2010 Y!CN Content of the Year Awards: My Nominations

For those readers that are not current, "the Yahoo! Contributor Awards are a continuation of the Associated Content platform's annual People's Media Awards (PMAS)."

Yahoo! will soon proclaim the winners of the 2010 Yahoo! Contributor Awards. The timing is perfect, because the Yahoo! contributor network just rolled out the Contributor Connect: The Y! Contributor Network Blog for important announcements.

There is no question that the panel that was assigned the task of determining the winners for category of the 2010 Yahoo! Outstanding Contributor Content Award was faced with an enormous challenge. With the wealth of talented Yahoo! Contributors there were thousands upon thousands pieces of content that merited consideration. The number of winners for the 2010 Yahoo! Outstanding Contributor Content of the Year Award increased from the three content awards that the 2009 PMA awards recognized to five. However, I doubt this makes the final decisions any easier.

Everyday that I read articles on Associated Content, I learn something new, gain a new insight or benefit in one way or another. Therefore, I in my own personal nomination process I made a huge compilation of potential nominations. It was a difficult process to winnow my nominations to a manageable number. I found that my decision making process was fluid and tended to ebb and flow, depending on a whole variety of factors. Ultimately, I nominated eight pieces of content for the 2010 Yahoo! Outstanding Contributor Content of the Year Award.

Obviously, my article: 2010 Y!CN Outstanding Contributor of the Year Awards: My Nominations was public. Therefore I produced this article following the same logic, believing public nomination articles makes the contributors feel special and perhaps help each one of them gain additional exposure. Accordingly, in this article I identified seven of my eight nominations for the 2010 Yahoo! Contributor Content of the Year Awards. For better or worse, when I went through my notes to produce this article, one piece of the paper was ripped off and therefore I could only see seven of my final eight nominations. I re-read many articles trying to recall which one was my eighth nomination. There were so many quality articles that I was considering, I couldn't remember my last selection. However, chances are that if I have read any of your work in 2010, you could have been my last nominee. In any event, what follows is a list of seven of the eight pieces of content that I nominated for the 2010 Yahoo! Contributor Content of the Year Awards. They are arranged in no particular order.

Jack Wellman demonstrates that he is biblical scholar with his academic article: Jesus' Amazing Fulfillment of Hundreds of Prophecies.

Mike Hatz presents a living and breathing article about priorities in his article: Regaining Control (and Making Tough Choices).

Kay Balbi gets personal and discusses how to overcome a supreme challenge with her article: Born Without a Vagina.

Maria Roth reminds her audience how one sick family affects an entire family with her poem: Happy Birthday Audrey! You're Awesome Zach!.

Karen Bishop permits her reader to feel her painful affliction in her article: My Journey Living with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.

Theresa Wiza shares a gem of tip about how we all can make this world a better place with her article: I Wish Someone Would Do Something About That!.

Cherie Bowser writes about a strange character indeed in her story. The Headless Man Bull Rider of Associated Content.

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