My So-Called Chaos: 2015 Best of Blog Awards: Voting Round 1

3.03.2015

2015 Best of Blog Awards: Voting Round 1

Woohoo, we got lots of fabulous nominations-how fun! I've narrowed it down to the top 10 nominations (no one can be nominated for more than three categories) so now it's time to vote!

Step 1: Nominations - Complete!

Step 2: Voting
Voting will last exactly 1 week, starting at 7AM MST on Tuesday, March 3rd and ending at NOON/12PM MST on Tuesday, March 10th. At this time there will be a new post with a form for voting for the people who were nominated.

Step 3: Final Voting
Final voting will last exactly 1 week, starting at 7AM on Thursday, March 12th and ending at NOON/12PM MST on Thursday, March 19th. There will be a new post with the top three contestants in each category listed for final voting during this time.

Step 4: Awards
The Awards post will go up on Wednesday, March 25th listing the final winners in each category! Winners will all get a special badge to put on their blog if they wish, and a special extra prize which is outlined as follows:

Niche Blog Awards: 1 month 450x100 ad space (scheduled in advance throughout the year)
Non-Niche Blog Awards: 1 month 450x200 ad space (scheduled in advance throughout the year)
Best Overall Blog: 1 month 450x300 ad space (scheduled in advance throughout the year)
Post Awards: Option to re-post their winning post here as a guest post (with a feature introduction about them in the post and links back to their blog and social media)
Social Media Awards: Twitter & Facebook features on the My So-Called Chaos pages.
Small Business Awards: 1 month 450x100 ad space (scheduled in advance throughout the year)

First of all, congratulations! You deserve it! Feel free to snag this button and share this post so people know and can vote for you-asking people to vote for you is totally okay. :) The button size is actually 750x750-but I've made it 400x400 here, and put that in the coding-just changed the width="400" height="400" section to be what you need it to be.

Vote for one person in each category. Since this is just voting I've made all categories mandatory-so if you don't know any of them in the category feel free to go ahead and check out their links and choose, or feel free to just choose one, however you prefer to do it. (I hope you'll take the time to get to know them though-that's half of what this is all about! :)

*Note* I'm not going to lie... There were quite a few people who broke the rules and either only nominated themselves for one thing and no one else, or nominated the same person more than three categories, in which case they were typically not counted.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THIS IS ALL IN GOOD FUN. There were some concerns shared last year about people inflating numbers, etc. But guys, this is just a fun little thing... Please don't stress about it in anyway. Here are some simple do's and don'ts, and hey-if you want to go through and vote multiple times sure, but it's time consuming since you do need to select someone in each category-so I don't recommend it. :)

DO vote for someone in each category. Take the time to find new blogs, or just select someone by name or something if you don't have time to get to know them in depth and you don't know anyone listed.
DO feel free to vote for yourself.
DO feel free to vote for your friends.
DO feel free to grab the button button above and post it on your blog, sidebar, etc. linking back here.
DO ask your friends to vote for you.

Enter to win a $25 Etsy Gift Card. Giveaway runs from 7AM MST 2/19/15 and ends at 11:59PM MST on the last day of voting, 3/19/15. Giveaway is open worldwide, and entering the giveaway below agrees to all terms and conditions within the Rafflecopter.

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