Confessions of an elearning skeptic

Like most new bloggers I scoured the Internet for inspiration when I started and, like most new bloggers, I soon learned that there are an awfully large number of blogs out there (up to 70 million depending on your source!).  As new bloggers we want our blog to be well designed and attact visitors who want to stay. The best way to do this is to learn from others who have achieved these goals.  So how do you spot one of these??  The simplest way is to locate blogs that have recieved one or more awards, so here are a few award winning sites from the recent 2008 Bloggie awards you might want to visit to get the creative juices flowing:

(1) Dooce.  This site won the ‘best designed weblog’ award. Dooce also picked up the overall award for 2008 too. An interesting piece of trivia about this weblog is that its creator, Heather B Armstong was the first person to be fired from her job for writing ‘unsavoury’ thing about her employer on her blog.  To this day anyone who is fired because of something they said on their weblog is said to have been ‘dooced‘ (true story, check the link!)

(2) loobylu.com.  This site won the ‘lifetime achievement’ award for Australia/New Zealand.  Its a great blog that is very visually engaging and gives some great ideas for using blogs to display artwork.

(3) PostSecret. This site was nominated for the “Weblog of the year award”.  Its a little confronting in places but I was totally hooked by the presentation and content.

(4) Gizmodo Australia.  A great Australian site about gadgets and gizmos.

 Happy browsing.

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