Q: What’s the most sure-fire way to beat the winter blues, forget about your worries and walk around all day with a big grin on your face?
A: By winning not one but TWO categories in the 2008 South African Blog Awards!
Yes folks, you heard right. After you, the blog-reading public, had voted, and after two panels of judges had perused and evaluated the nominees, I was last night named Best Food & Drink Blog and also Best Overseas Blog in the fourth annual awards in Cape Town.
Yeeeeeeeehaaaaaaa!
Thanks to each and every one of you who voted for me – you are just the best! And what makes the win even more of an honour is the fact that the competition was really stiff this year – probably the strongest field of contenders since the awards started, including some good friends. I think it is safe to say that the South African blogging scene has come out of its infancy and is now developing a remarkable depth and breadth of coverage, as well as its own unique voice. I am proud to be able to say I am part of it.
A complete list of all the winners and runners-up is available here, but for a quick overview, here are just the winners in each category:
SOUTH AFRICAN BLOG OF THE YEAR – M&G’s Thought Leader
MOST HUMOROUS BLOG – East Coast Radio’s The Big Breakfast Blog
BEST OVERSEAS SOUTH AFRICAN BLOG – Cooksister!
BEST BLOG ABOUT POLITICS – M&G’s Thought Leader
BEST NEWS BLOG – East Coast Radio’s News Watch Blog
BEST TECHNOLOGY/COMPUTERS/WEB DEVELOPMENT BLOG – imod.co.za
BEST BLOG ABOUT DESIGN – Skinny Laminx
BEST BUSINESS BLOG – Matthewbuckland.com
BEST WEBSITE PROMOTING BLOGGING – Amatomu
BEST GREEN BLOG – Urban Sprout
BEST UNDISCOVERED BLOG – Living life breathlessly
BEST ENTERTAINMENT BLOG – East Coast Radio’s The Big Breakfast Blog
BEST POST ON A SOUTH AFRICAN BLOG – Peas on Toast’s How Not To Buy Condoms
BEST ORIGINAL WRITING – Peas on Toast
BEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BLOG – Jenty’s Photo-a-Day
BEST BLOG ABOUT FOOD AND WINE – Cooksister!
BEST MUSIC BLOG – Peak Performances
BEST PODCAST – East Coast Radio’s Just Plain’s… on the Blog
BEST GROUP BLOG – East Coast Radio’s The Big Breakfast Blog
BEST SPORT BLOG – Keo.co.za
BEST TRAVEL BLOG – Cape Town Daily Photo
BEST PERSONAL BLOG – So Close
A huge thank you once again to all the organisers for their hard work in making this year’s process so smooth and efficient – and of course hearty congratulations to all the winners!
A big double congratulations, Jeanne! Well deserved.
Way to go! Great news!
Hi Jeanne
Well done!! I cheered for you in your absence! You missed a great celebration…
Kind regards,
Sophia
xxx
Yay!!!! Congratulations. Will raise a glass of bubbly fo ryou at the weekend. 🙂
Congratulations! I’m so immersed in the design blog world, it was great to use these awards to find out about some other local (kind of) bloggers talking about things other than sofas and textiles and that kind of thing.
Have a good weekend.
Horraaaayyyy! Congratulations! You are an ace!
All I can say is ’bout bloddy time! When done Jeanne, a well deserved win (or two!).
CONGRATS fellow winner!!! 🙂
Wonderful news! Congratulations on both your awards. You are a wonderful writer. And photographer. And apparently cook – though I’d need proof to say for sure 😉
Well done.
Congrats all around – definitely well deserved.
Did you ever doubt it? Sincere congrats…
Congratulations, Jeanne!!!
Congratulations on your win – I´m enjoying reading your blog!
Congratulations Jeanne, well deserved…and your photo makes my toes curl with delight!!
Ronell
Congratulations, Well done, and all that!
Oh, and well-derserved, too!
Huzzah!
(Hope the hubby is on the mend, BTW)
Nice One – Congrats!!!
Hi,
I keep coming across your blog and I just wanted to thank you for posting the Eat In RMB SA Producers award winners in October . I co ordinate the awards and we are again hunting for fab new producers outlets and products. SA has unbelievable quality produce and I know there are so many people waiting to be uncovered and discovered. Every day I come across someone from some small town somewhere, making an innovative quality product – I just had to say Yay to SA!! I know all about Abalimi by the way – what an amazing group of people.
Nina