We have 15 copies of two Cisco Press books to give away "Enterprise Web 2.0 Fundamentals" and "Grow a Greener Data Center." Deadline for entries: July 31, 2009.
We have 15 copies of two great titles from Cisco Press books to give away in July: "Enterprise Web 2.0 Fundamentals" by By Krishna Sankar and Susan A. Bouchard; and "Grow a Greener Data Center" By Douglas Alger. Deadline for entries is July 31, 2009.
1) Question to win Enterprise Web 2.0 Fundamentals: In our exclusive excerpt of the book, Chapter 9: Web 2.0 and Mobility, in what year did AT&T introduced Mobile Telephone Service (MTS) in the United States? (Hint: You can find the answer somewhere on the Cisco Subnet home page.)
2) Question to win Grow a Greener Data Center: In our exclusive excerpt of the book, Chapter 1: Going Green in the Data Center, the author says that data centers involve drawing much more power than other building spaces. How much money can green improvements easily achieve per square foot in energy savings over 20 years? (Hint: You can find the term after the word "Note" and somewhere on the Cisco Subnet home page.)
How to enter to win: For each book you would like to win, answer the above trivia question correctly, e-mail your answer to Julie Bort at jbort@nww.com by midnight PT, July 31, 2009, and your entry will be entered into a drawing. In the e-mail, please include the answer to the questions above for each book you would like to win, your name, job title, U.S. mailing address and your daytime telephone number. Please write "Cisco Subnet July book contests" in the subject of your e-mail. (Better yet, click here and start with the a pre-filled e-mail.)
Extras: Read the authors' guest blogs written exclusively for Cisco Subnet.
- Guest blog of Susan Bouchard, on how to apply Web 2.0 to your enterprise.
- Guest blog of Douglas Alger an expert at all things data center.
Plus, go to Cisco Subnet for more Cisco news, discussion forums, blogs, security alerts, book giveaways, and more.
Competition rules:
1. No purchase necessary.
2. Network World, Inc., will begin accepting e-mail entries on the day each book giveaway question is described on Cisco Subnet. One entry per individual, per book.
3. To enter by e-mail, participants must respond to the book giveaway question by midnight PT, July 31, 2009. No entries will be acknowledged or returned, and all entries become the property of Network World. Network World is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, incomplete or misdirected entries. All such entries will be disqualified.
4. The book giveaway competition closes at midnight PT, July 31, 2009. Fifteen winners will be picked at random from the entries with the correct answers. Winners will be notified after the close of the competition at a date determined by Network World. All winners notified must RSVP by the date indicated in the e-mail sent by Network World. Failure to do so will result in forfeiture of the Prize(s). Answers to the trivia questions will be published on Cisco Subnet, along with the names of the winners.
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6. PRIZE 1: Fifteen (15) readers per copy of "Enterprise Web 2.0 Fundamentals" with a list price of $40 and PRIZE 2: Fifteen (15) readers per copy of "Grow a Greener Data Center" with a list price of $45.
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