Blogger’s Choice Awards
I’ve just become aware of the Blogger’s Choice Awards, sponsored by PayPerPost, with the awards to be announced at PostieCon ‘07, June 1-2, in Orlando, Florida.
Among the thirty three categories, from Best Animal Blog to Worst Blog of All Time, are:
- Best Blog About Blogging
- Best Business Blog
- Best Corporate Blog
and other sub-categories of business, such as Best Marketing Blog.
I understand it must be headache-inducing to decide on a list of categories that won’t have too many noses out of joint, but I was sorry to see that there is not a category for Best Small Business Blog, because in the list as it is a small or micro business, say that of a home based solo professional, has to compete with a business of any size which may have virtually unlimited resources for the purpose. Of course, I’m the first to say that blogging levels the playing field for businesses large and micro, but still…. Maybe next time.
And while I know that there are already various blog awards, knowing that some bloggers get a bit disheartened after a while, I feel a competition like is a good thing.
The sponsors of the awards, PayPerPost, as the name implies, pay bloggers to post about various products and services. As they explain in the pitch on their site:
Get Paid for Blogging. You’ve been writing about Web sites, products, services and companies you love for years and you have yet to benefit from all the sales and traffic you have helped generate. That’s about to change. With PayPerPost advertisers are willing to pay you for your opinion on various topics. Search through a list of opportunities, make a blog posting, get your content approved, and get paid. It’s that simple.
There has been some hostility among some bloggers to the PayPerPost venture. I don’t see that discussion as being of great interest outside the field of professional bloggers and whatever sections of academe that study this field. For anyone interested in knowing more, a couple of posts I’ve found helpful, and which link to some of the more critical comments, are Matthew Ingram’s PayPerPost: a Web 2.0 witch-hunt and Larry Dignan’s PayPerPost to launch disclosure badges, new tools; targets top 100 bloggers.
Anyway, back to the Awards. Having cast a vote for a few blogs I admire and noticed that the field in a few categories I checked was seriously competitive, I noticed also that the button for nominating said: Nominate your blog or your favorite blogs and let the world decide. “Nominate your blog…” - hmmm. So, mindful of the old saying “you’ve got to be in it to win it” and casting modesty to the winds, I took the bait and nominated this blog, Business and Blogging, in the category Best Blog About Blogging. Yes, ’twere I that nominated it, which is why this post did not open in the time-honored fashion with “I’m thrilled that this blog has been nominated…”
I’m up against some heavy competition, but it should be fun. And no, I won’t object at all if you feel this relatively new blog on the block warrants your helpful click :)
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