Here at Mozy we have a lot of exceptional employees and today we are excited to congratulate one in particular for his hard work. He is a great example of what makes Mozy awesome!

This week Mozy won the Best use of Twitter award at this year’s Utah Social Media Awards from among 225 nominees. We credit Nate Karchtner from the Mozy marketing team for his continued creativity and innovative approaches to working behind the @Mozy Twitter handle. He helps Mozy engage with its customers and the tech community at large.

Nate started @Mozy in 2008, as an additional channel of communication and masterminded contests such as Free Account Friday and Guess the Prize. His work helping customers via Twitter has also been recognized in InfoWorld.

Nate has some great new ideas and plenty more excitement coming soon, so we encourage you to join the 6,000+ users following us on Twitter here. Additionally, check out Nate’s work on the Mozy Facebook fan page here.

We passed a major milestone earlier this year, and now one lucky customer will be receiving a massive Mozy prize to celebrate!

What is the prize, you ask? Well, that’s the catch. We’re not going to announce it right now. Instead, we’ll be publishing a series of clues on this blog and on our Twitter feed over the next couple of days that point towards what the massive prize is. The first three people to correctly guess what the massive prize is will receive an iPod Touch courtesy of Mozy! Just email your guesses to nate@mozy.com . Good luck, Sherlock!

Clues:

• First Clue – Julee Cruise is the artist.
• +39° 36′ 13.00", -78° 44′ 34.00" – Mexico , Alleghany County, Maryland.
• http://www.lore-and-saga.co.uk/html/dice.html – Mia is also obscurely known as Mexican .
  
• 37.629731,-77.515989 – Henrico County, Virginia, site of the 7 Days Battles in the US Civil War
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Jo1gH89VM – Trailer from the film "American Graffiti ," where teens spend a night cruising .
  
• E115 – The atomic number for ununpentium , the radioactive element that makes time travel possible in the TV show Seven Days .
• Classic Midway Driver – Cruisin ‘ USA
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6166367.stm – the ship being rescued was the Mexico .
• http://is.gd/sqrU – URL had two "sevens" in it – http://www.nypost.com/seven /seven .htm
• http://is.gd/srHx – Clip from the movie "Rejs," translated into English as "The Cruise ."
• http://is.gd/ss6S – The photo on the album cover is of the famous Black Panther Salute from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics
• http://is.gd/ssjp – Photographer references a seven days break
• John Houseman – A good friend of Orson Welles, one of his (uncredited) roles was in the film "Seven Days in May ".
• 75992729321
• 38.226600, -112.299072 – Cruise missile caught in flight on Google Maps.
• kwanzaa – a seven-day long celebration.

Winners: We only had one winner who got all required elements of the guess correct -Eric Nagel. Congrats! If you didn’t win, stay tuned because there will absolutely be more contests in the near future!

Back late last year, we decided it would be a good idea to start paying attention to Twitter. Well, since then, we’ve been able to help clients out by using Twitter to announce new versions of our clients , provide a direct channel for customers to get support , offer tips for using Mozy , and mention blog posts and other useful resources . We’ve even gotten a couple of kind mentions !

With that said, we’re trying something new. Starting tomorrow at 12:01 MST, we’ll be having Mozy Twitter Free Account Friday! That’s right, we will be giving one lucky @mozy follower a FREE MozyHome unlimited account good for 1 year of UNLIMITED backup! If you already have a MozyHome Unlimited account, we’ll just extend your account out a year, for free! All you have to do is meet the following requirements:

1. You must be following Mozy before 11:59 PM Friday evening.
2. Sometime between 12:01 AM MST Friday morning and 11:59 PM MST Friday evening, you must retweet the following message: Just entered the Mozy Free Account Friday contest! You can win by following @mozy and RT! http://bit.ly/z8Xrb #mozyfaf

That’s it! We’ll tweet out the winner this coming Monday. Good luck!