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It goes without saying that we LOVE blogging here at the MAD Blog Awards, and there’s not much we love more than a good blogging get-together.
That’s why we’re so excited to hear about the arrival of CybHer, the UK’s first conference exclusively for women bloggers of all sorts. Whether you blog about food, politics, travel or family issues, there will be inspiring speakers and useful workshops at this event in May 2012. Continue reading
Here at the MAD Blog Awards, we happen to think that blogging is a wonderful hobby – it’s a perfect means of creative expression, along with providing an opportunity to connect with other parents, and build lasting friendships.
The MAD Blog Awards are an annual celebration of everything that’s brilliant about British parent bloggers. There are awards that recognise great writing, photography, innovation, and fantastic posts about everything from food to fashion.
Last year, more than 900 blogs took part in the UK’s biggest and best awards for parent bloggers, and we took the opportunity to ask some of them what being a MAD Blogger means to them, and why they reckon you’d be MAD to miss out on the 2012 MAD Blog Awards. Continue reading
The 2012 MAD Blog Awards is almost here!
This year, we’re thrilled to be running the third annual MAD Blog Awards in association with Parentdish.co.uk, the UK’s leading provider of parenting news, advice and entertainment.
The MAD Blog Awards is a celebration of the UK’s best Mum and Dad blogs and this year, we’ll be looking to find the funniest, most inspiring and brilliant blogs across lots of categories. Nominations will be opening in the next few weeks, so keep your eyes peeled!
Last year, we received more than 50,000 nominations and votes in the MAD Blog Awards, and our finalists had a fantastic time at a glitzy awards ceremony in London. There were glamorous dresses (and sharp suits), emotional acceptance speeches and lots of laughs before everyone was ferried to a luxury hotel at the end of the night.
Win an all-expenses paid trip to the MAD Blog Awards
This year, we’re inviting one lucky parent blogger to join us at the MAD Blog Awards ceremony as our very special guest. This means you could win:
And that’s not all.
We’ll also be asking the winning blogger to join our judging panel and help judge the winners of some of our 2012 MAD Blog Awards winners. It’s a big responsibility, but a great chance to have a say in the UK’s biggest and most popular awards for parent bloggers.
How to Enter
If you’d like to join us at the 2012 MAD Blog Awards awards ceremony, then all you need to do is answer the following question before 5pm GMT on February 28, 2012:
Q: How many nominations and votes were received in the 2011 MAD Blog Awards?
A: 10,000
B: 25,000
C: 50,000
Just leave your answer in the comments below.
For a maximum of three additional entries into the competition, you can like the MAD Blog Awards on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and Tweet about the competition. Details are below.
Thanks for you all for continuing to support the UK’s biggest and best parent blogging awards, and good luck to everyone who enters!
The MAD Blog Awards Ceremony, held in London on September 30 was a fantastic evening.
There was wine, there were women and there were songs. Although you might need to relax your definition of “singing” to buy into the last item on that last.
But don’t just take our word for it. Here are some highlights of the evening so those of you who attended can relieve your favourite moments and those of you who didn’t attend can get excited about what’s in store for 2012!
Next year’s awards are going to be our biggest and best so far – we can’t wait!
One of the best parts of a big night out with friends is that moment towards the end of the night, when the wine and music are in full flow, and everyone decides to have a jolly good sing-song.
Usually, these events are only witnessed by close friends.
But where’s the fun in that?
So at the MAD Blog Awards, our lovely hosts at TalkTalk set up an X-Factor karaoke pod and invited our finalists and sponsors to have a sing-song in front of a webcam. And then we put the results on the Internet. As you do.
There was an amazing prize at stake, too. As official sponsors of this year’s X-Factor, TalkTalk has offered tickets to a LIVE X-FACTOR show to the singers judged to give the best performance. Continue reading
L-R: Muireean Carey Campbell, Anna Ranson, Tamsin Kelly
The winners of the second annual MAD Blog Awards for British Mummy and Daddy bloggers were announced on Friday evening at a gala awards ceremony held at the TalkTalk Customer Experience Centre in the heart of London’s Soho.
Around 100 of the country’s best-loved parent bloggers came together to find out the winners of the awards, which were sponsored by Parentdish.co.uk, and celebrate all that’s great about the UK’s parent blogging community. Continue reading
Friday evening saw the second annual MAD Blog Awards ceremony, and it was certainly a night to remember!
Around 100 of the UK’s top parent bloggers, along with sponsors and invited guests, made their way to the TalkTalk Customer Experience Centre in London for an evening of drinking, eating and celebrating just how brilliant British Mummy and Daddy bloggers really are! Continue reading
Want to know what’s happening at the MAD Blog Awards but haven’t got a ticket?
Fear not friends, for our live blogging team are here to provide you with live pictures, news and Tweets from the parent blogging community’s most exciting awards ceremony.
