Southwest Airlines is holding a video contest to select their new ‘Blog-o-spondent’ on their Nuts About Southwest blog. Winner gets to travel to select destinations covered by Southwest and will have to produce a minimum of 4 video segments for the blog. Free flights and hotels paid for by Southwest. And winner also gets a new video camera, laptop and editing software for producing the videos.

But before that, you need to submit a 1 minute ‘audition’ video. Upload your video to Youtube, and make a post on the Southwest blog with an embedded link to the video, on or before August 31 2008. The blog’s community will rate your video. The top 3 finalists win a trip to the 2008 BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas on Sept 20-21, where they will compete in another round of video production.

The winner out of the three will again be decided by the blog’s audience who will rate each video. To sign up and check out the current entries, visit the Nuts About Southwest blog.

Posted on August 17th, 2008 by PLing
Filed under: Travel News