BlogHer is very proud to announce its co-sponsorship of 10Questions, a new, non-partisan “People powered presidential forum” hosted by TechPresident.com, in cooperation with the New York Times and MSNBC.com and many of your favorite websites and blogs.


It’s a giant, web-wide contest where anyone can submit an online video question, view others’ questions, and vote for their favorite. At the end of the voting period, the top ten questions will be submitted to presidential candidates for answering. It’s like the CNN/YouTube Debate on steroids.

10Questions allows BlogHers (and internet users everywhere) to submit questions to presidential candidates. Here’s what’s really exciting: this project allows us to submit questions from our Voter Manifesto to the contest. The large audience this program promises is a fantastic way to get our Manifesto out there. And our community has strength in numbers too: we can vote for our questions and get them to the top! So we really encourage you to submit a question from the Voter Manifesto (link). More than one person can submit the same question: the web community decides which questions are best! And if you do decide to post a “Voter Manifesto” question, please let us know which one you choose in the comments. That said, if you have a question you’re just burning to ask one of the candidates, feel free. Instructions are here.


Here’s more about the contest:

• The 10Questions Presidential Forum is divided into two rounds. During the first round, which will run from October 17 to November 14, anyone with access to YouTube, MySpace Yahoo Video, or Blip.tv can submit a video question.
• To enter, upload your video question to one of these sites and tag it "10questions" and “BlogHer”. Be sure to give it a descriptive title so others can find it. And if you want, add additional tags that describe it further. Then, feel free to post your response on BlogHer.com, and send the video to everyone you know.
• Please embed a link to your video to the post below in comments so we can show off your work!!
• During round one, videos bearing the tag "10questions" will be collected on the main page of 10Questions.com, where anyone can vote for or against them. At the close of round one, there will be an audit of the top vote-getters, after which the top ten videos will be presented to the candidates.
• The earlier you get your video up, the more time people have to promote your video!

During round two, which will begin November 17 and end December 31, the candidates will be asked to post their replies to the top ten questions, and you get to vote on their replies. The candidates will have until December 15 to post their answers; you'll have until December 31 to vote on them. At the end of this round, the 10Questions team will audit the ratings and announce the final results.

You can submit as many videos as you want, at whatever length you prefer, though we recommend keeping your questions brief since that will probably improve their chances of being viewed, and voted upon, by more people. Also, you can vote on as many videos as you like, but you can vote only once for each video.

Video entries should be questions for all the 2008 American Presidential candidates as a group, and suitable for a general audience. The 10Questions team reserves the right to reject videos if they are obscene or inappropriate. If you want to learn more about 10Questions, check out our FAQ.

Happy video-making! If you have questions, post them below or contact the BlogHer team. This can be an amazing way for BlogHers to get our questions to the presidential candidates and the Internet community at large!