3rd as an Independent Virtualization Blog – Awards 2012

The Virtualization Blog Awards 2012. This year the Virtualization blog competition ended quite a few days back, but with over 1200 votes, Eric Siebert over at vSphere-land.com had to spend many hours to actually count all that votes to be able to announce the results. And as a result ESX Virtualization ended up in the 20th place overall, and in the 3rd place as an Independent Blogger.

That's pretty impressive and I'm really happy with a results like this, because the competition this year was even more difficult with all the new blogs which were participating. There has been 187 blogs participating in the whole competition.

I thanks everyone who took the time and vote for ESX Virtualization. -:). It's really thrilling to have this kind of competition around and I really appreciate that. Many thanks to Eric Siebert for organizing having this great idea. I think that it's not only me, but It's a nice boost for every blogger… to write even better, more quality content and more often… -:).

I should have done it different way, and not only representing my blog as an Independent blog. I did not not took part in any of other categories, like the other bloggers might have done…

Thanks TrainSignal as well for sponsoring this event too with great Multimedia trainings for vSphere 5 and for View 5.

The vChat video embedded below will show you all the TOP 25 Virtualization blogs out there, but there is many more blogs out there. You can see all the blogs which participated in the Virtualization blog awards 2012 here.

I made it to the third position as an Independent Blogger…. -:)

There are Eric Siebert, David Davis, Simon Seagrave and John Troyer present in this videos and they commenting the blogs/websites from position 25 upwards.

One of the topic being discussed is the blogging. It's hard work to produce content. And to produce content on regular basis. It's not difficult to start a blog today, there is even free services on blogger or WordPress. Even on private domain it does not cost much, if you use shared hosting. A couple of bucks per months, that's all. But the most difficult is to maintain the work and update the blog often.

The first think that I noticed over 3 years ago when I started my blog which meant to be an online resource FOR MY OWN needs, that…. I saw that other people reading what I'm writing. There were some visitors, and it's numbers grew every day… wonderful.. -:). But the passion is not enough, one must invest a lot of free time, and also a lot of energy to seek topics to blog about. The blogging , the producing content is a lot of formatting, a lot of creativity and a lot of passion for the technology.

Enjoy the video bellow.. It's 55 minutes long… but It's worthy. You'll be able to know more about each blogger listed, and also the different categories. You'll get the whole picture about the wonderful VMware community. -:)

Enjoy… -:)