First E-venting.net sponsor?

On Friday of last week I got an email from "The Sprint Ambassador Team" inviting me to join the Ambassador program. What this means is that they're giving me a new Samsung A-920 phone and 6-months of all access service to the Sprint PCS Power Network so I can watch TV and download music and connect my laptop to their high-speed internet and take 1.3 mega pixel pictures and 30-second movies and all the stuff the kids today are doing with their phancy phones. In exchange, all I have to do is give them feedback about the phone and the service, as frequently or infrequently as I choose.

The only indications I have about why they chose me is this:

1. The invite email says, "The Sprint Ambassador Team recently visited E-venting.net and wants to invite you to participate in our Ambassador Program."
2. The email arrived a little after 10am EST on Friday AM.

So something about my blog and that timing are clues. On Thursday evening, MediaPost published my article about Compensating Citizen Publishers, so it's possible that the folks at Sprint saw that and tuned in (especially given that MediaPost's circulation is about 1000x greater than this blog's...).

If that's the case, then maybe adding me to the program is Sprint's way of accepting my proposal and sponsoring this blog. By my calculations then, since the've given me a $300 phone and 6 months of service at about $120 per month, I owe them about 1000 words.

Naturally, I accepted the invitation, but countered with one of my own:
I invited the folks at Sprint to come and speak at OMMA Hollywood about the Ambassador and other programs within the blogosphere. I'll let you know if they take me up on it and, if so, what they say.

Comments

[Busy Mom]

Congratulations on your Ambassadorship. Do we call you "Your Excellency" or something now?

I am in desperate need of a new phone, being able to hear out of one's cell phone has been vastly underrated, you'll have to let me know how you like this one!

[Mike May]

Maybe it's a quaint tribute to antique communications that when I use a headset in my current phone it sounds like I'm listening through a tin can on a string to my neighbor in the treehouse next door. Whasshername is making a fortune on 'Shabby Chic', so why not?

924 words for Sprint to go. And I don't even have the phone yet.