Oldskoolmark nominates for the Edublog 2008 Awards

I haven’t heard about the Edublog Awards before until I saw Amise’s post on it. What an awesome idea and for this year’s 2008 edublog awards, I’m voting, gunning, rooting and nominating for the social media and PR across Asia wiki for the best educational wiki!

It’s an awesome show of collaborative efforts of many SMU students over several social media classes who have pulled information on the digital and mobile landscape in Asia. Valuable stats and case studies are available on this wiki, so it definitely deserves a shout out! woohooo! Vote for it now by following these instructions to link it to your blog!

What would attract bloggers to join a competition?

I’ve always wanted to know what kinds of prizes would attract a blogger to a competition? If there was a contest held for bloggers to blog about something, what would entice you as a blogger?

I realize there’re lots of digital marketing companies trying to use this approach to entice bloggers to blog about a topic to gain more coverage. Would an iPod touch suffice as a prize? How about these awsome gifts here?

Or is the prize secondary? Is recgonition for blogging and winning that competition more important?  Let us assume the judging criteria is based on votes, would you as a blogger prefer to have a unique form of recgontion? (Perhaps a short interview on a popular vlog? Or a customized badge to say you’re the winner?)

What ticks you then bloggers? Recognition or a prize? (Let’s assume you already have a product similar to the prizae and it’s something you would like to have and not something you really want)

Please share? I think it’ll make digital communications outreach have a different angle in approaching you as bloggers!