Swag the Bloggers

By Mark Miano, NBC News/NBC Learn

One of the bonuses of attending a trade show like CES is the free stuff we all get - more commonly known as SWAG.  It seems like everybody here is handing out something and the NBC Universal booth is certainly no exception.

NBC's Melissa Kondak posted earlier this week about one of our big giveaways: thousands of 2 GB micro SanDisk cards that visitors can use to download free NBC Universal content and even win prizes such as signed scripts, photos and other cool props. If you're at CES, stop by while these micro sd cards last!

Ah, but the NBC swag doesn't stop there. Our booth also has a special blogging station in the Sharp NBC Universal Multimedia Lounge (where I'm writing this) and scheduled bloggers are getting this free blogger goodie bag.

The bag has an assortment of blogging tools, USB adapters, flash drives, a mini mouse, minty snacks, a water bottle and other blogger essentials.

There's even this strange but somehow mesmerizing glowing orb that comes from my unit, NBC Learn.

NBC Learn is showcasing two websites at CES, iCue and What's Your iCue. iCue is an educational website built with thousands of historic videos from the NBC News archives. It's an amazing site that won the 2008 WebAward for "Best Newsite."

We also recently launched What's Your iCue, Facebook's first and only video trivia quiz game. You'll lose hours playing this app, which has multiple quiz categories, hundreds of videos from the NBC News archives, and thousands of trivia questions.  We've already found several top notch sponsors for the game, including University of Phoenix, Lexus and Intel. Consider these NBC Learn websites some CES swag for you folks who can't be here - the free gifts of a little knowledge and lots of fun.