We are proud to announce the first annual International Wota Awards. The categories are:
- Best New Blog (created in 2007)
- Best Established Blog (created before 2007)
- Best Hello! Project Blog
- Best Written Series or Single Blog Entry
- Best Media-Focused Series or Single Blog Entry (for YouTube clips, eyecandy sites, media share sites, and so on)
Here’s how it’s going to work:
All International Wota contributors who posted at least twelve entries in 2007 will decide the award nominees. This time around that means CJ, pengie, Julia, Jin, Craig, hanachan, Wu-san, and myself are eligible nomination judges. Only blogs actually covered by Intl Wota are eligible for nomination. A blog needs to be chosen by at least three of the judges to become a nominee in a given category; if a category winds up with less than three nominees, further voting by the judges may take place. While individual IW contributors cannot nominate their own blogs, they can nominate the blogs of other IW contributors.
Once the nominees are announced on February 11, the subscribers of International Wota decide the actual winner. Their choices must be e-mailed to two of the judges (to be decided later) and sent from the e-mail address specified in their subscriber information. Voting ends on March 11, and the winners will be announced on March 18.
Eligible bloggers can use the comments section here to promote your blog (or a friend’s) for whatever category or categories you want to be considered for. This will be especially helpful for the last two categories, as we can benefit from having our memories refreshed on specific articles and series from the past year.
Update: The Nominee List Is Now Out (08-02-16)
The Nominee List for this year’s awards are now available. The e-mail addresses to send in your votes will be made available soon.
Update: You Can Now E-mail Your Votes (08-02-19)
The e-mail addresses are now set up for registered subscribers to vote in the awards. Remember, you must vote from the e-mail address listed in your subscriber profile for this site, and you must send this e-mail to two addresses: judge01@intlwota.com and judge02@intlwota.com . If you do not send to both addresses, your vote will not count.
Please vote for only one winner in each category; more than one choice will disqualify that vote. If you’re a nominee in a category, you can vote in that category and you can vote for yourself. Voting ends on March 11.
Update: Voting Extended To March 16 (08-03-12)
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Winners will still be announced March 18.