Mixing Bowl, a Better Homes and Gardens Network Site, Launches $10,000 Challenge

Online contest winner will be entrant who starts most active new group between May 8 and June 30, 2009, determined by Mixing Bowl on number of members in group, number of recipes uploaded to group by group members, number of photos uploaded to the Photo section of group, and number of discussion posts in group.

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$10,000 Mixing Bowl Challenge

Mixing Bowl will help get you started making friends and sharing recipes at your new online home for all things cooking

New York (PRWEB) June 2, 2009

Mixing Bowl has launched the $10,000 Challenge for any member who starts the most active new group on the social networking site. MixingBowl.com launched earlier this year under the Better Homes and Gardens Network, a part of the Meredith Women's Network.

The online contest winner will be the entrant who starts the most active new group between May 8, 2009, and June 30, 2009, determined by Meredith Corporation of 11:59 CT on June 30, 2009 using the following criteria: number of Mixing Bowl members in the group (40%); number of recipes uploaded into the group by group members (recipes added to the Group as a result of being "shared" from another Mixing Bowl group will not be counted) (40%); number of photos uploaded into the Photo section of group (photos submitted with recipes will not be included) (10%); and number of discussion posts in the group (new discussion post or reply to a previous post) (10%).

Each recipe, member, photo, discussion post and reply must be unique. Duplicate submissions will not be counted. In the event of a tie, the entrant among the tied entrants whose group has the highest number of uploaded recipes will be the winner. Only the one individual who creates the winning Group may be selected as the winner. For more details, click on $10,000 Mixing Bowl Challenge official contest rules.

A second contest, the Mixing Bowl Master Mixer Challenge will run from June 1 to July 31, 2009. It will feature $10,000 in total prizes, with five $2,000 winners for the most active Mixing Bowl members.

Mixing Bowl is the ultimate online community for cooks of any level. With an emphasis on user-generated content, the site invites everyday chefs to come together and exchange recipes, plan gatherings or celebrations, share photos, participate in contests, post messages, and more. Mixing Bowl's powerful social networking engine gives users unprecedented power to filter and control their experience.

Hundreds of active members have created public groups and they've already added thousands of recipes to the site's rapidly growing cookbook. There are already more than 200 groups in the following categories:

Baking
Beginners
Budget Friendly
Cold-Weather Favorites
Cooking for 2
Cooking for Kids
Desserts
Ethnic
Food & Wine Pairings
Grilling
Healthy Eating
Holidays & Entertaining
Local Groups
No-Cook, No-Bake
Quick & Easy
Regional Cooking
Slow Cooker
Special Diets

"Mixing Bowl will help get you started making friends and sharing recipes at your new online home for all things cooking," says Doug Crichton, Editor-in-Chief of Mixing Bowl. "Post recipes, ask questions, get ideas, and meet other home cooks in your neighborhood and around the world. Once you're a seasoned Mixing Bowl member, come back often to welcome the newbies, get the latest scoop from other Mixers, and share you thoughts, too! Our free, easy-to-use tool makes blogging a snap."

About Mixing Bowl

Mixing Bowl is a community built entirely around food, recipes and entertaining. The social networking site is the latest addition to The Better Homes and Gardens Network, which also includes the Better Homes and Gardens and Better Recipes digital brands. The Better Homes and Gardens Network is part of The Meredith Women's Network, the first brand network comprised of premium websites geared toward the topics that matter most to women that engages 15 million unique visitors monthly.*

*Omniture, November 2008 traffic.

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