Share ten reasons why you would want to visit Virginia Beach for a $40 Amazon.com gift card!

THANK YOU EVERYONE! We have reached our quota of 100 posts. We are reviewing current submissions to make sure they are qualified. You will be notified via email if you were one of the qualifying participants. Thanks for participating! Even if you are not in the first 100 submissions, you are welcome to continue submitting your posts, and we will share all of them with the team at Virginia Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Summertime is here and your ocean playground awaits: Great weather, kid-friendly activities, and the biggest sand box you’ve ever seen, that’s Virginia Beach. Let your imagination run wild on the shores of possibilities as you visit attractions like the Virginia Aquarium and First Landing State Park and a mix of coastal experiences like performances and festivals presented by Beach Street USA and the nation’s first handicap-accessible playground, Grommet Island Park. There’s always plenty to do and see in Virginia Beach, sand castles to be built, and a whole coast of excitement waiting to be explored! Whether you prefer to fly a kite, skate a ramp or relax with a picnic at one of the popular parks, there’s something for everyone at Virginia Beach!

In honor of summer vacation season, we have teamed up with the Virginia Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau to bring you a fresh, new blogging program. We want to hear why you would want to visit Virginia Beach! Would you grab your family and check out the sea life at the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center, or set sail on a dolphin watching boat cruise? Would you like to spend long days on the sun-drenched beaches, go boogie boarding, build sandcastles and splash through the waves? Would you grab a kayak oar and explore the ocean and inland waterways? Have you always wanted to learn how to surf? The possibilities are endless and we’d like to hear your top ten reasons why you would like to visit Virginia Beach. We have provided some great resources below where you can learn more about all Virginia Beach has to offer!

We're looking for quality over speed, so please read on.

How it works:
We are looking for one hundred creative, original and authentic submissions of high quality. Create an original post on your blog, in 400 words or more (using your own words), sharing ten reasons why you would want to visit Virgina Beach. Include a thoughtful introduction, original content within the body of your post, and a conclusion. Check your spelling and grammar. You must also include the disclosure statement that is below in your post and install the campaign widget in the sidebar of your blog. Then follow the rest of the requirements below. We will review every post and the first one hundred qualifying submissions will receive a $40 Amazon.com gift card!

Highlights from your posts, tweets and tips will be collected and featured on http://visitvirginiabeach.socialmoms.com, and distributed across the web for all to see. The blogging program starts on July 11, 2011 and the submission window closes at 11:59pm PST on August 29, 2011. We will contact the qualifying bloggers on or about September 5, 2011. Full terms and conditions are posted for your review at http://visitvirginiabeach.socialmoms.com/terms.

Please email alysha@socialmoms.com if you have any questions.

Rewards for Participating:
The first one hundred qualifying participants will receive a $40 Amazon.com gift card! See Terms and Conditions.

Requirements:
To participate, we ask that you:

Create an original blog post on your blog, in 400 words or more, sharing "Ten reasons why you would want to visit Virgina Beach." Please include a thoughtful introduction and conclusion in addition to the main body of your essay. Give it plenty of thought, and include content that your readers would like to hear about and can connect with! Short or poorly written posts will not be accepted. Copying and pasting does not count. Blank posts submitted to create a blog link on the discussion page will be disqualified. Don't copy another blogger's post or ideas. Plagiarism is grounds for immediate disqualification.
Participants must include the following disclosure as a footnote of their post:
“I wrote this blog post while participating in the SocialMoms and Virginia Beach Tourism blogging program, for a gift card worth $40. For more information on how you can participate, click here.” (make sure you link to http://visitvirginiabeach.socialmoms.com/about)
Install the campaign widget in the side bar of your blog
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Log on to your Twitter account, www.twitter.com, and send a tweet including a link to your blog post with the hashtag #VirginaBeach.
Return to www.SocialMoms.com and post a comment on this discussion page in the comments section below, including an active link to your blog post and a direct link to your Twitter tweet. (You can click on the date/time link below your tweet to get the direct link to your tweet.)

Eligibility:
No purchase required to participate. You must be a legal resident of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, have a personal blog and be a registered user of the www.socialmoms.com and www.twitter.com websites to participate and at least 18 years of age or older at time of submission. See Terms and Conditions. Please see SocialMoms FAQs for more information on blogging programs.

About Virgina Beach
Virginia Beach entices visitors to “Live the Life” year-round! Located in the southeastern corner of the state, Virginia Beach is four hours southeast of D.C. by car and within a day’s drive or less from two-thirds of the U.S. population. For visitor information, call 1-800-VA-BEACH (800/822-3224) or visit www.VisitVirginiaBeach.com for online trip planning. For media information and digital images, click on www.VisitVirginiaBeach.com/pressroom. Please
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Virginia Beach Resources
More info on Virgina Beach: http://www.visitvirginiabeach.com/visitors/

Virgina Beach on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VirginiaBeachVA

Follow @VaBeachCVB on Twitter

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