{"id":2900,"date":"2013-03-25T13:03:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T13:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2015-08-18T14:38:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:38:49","slug":"awdf-at-the-1st-ghana-social-media-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/awdf-at-the-1st-ghana-social-media-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"AWDF at the 1st Ghana Social Media Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<span lang=\"en\">I was pleased when I heard that AWDF had been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/browse\/2771\" target=\"_blank\">nominated<\/a> in the category of &#8216;best organisational blog&#8217; for Ghana&#8217;s very<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogcampghana.com\/social-media-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\"> first social media awards<\/a> which took place on Saturday 23rd March at the Kofi Annan Centre in Accra. AWDF was one of 3 blogs shortlisted in the category. Ahead of the presentation, representatives of the blog awards organising committee stated that there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogcampghana.com\/ghana-blogging-social-media-awards-he-who-clears-the-path\/\" target=\"_blank\">1,128 nominations spread over 13 categories with an average of 87 nominations per category<\/a>. Its indeed commendable that in the face of such fierce competition AWDF made the shortlist. Congratulations to the <a href=\"http:\/\/accradotalttours.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Accra[dot]Alt<\/a> team that won in the category of &#8216;best organisational blog&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The &#8216;overall best blog&#8217; and &#8216;best activist blog&#8217; awards went to &#8216;<a href=\"www.adventuresfrom.com\" target=\"_blank\">Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women<\/a>&#8216; which is curated by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, a member of AWDF &#8216;s staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">It was also really good to see a number of women bloggers pick up awards including double award winner <a href=\"http:\/\/ganyobinaa.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/ganyobinaa-blog-wins-best-lifestyle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ganyobi Naa <\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.circumspecte.com\/2013\/03\/circumspectecom-best-citizen-journalism.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jemila Abdulai<\/a> with Kinna Likimani picking up an honorary award on behalf of the &#8216;Ghana Decides&#8217; team which did a phenomenal job of utilising the power of social media to mobilise Ghanaians during Ghana&#8217;s recent Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Kinna also did an amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/kinnareads.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/24\/blogcamp13-part-1-it-was-well-worth-the-fever\/\" target=\"_blank\">summary of #BlogCamp13<\/a> on her site which I recommend you read to get a sense of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Congratulations to all winners at #BlogCamp13<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">By: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah<\/span>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG-20130323-00111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2901\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG-20130323-00111-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20130323-00111\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[68,109,65,245,246,204,247],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-african-women","tag-african-womens-development-fund","tag-awdf","tag-bloggers","tag-blogs","tag-ghana-social-media-awards","tag-social-media"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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