The Votes are in and the Winners are…

January 23, 2007 By You Served Editorial Staff
Posted in Charities/Contests

The votes are in! I am happy to announce the winners of the Best Military Blog Contest sponsored by VA Mortgage Center.com (the list includes final vote count):

1) Soldier’s Perspective [soldiersperspective.us] 1103
2) Stryker Brigade News [strykernews.com] 995
3) Sgt Hook [sgthook.com] 846
4) Black Five [www.blackfive.net] 470
5) Afghanistan Without a Clue [traversa.typepad.com] 305
6) Marine Corps Mom’s [marinecorpsmoms.com] 157
7) Acute Politics [acutepolitics.blogspot.com] 136
8) Neptunus Lex [neptunuslex.com] 93
9) AfghanBlog [bouhammer.com] 86
10) Iraq War Today [iraqwarnews.net] 83
11) From My Position…On the Way [tcoverride.blogspot.com] 81

Congratulations, Soldier’s Perspective, you are the winner of the top prize of $3,000. It was a very close contest and even as of late last night, it was too close to even predict a winner. Since From My Position was so close to the Top 10, we thought we could add another $250 to the contest and award the top 11 bloggers with cash. This brings the award amount to a total of $5,500.

The number of votes that poured in is testament to the fantastic service each and every blogger provides, not only to the military community, but to a vast range of people.

Rosemary said, “If I could, I would vote for all of them.” That seems to sum up many people’s thoughts. Regardless of how often these bloggers post, how many readers they have, or the amount of time they are able to spend posting information, each one of them provides a truly valuable service.

Thank you once again for everyone that participated. If you are a fan of a certain blogger, make sure you let them know about it. Not on this site, contact them directly and express your appreciation and gratitude to them. None of these bloggers make a living blogging, they do it to keep you informed.

Hopefully some of you were able to discover new blogs which you have not read before. To help, I have compiled a few lists. I have a list of the top 10 Milbloggers (according to votes from the contest), a list of the top 25 and a list of all of the blogs that were submitted. Get the lists here. (Also, if you do not yet use an RSS reader, you should check out this information as well).

If you have not noticed, we have officially named our blog “You Served” as a tribute to all of those that have serve (and currently serve) our country. Hopefully we can provide you with enough great information in the future to earn a spot on your list of blogs that you read. We also plan on doing more contests and special events in the future, so stay tuned.

If you are a winning blogger, go here to find out what you need to do in order to receive your award money.