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Today saw the launch of the Brit Blog Awards 2007 supported by Ask.com and Metro.co.uk.
Similar to the Irish Blog Awards, the Brit Blog Awards have been set up to recognise the best in British blogging and nominations come from the public.
The awards will cover the following categories:
- Technology blogs
- Sport blogs
- Fashion blogs
- Politics blogs
- Arts and Entertainment blogs
- Travel blogs
- Youth blogs (bloggers under 18 years of age)
- Weird and Wonderful blogs
Nominations are invited before the 22 March 2007 for the Brit Blog Awards and the judging panel will include one expert or person involved with the category and a representative from Metro.co.uk and Ask.com.
The blogs will be assessed against the following criteria:
- Standard of writing – the blog will be judged on the quality of the writing
- Design – interesting layout, easy and clear to read
- Regularly updated – at least twice a week
- Influence – does this blog set a trend or influence the news?
- Number of links – how many other blogs is this site affiliated with?
It is tremendous that there is now an awards for the best British blogs. However unlike the Irish Blog Awards they are seemingly less inclusive.
For example:
- according to the rules for the Brit Blog Awards 2007, you must be resident in the UK to enter – so any Brits who blog and are based outside the UK are not eligible to enter
- and surpisingly there is no awards for best business blog or blogs in the not for profit or voluntary sector.
Blogging is an incredible and cost effective tool both for organisations to building buzz about your brand and to engage stakeholders from clients, business partners, employees and the community.
Particularly in the case of small businesses or voluntary organisations with limited marketing budgets, business blogging enables companies to express their brand on the web without the investment and expense usually required for a professional website.
So let’s hope that the Brit Blog Awards 2008 will have a category to recognise tremendous British business blogs and blogs in the voluntary sector.
In the meantime, I’m glad I’m in Ireland where there is an extensive range of categories in the Irish Blog Awards and it didn’t matter that I don’t hold an Irish passport to be considered as a nominee.
You can see nominees from the Irish Blog Awards featured on the Seoige and O’Shea show here thanks to Redmum.
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February 25th, 2007 at 8:48 am
As you say, surely a big oversight to have no business blog or not-for-profit/voluntary category in the Brit awards. Congratulations on your being shortlisted in the Irish awards – more than deserved! Interesting point you make about residency. What chance of the Irish awards including a category for the Irish diaspora?
February 25th, 2007 at 10:29 am
[...] Krishna De’s BizGrowth News – a favourite blog of mine, where blogger Krishna De posts informatively and wisely about brand building and business development in professional service firms: an elegantly designed, very readable blog ”configured by The Blog Coach”, a.k.a. UK based Mark White. I picked up the Best of Brit Blog Awards story from Krishna De’s post on the Irish awards. [...]
February 28th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Des – thanks for stopping by and for your good wishes. Do you have Irish heritage? If so, you should enter the Irish Blog Awards next year!
February 25th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
[...] In an exchange of comments last year with leading Irish blogger Krishna De, I asked, tongue-in-cheek, what chance there would be for a category for blogs from the Irish diaspora. Krishna encouraged me to nominate for the Awards this year, if I had Irish heritage. I’d thought that, although I had four Irish great-grandparents and hold my Irish heritage in high esteem, I would perhaps be hard put to qualify for the awards because I don’t qualify for Irish citizenship (there is a third-generation cutoff). [...]