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TP Blog Awards 2011 - your thoughts

by Caroline Crampton / 27 Jul 2011 11:47

Voting will shortly get underway for this year's Total Politics blog awards. Do you have any thoughts about people you'd like to see nominated, new categories we should be including or new ways of voting?

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It's almost that time of year when bloggers everywhere will be filling your inboxes and Twitter feeds with pleas for votes in the TP blog awards.

Voting will get underway shortly, but before we start, we want to know what you think.

Are there bloggers or blogs you feel have been overlooked in the past? Should we be adding new categories? Post your ideas in the comments below, and watch this space to see when voting opens.

Get yourself listed in our blog directory to make sure you're on our radar when it comes to drawing up shortlists.

If you want to refresh your memory, last year's results are here

Tags: Blog Awards 2011, Blogging

Comments

Stephen Wood / July 27 2011 12:55pm

I'm writing on a slightly self-interested note, to ask whether my blog: Green Politics: Sustainable Futures, could be included in the Green Blogs section of the competition this year. It has already picked up quite a substantial audience since it launched and the feedback has been uniformly positive about it's modern, constructive and even-handed approach!

http://greenpoliticssustainablefutures.blogspot.com/

Thanks for your consideration, Stephen

Paul Walter / July 27 2011 7:42pm

Would suggest some sort of recognition of Twitter, as it is now an integral part of blogging coverage. That is, any decent blogger ought to have good engagement with Twitter. Best wishes

Charles Crawford / July 27 2011 11:10pm

The Blogs last year were allocated categories arbitrarily by the organisers (I think). You should publish the categories in advance and let bloggers choose to opt for one 'officially' if they want, but leaving it up to voters to allocate whichever categories they think best fits. (Thus I might tell readers that I am running in the Libertarian section as before, but if some readers vote for me in eg the Conservative category that's my problem, or not).

Previously you have insisted on people nominating anything from five to ten blogs as a condition for voting. I'd allow people up to (say) ten votes each, but split between as many (or as few) blogs as they like. So if someone really likes a blog but only that blog, it gets ten votes. Someone else might give one blog six votes and spread the remaining four among four others. The results will be much more interesting/subtle that way.

The Twitter thing is tricky - in effect the most popular blogger/tweeter is the one with most Followers already? It could be perverse if someone won a Twitter category in your survey when the hard Follower Facts say something quite different?

Arthur / July 28 2011 1:10pm

Let's have one for best backbencher/activist mP!!

Max Ramsay / August 06 2011 12:17am

Same as Stephen here. It would be great if you could include Birmingham University Labour Student's blog in the blog directory. The address is www.bulsonline.org

Thanks,