There is just one more week to nominate
your favourite blogs in the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards
2009.
We have received hundreds of nominations so far,
ensuring that the categories are jam-packed with high-quality
blogs.
You can see the full list of nominations for each
category by clicking on the links on the
awards website.
There are some particularly hotly contested
categories this year. Our new category – IT Twitter user of the
year – is leading the way with 30 nominations for those whose
succinct 140-character posts are highly rated.
IT professional male and female bloggers of the
year categories are also proving popular. IT professional male
includes last year’s winner Steve Clayton’s
Geek in Disguise
blog, BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones’s
Dot.life blog
and Tim Anderson’s IT
Writing blog.
The IT professional female category is also
fiercely contested, with a number of nominations going to Kate
Craig-Wood’s
Kate’s Comment,
Elizabeth Harrin’s
A girl’s guide
to project management and Sarah Blow’s
Flirting with the future.
The corporate and large company blog category sees
publishing heavyweights such as
the
Guardian’s PDA
blog, the Telegraph’s
technology blogs
and TechCrunch pitted
against the likes of web companies
Google and
Twitter, which should make
for some interesting voting.
IT security is another keenly contested category,
with some
big hitters in the field receiving nominations, such as
Bruce Schneier for his Schneier on Security blog, Graham Cluley’s
blog and last year’s winner Guy Bunker’s View from
the Bunker.
There are 11 categories in this year’s awards:
Awards ceremony
Shortlisted entrants will be invited to celebrate
our 2009 Blog Awards at
an awards ceremony at London’s exclusive
Shoreditch House on 25 November 2009, where the winners will be
announced. The winners will also be published in Computer Weekly, 1
December edition.
What happens next
27 October Nominations
close
2 November Shortlist
announced. Public voting opens
20 November Voting
closes
25 November Awards
event at Shoreditch House
1 December Winners
published in Computer Weekly