The editors are now scoring their vote-o-rama spreadsheets and you are welcome to vote by spreadsheet as well.
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- Click here to download a copy
- Fill it out completely
- If you’re competing on the grid, score your own entry. Be honest. This is for posterity
- If there are any missing fields, we won’t be able to use it
- Email Erica M your spreadsheet by 8 p.m. US eastern time. Any spreadsheets sent after that can’t be tabulated or included in final scores
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Don’t be intimidated by the vote-o-rama tracker. Lemme show you how to use it:
enter the blogs on the grid
Type in the name of each blog on the grid if it’s not filled in by the time you download your copy. Don’t go by the number assigned on the grid. Once the grid closes to submissions, the thumbnails will sort themselves by number of page views and all the original numbers will change.
The scoring criteria are on page 2. Click the tab at the bottom of the worksheet.
Read the helpful questions then score each entry based on your answers. Some are objective (such as spelling errors) and others are subjective (evidence of passion) and I’m the first to agree the rubric system of evaluating entries feels a little No Child Left Behind, but this should help develop our critical reading skills. You’ve got to know the rules to break the rules. Some bloggers (not here at yeah write!) think there are no rules. This rubric keeps everyone on the learning track.
fill in notes on each entry
Fill out the notes on each and every entry. Doesn’t have to be a dissertation, but we do need to know what you liked, what you didn’t like, what worked, what didn’t. No notes, no vote, even on your own if you’re on the grid.
All spreadsheets, including editors, will be in by 8 p.m. EDT with the winners’ post published at midnight.
Here’s a screenshot of the current grid in its original order as the grid closed for those of you who may need it. To prevent the compassionate among us from scoring their trackers with a weighted lean toward the entries fallen near the bottom of the grid, I’ll update the numbers for the first time once I receive a completed tracker, then I won’t update again until voting is closed. That’s better for everyone involved anyway, especially for my children whose Thursday night dinners had devolved into thin gruel while I’d been hanging out with you guys.
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Have fun!
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Laat time around, i did most of my voting at 9pm and turned it in in the morning. I kind of tallied my votes earoier in my head so all I had to do was quickly browse the blogs to think, “oh they lost a point on….” and read the blogs I had yet to see. So the piecemeal method worked.
Now my laptop has died so I am unable to vote. But I would have a hard time choosing my favorite this time….so many great writers!
Just an FYI, those of us on the west coast (or me anyway) can’t participate because I will not be home from work in time to fill out the grid before the deadline, and I’m not at a computer during my work day so I can’t even sneak it into my day 😛
Dang. But west coasters are at an advantage when voting opens at midnight. It’s only 9 pm out there at open and it could, conceivably, be completed after dinner and during wine.
Oh, and it occurred to me: the voting tracker is available publicly at all times, so a good idea would be to start filling it out as the grid starts to fill. There’s really no need to wait until it officially opens for voting using this method. Maybe next time?
Oh no, I feel like I need to reread the rules. I thought we had to use the fancy grill; I didn’t realize we could still click to vote 🙂 Definitely will work on getting this down for next time!
TriGirl: There’s no way I could do thoughtful voting if I waited until it started – I suggest starting as soon as posts start appearing. A few at a time. Just remember that once voting starts the grid starts going loopy – so use the hand “embiggen” graphic to keep track.
I will get this right, and I definitely like the idea of a few at a time!