ReadWriteBiz

Wanna win $5000 for your favorite non-profit? All it takes is to post a slide deck on Sliderocket for this contest called Make an Impact. Your presentation needs to be posted before March 28, and probably as soon as possible so you can begin promoting it and get some views. The four presentations with the most unique presentation views and judged to have the best storyline, composition and compelling cause will each win a $5,000 donation to their non-profit.

You don't have to be employed by the non-profit to enter: just designate who is going to get the dough if you win. The winning entries will be based on the strength of your story, presentation composition, and your non-profit's potential to make an impact.

Good luck! It is a great idea, and showcase's SlideRocket's process to collaborate too.

We love contests here at ReadWriteWeb, and even though we aren't affiliated with this one it seems like a peach. Create your own 30 to 60 second commercial touting the benefits of having a .tv domain name, upload it to their Facebook page here, and have a shot at winning a pile of cash, or at least one of two cool digital prosumer cameras as runner-up prizes.

Most of us only dream of being a reality TV star, but if you have your own small business, now is your chance to try out and have a chance to win $50,000, some Dell computer products and fame on the big screen. All it takes is a three-minute or less video that you have to create and post to YouTube before September 11. So take some time over the holiday weekend and start writing your script and blocking out your shots!

It's March 31, 2011. Do you know where your company's mission-critical data backups are? They, of course, should be safely stored someplace where you can access them easily should anything happen to your machine or network. More importantly, they should be up to date.

Far too many individuals and businesses are lax about keeping their data backed up on a regular basis. That's why a group of Reddit users decided to propose the first-ever World Backup Day to take place tomorrow, March 31.

If you're an American worker who prefers working outside the office, you're in luck: Next week is National Telework Week in the U.S.

During the week of February 14-18, private businesses and government agencies are encouraged to allow employees who normally make the trek into office each day to work from home instead.

In case you haven't heard, this weekend marks the first annual Small Business Saturday, the small business community's answer to Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Just as consumers flock to malls on Black Friday and hunt for bargains online on Cyber Monday, small businesses everywhere are hoping they'll see some extra traffic the Saturday after Thanksgiving this year.

Edith Yeung has a knack for bringing smart people together.

For evidence of that, one needed to look no further than the fourth floor auditorium of the Metreon in San Francisco last weekend. It was there that Yeung and her team hosted a series of speakers, panels and product demos for a floor full of attendees, each of whom found the line-up tempting enough to coax them out of bed early on a Saturday.

The Times Center in New York City was packed on Friday with some of the brightest minds in both business and technology for the first-ever east coast edition of BizTechDay, a one-day conference for entrepreneurs now in its third year.

The event, which was keynoted by Seth Godin, featured an impressive list of speakers peppered with brief demos of Web-based products aimed at startups and small businesses.

Remember when you couldn't figure out where July went? Well, now it's September.

Summer is indeed coming to a close, but to help soften the blow, ReadWriteWeb has compiled a list of four essential technology conferences for small business owners and professionals coming up this month. These events are US-only, but if you know of any international events worth checking out, please leave a note in the comments.