Starting today, and ending on Friday, October 16th, you can submit a blog post, or series of blog posts, to the 2009 Log Reader Awards.
What is it?
You’re probably asking yourself “What’s a Log Reader Award?” Well, dear reader, a Log Reader Award is an award created by bloggers (myself, Andy Warren, and Brent Ozar) to recognize other bloggers for their excellence in writing across a number of metrics including style and technical knowledge. (Ability to recognize an Oxford comma is a plus, but not required.) We realize that it’s important to recognize people of all skill levels and that what makes a great introduction to a topic is not the same thing that makes up a deep dive into a single feature of SQL Server.
To make this easier, there are multiple categories: Book Review, Business Intelligence, CLR, New Blog (less than one year old, at least one post a month), Professional Development, Series (Multiple Posts), Server Management & Automation, T-SQL, and Unusual (it’s great, you love it, but it doesn’t belong in a previous category).
How does it work?
Well, you go to the submission form and enter your details. On October 17th, we take your list of submissions and review them. Keep in mind, though, that we’re only going to review the last two posts you submit. This is how we’re going to stop you from voting Chicago style. Only posts that you’ve written between October 15th, 2008 and October 16th, 2009 are eligible. You can’t submit your doctoral thesis on relational design that you wrote 15 years ago. We’re looking for current articles from active bloggers.
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What do you get?
The satisfaction of a job well done.
No, seriously, what’s the reward?
In addition to the satisfaction of a job well done, you will also receive the praise and admiration of your peers. We’re working on ways for award recipients to show off that they are an amazing blogger. Oh, and we’ll be announcing the winner at PASS. In front of people. So it won’t just be me telling the coat check crew about you… everyone will get to know how great you are!
[...] can read more about the contest in Andy Warren’s announcement and Jeremiah Peschka’s announcement, and then go nominate yourself. Do it twice, two different categories, two different posts. [...]
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Jeremiah did you guys pick the winners for this contest? I don’t see the results.
We did pick the winners. They were announced at the Summit, it went out in the Community Connector (I think). Here’s a link to the Log Reader Award Results.
Jeremiah thanks for the update. I also have some good news about SQLSaturday in Wheeling. It looks like we are getting closer. I have a date and a location confirmed. More info coming soon.