Announcing the inaugural Australian Medical Blog Awards
Happy Australia Day! As my form of celebration, I would like to announce the inaugural Australian Medical Blog Awards, sponsored by sitepoint.com. The aim of the awards is to promote quality medical blogging by Australians and foster a community of bloggers that rivals the international scene.
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The Rules:
- Nominations will be taken as comments on this post for two weeks, ending Friday 6th February at 6pm EDST. There is only one category this year - Best Australian Medical Blog. This includes doctors, nurses, ambos, pharmacists, medical researchers and patient blogs, along with many others. You could start with some of the blogs listed at the Australian Medical Blogroll.
- You may nominate one blog only (preferably not your own - you know it makes you look silly), so choose wisely.
- The nominations will be scoured by an international panel of bloggers, and a short list of 5 will be chosen
- Polls (should) open on Monday 9th of February and voting will continue until 6pm EDST on Friday 20th Feb
- I am the sole organiser of this contest, so this blog, AppleQuack, and my other blog, Scalpel’s Edge are immune to nominations (but chocolates will be accepted).
- Nominations and votes can come from international people, and non-medical people.
- It’s just a game, ok, so don’t take it too seriously. There will be another chance next year.
The Prizes:
Our sponsor this year is SitePoint, the premier resource for web-development and design. Please take a look at their site, and follow them on twitter for great contests. They have donated 3 reference books for the winner, which will give them a jump on the contest for next year:
- Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS
- The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
- Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL
Even those of you not in the running might like to check out some of the free resources offered by SitePoint;
- Learn HTML and CSS: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide
(This is the first few chapters from “Build Your Website…”. Sitepoint offers free downloads of the first few chapters of all their books, so that you aren’t disappointed).
- Video: An introduction to CSS,
- Video: Photoshop Starburst Effect,
- Fancy Form Design Using CSS,
- Master SEO Keywords: Give your site the kickstart it deserves!.
And remember:
AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE! OY! OY! OY!
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