I want to host a photo contest to promote my website, where people submit photos and go to vote on photos. Is there a good tool?
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$4 Answers
This is good if you want to have your own personal copy of their entries just like what I did. For me, this isn't just a contest to promote my site but also to meet other bloggers out there. I also required them to post an entry on their blog about the contest. I had some sponsors then and for them to be encouraged to sponsor me, I have to help them advertise their site. There goes the reposting of the contest in their own blogs. :)
Once you chose the finalist, you can upload them via photobucket or imageshack. I used imageshack in my contest. So you just have to put the images link on your post once you've chosen your finalist.
Then, I added a Poll tool available in blogger. There are lots of free Poll tools you can personalize such as:
http://www.polldaddy.com/
http://www.blogpolls.com/
http://www.vizu.com/
http://www.freeblogpoll.com/
http://www.blogpoll.com/poll/
http://polls.blogflux.com/
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/wp-polls - for wordpress blogs/sites
Then I alloted about two weeks for the voting process. Then days after the poll ends, I posted the winners in a table with the points they acquired. I set the judging criteria to 50% - voters and 50% - from me plus four other people.
That's how my contest went. I didn't really use an app to automatically forward me the images. But the contest went really great! :)
Check out some of the posts I made regarding the contest!
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
Try tweeting and mentioning it on Flikr to draw in many talented and interested photographers - good luck!
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
Gallery will do this:
http://gallery.menalto.com/features
It's free.
You can set up permissions that allow folks to register and upload photos.
It's easy to install. Any Cpanel hosting with fantastico will install this in a couple of easy clicks.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
Sounds like a great contest!
Gallery supports voting and the other things that you describe.
While it's possible that Gallery will work off the shelf for your contest, it is completely open source and can be customized to fit your exact requirements.
This will be a photo contest with a prize, maybe $1000 to the winner, where people will enter by submitting their information and a photo. People will then tell their friends to go to the contest and vote. To vote, their friends would probably also need to register.
The purpose of the contest is to generate web traffic, web links, press coverage, and interest in a new business and its products.
