The Beta News 2 Year Anniversary Contest is now officially over and the winners have been drawn.

A great thanks goes to the sponsors, Lorelle VanFossen, David Airey and Entrecard.

I’ve drawn the winners using Random.org and recorded it with Camtasia Studio. This is my first video, so please be gentle.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Congratulations to:

Erz from Blogodise – Lorelle VanFossen’s book “Blogging Tips”

Laura from Laura Williams’ Musings – Blog Design critque from David Aiery

Emma from ItsWriteNow.com – $100 Amazon gift card

BetShopBoy from Bet Shop Boy – $30 Amazon gift card

Egonitron with a messy blogger HQ – €20 Amazon.de gift card

Indo Contest from Indocontest – $25 cash through PayPal and a The Beta News t-shirt

My Blog Contest from MyBlogContest – $25 cash through PayPal

Vincent Chow from Reviewow – The Beta News t-shirt

Sparky123 from Just Another Contest Blog – The Beta News t-shirt

Once again congratulations everybody and thank you very much for participating!

I hope to see you all around on The Beta News.

The Beta News 2 year anniversary contest is about to kick off. In order to make the contest even more exciting I’m hoping to offer my readers and future readers some extraordinary cool prizes.

I’m therefore looking for some prize sponsors to make this contest as thrilling and interesting as possible.

The contest is planned to run over two weeks with a random drawing once per week (perhaps more often depending on the number of prizes). The big prize, which has yet to be determined (right now I have a $100 Amazon gift card) will be drawn on day 14.

The contest will be divided into several parts.

Part 1: Follow me on Twitter. At a random time I will announce a keyword on Twitter and the followers will have three hours to mail it to me. A random follower will then be drawn.

Part 2: Keyword in RSS-feed. Subscribe to my RSS-feed and mail the keyword to me. Again depending on the number of prizes, I’m hoping to have someone win every third to fourth day.

Part 3: Blog about the contest, a prize sponsor or The Beta News content. Write a blog post where the entrant must write about the contest or one of the prize sponsors or one of The Beta News posts (for instance Show Me Your Desktop) using some anchor text.

Part 4: Take a picture of your blog crib or desktop. Take a picture or a small video of what your blogger HQ, desk or computer desktop looks like.

Part 5: Each part gives you an extra chance to win the big drawing on day 14.

I will submit the contest to the 20+ contest blogs I know about. Write about it on Connectedinternet.co.uk and get as much link love from contacts as possible. The contest will be mentioned on my Entrecard and on as many social network sites as possible, without spamming of course. I still have a reputation to think of.

Prize sponsors will also get as much link love as possible from this modest Page Rank 4 site and from the entrants.

If you are interested in sponsoring me, please use my contact form or contact me on dbp (at) thebetanews.com.

I almost completely forgot it, but this week it’s exactly two years ago I wrote my first blog post ever. It started out with www.petersen-inc.dk, which was supposed to be a family site with my resume and some private photos, but after a couple of years, I read about WordPress and blogging, so I thought I’d try that.

Then last summer I moved to another domain – www.thebetanews.com.

I’ve learned a lot in the last couple of years, met a lot of great people and tried different WordPress themes and plugins.

To celebrate this, I’ll have my first contest/prize giveaway, but more about this later. Hopefully the concept of the contest will be unlike anything you’ve ever seen before

I’m looking for prize sponsors, so if you are interested please let me know. I’ll submit the contest to the about 20 contest blogs I know and give you as much link love as possible.