Bloggers Amber Borowski Johnson and Dylan Derryberry win a trip to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, and they will use Microsoft Office 2010 to cover the events from their perspective.
They both are the winners of a Microsoft-sponsored, online contest to select two bloggers to write from the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C. Johnson and Derryberry will go to the Games and blog daily using Microsoft Office 2010.
Amber Borowski Johnson, mother of two and an avid blogger, says that when the Winter Games came to her home town of Calgary, Alberta, “our entire community and school got involved — I took luge lessons in gym class.”
Johnson and Derryberry were two of 10 contest semifinalists chosen by a panel of judges, including five-time Olympic gold medalist Bonnie Blair and online video stars Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld from CollegeHumor.com. The public then voted for their favorite semifinalists online, and Johnson and Derryberry were selected based on the number of votes they received.
Each will take a 10-day trip to Vancouver and work alongside Team USA to blog about the team using top-of-the-line technology including Microsoft Office 2010 Professional and an Acer Aspire 4810 laptop.
Johnson, mother of two and an avid blogger, has a background in travel writing and journalism and is no stranger to the Winter Games, having been raised in Calgary, Alberta.
“The Winter Olympics are king in Calgary and are my favorite,” she says. “When the Olympics came to Calgary in 1988 I was 16, and our entire community and school got involved. Even my high school’s curriculum adapted to the Olympics — I took luge lessons in gym class.”
Microsoft Office will give Johnson and Derryberry the reporting, editing and communication tools they’ll need across the PC, mobile phone and browser at the Winter Games. Because blogs and online reporting are an increasingly popular way for sports fans to consume news about their favorite events, Microsoft will equip the two bloggers with Microsoft Office 2010 Professional to help them report with ease right from the sidelines.
Johnson will blog from the Games at http://www.crazybloggincanuck.com; Derryberry will blog from the Games at http://cmc-glenwood-dylan.blogspot.com.
The information sourced from http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/jan10/01-26OlympicBlogWinners.mspx