By Bob Aston
The Kenyan Blog Awards
has been a journey that kicked off with the launch of the submission phase on
January 8, 2016. Kenyans online were required to submit their blogs or those of
their favourite bloggers for consideration in the award. With the close of the
submission phase on February 10, 2016, a group of judges sifted through 4,899
blog submissions in 19 categories. The judges then selected five blogs per
category.
Voting for the five blogs
per category then started on 1st march and concluded on 1st May. The
culmination of the awards will be a gala event, which will also see the winners
announced on May 14, 2016 at Radisson Blu Hotel in
Nairobi.
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| The 2016 Kenyan Blog Awards logo |
Since 2012, the Kenyan Blog Awards has annually
recognized and awarded exceptional Kenyan bloggers and good content creation in
the Kenyan blogosphere. The award is unique as it is one of its kind in the
Country.
The Kenyan Blog Awards is
an initiative of Bloggers Association of Kenya
(BAKE). The award recognizes the efforts of exceptional bloggers by
rewarding those who post on a regular basis, have great and useful content, are
creative and innovation.
Usually when people hear of bloggers in Kenya, the first impression is always of controversial people
who are supporting different political parties and are using the online space
to further their parties agenda. Unknown too many, there are Kenyan out there
who are creating content on different areas and sharing knowledge with the
general public.
Next Saturday will see 19
bloggers representing best technology blog, photography, creative writing,
business, food, environment/agriculture, politics, new blog, corporate,
topical, sports, education, travel, health, County, religious/spirituality, and
best Kenyan Blog of the Year, rewarded for the quality of the content that they
create.
The Kenyan Blog Awards
has helped to enhance professionalism as well as build the Kenyan blogosphere. Among
the blogs vying for the Awards include Laikipia Rural Voices. The
blog is among the best five blogs under the County category.
The nomination itself is
an achievement as it indicates that many people appreciate the work that
Laikipia Rural Voices blog is doing in sharing information on agriculture, particularly
on successes and issues faced by the youth engaged in agriculture.
The blog has also been
highlighting the role and importance of family farming as well as issues pertaining
to climate change, environmental conservation, sustainable land management, and
natural resource management.
Many youth have been
joining farming because of trainings, reading and consulting the various
articles posted on the blog. They have been able to learn from what their peers
are doing, as well as gathering information about different crops and farming
practices.
Whether the Laikipia
Rural Voices wins the Kenyan Blog Awards under the County category or not, this
year is already, proving to be a great year as number of blog visitors has
increased while feedbacks from readers indicate that the information shared is helping many people.
Mr. Bonney Tunya, CNBC
Africa (East Africa) will host this year’s award. Safaricom are the title
sponsors for this year’s awards. Other sponsors include EatOut Kenya, Xpose,
Samsung, Coca Cola, and Kenya Bankers Association (KBA).
Follow @LAIKIPIAVOICES twitter handle to
get live tweets during the gala event next Saturday at Radisson Blu Hotel in
Nairobi. You can also follow the event live at #BAKEAwards.
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