Click the button to go to the Home Page for the awards ^
Otherwise… if you already know all about the awards and are ready to participate, let’s get started!
What’s different this year? Our nominations form is snazzier and on our site in a pretty Google page. Category descriptions are included as you vote to make the experience easier!
We’ve added a vlogging category and have taken out the “curriculum or business blog” category, because most of the great curriculums and businesses are already listed on our prize pages and sidebars – so that doesn’t seem fair, and they don’t want our prizes anyway. However, if someone is a great homeschool blogger and they sell curriculum or other homeschool products from their site, you are more than welcome to nominate them for some other category they fit in. Common sense applies: dads for dad category, teens for teen category, etc.
You’ll see these rules on the nomination page, but it can’t hurt to repeat them…
2011 NOMINATION RULES:
1. Be sure to check our legal policy: http://hsbapost.com/hsba-legal-policy – by nominating a blog or voting you are agreeing to them!
2. You may only nominate each category one time. If you get kicked out for some reason, you can come back later and nominate again – but only in the categories that you weren’t able to nominate the first time. We suggest you make a list and have it handy – of all the nominations you want to make in EVERY category – and get it done all at once.
3. You may not nominate one blog for more than one category.
4. Authors and administrators of the Homeschool Post are not eligible for the awards, so please don’t nominate them. {We love you, too – and feel free to visit our blogs and comment instead!}
5. Remember that we are family friendly due to the fact that most homeschoolers have a bunch of kids looking over their shoulders when they are online. Nominated blogs should be appropriate for all viewing audiences. For more on detailed rules, see our Terms and Conditions. Any blog that does not meet this rule will be eliminated from the voting stage.
6. Please be sure to enter your nomination data correctly so that your favorite blogs make it into the voting stage. Follow the nomination form instructions carefully. With over 1,000 nominations, we cannot verify every incorrect url. Incorrect nominations will be deleted.
7. To be eligible for nomination the blog must be active. If there are no posts in over two months, they are not qualified.
8. Keep up with our Awards Update page until the end of the awards season to find out what is happening. We have a “Updates” section that has the latest.
9. Nominations Begin on October 10th, 2011 at 12:01 (PST) and end on October 21st at midnight (PST). Voting won’t begin until November 7th. {We need a little time to get the polls created for you!}
10. If you tweet about the awards on Twitter, use hashtag #HSBA11 so we can follow along.
Have fun and don’t stare at the computer screen too long. Try not to procrastinate and have your favorite blogs left off the list!
We can’t wait to see the nomination list – we love meeting new homeschool bloggers!
Oh… and SPREAD THE WORD: You can do so by blogging about, linking to, tweeting about, facebooking about, google-plussing, and social bookmarking this post!
CLICK ON THE BUTTON TO NOMINATE…
WE LOVE OUR SPONSORS (This is a list of our current 2011 prize awarders! Please visit them as a thank-you for their generous participation!)
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I’ll definitely stay updated with this. As a homeschooling blogger, I love finding new homeschooler’s blogs. I look forward to seeing the winners!
I nominate this homeschool Blog because it is AWESOME!!! http://cordialchaos.blogspot.com/
HI!! I came across about this nominations in A Slice of Smith Life blog: http://asliceofsmithlife.blogspot.com/2011/10/homeschool-blog-awardsnominations-begin.html
I was wondering if you accept blogs in Spanish. Thank you!!
Hmm… the link’s not working; it just cycles and cycles but never loads. I’ll come back tomorrow.
I would love to see more ‘new’ blogs on here. Over the past three years that I’ve participated you just keep seeing the same blogs on several different categories and they just dominate the whole voting process. Because of this I’ve decided not to participate this year. It just doesn’t seem fair when you see one blog on 5 different categories when it comes time to vote..
I agree with lynn. I would love to see new blogs listed. I do see a few of the same blogs over and over… While they are awesome; I hope that some new folks get a chance to be nominated.:)
We are going to list all the nominations that we get this year, so you can bet there will be plenty of new things to look at. However, we allow the public to vote, so if a blog wins that is already popular, that’s just how voting went. One way we make sure that there is no “funny stuff” is to make the results of our polls hidden. That way each person gets ONE vote and no one is tempted to keep soliciting votes just to stay ahead of someone else.
Hi!
I’m just wondering–can a blog who won an award here last year still run for the awards this year? I know someone who’s blog won last year, and they’re running again this year..I would love my friend to win again, but just wondering if that’s fair to the others?
~Also: how many nominations does one need to get to be in on the voting round? Just curious.
Great work here, ladies!! Can’t wait to see the list of blogs.
~Lucia
yes ma’am
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