This amazing woman is the Contest Queen, a very active contest participant and promoter with over twenty years experience and wisdom to share. She’s also a prolific author and thinker and a very informative and entertaining blogger.  Add it all up and Carolyn is a profoundly original web marketer that would probably like to be considered North America’s Contest Queen, and indeed that’s exactly what she’s becoming…

You can read all about Carolyn Wilman, the Contest Queen on Canada Blog Friends which has just recently profiled her and published her vision of the future. The author has once again gone to great lengths to get all the subject URLS in order, and link to all platforms and properties in Carolyn’s royal realm.

Buy her book You Can’t Win If You Don’t Enter to read all her secrets.

Lenzr.com is just starting to get its web legs, and now there are widgets available for blog users. This is great way to join the Lenzr community and become part of a synergistic art movement. Check out the widgets here.

This bean sprout website germ-of-an-idea manifest online has just pushed its head up above the night soil.

In the summer of 2009, this junior contest website is starting to get some attention, and twenty one days after launch their were over 100 registered users, 120 different photos and almost 5000 total votes. There are now unusual alliances forming and new production rituals appearing as knowledge is gathered on all eleven sides of this uncut diamond.

THE BLOG WIDGETS

The Lenzr Blog Widget is now available in three basic layouts (vertical 100x or 200x or horizontal 300x) for all bloggers that want to get more involved in Lenzr’s creative community; the bean stalk is just beginning to stretch out its hairy tentacles.

The Lenzr Blog Widget cycles through all three contests, showing the top three most popular images in each match, one contest at a time - each event gets two seconds with a half second fade. Should it be longer? NOTE: The blog widget that’s currently available is just the beginning of what’s possible. Today there’s only two layouts, vertical and horizontal, but tomorrow there will be many more customizable features. For example, right now the script is programmed to load the most popular images, the three most thumbed up pictures in each contest. The mechanism ignores the thumbs down quotient and that could be changed - the feed could someday select and display the worst, most unpopular images. Or maybe it could be programmed to show only the images that member has uploaded? Or perhaps only the images they like?