Third Annual PR Reader's Choice Blog Awards |

Third Annual PR Reader’s Choice Blog Awards

Fri, Jun 10, 2011

Two years ago, I started the PR Reader’s Choice Blog Awards. The motivation was simple: There were all sorts of blog awards, but none specifically chosen by bloggers and online participants. So, I started an awards program that’s based entirely on community participation and voting.

Over the last two years, a number of outstanding PR blogs have been nominated. The following have taken home the “hardware” as PR Reader’s Choice Winners:

2010

Best Up-and-Coming Blog: PR Nonsense (March PR)

Most Educational Blog: Convince & Convert (Jay Baer)

Most Thought-Provoking Blog: Conversation Age (Valeria Maltoni)

Blog of the Year: Spin Sucks (Gini Dietrich)

2009

Best Up-and-Coming Blog: LAF (Lauren Fernandez)

Most Educational Blog: PR 2.0 (Brian Solis)

Most Thought-Provoking Blog: Danny Brown (Danny Brown)

Blog of the Year: PR Squared (Todd Defren)

This year, I’d like to follow the same process we’ve used the last two years.

First, please nominate your favorite PR blog in one of the four categories below by next Friday, June 17.

* Best Up-and-Coming Blog (must have been blogging less than a year to qualify)

* Most Educational

* Most Thought-Provoking

* Best Student Blog (new category for 2011)

* Blog of the Year

You can nominate a blog by leaving a comment below with your name and the URL and name of the blog you are nominating–this is the ONLY way votes will be accepted. You can nominate more than one blog, but only ONE blog per category. And, you can nominate blogs that won last year or in 2009.

Next Friday, I’ll tally up the nominations. The top five in each category will qualify for the final round and public voting, which will begin on Monday, June 20. We’ll vote for a week until EOD Friday, June 24 and winners will be announced on Tuesday, June 28.

Hope you’ll consider submitting a nomination today!

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black mold removal 7 pts

Will congratulation for winning the PR Reader's Choice Award, It will mark a lifetime achievement award, u made a great blog.

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JayBaer 219 pts

Up and coming - B2BBliss
Educational - Dave Fleet
Thought Provoking - future buzz
BOY - Grow

Shonali 1185 pts

JayBaer Great, with that acronym markwschaefer is going to go all BOY on us now...!

markwschaefer 179 pts

JayBaer Humbled Jay. Thanks!

JodiEchakowitz 24 pts

Blog of the Year (again): ginidietrich Spin Sucks http://spinsucks.com

Most Thought-Provoking: DannyBrown http://dannybrown.me

Most Educational: jeremy Journalistics http://blog.journalistics.com/

DannyBrown 2400 pts

JodiEchakowitz Thanks, Jodi, very kind miss. Do you think there's such a thing as a "PR blog" nowadays? I don't see mine as that (though, again, thank you for shout!) - so is this a convergence we're seeing that's becoming more common?

DannyBrown Funny enough, I was thinking about the whole "PR blog" issue when I made my nominations. Since the roles we are in today are no longer confined to only dealing with PR related topics, blogs like yours provide a perfect blend of content / required reading. So although blogs listed are not necessarily PR specific, I would argue that they all touch on topics that PR folks should be reading. Definitely convergence and it's not going away any time soon.

ginidietrich 4947 pts

JodiEchakowitz Thanks Jodi!

* Most Educational: Dave Fleet http://davefleet.com

* Most Thought-Provoking: Spin Sucks http://spinsucks.com

* Blog of the Year: The Future Buzz http://thefuturebuzz.com/

DannyBrown Crap. Why are you being nice to me?

ginidietrich Are you worried yet? ;-)

I'm going to nominate markwschaefer 's {grow} in "most thought-provoking" - and thank you sanjivapersad for nominating WUL!

Oops - forgot the URL: http://www.businessesgrow.com/blog/

Shonali Thanks for your kindness Shonali!

markwschaefer You are so welcome. Now, about my guest post for you, cough cough ... ;)

ohhaylsno 6 pts

I nominate Respect Bloggers http://www.respectbloggers.com/ for Best Up and Coming Blog

-Hayley

AliceBonasio 5 pts

I'm worried that I did not leave the URL last time I posted as I was doing it from my phone, so here it goes properly. I nominate Sasha Muradali's Little Pink Blog for Most Thought Provoking, http://sashahalima.com/blog/

And not just because I'm a guest blogger, it genuinely is a great blog that manages to be fun and surprising at the same time.

sanjivapersad 10 pts

I nominate Shonali Burke's Waxing Unlyrical Blog for Most Thought Provoking, and not just because I'm a guest blogger there! http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/

I also nominate Sasha Muradali's Little Pink Blog!

kelly_ahern 5 pts

I'd like to nominate Sasha Muradali's "Little Pink Blog" for Most Thought-Provoking. http://sashahalima.com/blog/ Thank you!

ryanstephens 13 pts

I'd like to nominate one, Ryan Stephens, for sexiest blogger of the year. It doesn't have to be a category. A lifetime achievement award will do just fine.

MikeSchaffer 14 pts

ryanstephens I'll support that, as long as it's a co-award with me.

MikeSchaffer ryanstephens I'm sorry guys. That award goes to me.

JGoldsborough 239 pts

ginidietrich MikeSchaffer ryanstephens And what about Modest Blogger of the Year? :)

JGoldsborough MikeSchaffer ryanstephens That goes to Ryan.

arikhanson 38 pts

ryanstephens Fairly certain if there was a "sexiest blogger of the year " award, there would be absolutely no men nominated... ;)

arikhanson ryanstephens MikeSchaffer Well put, AH. I don't think we fellas stack up to well in that category. Now badass of the year, blogger or not, is a different story :). Sensing a 4-way tie with further nominations closed for lack of any chance to compete.

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