As part of a new-fangled viral marketing promotion with Hewlett Packard and marketing agency BuzzCorps, I will be giving away an HP laptop and lots of goodies along with 14 other college-oriented blogs. As you probably caught on from the name of this promotion, it is aimed at college students.

Each participating blog will get a week to run a contest on their site and select a winner. That means you'll have 15 chances to win a new system. Each blog will have their own contest rules and entry methods. I haven't decided what I'm going to do for mine but you'll find out October 8th, when my contest officially begins.

This all started about a month ago when I got an email from a marketing agency hired by HP. They said they noticed I used an HP printer (LaserJet 1012). Rather than quipping "because Apple hasn't made a printer since 1996", I decided to see what they were up to. I'm glad I could help out with this contest. I got to choose between the dv4t, dv5t and dv7t laptops to giveaway. I went with the more portable 14-inch dv4t.

Along with the dv4t laptop, there is a media docking station, 500GB portable hard drive, HP Photosmart C6380 all-in-one printer and messenger bag included for the winner.

Below are the participating blogs, so you can check out each one and enter in their contests as well.

• September 26th: Poorer Than You
• September 28th: Broke-Ass Student
• September 30th: Broke Grad Student
• October 2nd: Study Hacks - Demystifying College Success
• October 4th: Cooking for Engineers
• October 6th: College Being
• October 8th: Paul Stamatiou
• October 10th: DormDelicious
• October 12th: Student Bloggers
• October 14th: Jessica Mah Meets World
• October 16th: UNEASYsilence
• October 18th: Gomeler.com
• October 20th: CampusGrotto
• October 22nd: Hack College
• October 24th: The University Blog

If you're interested, you don't have to do anything yet. Just keep reading regularly as usual.

Disclosure: Participating in this contest means I am unable to say anything negative about HP.