November 2007 ‘Readers First’ Awards
02. Dec, 2007 
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Here is the November 2007 edition of the ‘Readers First’ awards. The Readers First award is awarded to online people who show exceptional selflessness and devotion to their readers.
The below sites are under no obligation to show any RA Project badge or to link back to Reader Appreciation Project. The people and the sites listed below have exhibited a healthy interest and appreciation towards their readers. Because of such behavior, the readers have benefited tremendously.
So You Want to Teach?
On a blog dedicated to teaching, I was impressed that a blogger would dedicate an entire month to reader appreciation in the form of Reader Appreciation Month. During the month, a different reader was profiled. I can’t recall a blogger (Joel) that has much such an effort to get to know their readers.
Have Fun With WordPress
Andrew Rickmann has dedicated an entire site to having fun with WordPress. Not only is he giving away from free tools, he is also continually polling his readers so that he can write and produce tools that the readers want.
Joyce Babu
Reader David nominated Joyce:
I would like to recommend Joyce for your readers first award. I am not sure whether he is a member of Reader Appreciation Project, but he has been providing very good support for his plugin.
Joyce is also very good at responding to readers in the comments section, which is always commendable.
Things by Mike
On top of helping to start the iReply movement, Mike is great at responding to readers in the form of comments and posts. He is also a big fan of sharing some link love, which is always nice.
Lorelle on WordPress
Lorelle needs no introduction, but let’s just say she has readers at the forefront. Her entire blog, Lorelle on WordPress, is reader centric for those who use WordPress and WordPress.com.
The Badges
The winners of the ‘Readers First’ awards are under no obligation to display the badge and/or link to the Reader Appreciation Project. The ‘Readers First’ award is our way of spotlighting other blogs and/or readers who show exceptional reader appreciation.
Please Check out the ‘Readers First’ page for badges for multiple background colors.
Know of Someone Who Places Their Readers First?
As you may have noticed, there are only five sites here compared to our usual six. We try to keep an eye out for deserving blogs, but it’s difficult with so many out there. If you know of a site that puts readers first, please let us know about it through our contact form. Feel free to self-nominate as well.
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I think it’s great to recognize blogs that offer a great service/knowledge to their reader base…with all the mediocre blogs these should be brought to attention.
Matt,
You’re welcome. If you have any recommendations, please let us know.
Thank you! The badge is proudly displayed on my site, and I am preparing for a complete site overhaul next month that will include Gravatars and a full page layout. Your blog inspires me.
I’m still working on finding the time to implement the Ajax comment thing also.
Joel,
I appreciate the kind words. Gravatars are indeed a nice thing. I wish I could find a flexible (and elegant) solution to include Gravatars and MyBlogLog. With WordPress buying out Gravatar, there’s little incentive for me to find MyBlogLog compatible solutions.
If/when I ever get around to re-designing this puppy, I think I’ll do a full-width layout.
Take care.
I’m quite please today to be on the receiving end of a Reader