The Official Blog of Toluna Australia

Hello Toluna members,

It’s 26th January 2012, which can only mean one thing- it’s Australia Day!!

Today will be celebrated with a public holiday for all, leaving plenty of time, after all the fireworks and fun, to do some Toluna surveys!

In Australia, this date is celebrated primarily to commemorate the Port Jackson settlement in 1788. There are many music festivals that take place on this date and it is usually celebrated with family, a bbq, and friends.  How will you celebrate it?

From all of us at Toluna, we would like to wish you a very Happy Australia Day a great day to be proud to be Australian.

Dear members,

1. To use your code and receive your Facebook Credits please follow these steps:
2. Go to the website www.creditflipper.com and copy & paste (or insert manually) your code into the white box at the bottom of the page.
3. Once you have entered this information and clicked “Confirm” please then login to your Facebook account.
4. To confirm that your account has been credited with 100 Facebook Credits please click on the following link: https://secure.facebook.com/settings?tab=payments
5. Now you should be able to see your Facebook Credit balance next to your account information.
6. If you encounter any problems while entering your code, be sure to use the copy & paste functions and don’t hesitate to refresh the Credit Flipper website (www.creditflipper.com) for security reasons.
7. The use of Apple’s Safari browser is not recommended, please try to redeem your Facebook Credits using Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firerfox, or Google Chrome.

We hope this helps and once again we apologize for the recent issues that have been affecting the redemption of your Facebook Credits. Please contact our helpdesk with any questions or comments.

Sincerely,

The Toluna Team

Dear members,

Due to a technical error on Toluna.com the winners of the monthly lottery for November were not able to be announced.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

As such, please find the missing list of winners below for the month of November:

	Mollygirl
	faye1017wei@hotmail.com
	FMvanderweg
	hallgeyer
	valeriobisori@yahoo.it
	revalmic
	champson15
	xeverale
	Adicta_al_Malibu
	Honeysuly
	rkadiri17
	Skippy42
	CLERC49
	rince
	magcassem 51
	nathilette
	@loh@
	dizee06
	tocamelmocho
	mapumart

Congratulations to all our winners and we hope you have a happy end to 2011 and a great 2012!

See you soon on the site!

The Toluna Team

We thought we would post a blog to spread the Christmas cheer, so here is a song to get to get you into the Christmas spirit.

Click here for some Christmas cheer!

Here at Toluna, we find the values of Christmas to be special and have great traditions.

In Australia Christmas is never a white Christmas as it is celebrated in the first month of southern summer when the entire continent is parched by the blazing sun.

Christmas in Australia begin in late November and continue through the first week of January. Nativity plays and people singing carols start the holiday spirit off. On Christmas Eve, families attend ‘Carols by Candlelight’, a carol concert, where people from all across the city gather in huge numbers to sing and listen to joyful carols by the candlelight. It is believed that Christmas Eve celebrations in Australia are incomplete without this tradition.

‘Christmas bush’ and ‘Christmas bellflower’ take up a huge chunk of the festive decoration. But Australia also has other typical European decorations such as wreaths and a Christmas tree. In Australia they use a lot of summer scents & colourful decorations. In Australia they also have Kangaroo’s & Koala bears draped in Santa hats.

Christmas dinner in Australia is much like the Traditional UK Christmas Dinner. But as you all know Australia has a hot Christmas so meats like turkey & chicken can be served cold. With salads or roast vegetables. BBQ’s are also very popular in Australia; seafood is also popular to BBQ in Australia such as lobster or prawns. Other meats such as chicken breasts or steak are also a popular choice. A popular desert in Australia is pavlova this was introduced by Italian Australians.

So will you be spending Christmas in Australia this year or elsewhere – we would love to know!?

The team here at Toluna would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.

Dear Members,

We are pleased to announce that our iPad2 monthly draw will be extended from 31 December 2011 to 31 March 2012.

This is an exclusive offer for our Asia Pacific community. Members have the opportunity to purchase a ticket to this prize draw for just 1000 points.

New members who completes their registration and becomes a Toluna member before the end of March, 2012 will also receive a free entry into this draw!

At the end of each month a winner will be selected to receive an iPad 2!

For more information please refer to the prize draw rules.

See you soon on the site!
The Toluna Team

Dear Members,

On 5^th December 2011 we launched a new and exciting Christmas Game on our Facebook fanpage as well as Toluna.com! You have until 19^th December to enter.

