We are in the middle of judging the Eco All Star August Challenge right now and are in a dilemma!  We have a tie for all places!

They are all so good, local, great pictures....

So, as the judges we decided to get together and figure out a tie breaker.  First, what is the reason why we did this?

The NEW Localism is all about talking WITH the consumer not TO the consumer.  So, how can WE as a group provide approved content to Localism, provide the consumer with amazing LOCAL information....

And get them involved with the site, blog, comments...It's about making connections.  Finding like minded people in the community that want to share information as well?

Well, we decided to look at the criteria again:

• Must be about your Community-  Yep.
• Have local pictures to associate- Yep.
• Tagged Properly-  That too.
• Grammar and Spelling-  Yes.
• Interesting, Unique and Different- All were that too.

So what can we do for a Tie Breaker?  Oh my, that's tough.

The last item on the Challenge was actually a Bonus.  It was meant from the beginning to help be a tie breaker...so we are revisiting this one.  This is the only part of the criteria that none of the posts had:

• Bonus if it is an interview or otherwise and the local business, etc. comments on the post.  Remember, the end goal of Localism is to get the community involved..i.e. YOUR Community

We decided that this would be a fair tie breaker.  So...

We are extending the challenge for Another 3 days, until September 6th!  :) 

janeAnne, Mary and I are challenging all of the entries to go meet to community.  Let them know that you wrote about them and that you are passionate about what you do.  Invite them to hop over and meet your online community VIA Localism!  We will revisit all of the entries and check out the comments to see if your community has hopped in. 

Many of you did amazing and put in several entries, but to be fair we only chose one per person to judge so here is the list of the ones we were looking at.  See you on the 6th!!!!