You know how the Academy Awards have PricewaterhouseCoopers to keep track of the balloting? Well, the MarketingSherpa awards apparently have — no one.
A little bird tells us that TWO of the 12 PR nominees in MarketingSherpa’s 2006 Readers’ Choice Blog Awards were eliminated — three days into the competition — because no one noticed that they were launched after the first of the year, and therefore did not qualify.
Note: Media Orchard, along with a little-known PR blog called Micro Persuasion, are still not nominated.
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Is the MarketingSherpa awards for US blogs only? It seems so judging by the nominees. Guess I’ll just have to settle for best blog design.
I’m a more ‘style over substance’ type person anyway.
And one of them has a post on the front page about how he/she has nothing to say about PR any more.
I don’t know how they determine the nominees, but there are an awful lot of very good PR blogs that are never considered while the same folks seem to be included every time.
Perhaps more pictures of certain French newswomen are needed???
I suspect that both Media Orchard and Micro Persuasion were eliminated from the competition — officially, anyway — because they are considered “off-topic.” Obviously, Micro Persuasion writes quite a bit about technology, and we write about media, journalism and other issues tangential to PR. But in both cases, we also post as many posts directly covering PR topics as most of those nominated (we just post more overall). And as I’ve explained before, everything I post is designed for PR and other image-making professionals. Whatever — there are other real reasons for the snub.
Meh! Why would you want to win a blog award? Awards are judged on industry standards – so unique and creative blogs (which Media Orchard is) are not nominated because they don’t conform to the norm.
I say be glad you’re not a nominee, continue to be unique, keep drooling about newswomen … and stick it to the man!
That said, I just couldn’t cope with the blatant frequent posts of self-promotion if you were!
Why don’t you start your own blog awards? The OrchardSherpa or something along those lines.
It could take off.
Stephen:
That’s a great idea (starting a Best of the Orchard blog awards).
I second, er, third that.
;-p
I think the germ of idea has been planted…hmmm.
Ummmm – now I feel BAD about being nominated. PR Squared certainly isn’t among those that are “included every time” and I’d hate top think of it as “conventional/industy standard”… So now I think getting nominated must mean that I suck!?
For the record, Scott, it probably all is pretty meaningless. No idea how PR Squared got listed – certainly it is NOT because it’s better in any way than yours, or John’s, or Kami’s, or Stephen’s, et al., ad infinitum!
I’ll still take it, though.
I’m probably just a sore loser like Cuban, Todd — ignore me.