Last week, six of our MAD Blog Awards finalists were invited to spend the morning at the flagship TK Maxx store in Kensington, London, and choose an outfit for this week’s awards ceremony. Continue reading
Are you coming to the MAD Blog Awards, to help celebrate the very best UK parent bloggers?
If so, then we thought it might be nice to introduce you to the other bloggers on the guest list – here’s a complete list of the finalists, ticket winners and helpers who will be attending the awards with their blog addresses. Are you excited to meet your fellow bloggers on Friday? Continue reading
The MAD Blog Awards ceremony, in association with Parentdish.co.uk, is just four days away, and will take place this Friday, September 30th at the TalkTalk Customer Experience Centre, in Soho.
We’re gearing up to welcome our finalists, Golden Ticket winners, sponsors and specially invited guests to come and celebrate everything that’s great about parent blogging, and discover the winners of the second annual MAD Blog Awards.
The celebrations will kick off with a drinks reception at 6.30pm, with the presentations starting at 7.30pm. The evening will be in the capable hands of our MC, the amazing Muireean from Bangs and a Bun.
If you’re not able to make the awards, then we will be live blogging the ceremony here at www.the-mads.com, in a special live blog that will bring together Tweets, photos, video and announcements live from the ceremony in London. There will also be the opportunity for someone following at home to win a very special prize, so keep your eyes peeled!
We wanted to take this opportunity to say congratulations to every one of our finalists. There were more than 50,000 nominations and votes cast in these awards, so to reach the finals is a huge achievement.
A special congratulations to the six finalists in the MAD Blogger of the Year category, who have made the job of our judges so very difficult – choosing a winner this year proved a very drawn out process, as our judges loved all of your blogs for different reasons.
Thanks too, to all of our sponsors, who have supported us so brilliantly this year, and provided our winning bloggers with some great prizes.
We will continue to update you with news about the ceremony during this week, and we hope you’ll join us – in London or online – on Friday evening.
We’ve already announced seven of our Golden Ticket Winners for the 2011 MAD Blog Awards, and now it’s time for the last three tickets to be given away.
Last week, we challenged you to tell us how many of our MAD Blog Award finalists could lick their own elbows. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not impossible to do – but as it turned out, it was impossible for our 10 testers – none of whom succeeded (although we had loads of fun watching them try).
Lots of bloggers guessed 0 or 1 blogger would succeed, so we put all the correct entries into a hat and our three winners this week are:
Congratulations! You have each won a ticket to the MAD Blog Awards ceremony on September 30th. If you can’t attend on the evening, don’t worry, just let us know and we’ll send you one of our amazing award gift bags, instead. Just get in touch and let us know your preference!
Thanks to everyone who entered and we can’t wait to meet you all in – eek – just over three weeks’ time!
This year, the MAD Blog Awards has teamed up with some fantastic fashion brands to help dress our finalists for the MAD Blog Awards ceremony, and we’re thrilled to announce one of those brands is White Stuff.
Later this month, Katie, Sharon, Lindy, Rachael and Alex will be sporting some fab dresses from White Stuff’s latest collection, which includes some brilliant vintage themed pieces.
But on September 22nd, White Stuff is urging everyone to wear a completely different sort of vintage accessory – a tea cosy!
The second annual National Wear a Tea Cosy on Your Head Day (NWATCOYHD) takes place on Thursday 22nd September, and kicks off an exciting day of fundraising, with White Stuff staff and customers sponsored to don tea cosies on their heads and much more.
Last year White Stuff raised £26k for charity, lots of people got involved (even some famous faces) and the shop wants to make the second NWATCOYHD bigger and even better than before.
There are many ways customers can join in and raise money; including knitting their own tea cosy (with our downloadable Grannies Inc pattern), sponsoring their local shop, taking part in a ‘stitch and bitch’ session or hosting their very own ‘chari-tea’ party.
On the actual day there will be fun activities in our local shops and drinks and nibbles. If shoppers arrive wearing a tea cosy they will receive a free gift from our friends at Clipper
Followers on Twitter should look out for the #NWATCOYHD and Facebookers will be asked to tag themselves wearing their tea cosies on our Facebook page. Customers can also email us pictures of themselves wearing a tea cosy with the best entry winning a £200 White Stuff voucher.
Each of the White Stuff’s 78 shops supports a local charity and all monies raised on the day will go directly to this cause. The charities are supported by The White Stuff Foundation, which was set up in 2010 and aims to make the world a little happier by helping disadvantaged children and young people in our local communities.
For more information, check out the White Stuff on Facebook or online.
Last week, we set our finalists a challenge – to lick their elbows, and film the results.
Then we asked you, our lovely readers, to guess how many of the 10 finalists who took part would succeed in licking their elbows.
Were you right?
Check out the video below to find out:
It only remains to say a huge thanks to the finalists who took part, and sacrificed their dignity, ever so slightly, in the name of blogging. We salute you all.
Winners of the competition will be announced next Monday, September 5th.
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