The Philippine Blog Awards, organized by the Philippine Blogger Awards Inc. a non-stock and non-profit corporation, is an annually occurring event which aims to appreciate and recognize outstandings blogs created by members of the Filipino blogging community.
In the past four years of the Awards, bloggers may nominate any blog, including theirs, which they think deserves to hold an award for its role in shaping the Filipino society. The Philippine Blog Awards cater to different niches or categories where bloggers are more used to, when writing.
These categories are the following: Beauty and Fashion, Culture and Arts, Photoblog, Politics and History, Humor, and Literature, Technology, Travel, Entertainment, Personal, Lifestyle, Business, Food and Beverage, Sports, and, Hobby and Recreation.
Other special awards are also given to bloggers who excel a lot in their niches. These Special Awards include Design, Filipiniana, Blogger’s Choice, Reader’s Choice, Top Three Videocast and Podcast, Top Three Photo Post, Top Three Posts, and Top Post of the yea.
It is expected that the 5th Philippine Blog awards will commence between June and July 2011. This anticipation was brought about by the award-giving body's announcement on Facebook regarding the period of nomination process, and that the Philippine Blog Awards nomination will begin “in the coming weeks.”
“We're still working on streamlining our process,” the PBA Inc. added.
