Earn 4 Free Alt Online Classes in July

Bing wants to encourage all of you to participate in a whole lot of doing this summer and there’s no better way to get started than by taking a couple of Alt online classes for free. Yep you heard right, for FREE. Here’s how you can get to doing with this offer only available in July:

1. Publish a blog or Facebook post about the Alt online classes before the dates of the classes you want to take. It can be about one you took (and loved!) or just about how you’re excited to take one, whatever you like. Just make sure to include a thanks to Bing (#thanksbing) for providing this opportunity.

2. Send the link of your post to Melanie@altitudesummit.com -- include the names of two classes + one alternate class that you want to sign up for. Please note, once you’re signed up, you can’t change or transfer the classes.

3. On the date of the class, get the video rolling, grab a snack, kick back and enjoy!

And wait, there's more! If you find that you're having a hard time narrowing down your options to only two classes, there's yet another way to earn two more classes for free. Here's how:

1. Publish a blog post, Facebook status or tweet (#thanksbing) about Bing's Summer of Doing. To celebrate the arrival of summer, Bing is featuring daily search words that inspire more doing. Pretty perfect for a crowd of bloggers, right?

2. Send the link to the post to Melanie@altitudesummit.com -- include the names of the two classes + one alternate class that you want to sign up for. Please note, once you’re signed up, you can’t change or transfer the classes.

3. Enjoy the class and don't forget to thank Bing (#thanksbing).

Wowee! That's a whole lot of doing. Can't wait to chat with you during the free classes you stack up.

December Online Classes

Our online classes have been a huge hit so we’re offering a couple more this month to make sure you’re fired up and ready for January. First up on, on Friday, December 9th, at 2pm EST/ 11am PST Laurie Smithwick will be talking all about business cards. She'll share examples of effective cards, discuss how many you need to bring, and even suggest sources for printing them on a dime. Alt yields a veritable mountain of cards that are frame worthy. Learn how to make yours memorable. Register here. Then, on Tuesday, December 13th, 2 pm EST/10 am PST the passionately entrepreneurial Meg Keene will fill you in on what you need to know to create a media kit that works. Join this lively discussion on how to sell your blog without feeling skeezy, brought to you by the woman who's packed her media kit with photos where she is dancing her face off. Funny thing about that: it works. Register here.  Thanks to Sherwin Williams for making these classes possible.

PUT A PIN IN IT

Pinterest is the coolest thing ever! Have you checked them out yet? Pinterest is a social catalog, where you can create virtual pinboards of your favorite objects, inspirations and doohickies.

Currently, Pinterest users participate by invitation only. And guess what?!  Signing up for Alt 2011 gets you an automatic invitation to Pinterest. We love Pinterest, and they love us back!

Follow designers. Get inspired. Create the boards that everyone else wants to follow.

Get your inspiration on.

You’ve heard about Pinterest.

The social catalog where you can create virtual pinboards of your favorite do-dads and ah-hahs and follow pinboards created by your friends.

You know you want it.

Pinterest is currently invitation only. Luckily, the Pinterest people are “huge fans” (their words, not ours) of Alt. And because we (you and Alt) were so inspiring this year, Pinterest is offering us early invitations.

But you have to register for Alt Summit first.

Don’t wait until January. We’ll hook you up. Get your inspiration on.

Spread the Word Winners

Thank you for spreading the word about Alt through all our favorite communities: facebook, blogs, twitter, etc. Here are the lucky winners:

1) @discoursedesign, you win the Instyle Book and Red Peek for spreading the word about Alt on Twitter.

2) Katherine Gray, you win the Peter Walsh In-Place System and Book because you're an Alt Facebook Fan.

3) Annie May, you win the Neat Receipts Scanner for posting about Alt on your blog.

4) Melissa Esplin, you win the Photo Package (the Free Agent storage device, the Eye-fi card and the subscription to Flickr) for spreading the word about Alt everywhere!