B4L Blog Awards 2006 - 8 comments

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!