Chapeau Blog Awards has an incredibly important ‘News’ headline:

“Being A ‘Parent’ Is Vitally Important.”

At this point, we will open it up to your guesses as to what two new videos we are introducing this week as part of Chapeau Blog Awards summer-long blog awards ceremony.

If you guessed ‘Marketing & Advertising’ and ‘Hobbies,’ then you accidentally read last week’s post.

Join Chapeau Blog Awards hosts Mike Yanke and Bill Young (and a real live parent!) as they introduce 2009's "Best Parenting Blog" and "Best News Blog.”

Our summer-long 2009 Chapeau Blog Awards Ceremony, hosted by Twin Cities notables Mike Yanke and Bill Young all this summer, continues this week!

While Mike is busy protecting his vanity with the latest Health & Beauty blogs, Bill is busy pouring through Entertaining blogs prepping for his latest box social.

Together, they are the perfect team to announce 2009’s “Best Health & Beauty Blog” and “Best Entertaining Blog.”
The winners have already been announced – but until you hear what Mike & Bill have to say – you only know half the story!

After a nomination process lasting several months, and a furious two weeks of voting, we are at long last proud to announce Chapeau Blog Awards 2009 winners!

By visiting our winners page, you will discover which blogs won “Best in Industry” recognition in categories ranging from Arts & Design to Technology.  You will also discover which blog was named 2009's “Most Brilliant” to win our $2,000 grand prize.

Rather than simply discovering 2009 winners, you will also experience our 2009 Chapeau Blog Awards Ceremony, hosted by Twin Cities notables Mike Yanke and Bill Young.

Today is the day.

At 11:59pm tonight, polls close for the 2009 Chapeau Blog Awards.

Are you the type who likes to wait until the last minute?  If so, today is your day!

Ensure your voice is heard by joining the 2009 Chapeau Blog Awards voting panel by 11:59pm tonight.

Bloggers, in categories ranging from Arts & Design to Technology, need your vote to be named either “Best in Industry” or as 2009’s “Most Brilliant Blog.”

Apart from global recognition for blog brilliance, is a $2,000 cash prize waiting to be awarded to 2009’s “Most Brilliant Blog.”

Bloggers globally await with baited breath for Chapeau Blog Awards to announce 2009 winners next Tuesday, May 5th.

Are you among the many on Chapeau Blog Awards Voting Panel that holds the fate of these bloggers in their hands?

If not, you have just two days left to ensure your voice is heard. The world’s most brilliant bloggers find their work front and center between today and 11:59pm this Thursday, April 30th.

Bloggers and blog readers like you have just over 48 hours left to review and cast your vote for our Awards Finalists, in categories ranging from Technology to Entertaining.

Next week, voting formally opens for 2009’s Chapeau Blog Awards. This means that you have just one final week to join our 2009 Voting Panel and review the strengths of our 2009 Awards Finalists!

This year’s list of finalists includes blogs in categories ranging from Arts & Design, to Health & Beauty.  One finalist from each category will be named “Best in Industry,” while the blog receiving the most votes overall will be named 2009’s “Most Brilliant Blog” and go on to win this year’s $2,000 grand prize.

Celebrating blogger brilliance is no easy task.  Our selection committee has worked tirelessly to select the blog awards industry finalists for the 2009 Chapeau Blog Awards.  Reviewing so many excellent entries, and reading so much brilliant blog content, was a week’s long, night and day effort.

In the end, it was all worth it.   Below, we’ve selected a final list of twenty blogs that truly illustrate what it means to be a brilliant blog, and brilliant blogger, in 2009.

The Chapeau Blog Awards recently introduced you to the BlogOh!Pedia – the latest channel for bloggers, like you, to submit and retain full creative ownership of the new blog phrases you create each day.

The icing on the cake, of course, is that anyone submitting a new word that is accepted into the BlogOh!Pedia by November 30th, receives free entry into The Chapeau Blog Awards!

While you probably don’t need any help getting started below, please find a few new words, just in case.

-  Bloops:  The phrase uttered when you inadvertently post something you really shouldn’t have posted.

As part of the blogosphere for several years, we at The Chapeau Blog Awards notice ourselves constantly inventing words when we talk about the world of blogging.

For instance, “flogging”? That’s a phrase we coined that defines the action of flaming someone on your blog. “Noggers”? That’s the rare, suspicious and silly breed known as non-bloggers.

What about you? Are there words you use that you would like to lay claim to before others do? Perhaps you are the regretfully anonymous individual who created the terms “blogosphere” or “blogerati” and are wondering why your parade of accolades never arrived.