I held a photo contest too in my blog last September. It was a success! I didn't use any special application though. I just required them to send the images via email and told them to put 'iamrichgirl photo contest' for their subject so I could sort my emails for the contest easily.

This is good if you want to have your own personal copy of their entries just like what I did. For me, this isn't just a contest to promote my site but also to meet other bloggers out there. I also required them to post an entry on their blog about the contest. I had some sponsors then and for them to be encouraged to sponsor me, I have to help them advertise their site. There goes the reposting of the contest in their own blogs. :)

Once you chose the finalist, you can upload them via photobucket or imageshack. I used imageshack in my contest. So you just have to put the images link on your post once you've chosen your finalist.

Then, I added a Poll tool available in blogger. There are lots of free Poll tools you can personalize such as:
http://www.polldaddy.com/
http://www.blogpolls.com/
http://www.vizu.com/
http://www.freeblogpoll.com/
http://www.blogpoll.com/poll/
http://polls.blogflux.com/
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/wp-polls - for wordpress blogs/sites

Then I alloted about two weeks for the voting process. Then days after the poll ends, I posted the winners in a table with the points they acquired. I set the judging criteria to 50% - voters and 50% - from me plus four other people.

That's how my contest went. I didn't really use an app to automatically forward me the images. But the contest went really great! :)

Check out some of the posts I made regarding the contest!
Source(s):
http://iamrichgirl.blogspot.com/2009/08/iamrichgirls-anniversary-blog-conte...
http://iamrichgirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/happy-anniversary.html
http://iamrichgirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/and-winners-are.html


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