Submit your favourite bloggers and tweeters for the Mind Media Awards

Posted Monday 9 July 2012

On the 13th July nominations close for the Mind Media Awards. Bloggers, vloggers and tweeters can be nominated by you lot to win the Mark Hanson Digital Media Award.

Last year it was won by Pandora for her Confessions of a Serial Insomniac blog, and in 2009 another Madosphere regular, Seaneen Molloy, won Best Radio Drama for her Radio 4 play, Do’s and Don’ts for the Mentally Interesting.

Both Pandora and Seaneen richly deserved their awards, though I may be biased in saying that since they’re both friends of mine. That said, the Mind Awards also alerted me to some new media figures who I hadn’t heard of before. Beckie0′s trichotillomania YouTube vlogs won the Comic Relief Speaking Out award in 2011, and I’ve been a firm fan of her videos ever since.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiBIXMBEqgE

I know some people have criticised Mind for running a media awards ceremony, and suggested it’s all a bit glitzy and corporate. My own view of this is that we do need good portrayals of mental health in the media, and one way to encourage that is reward and recognise those that are created. Lord knows there’s been enough bad portrayals over the years.

I’ve submitted a nomination in the Digital Media category. I won’t say who I’ve nominated, other than it’s not any website that I work on. Feel free to submit your favourites too.

Zarathustra

Zarathustra is a mental health nurse, currently working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). He blogs at The World of Mentalists and The Not So Big Society where this was first published.

All views expressed are in a personal capacity and not necessarily the views of his employer.

Submit an entry, or suggest a winner, for the Digital, Journalist and Student journalist categories.

Submit your programme for the Documentary, Features and factual entertainment, Speech radio, News and current affairs or Drama awards.

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