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Easter is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter is preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains Maundy Thursday, commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus.

Easter eggs are commonly given as a gift at Easter. The reason for this is because eggs symbolise new life.

The largest decorated Easter egg, built by Freeport in Alcochete, Portugal was 14.79 m (48 ft 6 in) long and 8.40 m (27 ft 6 in) in diameter when measured on 8 March 2008.

What will you be doing this Easter Weekend?

Dear members,

We wanted to post a blog concerning the crediting of points as we have seen an increase in the amount of emails and topics on this subject.  We understand how frustrating this is for you, our members, after you have given us your valuable time and effort.  We make every effort to credit surveys as quickly as possible and work hard with our clients and partners to make this happen.  We are sorry for any delays that may occur and we strive to limit these as much as possible.

Due to the complexities of different surveys and their lifespan (how long a survey stays active) there can be a large swath of wait times until you are awarded your points. Sometimes the delay is very short, within a few hours or days, other times this can take a few weeks or up to a month.  If you happen to take a survey within the first few days of it opening, you could (unfortunately) end up waiting six weeks or more for your points. This is why on all invites you receive we do tell you that points will be awarded within 4 weeks of the closing of a survey.

We don’t want you to become worried that points have been forgotten because they do not appear within a matter of days or weeks.  We will always do our best to provide prompt crediting of points wherever possible.

We hope this helps to understand the crediting of points for Toluna surveys and we thank you for your continued dedication!

See you soon on the site,

The Toluna Team

Today is Valentine’s Day a chance to show your love to a loved one. Here at Toluna we like to show it every day to our members, but especially on this loving day. How will you be spending your valentine’s day? With loved ones or simply showing your love back to Toluna by answering surveys.

Valentine’s day is celebrated on the 14^th February in Singapore. To honor and commemorate the good deeds of the renowned Roman priest, St Valentine, people in Singapore celebrate the festival of Valentine’s Day with great zeal and enthusiasm.

In Singapore a very traditional way of professing one’s love for a partner is by gifting beautiful flowers, as they are always connected with feelings, love and romance. Other ways of showing love is by the card you give, whether it is romantic or wacky, whatever suites your partner.

Hope you have an amazingly perfect Valentine’s day filled with love.

Love,

Toluna

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

To spread some Christmas cheer, the Toluna team wanted to post a blog to make everyone feel in the Christmas spirit!

Christmas is a special time of the year to spend with loved ones and to celebrate traditions kept and created over the years. Different countries in the world all have separate traditions at Christmas and this is why sometimes it’s great to share and experience these traditions with other people.

Singapore is renowned for creating a magical Christmas experience. Every year the Christmas build up begins in mid-November to prepare everyone for over a month of celebrations and magic!

Orchard Road, the biggest street in Singapore for shopping and recreation creates a Christmas light spectacular every year:

Singapore portrays a Christmas atmosphere with the Christmas light display to make it feel like you could be at the North Pole with Santa Claus himself!

Singapore truly produces a special and magical Christmas feel which attracts tourists to experience a more ‘tropical’ Christmas culture. Despite the hot temperatures, the Christmas festivities offer ice cream and cold beverages to create a cooler ambiance for the Winter theme!

Orchard Road promises a colourful, eye-catching and unforgettable Christmas experience in Singapore and there is no wonder why it attracts thousands of locals and tourists to the celebrations each year.

Christmas is a brilliant opportunity to spend time with family and loved ones and to share magical experiences with everyone each year. Traditions bring people together and I think that Singapore truly offers an incredible Christmas tradition.

The team here at Toluna would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas, Sheng Tan Kuai Loh, and a Happy New Year!

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,

Thank you for your continued support on Toluna.com!

We are pleased to inform you that there will soon be a change in our reward system:

You will be able to exchange a minimum of 20 000 points -> SG$ 10.00 with Paypal.

We hope this will enable you to be rewarded quicker and easier!

Yours sincerely,
Toluna Team

Dear Members,

On the 14/11/2011 we are launching a new and exciting Christmas Campaign on our Facebook fanpage as well as Toluna.com!

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

So what would you have to do?

Step 1: Create a photo, a picture or a video with the theme “Celebrate Christmas at Toluna”.

To help you, examples and models are available on the  <<Christmas at Toluna>> album on our Toluna Asia Facebook Fan Page. Then personalize this with your photo!

You can also create your own template but don’t forget to use the Toluna Logo so that your photo will be valid!

Step 2: Quickly post your creation in a Poll on our website Toluna.com! To create a poll, click on the tab “Create a Poll” and don’t forget to add your video or your image!

Step 3: Send us the link to your poll as well as your username on Toluna and the picture of your creation to jeux@toluna.com! Don’t forget that these 3 pieces of information are essential for the validation of your participation.

Step 4: The best creations will be placed in a final vote which will be organized by the Toluna Team. Do not hestitate to share your creation with your friends in order to gain the most votes possible!

The 50 members who obtain the most votes for their creation will win prizes from Toluna!

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.

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

Good luck!

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