Time: 6:54:23 PM EDT
Author: siennastarr
Welcome to the 2006 VIVI AWARD JOURNAL!
This journal is here to give you information and insight into this years awards. It's also here for you to leave suggestions, comments or questions.
For those of you who are new to the VIVI'S, let me try and explain what they are and how you, as part of the JLand Community, are going to play the biggest part in making this year's award ceremony the best one ever.
There will be several categories for this years peer recognition, and it's up to you, as part of the community to get out there and start reading journals, and deciding on who you would like to see win an award this year. So, this particular journal will be a place to leave the URLs of journals you like and want to recommend to other members of our community.
You can even go so far as to toot your own horn and declare yourself a candidate for the appropriate category/categories by leaving your URL and then putting up an entry in your own journal. There is no shame in promoting yourself. The VIVIs are about discovering new journals and having fun doing it. After all, if you aren't proud of your own journal, who should be!?
In addition to using Donna and Chris' awesome graphics in your journals, please also leave a comment in this journal including the Link to any journal(s) that you want to recommend under the appropriate categories. That way, others can come here, see who you've selected and take a look at that particular journal. You have to promote other journals as well as yourself.
We do have a couple new categories, but we have also deleted a few from last year. Below you will find the categories listed in alphabetical order (sorta..lol) from Z to A. (Don't ask..lol) When you find a journal, even if it's your own, and you think it fits under a certain category, then leave a comment with the URL/link so others can read it too. That's how you will get votes when the time comes to start submitting nominations under each category. The more people that read you, the better your chances of getting nominated for an award.
We have added Private Journals this year as one of the categories. Only rule is, if you are private, you cannot compete in any other category. My suggestion to those who are private is that you leave your link, and let people know that you will give them access to your journal so that you can get more people to read you. Be sure and leave it under the Best Private Journal category.
The most important thing about the VIVI'S is to remember what they are about. Peer Recognition. Someone you truly feel who stands out above all others. If you know someone who has a journal that is strictly political and they exceed in that category, then put them under the Best Political Journal for others to read. The same goes for all other categories.
This year's 2006 Vivi Awards are being held in honor of Pam Hilger. Pamela was a big part of Jland for the 2 1/2 years she kept a journal here. She was diagnosed with Cancer in June of 2006 and unfortunately succumbed to this disease on Easter Sunday just one week after her 50th birthday. She was a prime example of what Journaling is all about and even now, five months after her death, she is still missed by many. Pam was a constant source of inspiration for all who read her. So... here's to you dear Pam! We miss you!
So, get out there.. start reading those journals.. leave URLS for the one's you have selected under the category you want them to compete in. Have fun and enjoy yourself. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comment section under this entry only.
You will have until October 15th to read and decide who you would like to nominate. Instructions will be given prior to that date, how and where to go when the nominations begin. Once the nominations are tallied up, you will be advised as to which journals made the final cut. You will then get out there and read those journals so that on November 6th you will be asked to head to the voting polls and vote for your favorites in each category.
Right now.. you just need to read, read, read! :)
Be sure and keep Saturday, November 11th open, as that will be the day the award ceremony will take place and the winners will be announced. We hope to do it up big.. just like last year, and roll out the Jland red carpet! Winners will be given a beautiful graphic to display on their journals!
If you click on the alert me button you will receive updates as they are made.
So stay tuned!
If you would like to use one of the graphics from below in your journal, or to send to someone else to use in theirs, as a candidate, please feel free to do so.
*** Leaving your link under each category does NOT mean that you are now an official nominee. It just means that you are asking people to go and read the journal who's link you have left. The official voting for the nominees will be on October 15th. The official voting for the WINNERS will be on November 6th.
*** Please be aware that ONLY JLAND JOURNALS are eligible for a VIVI award! Please do not put URLS for journals outside of AOL under the categories below. They will be deleted. Thanks for your cooperation! :)
*** I regret to inform you that we have lost two of our committee members due to unforseen circumstances in their personal lives. Stevie of ~The life of Stevie~, and Gayla of So Much More. Thank you both, so much, for all your help during the initial stages of the Vivi's!
*** I regret to inform you that we lost another committee member today. Donna from This and that, and hockey! felt the need to resign due to circumstances in her personal life.
Oh who am I kidding?
If this keeps up...and people don't start being a little nicer to my commitee members I'm afraid we may not have any Vivi awards this year. We are all trying our best to do all we can to make this a special event. If I lose any more of my committee, I wil be forced to resign myself, because I can't do it alone. I'm now down to 4 people out of 7. I really want to continue the awards, and I volunteered to do this, because I truly believe in what they stand for. Those of you who know me, and read my journal, know that I have no problem standing up for myself or what I believe in.
I hate to sound like a cliche' but can't we all just get along and enjoy this endeavor?
The fate of the Vivi's is in your hands at this point.
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