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Celebrating the 2007 SANParks Forum Awards
The SANParks Forum Awards are run annually as a way of celebrating the forum and the members who contribute to making the SANParks Forum the dynamic, interesting and entertaining place that it is. This year, 1281 votes were cast in the annual forum awards. The winners in each of the 16 categories are as follows
Cam Sighting of the Year – *Timbo
Advisor of the Year – *Senyetse
Best Forumite Name – *Boorgatspook
SANParks Champion – *Michele Nel
Angel of the Year – *Pardus
Musketeer of the Year – *Bucky
Birder of the Year – *Francoisd
Cam Watcher of the Year – *Bouf
Quizmaster/mistress of the Year – *Imberbe
Most Entertaining Forum Personality – *WTM
Bird Sighting of the Year – *Muhammad
Thought Provoker of the Year – *Bucky
Non-predator Sighting of the Year – *Bucky, *Matthew, *WTM
Avatar of the Year – *Looney Lee
Predator Sighting of the Year – *Ludwig
Trip Report of the Year – *Michele Nel
Congratulations to all of the winners, and the nominees, and thank you to everyone that took the time to vote. The winners will be contacted and will each receive a branded SANParks USB, Pen and Keyring Set.
The SANParks forum is an online community of people from all over the world who “meet” online to discuss and share SANParks experiences, plan trips, and debate important conservations issues.
SANParks is particularly pleased with participation in the awards this year. As opposed to in previous years where the awards were run on a more ad hoc basis, the 2007 awards saw both award categories and criteria being debated and finalized by a group of SANParks forum members, who formed the Forum Awards Committee (FAC).
The FAC was tasked with compiling a short list of nominees that other forum members could then vote for, as well as with rethinking the categories and the criteria for each award.
The five nominees in each category were then voted for in a blind poll by other forum members. The winners are simply the nominee who obtained the most votes in each category.
Nominees were considered based on contributions from 1 November 2006 up until the present. The 2008 Awards will look at material from the 01 November 2007 onwards.