BlogHer ’11 is going on right now in San Diego. Over 3,600 attendees will be immersed in social media goodness for the next several days. If you’re like us and not able to attend, you’ve probably been glued to the twitter stream using the hashtag #blogher wishing you were there.

Rafflecopter is a web application that allows you to create and manage giveaways from one dashboard. Thousands of blog giveaways and promotions have been created and shared using Rafflecopter’s giveaway widget since it was released two months ago. As a “we-wish-we-were-at-blogher-in-person” gift to you, we’d like to try something special for the next few days and open up Rafflecopter to the public for the first time, but only for a few days.

If you’re interested in trying it out, you can visit the URL below, you’ll be able to join Rafflecopter’s beta program. We’ll leave this invite code available for 36 hours, so if you’re interested, create an account by midnight Saturday August 6th:

Helping us spread the word is much appreciated :)

Feel free to contact us with any questions!

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Happy August everyone! Did you remember to ‘Rabbit Rabbit’ this morning? :)

The purpose of this blog post is that we want to hear from you, particularly those bloggers who enjoy and run sponsored giveaways.

A handful of advertisers and sponsor companies have approached us over the past several weeks asking to be introduced to Rafflecopter’s network of bloggers to run sponsored giveaways. What are your thoughts? If you’re a PR-friendly blogger, we’re all ears. Give us a piece of your mind!

Fill out a three question survey here.

August will be an exciting month for Rafflecopter! Thanks so much for all your continued love and support :)

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Late evening on a Friday? Perfect time to announce a new Rafflecopter feature!

We all learned in Kindergarten that sharing is good, and now it’s easy to share your Rafflecopter widget with other people.

Before  now, you had to copy the code and paste it in an email, which had its problems. Many email programs do strange and wacky things to the widget code (that usually make it not work), and sometimes what you paste isn’t what the person on the other end sees.

So now we’ve made it dead-simple to share the other widget with anyone you want. On the widget Preview page, you’ll see a brand new box, titled (appropriately :D) “Share the Code”

Just copy that link and share it with whoever you want. Here’s what they’ll see:

That’s a copy/paste-friendly page where they can copy the widget code and learn how to use it.

Your kindergarten teachers were right. Sharing is good! :D

— J.R. (@runningskull)