RingTheBell Contest Recap

On August 25th, 2009, more than twenty lucky @DataJunkies were given the opportunity of a lifetime – to head over to Times Square and ring the closing bell at the NASDAQ MarketSite.  The Twitter-based contest ran for less than two weeks, but brought together an enthusiastic group to participate in the NASDAQ Closing Bell Ceremony.

Check out this recap:

Here’s what happened:

Starting on August 13th, NASDAQ DataJunkies sent us tweets that included #ringthebell and @DataJunkies - many fervently declaring their desire to ring the bell.

Some were creative:

And some were funny:

At the end of the contest, we used an algorithm to randomly choose the winners.

Here is a full video recap from one of the lucky Data Junkies:

Congratulations to all the lucky winners!  It was a great event and we look forward to more opportunities to bring NASDAQ Data Junkies together.  Be on the look out for more contests from @DataJunkies!


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