I subscribed to GOOD Magazine a while back. They describe themselves as the magazine for people who “give a damn.” I initially subscribed because of their transparency section – a series of fun infographics on some topic – in each issue, but it turned out the articles were interesting too. GOOD also gives 100% of their subscription fees to the non-profit of your choice.
Drawing for Free Subscription
Anyways, I never got around to renewing my subscription, so I got a 3-for-1 email offer the other day. I get 2 free subscriptions to GOOD with my renewal, so I thought, “Hey maybe a couple of FlowingData readers might enjoy a free subscription.” Anyone? I’ll make this easy on you all. If you’d like to win a free subscription, just leave a comment on this post that promises you’ll tell one person about FlowingData. One entry per person, please.
I’ll choose two winners at random Friday afternoon. If you win, you’ll hear from me then. If not, I’d encourage you to subscribe anyways. It’s only $20, and it all goes to charity. Make sure you leave a valid email address so that I’ll be able to contact you.
P.S. FlowingData’s got a contest involving two free Tufte books on the way. Keep an eye out.
UPDATE: Congratulations to our two winners drawn at random – Griffin and Brett! Thanks all for participating and helping our community grow.
Sounds nice. Is the subscription 20$ only in US or it counts as well is Europe? I guess you have to count me in.
Nice ! I’ll tell everybody I know about Flowing Data.
Thanks
If you keep giving away free stuff I’ll have to tell my friends to join – to share the spoils! The graphics guy in our office will love this…
I’m already telling people about this site and passing the articles along. I’m always happy to refer people here ! Thank you for the good work.
Hi Sounds very interesting and whan this will be available to german readers too ;-) hehe
Excellent, since I start to read FlowingData I kept on telling people about it, and will continue to do so
I promise to tell THREE people about Flowing Data.
Hey, I’ve been a reader for long and already told everyone about you when you wrote about one of the visualizations I developed while I was working at IBMs Many Eyes (https://flowingdata.com/2007/09/29/using-many-eyes-to-visualize-text/), but I’ll keep on spreading the word around and the best part is that I won’t have to lie at all, I really do love Flowing Data!
Keep on the great work!
I’m following you on twitter from now on and will keep telling everyone about flowingdata. I’d love to have a GOOD Magazine subscription.
Me! Me!
Does that mean I need to re-tell all those people I told already?
Consider the word spread. Count me in.
I’m in. 1 person in person + all my twitter followers.
If they ship to Brazil, count me in!
Either way I’ll tell other people about FlowingData (that is, try to find some of my comp.sci. friends whom I haven’t told already)
I love Flowing Data! And I’ll absolutely tell friends about it – count me in.
Sounds great!
Count me in!
I am already telling people about FlowingData, and i will continue to spread word about it.
Thanks for the opportunity!
I’m spreading the word as we speak.
I was already planning on telling the world.. Now there is bribe. Nice….
Came across FlowingData yesterday. It has already paid my attention back immensely. Now I might get a bonus gift. Woo Hoo!
I’m trying to put together an interdisciplinary seminar on information visualization, and I’ve already started recruiting students by sending them to FlowingData to see what a cool field this is. You can be sure I’ll be sending more!
I’m in!
I’m in
This is easy. There are so many people interested in this subject that I can tell. I’m in too.
I love Good Magazine and I need a subscription. Thanks for the giveaway.
Thanks for putting this out there. Would love to win.
Count me in – GOOD is awesome!
I’m going to tell, like, _five_ people.
You’re site makes my heart happy. Thank you.
I’m telling my Stats prof about flowing data!
Nathan,
I am all in here. Flowing Data is a daily must read here, and I pass your post links to all the colleagues in and out of the office. And I will add on my facebook page as well. Looking forward to it.
Do I get extra credit for already telling people about Flowing Data?
Also: I would love the free subscription to Good!
I’ve been promoting FlowingData to my journalism students.
I’m in. Your URL has been delivered to my coworkers. Keep up the GOOD work.
I’m in! I share FlowingData posts in my Google Reader all the time! But I’ll definitely send it directly to some people too!
I’m game!
By default I spread the Flowing Data GOODness to my Facebook and Twitter friends. Promise to tell more!
I’ll tell my graphic designing better half all about Flowing Data :)
Thanks for all the great posts!
just shared my favorite feeds with colleagues the other day and your blog was one of the top ones and I just tweeted about your site so hopefully that will help. Keep up the good work!
I’ve already tweeted about your fine work!
I’ll tell more than one person about it. I love this site, especially when it gives me ideas to make my school projects sharper and more usable.
I have already been spreading the word and I will continue to do so! Good stuff.
I told a friend this afternoon! My old roommate used to subscribe to GOOD; I loved reading it.
siigh… i love flowingdata readers :) thanks, everyone
sign me up!
I am a new Media Student and haven’t got much money to spend these days. I do spend a lot of time trying to create more Dataviz/infoviz awereness through many blogs. I am doing a round-up for data visualization blogs right now (that means I tell more than 600 people about Flowing Data!)
Thanks in advance :)
I keep promoting flowing data by sharing it in my lifestream i.e. friendfeed.
good!
Nathan,
I will be sure to tell some friends about your site. You do a great job and have helped me a great deal with my work already, so it makes it easy to tell friends about it….
I tell anyone who I think might be interested about this site (and probably a few who aren’t as well!) Hope I get GOOD and lucky.
Deal.
You got it.
Yay! I’d like one, too.
cheers!
Great idea! Please include me in the contest.
I promise to tell at least one person about FlowingData!
Already told my friends about it ;) (including the geek ones!)
Will do!
I already got Flowingdata 1 new RSS subscriber. I twitter cool posts pretty regularly. I can promise to tell not just one but all 110 people who follow me on twitter. That should win me something, right?
Count me in!!!
I even have proof that I spread the word about Flowing Data …
http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/the-utility-of-a-blogroll/#comments
I was speaking your praises even before you bribed us ;)
I can’t count exactly how many readers/followers/friends I can refer to you like others are promising, but it’s sure I’ll spread the word about FlowingData ’cause it was on my “to do” (blog)list long since. It’s obvious I’ll do it in any case because “quality content” can’t be measured with a victory or a loss in a sort of contest like this, but I’d like to talk about you in a even more enthusiastic way! :)
I’ll be sure to tell my boss about FlowingData.
i tell the folks that work for me all the day, i post links on my blog, email it, share stuff on google reader.. i’m a better fan than your mom :-)
I promise! (I’ll tell more than 3,500 subscribers about FlowingData in the next issue of my ezine.)