The first ever Open Web Awards have arrived! The Open Web Awards is the first ever online, open collaborative awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing web 2.0. We now have 24 confirmed Blog Partners from several countries from around the world and in several different languages.
Over the next week please check out all of the partner blogs to get involved in their nominations posts. Strike up conversations, nominate your favorites and most importantly debate your choices! Please be on the lookout for nominations posts here on Mashable.com as well.
Now for the big news! First, I would like to unveil the list of the 13 categories that will be floating around:
1. Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
2. Applications and Widgets
3. Social News and Social Bookmarking
4. Social Search
5. Sports and Fitness
6. Photo Sharing
7. Video Sharing
8. Start Pages
9. Places and Events
10. Music
11. Social Shopping
12. Mobile
13. Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks
Next, I would like to share with our Mashable readers that the first ever Open Web Awards will be concluded with a live awards ceremony in San Francisco on January 10th.
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If you are interested in being a Sponsor for the Online Awards and/or the Ceremony or a Blog Partner, please contact me immediately. The deadline for Sponsors is Wednesday, December 5th.
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