Comments on: Brit Blog Awards 2007: why no business blogging category?

By: It’s Irish Blog Awards Time Again : Thinking Home Business

It’s Irish Blog Awards Time Again : Thinking Home Business — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:33:54 +0000

[...] 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). [...]

By: Krishna De

Krishna De — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:17:06 +0000

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!

By: Business and Blogging - No Business Blogs in New Brit Awards, Irish Take Up the Slack

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:29:56 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:48:26 +0000

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?