January is National Mentoring Month in the USA

I received this beautiful Award from my dear friend Sue of Blogging Sueblimely, for both this blog and my Life blog. Thank you so very much Sue, it is very humbling to receive this Award.

I had no idea that there was any such thing but now I know otherwise. I learned about this from my dear friend Sue of “Blogging Sue Blimely.” Below is what Sue mentioned in her blog post.

“This is an initiative spearheaded by the Harvard Mentoring Project of the Harvard School of Public Health, with the aim of recruiting volunteer mentors to help young people achieve their full potential. The US Harvard School of Public Health is dedicated to thanking or honoring individuals who have guided us and had a lasting impact on our lives.”

Along with it, Sue handed out an award that she had personally created for the National campaign. I was honored to be included on her list. I have placed the text award version in the sidebar on the left. It’s the very first one there.

Sue created two for us to choose from and below is the original Award with a Text Version in the sidebar which links to this post.

Sue is quite a distance away from me in the UK as she is in Australia so she posted earlier, just to be sure that we got our awards on time. The official United States date to “Thank your Mentor Day” is 24th January.

Thank you, SueBlimely! Now, please pick up YOUR Blogging Mentor award from Free PC Security! Each of you have earned this really neat award by being among the best mentor’s we have access to on the World Wide Web.

I’d like to present this to Alex of WordPress Web 2.0, for his valuable valuable input on my blog when I first started blogging.

To Pearl of Interesting Observations who has amassed a great deal of knowledge which she willingly shares with others.

To Jan Pieter of Beyond Technology  for his wonderful friendship from my first days of blogging and continuous support for my blogs.

To Deborah of Life in the Fast Lane for her continued support in all that I have done and her sense of humor and honesty.

Also, I’d like to include Sandy Carlson of Writing in Faith who is a regular visitor to my blog and always says the nicest things.

You are all incredibly fantastic people as well as every bit important to our blogging achievements. You generously share your time and energy with the many bloggers who are lucky enough to cross paths with your smiling and kind hearts.

An Award from Sandy

My dear friend Sandy, author of Writing In Faith has honored my humble blog with this award along with a number of other bloggers.

Sandy went on to say:

‘I’d like to thank the bloggers whose work has increased my computer knowledge and yanked me out of some technical trouble spots over the past few years: JumpBack (blogging, HTML, the Internet….), Cotojo (pc security), Sueblimely (blogging tech), CyberCelt (search engines), Kuanyin (link love), What Ever (manipulating the new Blogger template), and One Deep Breath (permalink coding). Please accept this little badge as a token of my gratitude.’

Thank you so very much Sandy for  thinking of me and including me in such an illustrious group of people

You can read the full story here

Inspiring “Great Blog Award” 2007

Mauro from 1 Million Love Messages has honored my humble blog with this awesome Award.

Mauro has said of this award:

This is my latest round of “Great Blog Awards” this year.

So, I will give my Inspiring “Great Blog Awards” list of 2007.

To all of them… Keep on Rolling and Happy Blogging in 2008.

The list of recipients is pretty big, so you really want to go and see if you are on the list

Award by Hanna

My new and wonderful friend Hanna, author of Amori,poesie,arte,chat virtuali by Hanna has honored me with this new and awesome award for Global Communities that she has created.

Hanna said of the Award: ‘I would like to thank with my Award the blogs that represent the special people to my notice for appointment, genius, quality and liking.’

Thank you so very much for this great honor Hanna

This is another wonderful example of communicating and building communities and friendships within the blogosphere, which has no boundaries or limitations.

I have received many awards on my alternate blog which has surprised me greatly, and  it is very humbling to be recognised in this way.

For those of you that don’t know Hanna, click on the link below and visit her site, it has a translation feature and has some superb poetry, art and much more.  Don’t forget to leave a comment after visiting.

Amori,poesie,arte,chat virtuali by Hanna

The recipients receiving this superb award are:

1. ArouetVoltaire 
2. Traffyk
3. SantaClaus
4. Colin
5. BillyWarhol
6. BLOGSIRE
7. AndreaMicheloni
8. Sandee
9. EnzoRasi
10. MAXincontri
11. DarioD’Angelo
12. Cooper
13. ZubliZainordin
14. Assasino
15. JTChandler
16. Marco Giusti
17. JonChow
18. Mauro
19. Salva
20. DanHanosh
21. AleX2000
22. EIOchemipensavo
23. L’AgoràdelRockPoeta
24. Maxanima
25. Aslan
26. BlogCave
27. MaestroAlberto
28. mdplab
29. Dani
30. EvNucci

Community Blogger Award

Jos from NoDirectOn (not: NoDirection) has awarded me with this marvellous Community Blogger Award.

The Community Blog Award celebrates people who reach out and makes the blogger community a better one. 

It also underlines the importance of a blogs readership community, one of the most rewarding parts about blogging. It’s the people that come back to comment, adding to the conversation, making you feel like someone is listening and interested.

There are many excellent bloggers that fulfil both of these categories and I pass this award on to the following:

Pete and Jennifer from Cyber Crime Slayers

Sue from Sueblimely Discovering Blogging and Tagging

Pearl from Interesting Observations

Kevin from Bloody Computer

Sarah from BlueJar

Congratulations to you all for and thank you for bringing so much to the world of blogging.