We want our members to express their creativity in decorating their Christmas trees for a chance to win a Christmas prize from Toluna!

So what do you do?

Step one – Create a photo, picture or video of your Christmas tree once you and your family have decorated it. Have it be Traditional, funky, modern, however you like and upload it to our opinion topic on Toluna. To help you out examples and models are available in the Christmas at Toluna album on our Toluna Facebook fanpage and we’ll throw a few up down below just in case. Just make sure the Toluna logo is somewhere on your submission so it can be validated & officially entered in the contest.

Step two – Then quickly post your creation in a poll on Toluna.com. To create a poll click on the create a poll tab & do not forget to upload your image or video from your computer.

Step three – Finally, send us a message with the link to your poll on this opinion topic! Don’t forget that this information is essential for us to properly credit your submission. Any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us!

Step four – The most popular Christmas tree will be decided on the basis of vote counts by the Toluna team. Don’t hesitate to share your creations with your friends to get the maximum number of possible votes.

We will announce the winners of the competition on Toluna.com & our Toluna Facebook on 20^th December 2011. Good luck & let’s see your Tree-mendous creations!

The aim of the game is to receive the highest votes on your Toluna poll! It’s that simple!

For more information about the rules and for a step by step guide, go to our Facebook Fan Page or check out our opinion topic on Toluna.com.

Be sure to check this out and get involved for a chance to win big!

Good luck!

The Toluna Team

Dear Members,

We are pleased to announce that the winners of our special Asia Pacific iPad2 competition have now been confirmed! The winner of the month of September comes from our Korean community & the winner of the month of October from our Japanese community.

Meet the lucky winners by clicking on the images below to access their profiles:

Thank you to everyone who participated in the competition and helped make it such a big success and, of course, congratulations from everyone at Toluna to the final winners.

Don’t forget there is still a chance to win an iPad2 from Toluna each month until the end of March 2012 so go ahead and convert your points in the prize draw to increase your chances of being November’s lucky winner!

And tell your friends & family as each new member will automatically get an entry into the Prize Draw.

Thanks and see you soon on the site,

The Toluna Team

Dear members,

Recently, there has been some unforeseen confusion regarding TolunaTeam accounts on the Toluna.com community.  In hindsight it does look to have been imprudent to begin these accounts without such an official post.  For that we apologise.  Please consider this our official declaration that in future there will be TolunaTeam accounts for all languages and these we will be rolling out progressively over the next few months.

At the moment TolunaTeam (for US and Canada), TolunaTeamEN (for other English-speaking countries) and TolunaTeamFR (for French-speaking countries) are the accounts already active and communicating with members.  We hope this will help to improve communication in the long run with all Toluna members.  We look forward to your continued commitment and dedication.

Looking forward to seeing you on the site.

Sincerely,

The Toluna Team

Dear members,

As we work to improve our reward options for all members, we would like to take a moment to remind you again of our points’ expiration policy. We last brought this to your attention in a blog post in March 2011.

For members that have been active during the past 12 months, Toluna points have a validity of 16 months. Any points that are not redeemed within 16 months from when they were originally earned will expire and be removed from your account.  Please refer to our terms and conditions for complete details.

We hope this will encourage our members to take advantage of some of our great new opportunities we have launched in the past few months, like Facebook Credits!

To ensure that you do not lose any of your Toluna points, please continue to participate regularly in surveys and polls, and check your balance and rewards page often to redeem your points for the various incentive opportunities we offer you.

If you have questions about our new rewards or our points expiration policy, please feel free to contact us.

Don’t forget to spend your points at the earliest opportunity to make sure they won’t expire and stay tuned to our blog to hear more about our new offers soon!

See you on the site!
The Toluna Team

Dear Members,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of our special Asia Pacific iPad2 competition has now been confirmed! The winner of the month comes from our Singapore community!

Meet the lucky winner by clicking on the image below to access his profile:

Thank you to everyone who participated in the competition and helped make it such a big success and, of course, congratulations from everyone at Toluna to the final winner.

Don’t forget there is still a chance to win an iPad2 from Toluna each month until the end of 2011 so go ahead and convert your points in the prize draw to increase your chances of being September’s lucky winner!

And tell your friends & family as each new member will automatically get an entry into the Price Draw.

Thanks and see you soon on the site,

The Toluna Team