What is Maroc Blog Awards’08 ?
How will the competition take place ?
Moroccan Award Categories ?
Don’t know where to start?
What is Maroc Blog Awards’08 ?
Maroc Blog Awards’08 is the first competition aiming to reward the best Moroccan blogs of the year 2007. Anyone can nominate its favorite blogs from December 5, 2007 until 11:59pm on Wednesday the 23rd of January 2008.
Seventeen Moroccan bloggers will win seventeen awards in seventeen categories. The list of categories has been carefully set up by us, the Blogotour team, to ensure that the voters have a wide range of choice.
The choice of participants as well as the winners is directly done through this website. All the winners are chosen by the public. No jury will intervene during the competition.
In the end, seventeen stars will shine during this first edition and one of them will hold the prominent title of Best Moroccan Blog of the year !
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How will the competition take place ?
First Round: Nominations
The blogs competing for a place in the finals will be submitted by the public via a form available on this link: www.marocblogawards.com . It will run until 11:59pm on Wednesday the 26th of December 2007.
You can participate only once by suggesting three to five blogs. Each blog has to be nominated in the category that best summarizes its editorial line. It is therefore important to choose the right category in which each blog will be nominated.
Three blogs are the minimum required to be validated and five are the maximum authorized. The two first fields are required. The third subject is optional. Number 4 gives you the opportunity to propose your own blog in a category. This is also optional. The last field is obligatory and let you propose your “Best Moroccan Blog” of the year.
The blogs that enter the competition have to be managed by:
- Moroccans living in Morocco or abroad,
- Expats living in Morocco or having “Morocco” as a main subject.
Second Round: The finals
Based on the number of nominations for each category, the Top 3 blogs in each category will be announced on Wednesday the 3rd of January 2008.
The public will be able to vote on one of these 3 finalists for each category.
The blogs competing for a place in the finals will be submitted by the public via a form and will run until 11:59pm on Wednesday the 23rd of January 2008.
The winners:
The winners will be announced live on Saturday, the 2nd of February 2008. A dedicated Maroc Blog Awards ceremony will specially be held in Casablanca. Prizes will be offered to each winner of each category. We keep them a secret till then! ;o)
Moroccan Award Categories
The following list was compiled by us, and is not exhaustive. We are open to any proposition to include new categories in future editions.
This ultimate consecration rewards the best blog of the 2008 edition. The title of “Blog of the Year” is awarded to the blogger that convinced the public the most.
In the same spirit as the Best Moroccan Blog, the prize for Best Writing rewards the most inspired blogger.
This special prize is awarded to encourage the newcomers to the Moroccan Blogosphere (less than one year).
A large number of blogs are maintained by Moroccan teenagers. This category recompenses the best of these young talents.
The award for Best Social Action is attributed to the blogger behind the initiative that has had the greatest social impact in Morocco.
Rewards the teamwork of a group of bloggers maintaining a single blog, as well as the harmony of their ideas and opinions.
The Best Thematic Blog of the year is the blog that respects one editorial line and rarely moves away from its main subject.
This category brings together the most committed blogs in the Moroccan blogosphere. These blogs have a critical eye on political issues and a real analytical approach.
Among blogs dealing with Internet, Computer Science and Telecommunications, the title of “Best IT Blog” rewards the blog that reviews the best the IT sector.
Educational, a linguistic blog is the alternative of the standard learning programs. The best among them will be rewarded in this category.
The blogs written in Arabic compete in all categories. Yet a special price is attributed to the best Blog written in Arabic.
This popular prize (by developers and graphic designers) refers to the most attractive blog. Considered are: the beauty of the design, its originality as well as its look and feel.
The best photoblog is the blog that will offer the most astonishing shots of the year.
Blogs proposing music as their main theme.
This category rewards the best artistic blog of the 2008 edition.
The most tactful and funny blog will obviously be the Hilarious Blog of the Year.
This award recognizes the best Podcast (or Videocast) of the year. A Podcast is an audio and/or video file on the Internet that is an alternative for written articles.
Don’t know where to start ?
You’ve just discovered the Moroccan Blogosphere and you would like to know more about the Moroccan Bloggers? Here is a list of some useful addresses:
As its name points out, www.maroc-blogs.com indexes various blogs maintained in different languages (French, English, Spanish, Arabic…) and proposes posts of the last three days through a title and an quote. Blogma Aggregator remains a reference.
This newborn in the Moroccan Blogosphere operates in the same principal as it’s predecessor with one difference; archives take into account the last two weeks.
Moudawanate Maghribia is an arabic version of the two early websites. With a majority of blogs written in Arabic, archives include articles of the past six days.
MaBlogoma Blog Maroc - Annuaire de blogs marocains :
MaBlogoma Blog Maroc is a blog directory bringing together more than 200 Moroccan quality blogs. You can find blogs by theme and see real-time updates of its blogs.
This online media of blogs gives an overview of the news published anywhere in the world. It has a section dedicated to Morocco. Originally in English, the site offers several translations of articles written in the Moroccan blogosphere.
Le Magazine des blogs et du Web au Maroc :
This blog reviews news of the Moroccan blogosphere and the Moroccan websites.
Technorati is one of the largest search engines for blogs. You can search by blogs and articles, according to the needs of the user.
Provided by the famous search engine Google, blogsearch.google.com specializes in indexing an unimaginable number of blogs.