I was quite literally speechless on Saturday night when I heard I was a joint winner for Best Technology Blog at the Irish Blog Awards. I grabbed the fantastic Made In Hollywood “winner” tombstone (celebrating the death of blogging of course) as I was happier to prance away with that and let 3 time nominee, first time winner, Pat Phelan take the trophy home – a really well deserved winner. Though admittedly I’m looking forward to my own trophy making its way home.
In the past year my blog has transitioned from being considered a personal blog to a technology blog, but honestly I don’t think I could ever really separate the two. Since a really young age technology has been an integral part of my daily life and this blog has been my outlet for my passion for all things technology related, especially in the last year what with the publication of my blogging research, subsequent end of my college course on Cyberpsychology and search for related employment.
I’m completely unable to express my passion for technology during my current full time job and if it wasn’t for blogging I imagine that passion might have wavered. I’m extremely thankful for blogging because of this and also because it has brought me to incredible events like the Irish Blog Awards and allowed me meet so many wonderful people, like the gorgeous ladies in the photo below.
This award is going to provide a massive amount of motivation for me to continue writing well researched content and expressing my thoughts and experiences of technology. It’s been a real priority of mine this last year or so to produce all my own content and turn away from lazy blogging, and it looks like it’s paid off.
Winning wasn’t the only thing to make my weekend especially perfect though. I was really proud to see the Blog Awards videos received really well by the crowd, especially “The Death of Irish Blogging” and “The Blogger’s Apprentice” which were shot/edited by my girlfriend Jen. I was also over the moon to see Culch.ie, Sabrina Dent, Eolai and Tommy win in their categories. A big thank you to Damien for organising the event, all the brilliant unpaid volunteers and of course to the sponsors, especially Bitbuzz the Best Technology sponsors and providers of much needed WiFi on the night.
Congratulation Sinead.
Good to see both you and Pat winning.
Whenever you want to test any oversize technology products give me a shout.
I saw you testing out the new Ifad. I hope it that you were impressed.
Keep up the good work.
Absolutely deserved. You keep fightin’ the good fight…ya hear! :)
Great stuff Sinead and well deserved. Sounds like you all had a ball in Galway…
What can i say?you so deserve this award,well done to you & Pat. keep up the good work.
Well done Sinéad. Well and truly deserved. Glad to see it’s gonna spur you into blogging more. The world needs to hear more about what you have to say.
Thanks for making the weekend awesome too!
Congrats lady & keep up the super blogging :)
Congrats and looking forward to seeing more super-fit blogging :)
Said it on the night while I was sitting beside ya: well deserved. :D Love that photo btw
Congrats you. Yours was the only tech blog al lyear that made me change my mind on anything.
Thank you so much for all the kind words everyone, I really appreciate you guys being behind me and agreeing with the judges, that means so much to me.
@Eolai That’s a story you’re going to have to tell me sometime.
Great stuff Sinead and well deserved. Sounds like you all had a ball in Galway…