My Edublog Awards 2009 Nominations

My nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards are:

Best individual blog – Jay Cross – Informal Learning Blog - Jay is always probing the leading edge of the learning and development field, and posts almost every day.

Best individual tweeter – Harold Jarche - I’ve been following fellow Canadian Harold Jarche since getting on Twitter, and he shows up in my Twitter stream with useful tweets more often than anyone else.

Best group blog – O’Reilly Radar - A smart group of people who produce lots of insights about the world of learning technologies.

Best new blog – Nick Jones - Nick start this blog just over a year ago. His posts are funny, insightful, and frequent. What more can you ask of a blogger?

Best resource sharing blog – Mashable - If you want to keep up with the latest in learning technologies, you need to check this blog every day.

Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion – #lrnchat - Organized chaos on Thursday evenings from 8:30-10:00pm ET.

Best educational tech support blog – ReadWriteWeb - A must read for followers of educational technology and the Internet.

Best elearning / corporate education blog – Janet Clarey – OK, I know I work with her, but she’s still the best. Irreverent, funny and in your face makes for an unusual corporate blogger…Just sayin’.

Best educational wiki – Wikimopedia – This compliation of resources on mobile learning is very useful.

Best educational use of a social networking service – LearnTrends Ning site – the international, around the world events organized by LearnTrends will make you lose sleep.

Best educational use of a virtual world – School of Nursing, University of Kansas - a slick site for training nurses.

Lifetime achievement – Stephen Downes and OLDaily – the hardest working educational blogger out there. I know he’s cranky at times, but he cares passionately about what he is doing. He’s also been at it for a long long time – almost a lifetime.

There you have it. I look forward to the announcement of winners on Dec. 18.