{"id":144,"date":"2009-07-08T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T20:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/backup-awareness-month-winners\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:37:53","slug":"backup-awareness-month-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backup-awareness-month-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup Awareness Month Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/blog_post_nikon.jpg\" alt=\"Backup Awareness Month\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">June was <a href=\"\/blog\/june-is-backup-awareness-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backup Awareness Month<\/a> and every day we chose one person who installed a free trial to receive a one-year subscription to Backblaze. We received a lot of great feedback from the daily winners, many being shocked to have won something and thrilled to have the security of knowing they were backed up.<\/p>\n<p>As promised, we also selected one of the daily winners for the big prize of a Nikon Coolpix P90 digital camera. We also asked each of the daily winners where they learned about Backblaze and are giving that person an identical camera.<\/p>\n<h3>All the daily winners<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Rui Marques<br \/>\nTim Slater<br \/>\nMichael Koch<br \/>\nM. S.<br \/>\nTom Hutchinson<br \/>\nAndreas Marnevall<br \/>\nMick Logan<br \/>\nBrian Bedrick<br \/>\nQuinn Roberts<br \/>\nLex Vilanova<br \/>\nNick Phillips<br \/>\nAndrea Palumbo<br \/>\nBrian Murphy<br \/>\nKeith Nugent<br \/>\nLeana Lucas<br \/>\nSuzanne Beal<br \/>\nCole Crain<br \/>\nLaurel McConnell<br \/>\nVan Peterson<br \/>\nHunter Thompson<br \/>\nChris Chase<br \/>\nAaron With<br \/>\nJim Selchow<br \/>\nMark Armstrong<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>And the grand prize winners are&#8230;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Keith Nugent, who learned about the service on Twitter and TWIP from&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Ron Brinkmann<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations Keith for winning both a year of Backblaze unlimited online backup and a Nikon Coolpix P90 camera!<\/p>\n<p>And thank you Ron for helping Keith learn about the Backblaze online backup solution&#8230;and congratulations on winning the corresponding Coolpix camera!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Backup Awareness Month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June was Backup Awareness Month and every day we chose one person who installed a free trial to receive a one-year subscription to Backblaze. 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