IndiBlogger of the Month - April 2009, select a category

I think mine is first blog on baby care and newborn related information. i request renni to create a special category for me !!!

I think we should consider Public Health in May 2009.

interesting topic! cheers!

to me it should really be "the best blog of the month" (bot really some topic as such)...

Thanks Renie! Just got a mail!!

hi, i nominated my blog http://www.reflectionsandmore.blogspot.com for the contest and the page said that I will get an email if my nomination has been accepted. Its more than 2 days since. Have not got an email..does it mean that the nomination has been rejected?

First time.. so just curious!

No, it just means we haven't moderated it as yet!

Anshul .. I have read it so many times and never get enough of it. you are very deserving.

check out my blog http://www.youthkiawaaz.com

creative writing should be given the honour this time

http://bharatmelange.blogspot.com

We need top five posts ?..well ..!!!! Mine is not a specific blog for social causes but had 3-4 posts worth reading .. anyways :) there is always a next time ..

It's not too late to write 2 more posts! Nominations are open throughout the weekend.

Nominations are open, good luck everyone! http://www.indiblogger.in/nominate.php?id=2

I will go with social cause relfecting personal experience.

Also, creative writers. I think there are many very talented creativve writers here and they need to be read.

So is social causes the general winner? And when do nominations begin?

Sorry guys, guess I should have been clearer... I don't mean to limit it to subjects... but I'm trying to set some guidelines as to the kind of posts that would fall under social causes, to make our jobs of moderating the nominations easier!   The last time, for political and current affairs, we had all kinds of posts being nominated - from "How to migrate from blogspot to wordpress" to "My day at the vet"!

Renie, I think we should only have the top 3 blog posts for review and vote. btw, can you list all the mods on the forum seperately. well, i dont know who all are in!!!

and you sure need to set some guidelines.

Did you really get those my day at the vet kind of posts last time?Ha ha, you guys must have had a tough time going through all the entries :-)

Sheba, we also had a post on preventing migraine, and a post about the garbage being dumped on a particular street corner in Bangalore!

Hemal - the mods/team members are myself, Anwin Joselyn, Naveen Roy, Anoop Zombie, Zeon & Balaganesh. We also have Nafisa who takes care of events and Diana who heads the moderation team.

Can we limit the number of posts per nomination? Last time, I tried to read all the 5 post per nomination, lost track and ultimately ended up not voting at all.

Actually the logic behind asking for 5 posts is that this contest is for top blog, not top blog post... so ensuring that the blog has at least 5 posts under that category keeps out the less deserving ones. The slideshow during voting allows you to view one post per blog though, did you try that out?

@ Renie!

Hey, I'm not very familliar with these grounds! In fact, it's only very recently that I have started networking with other bloggers on such platforms! So can u plz direct me to some other thread where the detailed procedure of this Contest is given?

I mean - How do we submit nominations? When do we nominate? Do we have to list 5 posts from our blog... as in give their individual URL's? And what's the slideshow thing you mentioned?

I'm sorry if this questions sound a bit silly, but I've only become slightly active on indiblogger since last month... & even then, I have been having some exams, so couldn't really go through a lot of stuff here!

Plz do help me out with this!

Thanks,

Kaddu

Kadambari! - will start updating the faqs to answer your questions. But for now - nominations are starting today, you can nominate any blog that has been approved by IndiBlogger. You will have to submit 5 posts, using their individual urls. As for the slideshow - you'l know why we created it when you see it, it makes the decision making process a whole lot easier!

I think, we should feel free to nominate  every kind of posts related to category of social causes, so that different social aspects excellently expressed in blogging might easily be shown here at a single platform.

Thanks.

Rounding up!

Technology - 6
Business & Economy - 5
All round - 1
Social Causes - 9
Real life - 1
Ancient Indians - 1
Creative Writing - 2
Health & Environment - 2
Blogging - 1
Comics/Graphic novels - 1
Technical Textiles - 1
Food and drinks - 1
Teen blogs - 1
Poetry - 2
Indian News - 1
Spirituality - 2
Women, Makeup & Fashion - 1
Sports - 1
Science - 1
Humour - 1
Strange and weird news - 1

Looks like social causes is the winner. Can we set some rules for the kind of posts to be nominated? What do you all think? What are the possible subjects that we could have under this to give it direction and make sure the nominations fall under this category? Environment, Road safety, Child Abuse, Rape, Domestic Violence, Poverty, Education, Caring for the aged, ?.....

How about just keeping it 'social causes'? 'Coz it might be difficult to find too many blogs related to just one specific topic! Would really restrict the number of nominations that way! Like for instance, I have made one post on Education system, one on caste system, one on environmental issues... & so on!

Limiting to one topic would also make it a tad boring to go through the nominations. I mean how much can one read about 'child abuse'? It would become more like a thesis on a topic, with case studies & all!

That's just my 2 cents... what do the others have to say about this?

perhaps we should just have an open category this time round... that way all blogs can be nominated.

I vote for a blog on strange and weird news for a change!

Has the category for the next contest been decided? How is the category decided anyways..Not many people are putting their views in this post..So, will it get decided by the few who have given their fav categories?

Categories are dicided by people here, and more the votes (posts in here) for a category the more chances of it getting in.

i agree with you on giving views why anyone suggests a particular category. this could add value to the vote...

current favorites are technology, social and environmental causes etc...