Whether this actually goes ahead depends upon the level of interest and enthusiasm, but if you head to the relevant Wiki page, we’re accepting nominations for ten blogging awards, and all blogs listed at Bloggers4Labour (unless otherwise stated) are eligible. The current list of categories is as follows:
- Best Blog
- Best Newcomer
- Best Young Blogger
- Top Blogging Personality
- Best Blog of an Elected Representative
- Best Trade Union Blog
- Best Use of Technology
- Best Community Activism
- Best non-Labour Blog
- Wooden Spoon Award (all blogs)
Nominations will be open until, let’s say, midnight GMT Saturday 2nd December, whereupon voting will start, closing exactly one week later.
This being a Wiki, if a category fails to spark much interest (very few, if any, nominations) it can be replaced with another. Also, please use your judgement to remove bogus nominations. It goes without saying that if every blogger nominates his/herself, the short-listing stage will become rather pointless, so if the number of nominations gets too large, you/we will need to shorten that list.
As for prizes, in an ideal world a friendly wine dealership would be sponsoring us, offering a Magnum of something comparable to Tesco Blanc de Noirs for each winner. Sadly this is not currently so. For the time being, therefore, only pride is at stake, though I don’t rule out the possibility of funding the Best Blog prize out of my own pocket.
Let the nominations begin!
you may want to amend the wiki page. best young blog says after it: birthday on/before 1985. think it might be better to change “before” to “after. noot trying to sound aggy or anything. I’ll have a think and nominate/etc later.
Thanks, have updated it. Might increase the take-up!
A bit scary that people born after 1985 might be out there, blogging…
I know! I can still remember Callaghan on TV (either as PM or Labour Leader), orangey-red Morris Marinas, The Flumps, not to mention When Music Was Music.
Come on what was wrong with The Flumps, Grandpa flump used to twiddle his thumbs! I have the DVD of every episode ever made! (Although I think I saw re runs! LOL)
Sadly I have never heard of the Flumps, which to me is actually a chewy sweet, but I was/am a huge fan of Fraggle Rock and the Muppets.
Ah, them were the days!
Anyone remember Button Moon?
We’re off to button moon, we’ll follow Mr Spoon …
Wow, that’s made me feel better. I was 4 months too old to be a ‘young blogger’.
That would be a major shock to the system, considering discussions over the past few days…