WALES’ first ever Blog Awards has been launched today, to mark the growing number of bloggers in Wales. The event aims to award those writing creative and interesting blogs on a range of subjects including politics, fashion and their local community.
Bloggers are able to enter their own work or nominate the blogs they enjoy reading.
The categories include:
- Best Welsh Language Blog
- Best Writing on a Blog
- Best Political Blog
- Best Community Blog
- Best Lifestyle Blog
- Best Technology Blog
- Best Sports Blog
There will also be an overall award for the Best Blog. Most award categories are sponsored and prizes will be awarded to the winners.
The award ceremony will take place in October in south Wales.
Judging the awards will be Ed Walker, the online communities editor at Media Wales and editor of YourCardiff and Hannah Waldram, the Guardian’s Cardiff Beat Blogger. They will be joined by Wynford Emanuel, director of Warwick Emanuel PR, which is organising the event, and WalesHome.org’s Daran Hill, who will be judging the Best Political Blog category. This site will also be sponsoring the prize.
Ed moved to Cardiff earlier this year to work for Media Wales. He said: “I saw that there was a huge amount of blogging and social media activity here so we held a bloggers meet up in Cardiff in March to provide local bloggers with an opportunity to meet each other and share experiences. Around 40 showed up at the initial meeting, all of varying levels of ability, and since then we’ve held another , where even more turned up.
“Welsh bloggers are keen to do more to get their work recognised and we thought an awards ceremony would be the perfect way to do this. We hope that the Wales Blog Awards will become an annual event.”
Entries to the Wales Blog Awards can be made via the website, and the competition is open to anyone who runs a non-professional blog and lives in, or writes about Wales.
Organiser of the awards, Cardiff-based Warwick Emanuel PR, was set up in 2001 by business partners Elizabeth Warwick and Wynford Emanuel. The company specialises in the energy, utility, public sector and business to business sectors. In 2008, it launched a new media business which includes producing corporate films, news podcasts for clients and providing expert advice on the best means of implementing social networking activities into their campaigns
Content for this post has been entirely ripped from Wales Home.
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