Blog Awards

Once a month in our Stevie® Awards Update email newsletter we like bring your attention to several best websites, apps, and blogs that we think will help to make your work day a bit more productive and enjoyable.  Here are this month's recommendations:

1. Bento                   
   A flexible organizational app that can get your business or your everyday life in order courtesy of 25 ready-to-use database templates. Bento is available for $4.99 on the iPhone, the iPod touch, and the iPad. 
2. Turtle or Soup                  
   An International Business Awards Gold Stevie Award-winning mobile video game app for marketing pros, created by The Borenstein Group. Turtle or Soup is available on the iPhone, the iPad, and the Android. You can also find it Online.
3. Voices.com                        
   An IBA Gold Stevie Award-winning online marketplace for voice-over talent and voice-over jobs.
4. Wajam               
   Another IBA Gold Stevie Award winner, Wajam gives you search results based on what your friends share, on top of your normal search results, all for free. Wajam is TRUSTe and VeriSign certified.

Know of other great apps, blogs, or websites? Nominate them for one of our blog awards, website awards, or app awards. The 2013 American Business Awards, the premier business awards program in the U.S.A., will begin accepting entries later this month. (Join the mailing list for the 2013 ABAs - you'll receive the entry kit when entries open.)

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 and enjoyable. Here are this month's "Apps, Websites, and Blogs of Note:"

• Buzzword Bingo            
  Take one of this site's bingo cards with you to your next meeting.  Five in a row wins!
• Grumpy Old Accountants                            
  Blog on corporate finance from two college professors.
• GlobalPost                         
  This Boston-based international news website recently won a Peabody Award for its "On Location " videos.
• The Cool Hunter                              
  A global hub for culture and design since 2004.

Have a favorite blog or website? Nominate it for a blog award. Wednesday, April 25, is the final entry deadline for The 2012 (10th Annual) American Business Awards, the top business awards competition in the U.S.A. If you haven't yet received your 2012 entry kit, you can download it online here and you will receive it right away. 

Once a month we like to highlight websites, apps, and blogs in our  Stevie® Awards Update Email Newsletter to help make your day a bit more interesting and enjoyable. Here are this month's "Apps, Websites and Blogs of Note:"

• Image App Store                             
  A store that enables app users to interact directly with images, from Luminate.
• brainpickings                     
  A site that styles itself as "a modest, curiosity-driven exercise in vision- and mind-expansion."
• ImageThief                        
  A blog on life and business in China from Will Moss, Director of Communications Asia-Pacific, Motorola Mobility.
• Quora                  
  An information network that delivers answers and content from people and professionals who share interests or have first-hand knowledge of a topic.

Know of other great websites, apps, or blogs? Nominate them for one of our blog awards, website awards, or app awards. The 2012 American Business Awards, the premier business awards program in the U.S.A., are now accepting entries. (The entry deadline for the corporate awards program is March 28, download your entry kit here.)