This is the October 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 a behavior, many readers have benefited a lot because of the blogger not always viewing other things as being more important than the readers.

Without further ado, I present to you the October 2007 “Readers First” Awards Winners.

October 2007 “Readers First” Awards Winners

• Middle Zone Musings

  

  Robert Hruzek is a talented and amusing blogger who has mastered the art or sprinkling humor throughout his blog posts (sounds of crowd cheering). He is great at organizing his group projects and getting his readers to interact in the comments.

• Clever Dude

  

  Mike is great at giving financial advice and looking out for his readers when spelling out how they can get free money by applying for certain credit cards.

• Fresh Perspectives - aka Interesting Observations

  

  Pearl writes about interesting things, more or less blogging-related. She is very careful with her readers, she answers every comment, and if one of her loyal readers forgets to keep in touch for a while, she would e-mail him asking if she did something wrong (actually I got such a message from her some time ago, and I was impressed that somebody cared whether or not I read
  her blog). Her blog has an original page, Introduce Yourself, where her readers are invited to write a few things about them.

• Pelf - aka Pelf-ism is contagious

  

  Pelf is a grad student trying to save the turtles. And the environment. And humankind… And she does it in a very friendly and impressive style. She would thank her readers for stumbling or digging her articles, and she’s always ready to help.

• Spoken-for

  

  On her personal site Spoken-for, Valerie writes about different things that happen to her, ranging from business to personal stories and happenings. I [Bes] know Valerie for a while now, and she has helped me a lot online since I met her. Valerie is a very good friend, and she has always taken extra steps to give me advice or offer help in both online and offline things, even when she herself did not gain anything from such actions. Since she helped even before we became friends, I think she is a person who knows how to literally appreciate and interact with some reader by treating that reader as another human being, and not as an online pixel.

  Valerie has also traveled in and around her state, Missouri, to meet other online people in order to make friends. That is a huge form of appreciation. Valerie has also written posts which have drawn more criticism than you have ever seen on sites like ProBlogger or PhotoMatt. For many people, some of Valeries’ posts can define the standards on how to treat or react to criticizing readers who literally attack you on a personal level. Valerie usually writes about anything, including any sponsors she may have; if she notices something bad, she will not hesitate to point it out simply because someone may have an ad on her site. Valerie has also gained some online stalkers, and despite all that, Valerie still wants to make friends with her readers and keeps in touch with many readers. Valerie deserves a Readers First award since she has made sure she becomes very good friends with many of her online readers, including me.

Badges

The blogs and people listed above are not obligated to display the following badges on their sites or to wear printouts of these badges as hats in real life. Similarly, no one is required or even asked to kindly link back to this site. Please go ahead and kindly display these badges if you feel like it. You have earned it. The blogosphere unfortunately usually recognizes only those people who brag about raking in a lot of money. We want to mark you down in history as those who at one time appreciated their readers honestly and nicely enough to set an example for others.

More ‘Readers First’ badgespage are also available, in case you want something in a different color or size.

Want to set an example? Know someone who is setting an example?

If you are doing good or know anyone doing good for both themselves and others as selflessly as possible, please let us know about it. We will give you credit for your referral too.

Thank you for reading, and let us hope that it becomes very hard for us to decide which people and blogs to choose for the November 2007 “Readers First” award, not because of scarcity but because of the many more examples that we know and examples that we will find.

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