Singapore Blog Awards 2010 – Win a trip to Hong Kong and more!

Plugging this for omy.sg. 🙂 If you have a blog, do join! The prizes are really great this year – the ten award winners get to go on a trip to Hong Kong, with tickets and accommodations fully sponsored by the Hong Kong Tourism Board. That’s not all, they also get to win ASUS net books, luxurious travel hotel accommodations from Asia Web Direct and many more. In addition, all registered bloggers will be entered into a random draw to win a Garmin ASUS smart phone. Hurry and register now!

The press release is as below. Visit the official website or official blog for more information.

Singapore Blog Awards returns with attractive prizes

Singapore, 09 April 2010 — The annual Singapore Blog Awards returns this year with more exciting events and prizes. Bloggers will stand to win a trip to Hong Kong, inclusive of air tickets and accommodation, an ASUS netbook and other attractive prizes.

In total, over $40,000 worth of prizes await participating bloggers, including a lucky draw to win a Garmin ASUS M10 smart phone for all registered bloggers. Participating bloggers will also receive exclusive invitation to sponsors’ events such as the movie premieres for Ironman 2 and Shrek Forever After.

Organised by omy (www.omy.sg), Singapore Press Holdings’ bilingual news and interactive web portal, the Singapore Blog Awards honours “new-age wordsmiths” who devote their time and energy to create and maintain informative and innovative blogs.

A total of 1,500 blog entries were received last year with over 160,000 votes cast by online voters, a 50 per cent growth in participation rate from the inaugural Singapore Blog Awards in 2008.

omy.sg hopes the attractive prizes will help to build the Singapore Blog Awards into a premium online event that bloggers and the online community can look forward to every year.

Ms Lee Kuan Fung, Associate Editor of omy.sg, said: “Managing and writing a blog can be a life-enriching experience. Be it a photo enthusiast, foodie or just someone who likes to share random thoughts, blogging is a creative process which is rewarding for both the bloggers and readers. One objective of the Singapore Blog Awards is to recognise and encourage these bloggers who would go the extra mile in creating and sharing content online”.

Singapore Blog Awards, currently in its third year, offers ten award categories, namely EASB (East Asia Institute of Management) Best Individual Blog, Best Lifestyle Blog (sponsored by National Heritage Board), Best Modeling Blog, Best WTH (what-the-hell) Blog, Best Food Blog, Most Insightful Blog, Best LOL (laugh-out-loud) Blog, Best e-Commerce Blog, Best Photography Blog, and Y-Bloggist (http://project.omy.sg/ybloggist), presented by iKnow.

Nominations and registrations for the Singapore Blog Awards are now open. The public can log on to the official site (http://sgblogawards.omy.sg) to nominate their favourite blogs. Bloggers can also participate directly by registering themselves for the Awards.

Judges for this year’s awards are Mr Kelvin Tong, movie director; Ms Kuo Jian Hong, Co-Artistic Director of The Theatre Practice; Ms Anna Lim, Radio 100.3 deejay; Mr Josh Lim, Managing Director of Advertlets; Mr U-Zyn Chua, CEO of Ping.sg; Mr Samuel Ng, CEO of Marine Parade Family Service Centre; Ms Xiao Han, Director and Lyricist of Funkie Monkies Productions, Mr Walter Lim, Director of Corporate Services and Marketing Communications, National Art Gallery and Mr Danny Yeo, theatre practitioner.

Adding to the excitement are the two fringe awards – Best Local Celebrity Blog and Best Overseas Celebrity Blog – in partnership with rednano.sg, Singapore’s local directory search engine (www.rednano.sg). The online and mobile directory service portal, launched in 2008, is operated by SPH Search Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of SPH. There will be no prizes given to the fringe award winners but voters stand to win attractive prizes via online and mobile votes. In conjunction with the Singapore Blog Awards 2010, Rednano will also be running a Rednano Best Mobile Blog Award from 15 April 2010. More details will be announced later.

The main sponsors for Singapore Blog Awards 2010 are the East Asia Institute of Management (EASB), National Heritage Board (NHB) and United International Pictures (UIP). Air tickets and accommodation for the 10 award winners are sponsored by the Hong Kong Tourism Board. Other sponsors include Rednano, ASUS, Asia Web Direct (http://www.asiawebdirect.com) and Fabrix. The awards is supported by blog networks, Advertlets.com and Ping.sg, as well as Singapore’s top Online Classifieds portal, ST701.

Singapore Blog Awards 2010 Categories:

1. EASB Best Individual Blog (Sponsored by EASB)
This category is for individualistic blogs with free-wheeling content about daily lives and musings that cannot be categorised.

2. Best Lifestyle Blog（Sponsored by National Heritage Board）
This category is for blogs that shares information that will light up someone’s mundane lifestyle.

3. Best Photography Blog
This category is for professional photographers to share their works with photography enthusiasts.

4. Best Modeling Blog
This category is for blogs with lots of self portraits and modeling photos.

5. Best Food Blog
This category is for blogs featuring food content.

6. Best What-The-Hell (WTH) Blog
Blogs which focus on the strange, the underground…topics that would make you go “WTH”.

7. Most Insightful Blog
This category is for serious blogs with interesting and revealing insights, analytical reports, and commentaries on social issues.

8. Most Laugh-Out-Loud Blog
Blogs containing humorous content that cackles up readers.

9. Best e-commerce Blog
This category is for blogs which deal with online commercial activities.

10. The Y-Bloggist 部落Y格斗 (http://project.omy.sg/ybloggist) presented by iKnow.com.sg
This is a blogging challenge for any youth bloggers aged 25 years and below. Participation is open to individuals or a group of no more than five people sharing a blog.

Judging Criteria

To crown the award winner for each of the 10 categories, a score will be computed based on public votes (30%) and scores given by professional judges (70%).

Judging Criteria And Points

Inspiring/entertaining content – 40
Expression/presentation – 30
Judges Total – 70
Voting Total – 30

Fringe Awards

1. Best Overseas Celebrity Blog
This category is for celebrities’ blogs written by celebrities in the entertainment and media industry, writers, sportsmen and others, excluding those from Singapore.

2. Best Local Celebrity Blog
This category is for celebrities’ blogs written by Singapore celebrities in the entertainment and media industry, writers, sportsmen and others

3. Rednano Best Mobile Blog (To be launched on 15 April 2010)
This category welcomes public to register at mobile.rednano.sg via their mobile phone with their own Twitter ID and start tweeting about the latest mobile gadgets. Participants are required to append #rednano at the end of each tweet. More details will be announced on the official Singapore Blog Awards 2010 website on 15 April.

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