For the last month we’ve been saving all the blogs, podcasts, initiatives and sites you submitted for this year’s BOBs.  All in all, you sent in over 3,200 sites for our 17 categories. Thanks!

Now the hard work begins for our international jury of bloggers, independent journalists and media experts. Jury members are poring over list of submitted sites in their languages to put together a the short list of nominees in each category.

Voting begins in April

The jury is at work now, but your turn is coming up again soon. Online voting in all 17 categories begins on April 2 and User Prizes will be awarded to the site that gets the most votes by May 2.

The jury members will decide on Jury Award winners in the six multilingual categories on May 1.

Thanks to rebnejay for the CC photo!

In just a little over a week, you’ve sent in over 1,000 suggestions for the best blogs, online initiatives and sites to our contest. Thanks!

We’re ready for even more submissions. Can’t decide which category fits the blog you love? Go ahead and submit it in all the categories where you think it belongs.

Thanks to Karsten Kneese for the CC photo.

Starting today, we’re ready for your submissions to the Deutsche Welle Blog Awards.

You can login via Facebook, Twitter, OpenID, and VKontakte, and we’re working on getting things going with Sina Weibo.

So get to it and inundate us with the sites that have impressed you in all the contest’s categories.

Ever get the feeling that social networks can sometimes be so, well, anti-social?

We’re having some technical teething problems with the suggestion app you see above.

But don’t worry, we’re working on it!