Well, my slide into obscurity – not posting much – has been rudely interrupted. I am being spammed out of my inbox by bloggers and wannabes desperate to get their emotional needs met with a big win in this year’s 2006 Best Blog Awards, a Recruiting.com production.
It seems that some vindictive bastard nominated me. Well, thank you very much – not! In addition to the blog-spam I am now fielding emails asking me to explain what I meant by this and what was I thinking posting that, why did I migrate from my original WordPress blog to this new “Blogversity” domain - wassup with that – and will I undergo a paternity test, and do Jews celebrate Kwanzaa. Puh-leeeeeze! Have we lost our minds? There is so much else going on in the world that deserves our energized canvassing – how about genocide in Darfur for starters? Now there’s something to get puffed-up about, don’t you think?
Anyway…
John Sumser was nice enough to give me his vote of confidence on interbiznet today – gracious even, inviting my post – and I finally wangled a Mikey’s Monkey out of the Recruiting Animal. What more could this blogger want? Recruiting.com’s 2006 Best Blog Award, a hat-trick? Let the omnipresent Dave Mendoza have it, for God’s sake. I’m begging you. He seems so desperate to win that to deny him would be un-Christian.
I like John Sumser’s idea of a Top Ten to close the year out. So, here is my pick of Recruitomatic posts from 2006 – in no particular order – to help persuade you that: a) there other recruiting bloggers much more deserving of your vote than me and, b) the real prize is in being read, bookmarked even:
3. Sex & Spammers: Lightening Strikes & Other Acts of God
5. College Career Centers: Reality Online Checks Out
7. When Top-of-Mind is a Headache
9. Body Image
10. Atonement
There you are, there you have it. Happy Holidays!
I miss your daily pearls of wisdom. I’ve got my RSS feeds set up to check, check, check for your blog entries but all I get is nothing, nothing, nothing. Well, usually nothing. I hope that 2007 sees your return to writing daily.
Indeed it will, Steven. Thanks…
I had to vote for you
Cheers, Michael! A protest vote. I’m up for that.
As I told Cheez, anyone who asked for my vote via mass-email didn’t get mine. It was enough of a popularity contest last year; didn’t need to become more so this time. However, the problem also lies in part in awards coordinator Jason Davis’ hands. Last year (2005 awards), each entrant’s blog name was hyperlinked to the blog so you could learn what it was about and judge on its own merits. In the SurveyMonkey link to vote for this year, the blog names were unlinked. So now you expect each voter to go find the blogs? Big issue for me.
Hey, Glenn - thanks for visiting and for your comment.
In Jason Davis’ defense I would ask, how much do you expect him to do, in the interests of community alone? Sure, links would be nice but I think the assumption is that people are voting for blogs they read and like, or for those bloggers who canvass and spam most effectively! Last year we didn’t have RecruitingFly to make researching the blogs and bloggers easy and SurveyMonkey makes tallying the votes less cumbersome, I’m sure. Also, in Jason’s posts the blogs were all hyperlinked. I guess Jason just can’t please everyone, can he?