Computer Weekly’s search for the best blogs in IT is
back for its second year, and this year’s competition, brought to
you in association with
IBM, promises to be bigger
and better than before.
We want to know who you think are the best bloggers and Twitter
users in the UK IT industry. The Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards
2009 will reward the best comment and insight that the UK’s IT
industry has to offer at an awards ceremony on 25 November.
Our aim is to discover which bloggers are best meeting the needs
of IT professionals in the UK. To do that, we need your help.
Whether you are a blogger yourself, an active commenter, or just
a reader, we want to know which blogs have got you hitting the
subscribe button in your RSS reader. You can even nominate your own
blog – although what happens after that is up to your peers across
the industry.
You can
nominate a blog
for any or all of the following categories.
CIO/IT director
What are the best blogs written by and for CIOs and IT
directors? Here is where you will find insights from senior
management across the industry, including last year’s winner, the
Capgemini CTO
Blog.
IT consultant and analyst
Consultants and analysts provide useful insight from their
vantage point of working with numerous companies. If they share
that insight online in a blog, this is the category for them,
whether they are part of a big set-up such as Gartner or Forrester,
or a sole trader.
Individual IT professional male
This category is for blogs that detail an individual
perspective, not a company line, of life in the IT industry. Any
male blogger working in IT below director level is eligible for
this award.
Individual IT professional
female
Details are the same as for the male bloggers in this category,
but we have created a separate category so that voices from the
female IT professional community can be recognised.
Company/corporate: large
enterprise
This category aims to showcase the best official blogs from
large enterprises that keep customers, suppliers and the rest of
the world up to date with a company’s developments. Official
product blogs also fall into this category. These are the blogs
that help to make a business more "human" by putting real people’s
words and faces to the company name.
Company/corporate: SMEs
To prevent them from being overshadowed by the corporate giants,
we have established a separate category for company and product
blogs from SMEs. This is their chance to shine and show how blogs
can prove an effective communications channel for even the smallest
companies.
Project management (including methodologies, e.g.
Agile)
In the IT project management category, we are looking for blogs
that deal with the day-to-day management of IT projects in
business, and the methodologies – from PRINCE 2 to Agile – that
help them run smoothly.
Sustainable and green IT
Sustainability, energy-efficiency and environmental issues are
hot topics. This category, which is new for 2009, will highlight
the work being done to improve the green credentials of the IT
industry.
IT security
In the IT security category we are looking for blogs about
security issues from malware to usage policies and risk assessment.
Last year’s security star was Guy Bunker of Symantec, whose
View from the Bunker
blog won the top spot for blogs touching on security issues
relevant to the UK IT industry.
Open source in business
Finally, with the economic downturn affecting all businesses,
many are turning to open source products to help minimise licensing
costs. This is the category for blogs that share tips and
information on making the switch from proprietary to open
source.
IT Twitter user of the year
This year, we are also introducing an award for the IT Twitter
user of the year. If you have found yourself following every word
of someone’s feed for industry tips, don’t forget to include their
@ name when you send us your blog nominations.
Your vote counts!
Once all the nominations are in, we will draw up a shortlist of
the best in each category before putting it back to you to vote for
your favourites.
The shortlists will be published in full online, with links
straight to each blog
(
as we did last year) to make it easy for you to check out the
top blogs and Twitter users before making your choice.
Once the votes are in and the count complete, the winners will
be announced at a celebratory event on Wednesday 25 November at
Shoreditch House, a
private members’ club that is one of London’s hottest venues.
Nominations
- Nominations should be filled out on our
nomination page.
- Blogs do not need to originate in the UK, but they must contain
some coverage of the UK IT industry.
- Self-nominations are permitted, but the winners will be decided
by a public vote.
The IT Blog Awards
2009 >>
Check out last year's winners >>