I love mashable things: potatoes, music, monsters. Especially with gravy.
Why bring this up? Because, as some of you more social-media-savvy readers might already know, Mashable has opened its 3rd annual Open Web Awards. If you don’t know what these awards are about, there’s an international voting competition where major online communities (blogs, Twitter, Facebook fanpages, etc.) duke it out for the top spot. I think the winner gets cookies or something.
First round in the competition is the nominations period (NOW – November 15th). The top 5 nominees in each category will move forward to the voting round (November 18th – December 13th). Winners for each category will be announced on December 15th.
Here’s where you come in: please help nominate PlayStation.Blog in the “Best Corporate Blog” category! PlayStation fans are undoubtedly the most vocal on the Internet, so show your PlayStation love and nominate the blog, and we’ll win this thing for sure.
Nominating is as simple as a few easy steps:
- Go to http://mashable.com/owa/votes
- Sign in with your Twitter or Facebook account
- Once logged in, enter https://blog.us.playstation.com/ in the “Nominate Name or URL” section
- Select the “Best Corporate Blog” category
- Hit submit
…and you’re done! You can nominate once per day per category, so vote early and vote often. The nominations period ends on November 15th. Hopefully with your help, we’ll make it to the voting round. Then we can ask you for a bit more help :-)
We don’t ask for much, right?
DeAno Jackson nominated us.blog.playstation.com for Best Corporate Blog 3 minutes ago
You got my nomination!
I’m at work and they block me from voting those B***erds. I will vote when I get home Oh right back to work. :(
voted. Good Luck. I hope we win.
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I JUST VOTED, AND I WILL PASS THIS ON TO SOME OTHER BOARDS! I really want Sony Blog to win! Not only do I love this site, but I really love Sony as a company! Call me a fanboy if you want, I DON’T CARE!! In SONY I TRUST!!!
I think the PSB has gone through some big meaty changes since being introduced, but it could greatly improve in one department; replies.
Yes, I know there is a forum, but THIS is the blog. This is where Playstation says I should visit to get the latest scoop on news and events.
A post is made, 100 comments will follow. 30 of those post ask “how much is it?”. At post #40 someone asks “Jeff, did you eat sugar frosted flakes today?”. Jeff replies, “Yes!, they’rrrrrre great!”. No more replies will follow, and 30 people are curious to know how much it cost. Seriously?
I am not asking for them to respond to every post made on this blog. I am not even asking them to have a solid answer for every question asked, but they need to be better about acknowledging general questions. IF they don’t know the price, just respond “pricing hasn’t been determined yet”. Is that it really THAT hard to do?
I can’t vote for something being the best when common general questions get ignored at the place where I am supposed to be getting all the latest PS information from.
oh, I also don’t use Twitter or Facebook.
let me say this in terms that you Sony Can Understand.
From A Canadian To Sony:
I don’t have any announcements to make at this time. Sorry
I did my part =)… good luck
“PlayStation fans are undoubtedly the most vocal on the Internet”
And yet when we ask the tough question in chats or developers blog, no one answer. 99% of the time, you have to kiss azz in order to get your question answer. Just look at the recent Dragon Age: Origin blog. None of the tough questions was answer. Hell, none of the questions direct to Bioware was answer in the blog comments. When it comes to firmware upgrades blog post with little to no information about what the firmware do, no one seems to answer our question on what the firmware do or don’t do.
However, you guys does have some great blog posts and some very informative comments from developers and sometime the fan interaction is great with about half of the blog posts.
Let me share with you something about this business (and probably a lot of others): details are announced when they are fully determined, detailed, and ready to be announced.
If your question isn\’t answered as soon as you ask it, it\’s not personal – it\’s that the answer will be revealed to *everybody* in due course.