Best of blog award

A Germany organization Deutche Welle organizes award for blogger around the world every year. There are 17 categories in a total of 11 languages in the BOBs (BOB = Best Of Blog). Submissions to the contest can be in the any of the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.

If you want to participate in this competition, just go to their website and read details. 

Multilingual categories - Jury Award & User Prize

Best Blog

This is the place for the blogs whose content and design do an exemplary job of promoting and protecting human rights as well as initiating and fostering open discussion of topics that are of social and pubic importance.

Best Use of Technology for Social Good

The search is on for programs, applications or Internet platforms that dedicate themselves to providing the technology that enables people to improve society and democratic social integration.

Best Social Activism Campaign

The winner here will be an initiative that makes exemplary use of social media, networks and other new forms of communication to bolster democracy, freedom and human rights. Corporate advertising and marketing campaigns are excluded from this category.Reporters Without Borders Award

In cooperation with Reporters Without Borders, this special award honors blogs that take a strong stance for freedom of information and expression around the world. It also honors bloggers who dare to spread information under daunting circumstances.

Special Topic Award Human Rights

Each year the BOBs choose a particular topic for special recognition. The focus for the 2011 award is human rights. This year the BOBs will honor blogs that advance the cause of human rights. The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum will also cast a spotlight on human rights during its annual conference, which runs from June 20 - 22 in Bonn.

Best Video Channel

This is the category for people regularly producing material in a video format. Topics of the videos should be related but need not necessarily depend on each other. Entries in this category must be produced solely for online consumption.

Language-specific categories - User Prize only

Here they’re looking for the best blogs in each of the BOBs’ 11 contest languages. Winners here will initiate discussions and provide top-quality analysis and commentary on current events.

Best Blog / Arabic

Best Blog / Bengali

Best Blog / Chinese

Best Blog / English

Best Blog / French

Best Blog / German

Best Blog / Indonesian

Best Blog / Persian

Best Blog / Portuguese

Best Blog / Russian

Best Blog / Spanish