The nominations are open, and the Recruiting.com Best Blog Awards 2006 is now officially underway.
Here's the thing. I'm a judge for the Overall Best Blog (decided by a panel of judges), but the other categories are all based on reader vote totals. Last year, I took myself out of the running because of my close association with Recruiting.com. As Recruiting.com is now community instead of editor-powered, I feel much better about tossing my hat in the ring and drumming up support.
It's like this. I want to win for Best Third Party Recruiting Blog. I'm going to shamelessly campaign for it and buy your votes in the only way I know how. Links and publicity.
I don't even know if someone has nominated me yet (someone please send a note into jason@recruiting.com), but once it's official, I'll be sending out notes and e-mails and links and I am not afraid to beg and tell blatantly untrue lies about my competition.
Are you ready for the deal?
You link me and tell the world how key my writing is for the success of Third Party Recruiting blogging (include a plea to vote for me during the voting) and I'll link you back and tell the world how wonderful you are. You want an interview, you got it. A tongue-in-cheek recommendation of a product I have not used? It's yours. I'm throwing open the pages of this blog (and CharlotteRecruiting, SeattleRecruiting and KCRecruiting) for shameless link-whoring and vote promotion.
Are you with me? This is how bad it's going to get. I'll run free ads if you write story endorsing me. I'll start a special section for people who have voted for me and sent me a link. I'll even kill all the Google ads t create more space for permalinks.
I'm in it to win it. Hooah! w00t! Go Team Durbin!
