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Awards night 2012 recap
By kate at 26 October, 2012, 10:45 am
What a night. On 17 October, the first ever Blog North Awards drew a capacity crowd to Manchester’s Deaf Institute to enjoy readings from shortlisted bloggers, indulge in some light boozing and/or schmoozing, and hear the long-awaited announcement of the 2012 winners. Impressively, we had people traveling from all across the North for the night’s [...]
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And the winners are…
By Blog North Awards at 17 October, 2012, 11:31 pm
The inaugural Blog North Awards took place on 17 October at Manchester’s Deaf Institute. Here are the results: Best Arts and Culture Blog The winner: A Negative Narrative The runner up: Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second Best City or Neighbourhood Blog The Winner: Sevenstreets The runner up: Unicycle Emptiness Best Food and Drink Blog The winner: Around the [...]
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Announcing our sponsors and partners for 2012
By Blog North Awards at 11 October, 2012, 1:58 pm
With the inaugural Blog North Awards on the horizon, we’d like to announce the event’s sponsors and partners: A hearty thanks to WordPress hosting company 34SP.com in Manchester, UK. Thanks to them, this year’s winners will take home a domain name and free hosting for a year! We’re also delighted that Creative Tourist, the arts magazine [...]
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How it all happens
By kate at 2 October, 2012, 3:04 pm
In case you’ve been wondering how the process works, here’s a short summary of how Blog North Award winners are selected: From the first day nominations open, the Openstories team look at every entry for the Blog North Awards, making a longlist of especially good blogs worthy of consideration for the shortlist in each of [...]
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Shh! We’re reading blogs
By kate at 14 September, 2012, 12:45 pm
Wondering why it’s all gone quiet on here? Well, we’re busy reading through entries. All 543 blogs are being scrutinised this week as we draw up our shortlist. Stay tuned for an announcement soon…
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2012 judges revealed
By kate at 24 August, 2012, 11:17 am
We’re very happy to announce the judging panel for the 2012 Blog North Awards: Stuart Maconie, author, journalist and and broadcaster Meg Pickard, head of digital engagement at Guardian News and Media James Brown, editor of Sabotage Times and previously, loaded and GQ magazines Claire Malcolm, chief executive of New [...]
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Blogging about Blog North
By kate at 14 August, 2012, 11:28 am
Blogging about a blogging competition: so very meta. But it’s the best way for us to spread the word to every corner of the North, so we appreciate every post, link and tweet. Blog North Awards organiser Kate Feld (yes, erm – me. I never know whether to write these things first person or third. [...]
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Blog North on The Guardian’s Northerner blog
By kate at 10 August, 2012, 10:03 am
Journalist and long-serving blogger Sarah Hartley has written a lovely post about us on The Guardian’s Northerner blog, Blog North Awards: Reasons to be cheerful. As someone who has seen the blog awards evolve from its exceedingly humble beginnings, she’s definitely got a good perspective on the competition. She calls the new awards ‘a landmark [...]
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Nominations flooding in
By kate at 9 August, 2012, 11:29 am
Believe it or not, we’ve cracked 150 nominations in the first two days. Wow, what a great response! Please keep them coming in, folks. If you’ve already entered your own blog, why not spread the love and put forward a few other blogs you admire? There’s no limit on how many nominations you can make, [...]
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Loving our logo
By kate at 9 August, 2012, 11:23 am
Just wanted to say a few words about our new logo, which we are really quite excited about. We’ve always been big fans of Manchester’s Mark Studio, and loved the award-winning designs they’ve done for Rainy City Stories and the Manchester Literature Festival, so when we wanted help creating our new visual identity they were [...]
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