Nominated in the Podcast Awards 2008

I'm delighted to announce that ScreenCastsOnline has been nominated in the "Best Video Podcast" category for the 2008 Podcast Awards!

Firstly, thanks to all the people how nominated the show, I really appreciate the gesture and makes all the hard work and long hours so worthwhile.

The icing on the cake though is the realisation that it's not just the number of people who nominated the show that won me the nomination. To achieve a nomination, various factors were assessed by volunteer reviewers based on the following grading criteria:

• Number of Nominations 40%


• Quality of Website Design 15%


• Quality of Sound 15%


• Quality of Podcast Delivery and Show Format 10%


• Relevance of Content 20%

A tip of the hat to the folks over at RealMac Software for producing Rapidweaver which allowed me to create my site with very little website knowledge, and not forgetting Josh Lockhart whose stunning Silk theme is the basis for the website design.

Everything else to do with the every element of the show is little old me, a veritable one man band and jack of all trades. Must mention Barb as well who looks after the merchandising side of things, those DVDs don't get posted by themselves you know!

So where does this go from here!

Well, at the moment I've been nominated but from the 23rd October, you can vote for ScreenCastsOnline every day through to when voting finishes on the 6th November.

Realistically, I'm one of the underdogs as in the same category are some pretty awesome video podcasts such as "Ask a Ninja", "Diggnation" and "Geek Brief TV" all with many many thousands of dedicated viewers and fans! But I'll not let that deter me and you'll have to forgive me if I mention the voting on the next couple of episodes.

It's been great to be nominated but would be fantastic to win!

PS Congratulations to all my other podcast buddies who also received nominations such as Victor Cajiao, Mark Pendleton, Chris Christensen, Jason Van Orden, Loe Laporte, Alex Lindsey, Scott Bourne, Cali Lewis, KFC and many more!