Does your Dad deserve a Sony dash? Well, here is your chance to win one for him! Tweet us why your dad deserves a dash, and one could be yours! From June 15th to Father’s Day June 21st, the best tweet as determined by our judges (more on them a little later) will win one of our most innovative gadgets!
In case you haven’t heard yet, Sony recently launched Sony dash, a dashboard for your life. It’s a Personal Internet Viewer with over 1,000 free applications to choose from. Check in on your social media sites, get recipes, stream Netflix, listen to Internet radio and more. Dash works through your home WiFi connection and is constantly refreshing, so you don’t have to do anything but glance over for the latest info you’ve customized it to show you. By the way, from what we’re hearing, Dash has become the alarm clock of choice by people who use it!
So here is how to enter. Use your twitter account to send a tweet to @sonyelectronics telling us why your Dad deserves a dash. Include #sonydash. Each day one winner will be chosen and announced on twitter the following morning by 9:30 AM pacific standard time.
Here’s an example
“@SonyElectronics My dad deserves a dash because he likes to check his email from bed so he doesn’t need to lug his laptop from work. He’s #1! #sonydash”
**Be sure to use the Sony dash hash tag: #sonydash**
** You must tweet @SonyElectronics
About our judges
We have a uniquely qualified group of judges, Brad Powell, C.C. Chapman, Jeff Sass, Max Kalehoff and Michael Sheehan. You may recognize them from their blogs or as part of our Sony DigiDads program. They also have a weekly podcast called Cast of Dads where they talk about technology, life, kids and fatherhood. If you haven’t listened to it yet, you should. It’s a great way to stay on top of what’s happening in the fast changing world of technology, especially when it comes to the connected family. One dad will judge each day and is solely responsible for choosing the winner. After they’ve chosen the winner of the day, we will let you know who won via twitter. One entry per person per day please!
Official Contest Rules
Eligibility: No purchase is necessary to enter or claim prize. The Sony dash Dad Needs a dash Gift Giveaway (the “Contest”) is open to anyone who (i) is a legal U.S. resident, and (ii) is at least eighteen (18) years of age. Employees of Sony Electronics Inc. (“Sponsors”), and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertising agencies, and the families and persons living in the same household as such employees, are not eligible to participate. The Contest is subject to all federal, state, and local laws. Void where prohibited or restricted by law or regulations.
How to Enter: Entrants must Tweet why their dad deserves a dash. The Tweet must include the following items: (1) Sony dash hash tag, (2) the “why”, (3) a picture (if available). “My dad deserves a Sony dash as he just got a promotion at work and needs it to check the latest news updates from his desk!” #sonydash”. The Contest begins on June 14, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (“PST”) and ends on June 20, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. PST (“Contest Period”).
Selection Of Winners/Prize: Every day, from June 14 through June 20, a winner will be selected at 11:59 p.m. PST. Daily winners will be announced the following day by @SonyElectronics Twitter account. Your odds of winning vary and depend upon the number of people participating. The expert Sony DigiDads will select each winner.
The winners will be notified by a public @reply of direct message on the Twitter platform. The decisions of the Sponsor are final and binding on all matters relating to the Contest. All winners will be required to sign and return to Sponsors an affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release within fourteen (14) days of the date of winning notification; otherwise the prize will be forfeited, and a new winner will be randomly selected.
The winner will receive one Sony dash device. The approximate approximate retail value of the prize is $199.99.
All federal, state, and local taxes, and all other expenses not expressly listed above are the sole responsibility of the winners. Prize is nontransferable and may not be substituted or redeemed for cash by winner. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute prize for one of equal or greater value.
Release of Liability: By participating, you release Sponsor and their subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, employees, directors, agents, advertising agencies, and all other associate with the development and execution of this Contest, from any and against any and all injury, loss or damage caused or claimed to be caused by your participation in the Contest and/or the acceptance, awarding, receipt, use and/or misuse of the prize, and you agree that these entities are in no matter responsible for any warranty, representation, or guarantee, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, relating to the Contest and/or the awarding of any prize. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the preceding release is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or void for any reason, entrant agrees that, by entering the Contest, (i) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with the Contest, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action; (ii) any claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering the Contest, but in no event attorney’s fees; and (iii) under no circumstances will any entrant be permitted to obtain any award for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental or consequential damages and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased and any other damages, other than damages for actual out-of-pocket expenses.
Additional Rules: Entrant agrees to hold harmless Sponsor, its officers, directors, employees, divisions, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotional agencies, from any claim by any third party relating to any rights. By participating in the Contest, entrant agrees to be bound by these Official Rules, including all eligibility requirements and all decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding in all matters relating to the Contest. Sponsor is not responsible for: (i) lost, late, misdirected, damaged, garbled or illegible entries/registrations; (ii) error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry/registration materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or any combination thereof; or (iii) any injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to: (i) permanently disqualify from any contest it sponsors any person it believes has intentionally violated these official rules; and (ii) suspend, modify or terminate the Contest if Sponsor believes, in its sole discretion, that malfunction, error, disruption or damage is impairing or will impair the administration, security, fairness, integrity of the Contest. If Contest is terminated before the end date, Sponsor will determine the winner from all eligible entries received as of the termination date. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any unauthorized entries, including, without limitation, multiple entries from the same person. Entering the Contest constitutes permission to use the name, voice, photo, and likeness of the winner for advertising and publicity purposes, without further compensation.
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Winner’s Name: For names of winners, please send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Marketing Werks, Inc, 130 E Randolph St Suite 2400 Chicago, IL 60601
So whether Dash is your morning wakeup call with Internet radio and your friend’s Facebook updates or a kitchen companion with a quick recipe of the day or your desktop view of what’s happening in the world, let us know by showing us!
