Best Australian Blogs 2011 Competition

The Sydney Writers' Centre is pleased to announce the Winners in the Best Australian Blogs 2011 Competition. Full details here.

You might be blogging to keep you focused on your writing dreams, or perhaps you're blogging to promote your business. You might hope your blog will lead to a book deal or maybe it's just a way to share your life and connect with others. Whatever your reason to blog, we want to celebrate all the wonderful writing that is happening in the blogosphere.

UPDATE: The Best Australian Blogs Competition for 2011 is now closed. We'll be updating you soon with details about next year competition which will be even bigger and better.

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Here's a link to coverage by The Australian and Dynamic Business.

In 2011, blogs were entered in the following four categories:

There will be a shortlist of finalists, followed by the announcement of one winner for each of the blog categories.

You can also choose to enter the People's Choice Award (optional):

Win up to $7500 worth of prizes

Finalists and winners will win prizes with a total value of $7500. Category winners, and winner of the People's Choice award will receive $1000 worth of online or face-to-face courses from the Sydney Writers' Centre. The winning blogs will be featured in our newsletter and on our blog.

Finalists will receive a $100 prize voucher to use towards any course at the Sydney Writers' Centre. We will be blogging about the finalist blogs, and promoting the finalists as outstanding examples of blogs in our regular newsletter that goes out to our huge national community of writers and readers each week.

The overall winner of Best Australian Blogs 2011 will be selected by the judging panel from among the finalists. The winning blog will receive $1500 worth of online or face-to-face courses from the Sydney Writers' Centre and featured on our website, blog and newsletter as the best blog of 2011.
 

Best Australian Blogs 2011 Competition – WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The Best Australian Blogs 2011 Competition, run by the Sydney Writers' Centre, has proven that the Australian blogging community is insightful, engaged and very active.

With so many quality blogs entered, the judges had a difficult job. However, we are pleased to announce the winners of the competition.

The overall winner was the blog that scored the highest score of any of the category winner blogs, as marked by the whole judging panel.

The 2011 winner of the Best Australian Blogs competition is Queensland blogger Nikki Parkinson for her blog Styling You.

Styling You was a stand out as a regularly updated blog rich in good writing, quality multimedia content and social media engagement. Not only is the blog visually attractive and an engaging read, Nikki also has a
strong community of supporters.

VIDEO: Interview with the winner Nikki Parkinson

Thank you to all the finalists who made picking winners so hard, and all the entrants who made short-listing such a challenge.


We're proud to announce the following category winners:

• Business
• Commentary
• Lifestyle / Personal
• Words / Writing

Finalists

Congratulations also to all the finalists in the Best Australian Blogs 2011 Competition. 

Here's a link to coverage by The Australian and Dynamic Business.

Here are the category finalists.

• Business
• Commentary
• Lifestyle / Personal
• Words / Writing

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Australia's Best Blogs 2011 Competition Terms and Conditions

• This competition is open to all people living in Australia, or Australian citizens living abroad.
• The competition launches on the 21st of March 2011, and entries close at 5pm Friday 15 April 2011. The winning blogs will be announced on Friday 6 May 2011.
• It is a condition of entry that these terms and conditions are accepted as final, and that the competitor agrees to abide by and respect these rules.
• Submission of entry will be taken to mean acceptance of these terms and conditions.
• Blogs must be viewed as legitimate entries by the Sydney Writers' Centre staff.
• The Sydney Writers' Centre reserves the right to reassign your blog to a different category of the competition if it decides it is suited to a more appropriate category.
• A blog may be deemed inappropriate and not eligible to enter due to low level of posts or inappropriate content.
• Entrants who do not specify which category they are submitting their work into will be classified by the Sydney Writers' Centre staff.
• Incomplete forms or entries with broken links will not be accepted.
• Your blog will be assessed on the following criteria: 70% writing, 20% appearance and 10% engagement.
• The final decision will be made by the judging panel as a whole, guided by the judge responsible for the category.
• The decision made by the judges is final, and we will not enter into discussion or revision of this decision.
• You may enter a blog that is authored by a group. We will factor this into our scoring of your blog, recognizing your increased capacity for producing original content.
• If your blog is designed to share existing content from other sources, your writing score will be based on your introduction and explanations.
• Copyright in all submissions to the competition remains with the respective entrants. However, in consideration of their providing the competition, each entrant grants a worldwide, perpetual licence to Sydney Writers' Centre Pty Ltd to feature any or all of the submissions in any of its publications, its websites and/or in any promotional material connected to this competition.
• The judges decision is final, and there will not be any discussion around why a blog didn't qualify as a finalist, or win.
• The prize voucher is allocated per blog, rather then the authors of a blog. If your blog is co-authored by another individual or a group, your blog will receive the amount listed for individuals, to be shared as your team decides.
• The overall winner will receive $1500 worth of free courses in total, and special mention as the 2011 winner. The overall winner does not win the category winner $1000 voucher and a further $1500 voucher.
• Prize vouchers are valid for approximately 12 months, and will expire on the 31st of May 2012.
• The prize vouchers are not transferrable for cash.
• The prize vouchers may be used for face-to-face and online courses only, they can not be used for manuscript assessments, mentoring or overseas programs.
• The $1000 prize vouchers can be redeemed in separate smaller transactions. They must be redeemed in amounts greater than $85.
• Presenters, employees or contracts employed or engaged by the Sydney Writers' Centre are not eligible for entry.

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