Best Health Magazine Recognizes Our Award-Winning Canadian Bloggers

I was featured in Best Health magazine, which is pretty exciting, but you want to know what made it extra exciting? It turns out that I was in excellent company.

The article, called "Blogging for Dollars", also features Andrea Tomkins of A Peek Inside the Fishbowl, which placed 2nd in Lifetime Achievement in 2010:



And Aimee Wimbush-Bourque of Simple Bites, which placed 1st in Best New Weblog and 3rd in Food & Drink in 2010:



And Heather Greenwood Davis of Globetrotting Mama, which is nominated in Travel in this year's awards:



Nice work, you guys! And thank you, Best Health!

The Ninjamatics' Canadian Weblog Awards Is Being Featured On ShePosts.com

Guess who's being featured on She Posts? We are!

I was interviewed by Laurie White of She Posts about the Ninjamatics' Canadian Weblog Awards, and, I have to say, I got fairly misty talking to her about you guys:

Attending Canadian blogging conferences over the last two years and being in touch with so many bloggers through the Awards, I am thrilled to see people bonding and sharing and growing their communities together. I feel very kumbaya about it all.

So head on over and check out our interview! It makes me feel very Mary-Tyler-Moore-throwing-my-hat-in-the-air.

The Canadian Weblog Awards Make The News

An article in the Royal City Record out of Burnaby, British Columbia highlights the Canadian Weblog Awards and Gender Focus, which placed 2nd in the Feminist and 2nd in the LGBTQ categories.

Check out "Local blogger earns honours":

Jarrah Hodge finds no shortage of ideas for her award-winning Gender Focus blog - whether it's board games or sexist advertising.

Hodge, who studied women's studies at the University of British Columbia, decided to put her education to use and started a Canadian feminist blog. Hodge launched her blog in 2009, having seen some impressive U.S.-based blogs.

"There was no Canadian equivalent," she said.

Neil Kramer of Citizen of the Month Talks Up the Canadian Weblog Awards

Neil Kramer of the weblog Citizen of the Month wrote "Categories", a rumination about the Canadian Weblog Awards, and we're pretty chuffed about it. He's been kicking around the arena of weblogs since March 2005, which means that he is a blogging dinosaur, which means that we like his opinion on the matter:

Schmutzie does it right; she creates a category of family and parenting as an umbrella for whoever writes about family. This could be a mom or dad who write about their family. It could be a gay man raising a child with his partner. It could be a single man who adopted a son. It could even be a woman who is caring for her sick sister. Are we going to say that these sisters are not a family unit, with the same types of problems that any family might have, just because they are not child-rearing. If I moved in with my MIL to care for her, and I started a blog about it, would you discount me from being in the “family” blog category along with your traditional mommyblogging blog?

Check it out. The indirect comparison between us and Martin Luther King doesn't hurt, either.