How to Enter:

1. Follow @wizehive on twitter (www.twitter.com/wizehive). You will need to follow us to be notified if you win.
2. Send one or more public Twitter messages between now and 1/6/2010 telling people WizeHive has been nominated for a Crunchie or telling people you have voted for us in the Crunchies (you don’t need to vote for us but we’d sure appreciate it!).      Make sure to include #crunchies and WizeHive in your message. An easy way to do this is to vote for us at  http://crunchies2009.techcrunch.com/vote/ and then use the Twitter share option when it comes up.    It will create a Twitter message that is properly formatted for you.

Each time you create a Twitter entry mentioning WizeHive’s nomination for a Crunchie you will get another entry in our contest (up to 3 per person per day).

How will you know if you’ve won?

At 9am PST on 1/7/10 we will randomly select a winner from our entrees.    The winner will be contacted via direct message on Twitter.

Good luck and good tweeting!

We just found out last night that we were nominated (not by us, interestingly) and are a finalist in one of the “Crunchies Award” categories. The Crunchies recognizes the best technology companies for each year.

Please go to http://crunchies2009.techcrunch.com/vote/ and vote for us! We are in the sixth category – Best Bootstrapped Startup.

2009 was an amazing year for us here at WizeHive.

After working for most of 2008 on the technology, we launched our beta version of WizeHive  in late December 2008.    From there things came at us fast and faster.

As you can see by scanning the earlier blog entries we worked hard to release new versions of WizeHive  about every month.  We made significant upgrades to the task management portion of WizeHive in the spring of this year and the file management system in the fall.

Our beta program attracted a lot of attention and we were written up and rated in numerous technology publications including TechCrunch, LifeHacker, Killer Startups,  and others.   We  rolled out a special version of WizeHive that was used by both DreamIt Ventures and TechCrunch to manage their application processes.     From these successes we have started to build WizeHive templates that can be preconfigured for specific business solutions.    We will share  more information about these in early 2010.

But mostly this year has been about getting to know you, our customers, partners and prospects.   You have given us great feedback and have helped us improve WizeHive in many ways    We greatly appreciate your support and hope to continue building our relationship with you.

We continue to gather your feedback to focus on improvements and are pleased to share some of the key features we plan to release in 2010.    We plan on releasing our iphone app early in the year and most likely an Android app toward the end of Q1 or early Q2.    We have improvements planned for our project/task management system including the ability to build dependencies and a basic gantt chart functionality.     We plan on continuing to improve our file management area, online document collaboration and document searching.

We also plan on further emphasizing development in areas where we can add significant value to those of you managing multiple projects, clients, processing applications, and resumes.

As always, please let us know how we can help and what we could do better.    Until then, have a great holiday season and hoping you have a wonderful 2010!