Community Blogger award at Facibus On Blogging

Community Blogger award

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at 12 October, 2007 in About. Tags: About.

I’m a Community Blogger Award recipient

Thanks heaps to Cellobella from SultanaBlog for creating the award, and Meg from Dipping into the Blogpond for passing it on to me.

Community is important - without it, things are just not as enjoyable (or as bearable!).

In the spirit of sharing the love, I would like to award this in turn to members of my own blogging support community:

Jeri Merrell from UnGeekit. Jeri’s advice has helped me through a couple of rough spots and while she doesn’t have as much time to blog as she would like, I read everything she writes still.
Maria Murphy from BA Rocks. Maria has always been there as a colleague and as a friend.
Matthew Hodgson from Matt’s Musings. Matt has been an inspiration and a supporter.
And Meg - if you hadn’t given this award to me, I would have had to give it to you. Thank you

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1 magia3e (7 comments.)
Oct 12th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

Congrats Andrew!

Keep on blogging
M
2 Donna Maurer (3 comments.)
Oct 12th, 2007 at 11:14 pm

Hey, congratulations. That’s fantastic!
3 AndrewBoyd (222 comments.)
Oct 13th, 2007 at 8:18 am

Thanks Matt,

you too
Cheers, Andrew
4 AndrewBoyd (222 comments.)
Oct 13th, 2007 at 8:21 am

Hi Donna,

thank you for your comment, and for your support. Without the help of friends like you, it would not be possible to sustain this crazy workload and get the odd blog post in as well
Best regards, Andrew
5 Meg (15 comments.)
Oct 13th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for passing the award forward (and backward!). I think it’s a great initiative and was really pleased for the opportunity to thank you and others. You pay so much attention to every comment you receive, and I think that really helps foster the community spirit
6 AndrewBoyd (222 comments.)
Oct 13th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

Hi Meg,

thank you for your comment and thank you once again for the award. Both are very much appreciated, as is your continuing support.

I think that the key to community is participation - a town is just a collection of houses unless the people participate in the community. The blogosphere is the same.

Best regards, Andrew
7 Meg (15 comments.)
Oct 13th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

Andrew - a very apt analogy
8 Cellobella (2 comments.)
Oct 14th, 2007 at 3:48 am

I love that analogy! Thank you. CB x
9 AndrewBoyd (222 comments.)
Oct 14th, 2007 at 7:59 am

Hi Meg and Cellobella,

thank you for yur comments on the analogy. I like analogies, they make storytelling fun, and storytelling is a great way to transfer information.

Helen and I are packing to move - we picked up the keys to the new townhouse yesterday and drove over to it. The next door neighbours appeared as if by magic and introduced themselves, and pointed out who lived where so that we would have an easier time introducing ourselves when we moved in (removalists taking the bulk of the stuff tomorrow). The village/street/town community analogy was very front-of-mind then - and I’m glad it works for you too
Best regards, Andrew
10 Jeri (3 comments.)
Oct 16th, 2007 at 7:42 am

Hi Andrew,

Congrats - it’s evident you are very talented at this community building thing…

Thanks for passing it on - and for the encouragement & kind words! Given my infrequent writing lately, I feel a bit like an impostor… but I’m trying to pick up the blogging pace a bit over on UngeekIt when I can fit it in and have something worthwhile to say.
Take care,

Jeri
11 Andrew Boyd (229 comments.)
Oct 16th, 2007 at 8:31 am

Thanks Jeri,

you deserve the award as much as I do - you will post more later when you have time

Best regards, Andrew