And the winner is...

Today wraps up the first creativity contest on getFreshminds.com!

First, I want to say a huge THANK YOU to all the people who visited, and especially to the contestants who contributed ideas.

The last week has been a lot of fun.  There are funny ideas, ideas to make life easier, ideas that solve problems, ideas for new services, ideas that inspire more thinking--it's been everything I hoped it would be! 

I'll be talking about all the fresh ideas in the next couple days.

But, that's not why you're here, is it?  You want to know who won!

The Nominees for the first-ever Fresh Mind Award are...

Annie Hall	SparkBugg (Matt)
Vicki	WrightHandBlogger (Vincent)
Chuck	Chris Johnston
Nora	Michael Meyers-Jouan
Carl	Scot Herrick
Utkarsh	Faisca
RennyBA	Bill Austin
Stephanie	Mary Stewart McGovern
Carolynn	Kes Sampanthar
Misa	Marilyn Wulfekuhler
Srihari	Edgar Valdmanis

And Kent Blumberg--who is not in the running because he's already a subscriber to JibberJobber--but decided to play anyways!

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for.  The hat, please...

The first Fresh Mind Award and 6 Month Subscription to JibberJobber goes to Scot Herrick of Cube Rules.

Scot's word "onion" made him think of peeling away layers to reveal the core.  His idea is to build in layers of crash protection into the structure of the passenger car by designing the car to break apart in a way that still protects the occupants.

THANK YOU to all the contestants.  I loved all the ideas that came out, and am so thrilled about how this contest went that I'm looking forward to doing it again next month.

 

Special thanks to Jason Alba of JibberJobber for challenging me to find an interesting way to give away a 6 month subscription to his premium JibberJobber service!

Comments

[Srihari]

Hello Katie,

Thanks for following up! I had fun participating.

Also thanks to whoever nominated me!

Srihari

[Scot Herrick]

Wowser! And thanks to Jason, too.

[Mary Stewart McGovern]

Katie:

Thanks to whomever nominated me, and congratulations to Scot.

Regards,

Mary

[Kesavan Sampanthar]

Hi Katie,

Great competition! Congratulations to Scot for a great idea. I love the 'connection' he made between the layers of an onion and the idea of using it as a safety measure; building layers of crash protection that break off taking the full force of the impact.

I look forward to the next competition!

Kes

[RennyBA]

Hi Katie,
This was a great competition and real fun participating. A nice new twist of blogsphere challenge!
To me it was an honor to be nominated at all and I'm looking forward to the next one - keep me posted!

I think Scot was a worthy winner, so I'm off to greet him:-)