Steer Your 2013 In The Right Direction: Garmin GPS Giveaway
Have you dipped your toe into the waters of your 2013 resolutions yet? Perhaps you have an eyeball on some shiny new certification to boost your skill set, or some flashy new hardware to start (or improve) your home lab? Whatever it may be, assuming it isn’t against any state or federal laws, I wish you well in it!
I understand that your time is valuable, and appreciate that you visit my corner of the Interwebs. Based on the post title, you may have guessed that I’m giving away a Garmin nüvi 1370T 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth GPS Navigator (Amazon). It boasts some pretty neat features. I acquired this little beauty from the good folks at Ivy Worldwide and asked if I could gift it to a reader of this site. They are an extremely awesome team to work with and do an amazing job at organizing HP related events that I often participate in.
Disclosure: While I am not paid to write any content for HP or Ivy Worldwide, they do cover travel related costs.
I realized with the last giveaway that it’s rather a bit of a headache to try and monitor by hand. This giveaway is being run via PunchTab, a free site that does this sort of thing. I have no intention to ever sell your email address or personal information (that’s the ugliest thing on the Internets I could do) but I will obviously need a way to contact the winner. 
Contest Details
Assuming all goes smoothly, here’s how the contest will work.
How To Enter & Duration
- Use the widget in the section below to enter the contest (I allow the use of Facebook or Email address to track your contest account).
- I have a large number of methods you can use to enter, and each entry increases your chances to win. Options include firing off a tweet, following my Twitter account, leaving a comment below, and more. I have tried to make it flexible.
- Your tweet link is custom to your contest account – anyone who uses it to enter the contest will also grant you an additional entry (up to 5 bonus entries).
- The contest will run from January 22 thru January 31.
- You must be 18+ years of age to enter. I’ll ship to anywhere in the US on my “blogger budget.” Sorry everyone else, the price to ship electronics is ridiculous!
The Winner
On the Friday, February 1st, I will pick a single winner via PunchTab’s random winner feature. That person will be contacted to confirm that they have won and arrange for a shipping address.
Contest Entry
Good luck!
Hey Chris – did I miss the widget to enter? I don’t see it. Is it the Share this: widget?
Woops, fixed! There should be a widget towards the bottom of the post now. Thanks!
In response to your question,
“What sort of tech topics, certifications, and reviews would you like to see in 2013 on the Wahl Network blog?”
I’d like to see more NetApp topics – nothing specific, but just as you’ve done with your previous posts: deep dives, walkthroughs, videos, comments on features or failures, whatever you feel like.
All the best,
Mike
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Some topics I’d like to see would be related to management and monitoring tools, especially for VMware environments. Things like VCOps, vendor plugins for vSphere, etc. And there are so many tools out there now that I haven’t heard about or seen in action, some exposure and reviews of some would be great.
Thanks for the giveaway, and as always for the great blog content!
Good feedback, thanks for taking the time to comment. I’ve actually done a presentation at Live! 360 on free tools for the vSphere Admin – unfortunately, it wasn’t recorded. I’ll definitely look into getting some more of that on here.
Topic to see in 2013 – security in the virtualized world will be nice
tablets! Ive been eyeing them, especially andriod and windows
What tablets are the best varying between basic usage and those with higher tech usage. Some of us like me don’t need highly sophisticated but very durable and not a piece of crap
Topic: security
I would like to see more topics on how to use your computer for phone apps like instagram, you can view it but how do you join from a pc?
More things on the different tablets and ereaders out there….so many now. Would like know differences, firmwares, upgrades, etc.
I’m currently debating one of the higher end ereaders vs a tablet …and not really sure where my $’s would be best spent.
Definitely tablet reviews. There are sooo many out there now…
Info on tablets, what they do and which brand is the best.
Would a recommendation on whether a desktop or laptop would be best for someone who loves to surf the internet only. It’s not used for much of anything else.
i’d like to see some educational apps
Difference between all the tablets that are out.
I would like to see reviews on tablets comparing android to apple as well. Also talk about if there is any reason or need for a tablet with a smart phone.
vCOPS and NetApp topics would be most interesting to me
Is this to enter contest?
Thanks everyone for your great feedback and participation in the contest. The amount of entries is staggering.
And a congratulations to Matt L. on winning the GPS unit!