- 27 March 2009
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Blogger Awards
The 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards - Winners
Matthew CashmoreLonely Planet author
Congratulations to all of the winners in the 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards. The evening was a blast, we had a lot of fun and some excellent blogs won-out to take home some rather groovy prizes.
Well done to everyone that got nominated, I, and I know the judges have had a wonderful time reading, watching and listening to all the entrants.
- Best Destination Blog
www.GoVisitHawaii.com (15/20)
- Best Expat Blog
www.notesfromspain.com (17/20)
- Best Consumer Travel Blog
blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/ (15/20)
- Best Travelogue
worldinslowmotion.com (17/20)
- Best non-English Travel Blog
lavoltadels25.cat (20/20)
- Best Spanish Language Blog
blogdeviajes.com.ar (17/20)
- Best French Language Blog
toothbrushnomads.com/dotclear (17/20)
- Best Italian Language Blog
ilreporter.com (17/20)
- Best Micro-blogging
twitter.com/soultravelers3 (17/20)
- Best Video Blog
twoguysaroundtheworld.com (15/20)
- Best Themed Blog
soultravelers3.com (17/20)
- Best Image Blog
elsuenodeindia.blogspot.com (15/20)
- Best Group Authored Blog
SpottedbyLocals.com (20/20)
- Best Podcast:
indietravelpodcast.com (17/20)
And the big one, the 2009 Lonely Planet Best Blog - goes to….
Here are the acceptance videos from the awards evening - click the little book in the player to see the other ‘episodes’ - you can see the full list of videos over at lpbloggers.blip.tv
If you’re a winner you can display the Lonely Planet Blog Award Winner badge on your site - download it by right clicking this URL and selecting ’save as’
http://lplabs.com/images/awards_winner.jpg
Judges
We had a fanastic judging panel for this years awards, next year we’ll also be using a judging panel to decide on the nominations.
The judges for the 2009 awards were:
- Emily Wolman, Commissioning Editor (Americas), Lonely Planet
- Vivek Wagle, Edior, lonelyplanet.com
- Bobbie Johnson, Technology Corespondent, Guardian
- Joshua Samuel-Brown, Author, all round good guy, and pretty awsome blogger.
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