We have made it to the next round of the 2010 South African Blog Awards, I am saying we as I could not have made it without the support of everybody that nominated iGeek.

A big thanks goes out to everybody that nominated iGeek for the South African Blog Awards, iGeek has been nominated in the categories of Best New Blog and Best Science and Technology Blog.

The next step before victory is claimed is for you to go and vote, voting for the South African Blog Awards will be open until the 17th of September 2010, from there the judges will also have a vote and then the winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on the 25th of September.

To vote for iGeek follow this link or simply click the South African Blog Awards badge on the right of the site. You can place a new vote every 24 hours with the same email address, so remember to place your votes every day.

Thank you very much for your loyal support.

It’s that time of the year again where the blogsphere are filled with posts from blogs on how much effort they put into the site and promising to post more regularly if your vote for them etc etc, yea you guessed it, it’s SA Blog Awards time.

This year will be the first year I will be taking part in the SA Blog Awards and have already been nominated in the categories of Best New Blog and Best Science and Technology Blog, the precise categories I was aiming to be nominated in.

If you are a blogger and have hopes to get somewhere in the 2010 SA Blog Awards, Chris over at iMod did a nice post on 5 things you can do to help you win the SA Blog Awards. Chris has some very valid and good suggestions, so go give it a read.

The main reason for this post is to explain to you how the nomination process works, as its currently a bit misleading on the SA Blow Awards site. Before you even submitted your nomination you are already greeted with message “Thank you! You have nominated www. yourdomain .com” which in fact is not true because there is still a confirmation process to go through.

Here is how to nominate your favorite blogs for the 2010 SA Blog Awards:

1. Head over to SA Blog Awards nomination page or click on the badge on the blog you’d like to vote for.
2. If you clicked the badge your nominations should show on the right hand side, otherwise simply choose the category and enter the blog URL or click the green thumbs up if the blog is already nominated. You must at least nominate 2 blogs.
3. Once you are happy with your selection, enter your email address in the box on the right hand side and enter the captcha security code and submit.
4. You are almost done, wait for a confirmation email from the SA Blog Awards, inside the email there is a confirmation link, follow it and your nomination is complete.

That is, you have now nominated for your favorite blog in the 2010 SA Blog Awards, remember this in only the nomination round. You can vote up until the 27th of August 2010 and then the judges will choose the top nominations and then the voting round will start. Once public voting in completed the judges also get to vote and then the total vote works out with 70% from public vote and 30% from judges.

Go on, go nominate your favorite SA Blog.