Janette Toral recently launched the second edition of the annual Ten Emerging and Influential Blogs to give citations to the the ten best new blogs in the world. The project is 100% democratic and anyone in the world who owns a blog could vote for his or her top 10 before July 26, 2008. The blogs that are eligible to be cited are blogs that were started on July 1, 2007 or newer.

As you would have guessed Visit Sagada is in the thick of things and is getting considerable support. But dear readers, we also need your support. A vote from any blog will do - whether it’s a dot com, multiply, wordpress, blogspot, tabulas or livejournal. If you think Visit Sagada has had a positive contribution to the online world since its launch, then please do vote for the site along with nine other sites whom you think are also deserving.

To join this effort, please do the following:

• Write a blog post and pick your choice of 10 (or less) emerging influential blogs.
  • Any blog in the world can be picked.
    • You can update the same post entry up to July 26. However, please inform us of any changes.
      
  • Old blogs who move to a new domain are disqualified
  • Blogs who remove their archives just to fit in the cut-off date are disqualified
• Include a link to this post(http://www.influentialblogger.net/2008/04/top-10-emerging-influential-blogs-in.html) to help spread the word and encourage others to participate.
• Post a comment and let us know about your entry. Only one entry per blogger. Cut-off date and time for submission of entries is on July 26, Saturday, 5:00 pm (GMT+9:30). Afterwards, submission of comments in this page shall be closed.

WHY VOTE FOR VISIT SAGADA?

• In a few short months (we started the site last February 21), Visit Sagada has become one of the more prominent and relevant sources of information for backpackers and travelers going to Sagada. We have answered hundreds of queries left on our comment boxes and dozens more on our mailbox. If you search for “Sagada” on Google, we will not be place lower than fifth - sometimes, we’re even the top result.
• A win in this project will make the site more popular and thus, other people who may not have heard of it could be inspired to visit Sagada for themselves. When we all came back home from Sagada, didn’t we wish that a lot of our friends could experience the thrill of spelunking and the mystic calm of the mountains?
• Voting for the project could net you $100 (yes, US Dollars) that could very much finance your next sojourn to the mountains. At the end of the project, ten participants (those who voted) will win the cash prize decided via raffle.

Again, all you have to do is:

1. Make a new blog entry and link to this post.(http://www.influentialblogger.net/2008/04/top-10-emerging-influential-blogs-in.html)
2. Indicate Visit Sagada as one of your choices - putting an explanation is optional.
3. Visit the same link(http://www.influentialblogger.net/2008/04/top-10-emerging-influential-blogs-in.html) and leave a comment to give a heads up to the organizers that you’re joining their project.

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Here’s a sample entry:

I’m voting for Visit Sagada for the Ten Emerging and Influential Blogs for 2008.

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It could be as short as that. You can even copy and paste that on your blog. Just remember to leave a comment here.

That’s easy, right? If you have any questions about this, just email me at benj [a/t] visitsagada [d/o/t] com

Thank you for continuing to support Visit Sagada!

Here are some of the blogs that have shown Visit Sagada some love:

Shari Cruz
AJ Matela
Blogie Robillo
Tiffany Chua
Brian Ong
Mica Rodriguez
Gabriel

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