Last day to enter State of the IT Industry Contest – Win an mp3 player!

Last month we launched The State of the IT Industry Contest in which I challenged everyone to guess the reoccuring theme in a series of The Force Field podcasts released last year about The State of the IT Industry in which four IT professionals predicted where their business and the industry as a whole would be in the coming year.

The idea is to find out if their predictions were true, what happened in their segment of the industry that made them come true in spite of current economic conditions and why.

I challenged everyone to review the episodes for themselves and discover what I believe to be one reason discussed that can make or break your success in this market, especially in a difficult economy.

To enter the contest, listen to The Force Field episodes 29, 30, 31 and 32, guess the common theme and post your answer in The Force Field Forums or send an e-mail to comments@theforcefield.net.

If you guess answer correctly or figure it out I will put your name in a drawing to win a Coby MP305 2GB Go mp3 player similar to the one we gave away in the Summer of Podcasts contest last  year. (The winner was in Sweden).

The Coby MP305 mp3 player is great for techs in the field. It can hold 2GB of podcasts, music and data, includes a seven color display, an FM radio, has a direct USB connection and can be used as a USB thumb drive.

The mp3 player will be shipped loaded with The Force Field Podcast Special Edition Volume 1. This edition, which is currently available in The Force Field Podcast store, is a collection of the first six episodes of The Force Field (when it was for OnForce Providers only) remastered with additional content and an additional segment in each episode written and produced specifically for the collection and never before released. The episodes are COMMERCIAL FREE.

Contest rules: 

  1. Post your answer in the forum contest thread or via e-mail.
  2. You may discuss the topic in the thread but only one official posted answer per entrant.
  3. You must include a valid name/username or e-mail address in the post (you can spell out (at) instead of @ to prevent spamming. If you use username only make sure the e-mail address on your member account is correct.
  4. You must be 18 years or older to participate.

A winner will be chosen from all correct entries posted in this thread or received by midnight EST January 31, 2010. The winner will be announced on episode 40 of The Force Field.