5 Blogs Before Lunch

A Webby Awards Nomination for 5 Blogs Before Lunch

For the third year in a row, the fine folks at the Webby Awards have acknowledged 5 Blogs Before Lunch. In 2006 we won the jury prize for Best Blog--Business; in 2007 we were an Official Honoree; and this year we have been again selected as a finalist for top honors.

The Webby Awards are handed out by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and is the most prestigious honor in internet circles. The New York Times has dubbed them the "Oscars of the Internet"."

Of over 10,000 entrants to the prestigious awards, only five blogs are acknowledged as nominees in the Best Blog--Business category. The nomination puts 5 Blogs Before Lunch up for winning the Webby Award, juried prize and/or The Webby People's Voice Award. Both awards will be announced on May 6. The two winners attend the awards ceremony in New York, and are allowed to deliver the famous 5 word acceptance speech.

In 2006, 5 Blogs' acceptance speech was "Better than spamming my friends."

So, if you are so inclined, please send us good vibes towards winning the juried prize, and click here to vote for 5 Blogs Before Lunch as your favorite among the nominees of The Webby People's Voice Award.

Call For Entries: AAAA's Jay Chiat Planning Awards 2008

The American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) has initiated its 2008 call for entries for the Jay Chiat Planning Awards. The awards celebrate the contribution of Account Planning and strategic thought leadership.

The AAAA encourages entries from across the industry not just advertising agencies. The encourage submissions from media agencies, digital shops, CRM, and business strategy firms.

The awards are given out each year at the AAAA Account Planning Conference in recognition of those planners who have developed a strong insight and seen this evolve through creative that affects both the consumer and also the business.

Awards are given on four levels: Gold, Silver, Bronze and Honorable Mention. A book containing the winning briefs and examples of creative is published each year.

If you're interested, download the Call For Entries today from the AAAA Home Page. There's even a 2008 Jay Chiat Planning Awards Facebook group to join.

Blurb Launches Photography.Book.Now International Salon & Symposium

Here's a plug for a project I am currently working on. My client Blurb is hosting a photography book competition and traveling salon and symposium. If you are a photographer--professional or pro-amateur, I encourage you to check out the competition for your chance at the $25,000 grand prize. Enter online at photography.book.now:

Photography.Book.Now celebrates the most creative, most innovative, and finest photography books – and the people behind them. Enter this international juried photography book competition and compete for worldwide recognition and great prizes.

Submit your book here by July 14. The Photography.Book.Now international book competition is juried by a panel of world-renowned editors, publishers, curators, and photographers, led by head judge Darius Himes. This is an opportunity to win the $25,000 Grand Prize or one of many other prizes to be awarded.

Photography books can be entered in two categories, General and Themed. The winners will be showcased at an awards ceremony in San Francisco, and winning books will travel via a salon to New York, London, and Cologne. The books will also have visibility online and at the half-day symposium featuring panels and presentations exploring photography books.

Get more information on the jurors, entry rules, event dates, locations, and prize levels at photographybooknow.com.

5 Blogs Before Lunch Atop The FastPages Top 125

We're not entirely sure how we got there, or EXACTLY what FastPages is, but a quick look at the Top 125 websites puts 5 Blogs Before Lunch at the top of the list. Now of course, it is an alphabetical listing, but 5 Blogs is proud to be in the company of Amazon.com, CNET and YouTube (and 121 other sites).

From FastPages "About Us" web page:

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5 Blogs Before Lunch Included In AdAge's Power 150

It seems that Five Blogs Before Lunch has made it onto Advertising Age's Power 150, ranking the top media and marketing blogs.

From AdAge:

The Power 150 is a ranking of the top English-language media and marketing blogs in the world, as developed by marketing executive and blogger, Todd Andrlik. It's really as simple as that, except that the name isn't strictly accurate: It currently ranks more than 360 blogs written about all types of media and pretty much every imaginable marketing discipline.

Five Blogs Before Lunch currently ranks 137.

5 Blogs Before Lunch Is A Webby Awards Offical Honoree

5 Blogs Before Lunch is honored to have been selected as "Official Honoree" by the Webby Awards this year.

Other Honorees in the Blog-Business category include Businessweek online, CNBC, MTV Network's Comedy Central, The Economist, Inc, and Fast Company.

Of the more than 8,000 entries submitted to the 11th Annual Webby Awards, fewer than 15% were distinguished as an Official Honoree. The Webby Awards folks say this honor signifies an outstanding caliber of work.

Thanks for the shout-out, Webby Awards.

DealBook and Atomic PR Get Webby Awards Noms

Congratulations to two "friends of 5 Blogs" on their Webby Awards nominations this morning. Andrew Ross Sorkin's DealBook was nominated for Best Business Blog (the category in which 5 Blogs Before Lunch won last year) and Atomic PR has been acknowledged for their work for client LinkedIn.

5 Blogs Before Lunch's David Ibsen Interviewed for Tech Nation Podcast

I recently had the privledge of being interviewed by Deidre Kennedy of Tech Nation. The topic: the publication of my step-grandfather's book of short stories and poetry, which I recently edited and published through Blurb. You can listen to a podcast of the interview here. And, purchase "Morning Comes Again" here.

The Ad Feed Now Blogs Before Lunch

5 Blogs Before Lunch is now included in the advertising and marketing aggregator site "The Ad Feed." The Ad Feed, started by a Toronto-based freelance art director and self-described adnut named Travis, features headlines from Advertising Age, AdWeek, AdRants, AdFreak, American Copywriter, PSFK, MIT Advertising Lab, Adverblog, ClickZ, Seth Godin's Blog and more.

"I created The Ad Feed because I don't have enough time anymore to go through the over 200 feeds I'm subscribed to and not miss some great creative and insights." says Travis. "The Ad Feed is a way for me to present the best of the best in an easily digestible format. It solved my problem which many other people just so happened to share."

Travis says that "Being only one month old, there's still plenty in store for The Ad Feed that will help grow it's userbase as well as those of each of the featured feeds."

And why include 5 Blogs Before Lunch? "I've been a fan and subscriber of your blog for years, well, months maybe."--thanks Travis.

Travis also runs a number of online experiments/ventures under what he calls "One Egg Per Basket".

5 Blogs Before Lunch Featured in Typepad Promotion for Creative Book Publishing Company Blurb

Under the topic of self-promotion:

5 Blogs Before Lunch is featured in a promotion from client Blurb, on the Typepad home page.

The offer: Turn your blog into a bookstore-quality hardcover or softcover book. The visual: 5 Blogs Before Lunch's 200 page, published, limited edition masterpiece (g) "5 Blogs Before Lunch: Marketing Wit and Wisdom."

So, if you blog, I encourage you to take a look at turning your digital experience into a permanent masterpeice. Make a blog book this weekend! Prices start at $18.95. And, if you act fast, you can take advantage of the Blurb/Typepad promotion--first 250 respondents get a FREE book!