Comments on: Categories for the 2007 Awards

By: Women who blog - Krishna De: Branding, Personal Branding, Employer Brand, Internal Brand, Social Media Marketing

Sat, 31 May 2008 07:09:30 +0000

[...] has been a dialogue ongoing at the Irish Blog Awards site about women in Ireland who [...]

By: natalie

natalie — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:48:22 +0000

I quite like the idea of best male/best female blog. It might be interesting to see in what ways they differ or not… I think best new blog is always real interesting too. Best student blog maybe… (any more ways i can possibly grab a nomination???? )

By: 4Basra

4Basra — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:29:38 +0000

I’d also like to see the best charity/non-profit blog category, for obvious reasons!

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:41:46 +0000

Back in your box, O’Shea…

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:24:34 +0000

I vote for a “Best Blog Awards Presenter” category

By: Irish Blog Awards » Blog Archive » New Category Suggestions for the 2007 Awards so far

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:37:08 +0000

[...] From the comments on this post there have been about 12 additional categories added. These are: [...]

By: Grandad

Grandad — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:47:36 +0000

How about a category for us oldies [who have a thing about George Bush and a few other things besides]?

Call it the Best Oldcomer Category….

By: AdamMaguire.com - Blog » Archives » We need a woman (to demand her rights as a housewife)

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:16:15 +0000

[...] You may not have spotted the discussion taking place across various blogs on what role women have in the Irish blog community* and this topic isn’t exactly out of place in the frame of that. [...]

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:19:58 +0000

I think the problem I have with the best male/female awards is that it dilutes the whole thing; the best blog in Ireland should be the best blog in Ireland, it should be compared to everything else going, not just half (or whatever proportion) of the community.
I just don’t see the point in creating a divide for the sake of giving people a slightly better chance of winning; you could split every blog award category based on gender if you wanted to, but it wouldn’t really make it the best then, would it?

As for UI’s list, it probably does omit a few women who did great things (I just scanned through it tbh)… and there is a gender imbalance there because of sexism, but it’s not UI’s sexism, it’s the sexism of the relevant era’s which stopped women from doing great things.
The fact is that fewer women had the opportunity to do great things for their country/the world until relatively recently… that’s not an Irish phenomenon either, it’s global.

By: Red Mum

Red Mum — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:39:49 +0000

I’d concur (obviously) with a best parenting blog, there are lots of us blogging away on the topic, male and female.

I’d also add: (I know some may have been suggested in one form or another already)

Best podcast or video

Best Charity/non-profit

Best Music blog

Best Political blog

Best New Blog

Best Sports Related blog

Best Food blog

Best Lifestyle blog

On the other topics going around this thread, I don’t have a problem at all with Best Female Blogger and indeed with also having a Best Male Blogger.

It was clear from the awards last year there are lots of women blogging but for whatever reasons few of us were/are visible above the parapets (James Corbett’s expert list backs this up somewhat to me). Looking at how many awards were presented to women last year also backs this up. (Though in fairness it was hard to beat the Mighty Twenty). As Damien (Mulley – not O’Broin) said we should see more women represented at the next ones.

I certainly don’t agree that having a best female blogger category implies that women are not as good as blogging, far from it, the sites I frequent say differently. And the fact that an expert list was drawn up with no women included at all is telling to me. There was another list this week by United Irelander listing the top 100 Irish people and there were only a couple of women named. Why? Are there so few great Irish women? not at all. Have they been overlooked of course.

I could add a load of women to his list and will do at some stage soon. Whether we like it or not women can be and are overlooked and sometimes we need to give a helping hand to rectify that. Whether or not this means a best female blog category or not I don’t know. But maybe it means going beyond your own comfort zone and exploring sites you normally wouldn’t.

I regularly stop by various techie and other development blogs. Sometimes I haven’t a clue what I am looking at and other times I learn stuff.