Comments on: The Katnip Awards

By: The Katnip Awards

The Katnip Awards — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:50:26 +0000

We at the Akatemy want to say again that we were in NO WAY influenced by this review.
Congratulations to Michelle and the other 7 winners this week.

http://katandtonic.blogspot.com/2009/08/katnip-aw...

By: Michelle Tripp

Michelle Tripp — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:43:16 +0000

Thanks! Yes, the #followfriday was really wearing thin. It’s so much more useful to be able to follow your favorite bloggers and see who they recommend and why. It adds so much value to following choices, not to mention it connects people who will appreciate each other.

By: Molly Block (@mollyblock)

Molly Block (@mollyblock) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:24:18 +0000

Nice blog, Michelle, and great post highlighting Kat’s creativity.

As someone who’s been staying off Twitter on Fridays for the past few months *to avoid* the #followFriday frenzy, I love what Kat, and Jim (@smashadv), Gini (@ginidietrich), Scott (@unmarketing), and others are doing by moving their good follow recommendations off Twitter.

Yes, Kat’s presentation of her recommended friends as “award recipients” is well done.

By: links for 2009-08-10 | Chris Abraham

links for 2009-08-10 | Chris Abraham — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:01:40 +0000

[...] The Katnip Awards | Michelle Tripp: The BrandForward Blog? I thought I was the only one wishing there was a better way to #followfriday. [...]

By: Jim Mitchem

Jim Mitchem — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:08:05 +0000

Yep – this is the way to go with concern to finding and recommending people on Twitter. I started doing this in February or March of this year, and it took off. But like all ideas, they can be better. And what Kat Jaibur did with Katnip Awards is definitely a step up.

By: Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:43:00 +0000

I want to play in the “I love Kat” game! I LOVE KAT! And Michelle, do you know that she has blog envy (of you)??

LOVE Total “I-coulda-had-a-V8″ moment. VERY FUNNY!

By: Kat Jaibur

Kat Jaibur — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:15:10 +0000

I should point out that I was inspired by the way Jim Mitchem (@smashadv) moved it to his blog: Friday Feeding Frenzy http://bit.ly/yRxT2.

And Gini Dietrich (@ginidietrich)with her Follow Friday http://tinyurl.com/nvachy.

Now Scott Stratten (@unmarketing)has taken it to video. http://bit.ly/y1FyX #FollowFive.
As has Julio Varela(@julito77) http://bit.ly/11RAYi
Hope the trend continues!

By: Bob Cargill

Bob Cargill — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:45:02 +0000

Yes, Kat is definitely on to something big with her so-called Katnip Awards.

As I wrote on my own blog recently (July 21), “While it’s not an Emmy, an Oscar, a Clio or a Hatch, a Katnip is the first award that I know of to be given for tweeting — and just for coming up with the idea, Kat herself deserves kudos.”

And so do you, Michelle, for this excellent post on the Katnip Awards. Nice work!

By: Michelle Tripp

Michelle Tripp — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:46:07 +0000

Thanks, Kat! You’ve always had an awesome Twitter Feed and you add real value! When I came across your Katnip Awards while I was still developing the blog I knew I had to do a feature on it. I love #followfriday but always felt it wasn’t enough. Every week I’d promote my closest connections (while still having to leave great people out) and realizing there’s no way anyone could possibly follow them all or even know why to follow them. I’m so glad to see you round it up this way. I hope you don’t mind if I “adopt” your idea from time to time!

By: Julio R Varela

Julio R Varela — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:27:06 +0000

Excellent post. We love the Katnip Awards! A loyal reader and follower of a great friend.

I am one of the #followfriday individuals who would rather do the long lists any more. In fact, all I do know is do a video blog each Friday and list five people on the video to follow and give reasons why. I love doing it this way.

All this crazy #followfriday clogging also led me to create #vivaviernes (a FF with some soul), where we tweet about people we like, but also about things we like, like music, movies, etc. It actually led to a VivaViernes iTunes Mix.

I love Fridays on Twitter and have been gravitating more to people who take the time to go the extra step (like Kat) and explain why you should follow people and give value to your reasons.

Keep up the awesome work. Love you blog.

Julio