About.com 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards Now Accepting Nominations

Published on Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:45 Written by TradersHuddle Staff

NEW YORK-( Business Wire )-

About.com has opened the nomination period for its fifth annual Readers’ Choice Awards, which honor the best products, features and services across dozens of categories, ranging from technology to hobbies to parenting and more.

Beginning today through February 15, readers can nominate their favorite can't-live-without-it product or service, such as the best budget airline, mascara or e-mail service. Finalists, as selected by About.com category experts, will then advance to the final round of voting, which will take place from February 22 to March 21, 2012. The winners in each category will be announced on March 30, 2012.

“About.com’s Readers’ Choice Awards give users a chance to voice their opinions about the best products across some of our most popular categories,” said Margot Weiss, managing editor, About.com. “Each year we are impressed by readers' enthusiasm and involvement with the awards program, which directly speaks to their engagement with their favorite topics on About.com. We look forward to sharing on March 30 which products and services resonated most with About readers in the past year.”

Recipients of the Readers’ Choice Awards will have the exclusive opportunity to display the coveted About.com Readers’ Choice Awards badge on their Web site.

This year, the About.com Readers’ Choice Awards categories include: autos, careers, business & finance, cities & towns, computing & technology, education, electronics & gadgets, entertainment, food & drink, health, industry & trade, hobbies, home & garden, parenting, people, religion, sports, style and travel.

To learn more about this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards program, submit nominations or access important dates throughout the awards nomination and voting process, visit http://awards.about.com.

Now in its fifth year, the Readers’ Choice Awards evolved from About.com’s popular IM (Instant Messaging) Readers’ Choice Awards, which began in 2008.

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