Party Like A Rockstar Winner… Everyone?

20th November 2007

How lame is it that Microsoft chose “Party like a rock star” as the theme of their Webmaster World party this year?

Shoemoney (Jeremy Shoemaker) ran a contest he called, “Party like a rock star” paying the airfare, hotel bill, conference admission, and %400 cash for one lucky winner, and he got quite a few entries, quite a bit of blog buzz, and created a pretty good thing, in my opinion. (Yesterday he announced his winner, which was Laura Martin)

Just now via e-mail I got an invitation (exclusive, no doubt to the Microsoft Ad Center party, and they are calling it “Party like a Rock Star” also.

I don’t think that takes away anything from Shoe’s contest, but really, are they so far out of the loop that they didn’t know this contest was going on?

I suppose Microsoft can do whatever they want, just like Google does, but I think it shows somewhat of an “unawareness” about the community of attendees at the conference. I won’t hold it against them though, and I’ll be there anyway, partying like a (aging) rockstar…