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2015 Nose-to-Nose Awards nominations are open !

2015 Nose-to-Nose Awards nominations are open ! !

Anyone, blogger or non-blogger, can nominate a blog for the Nose-to-Nose Awards.

Here are the categories :

Best Pet Blog Design
Best Written Pet Blog Post
Best Pet Humor Blog
Best Dog Blog
Best Cat Blog
Best New Pet Blog
Best Cause Blog for or about pets
Best Pet Video on a Blog
Best Pet Photo on a Blog
Best Pet Microblog – Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ and Instagram
Best Use of Social Media by a 501c3
Additionally, this year, BlogPaws will recognize select blogs with a Certificate of Excellence in:
– Best series of posts
– Best collaborative posts
– Best About Page

Click here to go to the Nose-to-Nose nominations main page.

Just in case you would nominate us, here are some useful informations to fill out the nomination form :

– Contact Name for Creator of the Work being entered : Claire Bertolini
– Contact Email for the Creator of the Work being entered : swisscats@bluewin.ch
– Blog Address : https://www.swisscatblog.ch

– BlogPaws Community Profile Page of nominee : Claire Bertolini &The Swiss Cats
– Facebook page of nominee : https://www.facebook.com/theswisscats
– Twitter account of nominee : https://twitter.com/TheSwissCats

You can nominate us in as many categories as you want to, but please skip the Best Dog Blog category, OK ?

We’re a little bit shy, and we don’t think we apply to ALL categories, but you may have different ideas than us !

Here are our ideas :

Best Pet Blog Design
If you nominate us for Best Pet Blog Design, all you need are the informations listed above.

Best Written Pet Blog Post
If you nominate us for Best Written Blog Post, you’ll need to provide a link to the post you’re nominating. Our favorites are :

How to stitch without thread nor staple

How to stitch without thread nor staple

How to help an old cat to stay clean

How to help an old cat to stay clean

How to make your old cat happy

How to make your old cat happy

Best Pet Photo on a Blog
If you nominate us for Best Pet Photo on a Blog, you’ll need to provide a link to the photo you’re nominating. Our favorites are :

https://www.swisscatblog.ch/en/2014/11/how-to-find-a-gift-for-your-humans/

https://www.swisscatblog.ch/en/2014/11/secret-paws-2014-2/

https://www.swisscatblog.ch/en/2014/10/finally/

https://www.swisscatblog.ch/en/2014/10/we-apologize/

Do you think different ? No problem, you can nominate us in as many categories as you want to !

Deadline to nominate : January 31, 2015

Click here to go to the Nose-to-Nose nominations main page.

Thank you very much !

How to get it touch with other blogging pets around the world

What we prefer in pet blogging, it’s to meet bloggers of everywhere united by a common passion : their pet.

September is International Pet Bloggers Month for the BlogPaws community, and we want to tell you how we met you, you, our friends :

We began by following some cats on Twitter.
In the profile of each, we went to look who they followed, and we followed other cats and diverse animals.
We also noticed that certain Twittpals mentioned a blog on their profile, then we went to see…
The very first blogger cat we met was Mr Bumpy. His blog is a little less active since the arrival of Baby Joey, because the education of this small human sets him a lot of time.
We followed his adventures and commented regularly on his posts.
We then began to follow certain friends of Bumpy, via the comments of his blog.
By them, we discovered the Cat Blogosphere and we found new acquaintances there.
Thanks to the Cat Blogosphere, we discovered the BlogPaws community and chose to be a member of it too.
All this took place only in English ; as we are lucky enough to speak several languages, we examined to find other cats who speak French, German, or Italian.
We enlarged our circle of acquaintances by following blogs, but especially by leaving comments.

That takes a lot of time, but it’s worth of it : several of our on-line acquaintances became friends in spite of the distance, and Claire was even lucky enough to meet some !

One or two things about blogging

A HUGE thank you to Mom Emily and the gang of kitties at Kitty Cat Chronicles for passing along the Most Influential Blogger Award to us !

The name of this award has a particular sense for us : since January, we tried to put into practice the advice of the BlogPaws community to improve our blog : publish several articles a week, be present on various social networks, find a line editorial, revise our design by means of the talented Glogirly, and finally take better photos.

We can now say that we publish on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, except particular event at a precise date. Wednesday’s “How to”looked like many to please you, and we are going to keep this theme for this day.
Our adventures and our products reviews find place on Mondays and Fridays. We would like we could make more products review, and share it with you !
Your visit and your comments are our reward, and we thank you for being part of our life.

Here are the rules for the Most Influential Blogger Award :

Display the award on your blog. – DONE
Announce your win with a blog post and thank the blogger who awarded you. – DONE
Present 10 deserving Bloggers with the Award. – ~~DONE~~ ~~CHEATING~~ SEE BELOW
Link your nominees in the post and let them know of their being awarded with a comment (or a ping back). – SEE BELOW
Include an embedded video of your current favourite song. If a video is not possible you can embed a SoundCloud track.

We begin not to know any more to whom we have already given a price, and it is difficult to choose among all the blogs which we know. We are thus going to cheat a little with the third rule : feel free to take this award if you don’t have it already !