Get Smart, Go Green For a Chance to Win a Smart Car

Anybody that commutes to work knows the pain of long drives and high gas prices. Making the trek each day is not only taxing on your wallet, it also does a number on the environment.

If you're looking to go green with the kind of vehicle you drive, you could do just that by joining the Get Smart, Go Green sweepstakes with Green Mountain Energy Company, the Texas electricity provider dedicated to clean and renewable energy. They are teaming up with smart center Sugar Land and smart center Houston North to bring you a 2010 smart fortwo passion coupe, which is being hailed as the most fuel efficient gasoline-powered car on the road today.

Here are some more details about this great car:

• One of the most economical cars on the road today
• Fuel efficient with 33 mpg in the city and 41 mpg on the highway
• Meets or exceeds all federal government crash test standards
• Extremely safe with advanced crash avoidance and crash protection systems

In order to enter to win this sweepstakes, you must head on over to the Get Smart, Go Green page on Green Mountain Energy Company's Web site, and fill out the form required to put in your entry. Before you know it, you could be the proud owner of a brand new environmentally friendly car!

View the Sweepstakes Official Rules at www.greenmountain.com/smartcar. No purchase is necessary. One entry per household permitted from all methods combined. All entrants must be a minimum of 18 years of age. All entrants must be a resident of the State of Teas. Certain restrictions apply.

WhiteFence Summer Savings Twitter Party

Summer is making its presence known with high temperatures, theme park openings and big movie releases. It's the time of year that most people can't wait for, because it's associated with fun in the sun and lots of travel. However, at WhiteFence we feel that summer also has another element to it: savings! There are all kinds of deals that you can find for your home in order to save money on your monthly bills. That's why we're teaming up for a summer savings Twitter party with Bonggamom, a savings-savvy blogger who loves to find a good bargain.

So, how does this Twitter party work? This Thursday, June 24, Bonggamom is going to be asking questions on the topic of summer savings and WhiteFence on Twitter. If you answer the give-away questions correctly with the hashtag #WFParty, you could walk away with some great gift cards to retailers like Target, Best Buy or Amazon.

Here are the details for the event:

Date: Thursday, June 24

Time: 7:00-8:00pm EST (4:00-5:00pm PST)

Hosts: Bonggamom and WhiteFence

Hashtag: #WFParty

Prizes: 3 winners will receive $25 gift cards to Target. 1 winner will receive a $50 gift card to Best Buy. Grand prize winner gets a $250 Amazon gift card!

To read more details about the party and participate in yet another giveaway opportunity for an additional gift card, visit Bonggamom's site. Looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday!

Virtual Plant-athon Results

We wrapped up our first ever Plant-athon on Friday and the results were awesome. We added 120 fans to our Facebook account, meaning we'll be donating the cost of 120 trees to the Arbor Day Foundation.

I'd like to give a big thank you to everyone that joined and helped spread the word for your support! Don't forget to stay our fan on Facebook for news about upcoming giveaways and contests along with all of our regular news articles!

Also, while Earth Day and the Plant-athon may be over, we can still help you go green. Switching to renewable energy for your home is an easy and inexpensive way to slash your carbon footprint. Just head on over to the WhiteFence homepage and enter your address to see what clean energy options are available in your area.

The WhiteFence Virtual Plant-athon Has Begun!

Earth Day is finally here! To celebrate, we’re having our first ever Virtual Plant-athon.

What is a Virtual Plant-athon?
It’s simple, for every new fan of WhiteFence on Facebook from now through Arbor Day (April 30th), we will donate $1 to the Arbor Day Foundation (up to $1,500). Each dollar donated plants one tree, so every new fan means one new tree in the world!

How can you help?
First, if you’re not already our fan on Facebook, become one now! All you have to do is visit our Facebook page and hit the ‘like’ button. That’s it! The final count will take place 6pm PST on April 30th, so make sure you’re still around then.

Second, once you’re already a fan yourself, you can help spread the word to your friends and family. An easy way to do this is to post a link to your Facebook profile. To do this, just head over to the WhiteFence Facebook page and find the ‘share’ button on the left side of the page below the friends and event. Click that, type a message to all of your Facebook friends and hit the share button.  Don’t forget to let everyone know they should tell their friends and family too!

This is a really easy way to take action today and do something positive for the environment. Please join us this year in making a difference!

Reminder: WhiteFence Virtual Plant-athon Is This Week!

In case you didn't know, I thought I'd put up a quick reminder about our WhiteFence Virtual Plant-athon, which starts this week on Earth Day, April 22nd, and runs through Arbor Day, April 30th. What is a Virtual Plant-athon, you ask?

Starting this Thursday, we will be donating the cost of planting a tree ($1) to the Arbor Day Foundation for every new Facebook fan we get. That's right, one tree per every person that fans us on Facebook. We'll do this for up to $1500, so that means a total of 1500 trees could be planted around the world. So be sure to spread the word on Facebook and tell your friends how they can help make a difference with us.

Here are the details, bullet-point style.

• What: WhiteFence Virtual Plant-athon
• When: Earth Day (April 22nd) through Arbor Day (April 30th)
• How You Can Help: Fan WhiteFence on Facebook! We will donate the cost of a tree to the Arbor Day Foundation for each new fan, up to 1500.

To read more details, check out our original blog post on the Virtual Plant-athon.

