Social Work Blog Awards 2010
Welcome to the Social Work Blog Awards 2010!
I thought of creating this page for the purpose of hosting the Blog Awards.
My idea was to divide this event in three distinct periods of time, it would begin with a submitting stage in which all bloggers and readers will be asked to submit their favourite blogs on all social work categories presented.
A few simple rules should be considered during the submitting stage:
- All blogs should be for or by social workers.
- All participants have the possibility of submitting up to four blogs per category.
- Participants may submit their own blogs for consideration, once per category.
- All submissions should be made using the comments below.
- The four most submitted blogs will then give place to the final four nominees of each category.
Once the final four nominees of each category are known, it will then take place the voting stage, in which all participants will be given the right to vote once per category.
After the voting stage, the results will be revealed and the awards will be given to the winners.
As mentioned above, there will be seven social work categories, which are the following:
- Adoption/Fostering: this category should include blogs written under the topic of adoption or fostering services.
- Children and Families: this category should include blogs written under the topic of Children and Families social services.
- Diary/Personal: this category should include blogs written by social workers or social work students who maintain a journal about their activities.
- Educational: this category should include blogs written for or by social workers with educational value.
- Informative/Policies: this category should include blogs of informative nature about social work policies, news, etc.
- Adult Social Services: this category should include blogs written under the topic of Adult Social Services and includes palliative social work .
- Mental Health: this category should include blogs written under the topic of mental health services.
The submitting stage will last until the 1st of September 2010, followed by the voting stage until the 31st of December 2010. And the results will be announced on the 1st of January 2011.
If any of you would like to help promoting the Blog Awards, you can use the “official” banner and just copy/paste this html into your blog:
I have also created a template so that everyone can simply copy/paste in order to make the submission process easier.
Submission form:
Adoption/Fostering
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
Children and Families
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
Diary/Personal
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
Educational
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
Informative/Policies
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
Adult Social Services
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
Mental Health
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
- Blog url
Active Social Work | Blog 
So here are my favourite blogs on each category, please notice that you don t need to submit 4 blogs per category, you may just submit 1 or 2 if you d like. You can also submit your own blog at all appropriate categories 🙂
Adoption/Fostering
* http://eyesopenedwider.blogspot.com/
* http://harlowmonkey.typepad.com/harlows_monkey/
Children and Families
* http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/childrens-services-blog/
* http://eyesopenedwider.blogspot.com/
* http://nccpr.blogspot.com/
Diary/Personal
* http://astridvanwoerkom.wordpress.com/
* http://fightingmonsters.wordpress.com/
* http://www.myworldinshambles.com/
* http://www.pittsburghperambulations.blogspot.com/
Educational
* http://www.socialworktestprep.com/
* http://socialworkpodcast.blogspot.com/
Informative/Policies
* http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-policy-blog/
* http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/
* http://socialcareblog.wordpress.com/
* http://mhsw.org/
Mental Health
* http://fightingmonsters.wordpress.com/
* http://writerjean.blogspot.com/
* http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/mental-health/
* http://mhsw.org/
Mine will be up ASAP! I just have to sort through all the awesome blogs I read and decide who goes where! Also, now I have to start following all the ones you listed above!
(PS – thanks for the noms!)
I m really excited to see everyone s favourite blogs listed here so I can check them out myself.
(PS – No problem) 🙂
Yes, I am definitely going to nominate some but just need to get some more thoughts together!
Great idea and good luck with it. I’ll try and make some nominations in the next little while. It’s a long time to wait for the awards, though…
Thanks for participating antiSWer! It s still a long time for the awards, but it will be an enjoyable experience for everyone to take their time and see the blogs they like the most being rewarded throughout the weeks.
Diary/Personal:
http://awake-anddreaming.blogspot.com/
Thanks for participating! Feel free to add more blogs to your selection later.
Wow thank you for nominating me! I feel honored. 🙂
You’re welcome, you have a very nice blog. Feel free to participate.
Nice idea and thanks for the nomination!
No problem! I find your blog to be very useful, especially for social work students.
Thanks for the nomination! Somehow I completely got out of the loop on this one. I’ll be sure to post this on my blogs!
Nice to see you Jaeran, you’re welcome!
I’d like to nominate Jae Ran Kim for her blog Harlow’s Monkey which falls into the Adoption/Foster category.
http://harlowmonkey.typepad.com/
I would like to nominate Classroom to Capitol, in the Informative/Policies category, for a Social Work Blog award. Thank you for holding this contest, as it will give exposure to many social work bloggers.
This blog is at The URL is http://melindaklewis.com/