Feeling antsy at the office? Maybe it’s time to blow off some steam – at the gym.
DailyBurn wants you get healthy. We’re offering up a great incentive to get you and your coworkers to lose weight and get healthy together. We’re inviting you to battle it out with companies across the nation in the Revenge of the Office Worker Weight-Loss Challenge.
According to a 2009 study conducted by Ball State University’s Center for Media Design (CMD) and Sequent Partners for the Nielsen-funded Council for Research Excellence (CRE), American adults spend an average of more than eight hours each day in front of screens, including televisions, computer monitors, cell phones and others. You don’t necessarily need to work in an office setting to benefit from this weight loss contest.
Here are the details:
The winner of this challenge will receive a Steelcase Walkstation, and all members of the winning team will receive a one year paid DailyBurn Pro account. Each team will join a weight loss challenge on the DailyBurn site. Teams will have 30 days to lose as much weight as possible. At the end of 30 days, the five teams with the greatest percentage of total weight lost will be finalists. The five final teams will have two weeks to use social media platforms to garner as many votes as possible. The team with the most votes at the end of the voting period will be declared the winner. Each member of the winning team will win a prize, and the individual member of the winning team with the highest percentage of overall weight lost will win the grand prize.
The contest will launch on March 22, 2010. Please complete the following steps to ensure the success of your team:
1) Publicize the contest within your workplace and get commitments from potential team members. We will send you a signup sheet that you may wish to circulate around your workplace.
2) Contact DailyBurn Community Manager Kate Brown via email (kate@dailyburn.com) to confirm participation and send the following: completed sign-up sheet, company logo, and team point of contact. You may also wish to include additional promotional items, for example, photos of participants. This information may be published on the DailyBurn blog for publicity purposes pending written permission.
3) Kate will create an individual weight loss challenge for each company.
4) Once you have commitments from your team members, everyone needs to make a Daily Burn profile if they are not users already (http://dailyburn.com). If new users need help creating a profile, contact Kate for further instructions. Each new user will then have to sign up for the company challenge that Kate created by going to http://dailyburn.com/challenges and searching under the company name. Once users find their company challenge, they should click the “Join This Challenge” button to register.
5) Kate will actively monitor the progress of all participating teams, and will publish leader board results every Monday on the DailyBurn blog, twitter, and facebook accounts.
6) Users should report their challenge progress at least once a week for the most accurate leader board results.
7) Teams should start publicizing their participation in the contest across various social networks early in the competition in anticipation of becoming a finalist team. It will be easier to amass votes at the end of the month if you have already built up a team fan base. (Email Kate if you are unclear how to distribute content through social media channels).
8) Kate will contact the finalists on April 22 and oversee the voting process, including distributing a voting widget for all finalist teams that can be placed on company websites, blogs, etc.
9) Voting closes at midnight (mountain time) on May 5, 2010. The winning team will be contacted on May 6, 2010, at which time prize logistics will be discussed.
Visit this link for full terms and conditions of the contest.
Good luck!
{ 1 comment }
