Sponsors are integral to the theme of Indibloggies. More than anything else, their involvement with the event signifies the ethos of the Internet in general and the blogdom in particular, the intent is of significance, not the value of the award.
Previous Indibloggies events have seen fellow bloggers donate prizes, in fact the debut event had no awards other than those coming from the blogdom itself. The theme of collaboration is so rampant in the event, and I am not referring to the bogus voting, that happens ;), the kind souls who donate their products know that this is not perhaps an apt platform for advertisement, yet they go for it. This is just incredible.
Do take a look at the award categories for the upcoming 2007 event. We would only be too happy if you could lend your support to this movement.
Would you like to be a part of the Indibloggies 2007 event? Please write to us with your proposal.
Like the previous year, the good people at Desipundit, who won in the “Best Designed Indiblog” and “Best Directory/ Clique/ Service” categories, are auctioning their awards. The proceeds will be donated in entirety to Magic Bus, a nonprofit charitable organization that conducts developmental activities for children and young adults through the outdoors and sports. This is an excellent gesture on the part of the Desipundit team and we laud their effort. For further details and to participate in the auction please click here. The auction ends on Thursday, April 5 2007 at 11:59pm CST.
The Indibloggies 2006 Event commenced in November 2006 and concluded in January 2006. This was the fourth edition of Indibloggies following the 2003, 2004 and 2005 events.
For the curious here are few relevent links from the 2006 event.
Ladies and gentlemen! The moment of truth has arrived. The Indiblogosphere has chosen a new band of winners from 175 worthy contenders across 21 varied categories. The final phase of Voting at the Indibloggies 2006 event witnessed over 3500 registrations with around 2235 votes cast over a week. The figures may be small, but being recognized as a blogger extraordinaire by your own community is no small an achievement.
I thank all the participants and the Jurors for your help and encouragement. Your vote, dear readers, has decided their fate and its time you join us in congratulating them on their triumph. Here is the list of Winners: (more…)
Update [21 Feb 2007]: Voting has concluded. Thanks for participating in the poll! Watch out for the results!
Dear readers roll up your sleeves and prepare to participate in the 3rd and final phase of the Indibloggies 2006 event, the public polls, where your votes would decide the fate of the nominees across 21 categories including 6 Indic blog categories.
The Voting would continue from 13 Feb 2007 until 20th Feb 2007. You would be required to register with a valid email address to be able to cast your votes.
For the Nominees along with our best wishes here is a badge they can sport to solicit votes for their blogs/sites. Just copy the code/paste the HTML given below to display the badge on your blog/site.
The first two phases of Indibloggies 2006 event, namely the open nominations and the Jury rating, are complete. Few raised eyebrows again on the process of nomination yet more than 700 nominations were made over the last 11 days. The Jury sure had a tough as well as enjoyable time browsing through the myriad flavors of writing and then rating them.
I one again thank all the jurors for not only devoting their time and effort to the process but also for staying away from the competition, your help has indeed added more credibility to the awards. The Jury zeroed in on almost 290 blogs/sites, of which about 175 made it to the short-list that would participate in the final phase of the event, the public Poll.
Here goes the complete list of nominees. Hearty Congratulations people!
Ladies and gentlemen, the game has begun (hear the drumroll?), Indibloggies is now inviting nominations from Indian Bloggers all over the World for the 2006 event. Indibloggers, here is your chance to showcase your blog to the whole world and win laurels from your peers and readers alike.
Nominations for 16 award categories would be open from 26th January until 5th February, 2007. At stake are prizes worth more than Rs 85000.
To nominate your blogs simply bookmark your blog/site at the social bookmarking service del.icio.us using some pre-defined Tags.
If you want to nominate many blogs or if you are a delicious power user please refer this 5 Step Guide instead.
Please don’t ask your friends or readers to nominated your blog for you multiple times, simply because Jurors don’t consider the count of nominations as any criteria for rating. Moreover, self-nomination is perfectly legal. Please beware that repeated nominations for the same blog may be treated as spamming and may lead to disqualification.
Dear readers, we are delighted to introduce to you the Jury for Indiblogies 2006. It’s been our endeavour to bring new faces each year to this distinguished panel and we welcome them all. Apart from the fact they they would be devoting their time to tiresome effort of looking at the nominated blogs and nominating them, they have chosen to stay away from the competition adding the glaze of credibility to Indibloggies and I am thankful to them. I hope their stint at Indibloggies gives them an opportunity to highlight unsung blogs and helps them gain a bird’s eye view of the growing Indiblogdom.
Sponsors are integral to the theme of Indibloggies. More than anything else, their involvement with the event signifies the ethos of the Internet in general and the blogdom in particular, the intent is of significance, not the value of the award.
Past Indibloggies events have seen fellow bloggers donate prizes, infact the debut event had no awards other than those coming from the blogdom itself. The theme of collaboration is so rampant in the event, and I am not referring to the bogus voting, that happens ;), the kind souls who donate their products know that this is not perhaps an apt platform for advertisement, yet they go for it. This is just incredible.
Do take a look at the award categories for the 2006 event. We would only be too happy if you could lend your support to this revolution. (more…)
For the Nominees along with our best wishes here is a badge they can sport to solicit votes for their blogs/sites. 
