GovGab Guest Writer Challenge Winners!
November 28th, 2010
For our third birthday we launched the Share Your Story: GovGab Guest Writer Challenge. We wanted to announce today that the winners have been chosen and the winning posts will run tomorrow until Friday.
We think we have a pretty good line up of entertaining and informative posts for you this week, and we hope you like what our winners have to say. Please comment and let us know what you think of our winners’ posts.
At the end of the week, we’ll have our Saturday “Weekly Picks” post and be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week!
Until then, enjoy the guest posts!
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