Mignon Fogarty, podcasting’s “Grammar Girl,” has been nominated for an Audie Award, for the audio version of her book, Grammar Girl’s Quick And Dirty Tips For Better Writing. The Audie Awards are sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association (APA), and “recognize distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.” The only awards program in the United [...]

Wiggly Wigglers, a natural gardening mail-order company (which specializes in vermiculture: composting/gardening with earthworms) has won the 2008 Global Dell Small Business Excellence Award. Wiggly Wigglers were chosen to receive this prize for their innovative use of podcasting, wikis, and social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Along with the recognition and accolades, the Dell [...]

Audio recording and editing software RecordForAll got the top honor in the Best Sound Program category at the 2007 Shareware Industry Awards. The Awards recognize software programs marketed as shareware, allowing users to try the software before buying. RecordForAll competed against ALSong by ESTsoft, D’Accord iChords by D’Accord Music Software and Winamp Pro by NullSoft. [...]

Nominations for the 2007 Podcast Awards are in progress. According to organizer Todd Cochrane, over 100,000 visitors have made nominations via the site for the event, now in its third year. Nominations are being accepted in 22 categories. Voting is expected to be opened in mid to late July. The 2007 awards ceremony will be [...]

Rob Greenlee informs us that technology business magazine Red Herring has just announced that mobile podcasting company Melodeo Mobilcast has been named to their Red Herring Spring 2007 Top 100 technology company list. Rob is Senior Marketing Manager at Melodeo Mobilcast and longtime player in Internet radio and podcasting. Red Herring’s May 1 – 3 [...]

YouTube announced today the winners of the 2007 YouTube Video Awards. Winners include the Ask A Ninja podcast, which garnered the Best Series award, and OK Go, which won the Most Creative award. “It’s incredible how quickly and completely YouTube is changing culture and it’s a surreal honor to be part of something so great,” [...]

YouTube today confirmed that it was announcing the first-ever YouTube Video Awards, a significant award established to recognize popular YouTube videos. The 2007 YouTube Video Awards commemorate the site’s most popular user-created videos of 2006. The company is only offering winners a trophy, despite the fact that the popular user-generated content the award highlights has [...]

YouTube plans to launch the YouTube Video Awards, an event to honor the best user-generated videos, acccording to a report at Mashable. The seven categories are Most Inspirational, Most Creative, Best Series, Best Comedy, Musician of the Year, Best Commentary and Most Adorable Video Ever. Voting will take place from Monday to Friday. Winners will [...]