Blog Awards

The entry deadline for The 2012 American Business Awards, the premier business awards program in the U.S.A., is tomorrow, Wednesday, March 28. You can request your entry kit here and you'll receive it right away.

Here are four tips to help you make the most out of your blog awards entries:

1. Review all of the blog award and website awards categories.
   We have dozens of awards to highlight your favorite blogs and best websites.
   
2. Download our 10 Tips for Winning Web Awards in the Stevie® Awards tipsheet.
   Our tipsheet will provide useful tips and tools for submitting winning entries.
   
3. Use the 2011 Stevie-winning entries as models.
   We post all Stevie-winning entries as examples to help you get inspired on your submissions. We recommend that you emulate their style, tone, and structure.  Click here to go to the list of 2011 Stevie winners and Finalists.
   
4. Submit entries in one of our other communication awards categories.
   In addition to our web site awards, we have several other award categories that may be of interest to communications professionals including app awards, video awards, corporate literature awards, annual report awards and live event awards.

Don't panic if you're not going to make the March 28 deadline; entries can still be submitted through the final deadline of April 25 with a late fee of $35.00.

The Stevie Awards don't just confer blog awards, website awards, and app awards; we also like to highlight blogs and websites once a month in our Stevie Awards Update email newsletter that we think will help make your work day more interesting. Our latest "Blogs & Web Sites of Note" include:

• Brazen Careerist              
  Advice at the intersection of work and life from entrepreneur and career guidance counselor Penelope Trunk.
• Drew's Marketing Minute                           
  How to create a happy customer, from marketing agency veteran Drew McLellan.
• Gist                       
  Gist brings your contacts into one place, allowing you a full view of your network and making it easy to find anyone, anytime.  They even offer FREE Blackberry Smartphones.
• MyLeadResponder                        
  MyLeadResponder makes it fast and easy to close more leads quickly by combining the flexibility of email with the immediacy of a phone call. MyLeadResponder even gives you instant, organized lead response that you can access anywhere. From $49.95 per month.

Have a favorite blog? Nominate it for a blog award! The 2012 American Business Awards, the premier business awards program in the U.S.A. are now accepting entries. (The entry deadline for the business awards program is March 28, you can download your entry kit here.)

The Stevie Awards don't just confer blog awards, web site awards, and such.  We also like to point you to notable blogs and sites that we think might be of interest to you.  Once a month in our Stevie Awards Update email newsletter we summarize "Blogs & Web Sites of Note," and here's what we offered in our January 6 edition.

StickK.com: The website designed to help you stick to your New Year's Resolutions …
Yahoo's Worst Videos of All Time: An enjoyable way to waste half-an-hour boggling at the excesses and self-indulgence of the pop video industry's top turkeys.
LeaderBlog: The blog of LeadershipNow listing the top leadership books of 2010.
My Three Cents: PR guru Ken Makovsky's favorite new words of the year.

ITM Group, Inc. in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida won a Stevie Award for their HR Bartender blog, for Blog of the Year in the Business Services industry, in the 7th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business last Friday night.  The awards recognize women executives, women entrepreneurs, and the organization they run worldwide.  Most of the awards are for individuals and/or their organizations, but there are also a handful of web site awards, blog awards, marketing awards, advertising awards, and public relations awards categories in the Stevies for Women in Business.

ITM Group, Inc. is a strategic human resources consulting firm that works with client companies to cultivate individual and organizational talent.

In nominating the HR Bartender blog, ITM Group wrote: "HR Bartender http://www.hrbartender.com is a friendly place to discuss workplace issues.  It was created to give working women and men the opportunity to learn critical aspects of business and management tips from a human resources perspective.  Key learnings center around leadership, professional development,
strategic planning, workplace social media and career strategies."

The next opportunities for bloggers to be recognized with Stevie Awards will be in the web awards categories of The 2011 American Business Awards and the website awards categories of The 2011 International Business Awards