I’d like to thank everybody that supported Blog Of The Day. It was an experience that taught me a lot and I aim to apply what I have learned in my blogging in the future. I should also add that there were some great blogs that I couldn’t include in the awards, simply because there were not enough days !

Finally, two things: first, I started out with the intention of making occasional awards for Commendable Comments … but I just didn’t have the time to read all the comments for all of the posts on all of the blogs I looked at. Sorry folks.

Secondly, I will continue The rog-blog.com Blog Awards in some format in the future. I haven’t dcided quite how, but it won’t be daily. More likely weekly or monthly. Watch this space for more news !

So here it is: a review of the winners followed by the revelation of the winner, The Blog Of Blogs. My congratulations to the winner !

The Bad News is that I am still between a rock and a hard place because there are several contenders for that last place ! So, if you didn’t make it, I’m sorry … I had to pick one and just one today. Let me tell you about it, because I think that it has an important message for us all.

Over the last couple of weeks, I have tried to look at as many blogs as I can, as often as I could manage. Today’s winner followed the same path as quite a few others: an initial struggle to overcome technical problems followed by a change in look and feel, then steady improvement.

But looking at it today, I found a post which touched and inspired me. I won’t say more because you will have your own reaction to it when you read it.

I should also say that after starting to write this post, I wondered if some people might consider my drawing attention to it like this to be “bad form”, that what it describes is too personal to be trivialised by associating it with my little contest.

If you feel like that, I’m sorry, I don’t. I assume that the story was posted so that readers can learn from it. If that’s so, then I want to draw even more people’s attention to it. Please read it. I’d ask you to consider how it affects you and (more importantly perhaps), what you will do differently because of that … not just in terms of our coaching and your business, but also in terms of your life.

So the final Blog Of The Day Award goes to Huddson Lee for www.EnjoyMarketingOnline.com. (An appropriate domain name too.)

Congratulations Huddson – your Blog Of The Day badge may be little consolation in the circumstances, but thanks for sharing your story with us.

PS: As promised, I will announce the overall winner of the title Blog Of Blogs after Alex’s traffic competition ends. But I have a busy day tomorrow, so it will probably be Sunday. Watch this space.

He asked us to blog about what we would do to attempt to win his prize and one idea came to me pretty soon the next day. But it’s taken me until today to get to the point where I can announce it, so here goes …

For each day of the competition, I will be awarding the rog-blog.com Blog Of The Day badge.

My criteria will be totally subjective and I readily admit, may not admit to any logic ! It might be that I really like the design, or a picture or a video on the blog. It needn’t necessarily be an all-singing, all-dancing, bells and whistle kind of blog either. It may be that I just like the content of a post, or the debate evolving through comments on a particular post. It may be a particularly useful or helpful post. Or it may be something else entirely, which hasn’t even occurred to me yet !

Whilst Alex’s competition is running, I’ll make a post announcing that day’s winner for Blog Of The Day. Alerts that an award has been made will be “tweeted” at twitter.com/rogblog and posted on my Facebook page, facebook.com/rogblog.

Winners will have earned the right to place the exclusive rog-blog.com Blog Of The Day badge on their blog, with a link back to their citation. They will also take their place on the Blog Of The Day Roll of Honour.

At the end of the competition, I’ll choose one blog as the rog-blog.com Blog of Blogs, which will have its own special badge, a truly unique marque of quality and distinction.

And because I’m a little late with this, tomorrow I will be announcing not one but three winners, one for each of the days since Alex made the announcement.

So if you want to see your name on the Roll of Honour, get blogging !

PS: At my discretion, I may also award the rog-blog.com Commendable Comment award to any student making a particularly useful, insightful, witty,  helpful or otherwise laudable comment to a blog post on a fellow student’s blog. Yes, I’ll probably do a special badge for that too

PPS: No promises here, but I will see if my expenses run to the award of some kind of prize for the ultimate winner too, although it’s not likely to be huge !

PPPS: If you are having trouble keeping track of all these blogs, remember to check out the technique I outlined here that I think makes it a lot easier.

PPPPS: Alex, this is not gonna be the only thing I will do for the competition, there will be other things too, so come back often for more … lol !