Announcing the WhiteFence Virtual Plant-athon!

Earth Day is a chance each year to commit to taking action for the good of the planet. This year, we decided to do our part by helping the Arbor Day Foundation replant trees in devastated parts of our national forests. Instead of keeping the feeling of making a difference to ourselves though, we wanted to get the public involved.

With that in mind, we’ve decided that for everyone that becomes our fan on Facebook between Earth Day (April 22nd) and Arbor Day (April 30th), we’ll donate the cost of one tree to the Arbor Day Foundation. That's right, all you have to do is fan us on Facebook from April 22nd through April 30th, and we will donate $1 (up to $1,500) to the Arbor Day Foundation. That could equal up to 1,500 new trees in the world! The final count will be on April 30th at 6pm PT, so make sure you are still a fan then.

Join us this year in making the world a better place to live. Check back on the 22nd for more details.

Looking to do more? Switching to renewable energy is an easy and inexpensive way to make your lifestyle more sustainable. Visit the WhiteFence homepage and enter your address to see what clean energy options are available in your area.

Win a Sony HDTV at the WhiteFence and TheSportsGeeks Twitter Tailgate!

It’s that time of year again, when offices across the country start buzzing with wild predictions, grown men spend their lunch money on elaborate brackets and productivity falls through the floor. It’s March Madness! In honor of the big tournament getting underway, WhiteFence is joining forces with The Sports Geeks to co-host a Twitter tailgate and giveaway.

“How does it work?” I can hear you asking. It’s simple! Today, from 4:00pm to 5:00pm EST, The Sports Geeks will be asking questions about the tournament and WhiteFence on Twitter. If you answer select questions correctly and include the hashtag #WFMadness to your tweet, you could win some sweet prizes.

“Exactly how sweet are these prizes?” Pretty sweet, that’s how sweet. We’ll be giving away a $100 Best Buy gift card every ten minutes and one lucky participant will be walking home with 40" Sony HDTV*. Okay, so they won’t actually be walking home with it since this is a virtual tailgate, but you get the picture.

It’s going to be awesome and we hope to see you and all of your friends participating (even Craig from accounting). Here are the details:

Date: Wednesday, March 17^th

Time: 4:00-5:00pm EST/1:00-2:00pm PST

Hosts: The Sports Geeks & WhiteFence

Hashtag: #WFMadness

*Winner will be furnished with a Best Buy gift card equal to the value of Sony KDL40EX400 40" BRAVIA 1800p HDTV, valued at $700.

Reminder: WhiteFence Twitter Party!

Just a reminder to all of you that tonight will be the WhiteFence Twitter Party with Tammy Munson to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. Here are the details again for those of you who might have missed the blog post from the other day!

Date: Mon., Dec. 21

Time: 6-7 p.m. PST/9-10 p.m. EST

Hosts: Tammy Munson & WhiteFence

Hashtag: #MilitaryMon & #WFParty

Donation Information: For every tweet written about WhiteFence.com and how the site can help military families move (using hashtag #WFParty), we will donate $1 to the Wounded Warrior Project (up to $2000).

Looking forward to seeing the involvement tonight! Please let others know so they can help raise money as well.

WhiteFence and Wounded Warrior Project Twitter Party!

WhiteFence is proud to announce that on Monday, December 21, we are co-hosting a Twitter party to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project with Tammy Munson, blogger and army wife. If you are unfamiliar with the Wounded Warrior Project, it honors and empowers wounded service members who have sacrificed great things in defense of our country. Their mission is to raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of severely injured service men and women.

So how can you help get involved and raise money? That's where the Twitter party comes in.

On Monday from 6-7 p.m. PST/ 9-10 p.m. EST, Tammy and WhiteFence will be talking about how to make the holidays special if you have a loved one who is deployed overseas. For every tweet you send that uses the hashtag #WFParty, we will donate $1 to the Wounded Warrior Project. That's all there is to it. Make sure to follow Tammy Munson and WhiteFence to keep up with the event.

Tell your friends and spread the word to raise both awareness and money, and feel more than free to make your own donations to WWP as well! If you have any questions, e-mail blog@whitefence.com or comment here!

Here are the details for the event:

Date: Mon., Dec. 21

Time: 6-7 p.m. PST/9-10 p.m. EST

Hosts: Tammy Munson & WhiteFence

Hashtag: #MilitaryMon & #WFParty

Donation Information: For every tweet written about WhiteFence.com and how the site can help military families move (using hashtag #WFParty), we will donate $1 to the Wounded Warrior Project (up to $2000).

WhiteFence and Twitter

What a crazy world we live in. Remember when you used to talk to your friend next door with some cans and shoe strings? Or maybe if you're much older, you used wild grunts and the flailing of prehistoric arms. Regardless of those outdated forms of communication, things have come a long way, mostly because of the Web and wireless devices.

Take Twitter, for instance, a microblog service that many of you have no doubt heard of due to its recent explosion over the past few months. Last weekend, two London Marathon runners used Twitter during the 26 mile race, updating followers to their status as they progressed.

While there will be nothing quite as whimsical as a marathon update, WhiteFence has actually joined the Twitter-verse, updating users with things we find on the Web as well as money saving advice and even specials from our Web site. Visit the WhiteFence Twitter page and follow us! Hope to see you there.