DeafRead 2007 Blog Awards Nominations is opened!
 | By Tayler Mayer Monday, December 10th, 2007 |
Vlog by Jon Savage, DeafRead Media Specialist
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Welcome to the beginning of the DeafRead 2007 Blog Awards.
We will have our second 2007 Awards Banquet at the first DeafRead conference on February 2, 2008. In the evening, following dinner at Embassy Suites-Burlingame on the bay, we will be announcing the 2007 Blog Awards winners.
The first step for this year’s Blog Awards is to open the nominations!
Anyone can nominate any deaf-related blog by sending e-mail to 2007blogawards@gmail.com. The following is required in your e-mail:
- Blog Name
- Address/URL
- Award Category
- Brief description why you are nominating the blog for that specific category. Please keep the description to 1 or 2 sentences.
These are this year’s 16 categories.
Best Overall Blog (2007 Blog of the year)
Best Overall Vlog (2007 Vlog of the year)
Best Advocacy V/Blog
Best New V/Blog (Established 2007)
Best Organization/Group/Company V/Blog
Best Hearing Ally V/Blog
Best Geek/Tech V/Blog
Best Politics V/Blog
Most Funny V/Blog
Best Odd/Unusual V/Blog
Best V/Blog Design (by the blogger)
Best Storyteller
Best Concept/Idea
Best Post (single entry)
Best ASL Video Clip (single video clip)
Best Youth V/Blog (under 18 yrs old)
You can nominate a blog to multiple categories, as well as nominate more than one blog. In consideration of the DeafRead staff’s time and effort, please try to consolidate your nominations in one e-mail.
The DeafRead Team will pick the 5 most nominated blogs for each category. These 5 blogs will be voted upon by you, starting shortly after nominations are closed.
Keep in mind, this is for the year 2007. Entries published in any other year should not be factored in your nominations.
The deadline for nominations is midnight Sunday, January 6, 2008. Again, the e-mail address is 2007blogawards@gmail.com. Nominate away!
December 10th, 2007 at 7:31 am
How do we know which posts are by hearing people for the Best Hearing Ally Blog? DeafRead has removed the colored box to identify hearing posts. It was a neat idea/compromise before for Deaf people who wanted Deaf space only. Any chance DeafRead can put it back to make it easier for us to identify which ones are by hearing or Deaf?
How about at least one award for Deaf Youth. It’s important to encourage Deaf youth because they are the future of the Deaf community. More and more organizations are including youth (i.e. Maryland Association for the Deaf started their first Deaf Youth Leadership Award this year).
Candace A. McCullough
December 10th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Best Youth blog (under 18 yrs old) has been added as a category. Visit DeafRead Youth to find some of the brave pioneers for this category.
Note that DeafRead Youth, as a website, isn’t quite ready for primetime.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Tayler wrote: “Best Youth blog (under 18 yrs old)”.
Can you add one more…”Best Youth Vlog (under 18 yrs old)?
December 10th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Thanks, Jean. I feel there isn’t enough potential contestants to warrant a category for each blogs and vlogs. Looking forward to seeing this spectrum of the blogosphere to expand in 2008! Meanwhile, “Blog” will take the umbrella term of covering both blogs and vlogs. After all, vlogs are video clips on a blog.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Best Odd/Unusual Blog should be Most Odd/Unusual Blog
December 10th, 2007 at 10:36 am
“Best” blog is best in quality. “Most odd/unusual” is not best in quality, but is the most strange!
December 10th, 2007 at 11:16 am
no best photo blog? aww…
December 10th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
You did not mention which city for Feb. 2, Is in California? Last year it located at Washington, DC.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
What about “Best Blog Serial”?
December 10th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Jac, I linked to the conference information page. Here it is: DeafRead 2008 Conference.
December 10th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Hmmm… what about Most Humorous? Most Educational? and yes, like Jean says above, Best Blog Serial?
~ LaRonda
December 10th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
[...] forget to nominate your favorite v/blogs before the deadline on Jan. 6th, 2008. See this v/blog post for more [...]
December 10th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
How about the most boring vlog? lol or most offensive blog/vlog … I am being silly tonite.
December 10th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Diane, I know what you mean. Harvard University satirically awards a Lampoon to the person annually. See the definition of lampoon in the dictionary.
December 11th, 2007 at 8:24 am
for best v/blog design, how do we know which blogs are actually designed by bloggers, not using themes? what if the bloggers used a basic theme and customized it to their likings, would that be considered designed by the bloggers themselves? thanks-
December 15th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
what about those blogs or vlogs that ceased in the middle of the year of 2007?
December 15th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
deafk, a blog that published an entry in the year of 2007 can be nominated.
December 15th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
thanks for your quick response!
December 17th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Do you realize that there are a lot of new v/blogs of 2007? I find it hard to decide on “new v/blogs” catergory.
I am sure that there will be less next year or two. Hmm?
Thanks… kk
December 23rd, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Hi,
Umm, I would like to make suggestion on nominations. I would like the description behind each nomination to help me make decision better. Some nomination are easy for me to make decision, but some other nominations are not easy, like Concept/ Idea, Odd/ Unusual, Advocacy, and its like? I do not know if it was only me, but…
Maybe the descriptions narrow the nominations, maybe not good idea?
Okay, thank you. deafk
January 4th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
May I suggest a list of the blogs? I can’t possibly recall the names of blogs on Deafread by memory. Thanks.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
A list of blogs is available by clicking “Blogs” on the right-most column of DeafRead. To make it easier, here’s the link!
January 5th, 2008 at 2:53 am
How about the worst vlog? Oscar is the one who got the idea. I know it is kinda late! Diane
January 5th, 2008 at 2:56 am
Also a best senior citizen b/vlogger? Think of Louis remmy? I think she is one the oldest of all.