The 2008 People's Media Awards from Associated Content

Courtesy of AC_Lisa

We are excited to announce the categories for the 2008 People's Media Awards - Associated Content's 3rd annual awards program, which recognizes and rewards the achievements of some of the most exceptional content and Content Producers on AC.

Please help us out by nominating worthy recipients in the Forum. All winners will be chosen by AC staff with input from our community of CPs. We'll be collecting nominations throughout December and announcing the winners in January 2009.

Content Producer of the Year

Prize: $2000

Criteria: A prolific and gifted Content Producer who published outstanding content and reached a wide audience in 2008.

Past winners: Pam Gaulin (2007) and Timothy Sexton (2006).

Post your nominations here.

Articles of the Year

Prize: 3 winners; $500 each

Criteria: Insightful, unique and poignant content published on AC in 2008. Display Only content is not eligible.

Last year's winners: Michelle Devon, Rosa Hayes and Jean Riva.

Post your nominations here.

News CP of the Year

Prize: $500

Criteria: A prolific and plugged-in CP who supplied AC readers with a year's worth of professional and topical news content.

Post your nominations here.

Videographer of the Year

Prize: $500

Criteria: A CP who published striking, original video content in 2008.

Post your nominations here.

Audiocaster of the Year

Prize: $500

Criteria: A CP who published striking, original audio content in 2008.

Post your nominations here.

Top Performing Content

Prize: 3 winners; $100 each

Criteria: This award provides a special bonus to the authors of three pieces of content that received large amounts of traffic in 2008. Winners will be determined based on 2008 page-view data.

We'll be collecting and reviewing nominees throughout December and announcing the winners in January 2009, so start nominating your favorites CPs and pieces of content!

More Nominations, This Time the Crunchies

Good morning, AC Blog readers. It is award season in the online and tech industry (sort of like late winter for the film industry), which means more nominations.

GigaOm, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Silicon Alley Insider are currently sponsoring The Crunchies, an annual competition to recognize and celebrate compelling internet and technology innovations in a given year.

Please show your enthusiasm for Associated Content and nominate us in both of the following categories (only one nomination per IP address per day, please):

Best Mobile (we have a great mobile platform, if you've ever browsed it from your BlackBerry or iPhone)




Best Time Sink Site (needs no explanation)

Nominate Associated Content in Mashable's Open Web Awards

Like Associated Content? Think that others would be interested in learning about AC, too?
Then please take a minute and head over to Mashable to nominate us for their Open Web Awards. The whole url is here: http://mashable.com/openwebawards/home/
Please nominate us for "Social News" or "How To" categories.

In their own words, the contest is "the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology." Associated Content's proprietary technology that determines the value of your content, pays you accordingly and enables you to earn from publishing it with us is certainly innovative enough to warrant a quick nomination trip to Mashable.

Nominations will be held from November 5th till November 16th 2008 and the voting rounds will be held from November 19th till December 15th. I'll ask for your votes once nominations have ended.

Vote for AC!