Vote of thanks
Posted on July 19, 2010 | Good Naija Girl | 2 Comments
Whenever the local Yoruba association hosts an event such as an end of the year or Christmas party, the program for the party always includes the title of this post: vote of thanks. I’ve always wondered why it’s called a vote of thanks (if you know, leave it in the comments). But here are the wonderful people that deserve thank yous.
tinuo
Long before the awards had a website, tinuo (blog, twitter) created a promotional video for the awards. The video was hilarious but due to technical difficulties, you never got to see it. That was when I was first introduced to her gift for standup comedy!
I begged her to write a blog entry showcasing that fun-loving side of her and she delivered! If you didn’t catch her entry about how the nominees in the group A categories aren’t doing enough to win our hearts and our votes, you have to go and read it now.
Aside from preparing the entry, tinuo also helped behind the scenes, doing the boring things that no one really notices but that make the awards run smoothly. For your contributions and help, I am truly grateful, tinuo.
Sting
You got to know her better through this interview so I won’t say much about who she is but what I really appreciated was her willingness to share what she had learned from running the 2009 awards in order to make these awards the best they could be. She was regularly encouraging, and helped enormously with the publicity aspect of awards through her personal blog and through Blog(s)ville Gist. I really appreciated all her tips and help.
If there were ideas that she didn’t implemented last year, she didn’t hesitate to share them with me. And of course she was the one who kicked my butt into gear with regard to launching the awards!
Personal encouragers
I wish I could name you all by name but I’d likely forget one or two and then I’d feel bad. To those who took the time to send me a personal message of appreciation, thank you. To those who left kind words in the comments, I appreciate them. Honestly, you guys were too generous with your compliments…but I appreciate them.
You (yes you!)
If you’re reading this, chances are you were one of the people who acted on the tweets we sent and came here to nominate your favourite blog or vote for worthy blogs. Thank you. We really could not have had an awards without the participation of bloggers and their friends. To the bloggers, nominated or not, thank you for blogging, for bringing fantastic content to the world day after day and making your readers fall in love with you. For the blog readers, thank you too. If you’re running a public blog it’s hard to deny the importance of having readers so as a blogger I truly thank all the readers. In many instances the readers were the ones who were more up to date with the awards, and they were the ones nominating their favourite bloggers and informing the bloggers that their blog had made the cut.
THANK YOU ALL!
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July 19th, 2010 @ 12:57 am
You are so welcome. It was my pleasure to be of assistance to you. Thanks to you and your team for putting this together. This was a massive improvement from last year IMHO and i know it can only get better from here. Kudos!
I have no idea why they say “vote of thanks”. Maybe it’s just part of our Nigerianness and our propensity for speaking “big english” when we don’t need to. Case in point, i used the word propensity when it would have sufficed to say, tendency….. I’ll just stop now cos i just noticed i used to word sufficed instead of enough. JISOS!
July 20th, 2010 @ 12:10 pm
Thank you too for doing this… God bless you