas. I have been making custom T-shirts since 1985 and these obscure sayings remind me of the most vague T-shirt idea I printed.
It was a white T-shirt and in small print it said:
Eschew Pedantry