I Support The Homeschool Post Awards

If you're online at all, you've probably heard about the Homeschool Blog Awards. This is annual event in which we nominate our favorite homeschool bloggers, then vote for the winners. There are many different categories in which to be nominated and lots of great prizes to win (including 50% OFF a ticket for The 2:1 Conference!)

Many of you know, I generally don't do blog awards anymore. In May, after the Circle of Moms fiasco, and this intelligent post at Postpartum Progress I stated that I would stop participating in awards which drive traffic in drones to the host site, not the nominated blogs - you know the ones. The ones where you're expected to go back to the host site and vote daily, and encourage all your readers to vote daily...at the host blog...yeah those. I'm not picking on Circle of Moms, there are many other awards set up like theirs which I have chosen not to participate in (even when I was nominated).

But I feel the Homeschool Post Awards are different. Better even. Why? For one the blogs are peer nominated - that's huge. Second, every voter is allowed only one vote per category. Their goal is to truly acknowledge and award homeschool blogs based on their merit - they're asking what YOU like to read.

They're not based on how many times you can get your Aunt Bertha to log on and vote each week. In my opinion, with the one vote rule, it's more like a survey. I LIKE THAT. A lot.

So I encourage you to go nominate your favorite homeschool blogger today. Acknowledge what it is you love about their blog!