Released on: October 20, 2008, 5:38 pm

Press Release Author: HotBloggerCalendar.com

Industry: Internet & Online

Press Release Summary: New York, 10/20/08 - The blogging world is no stranger to
conventions, conferences, expos and awards that celebrate its unique, varied online
communities. But bloggers Sarah Morgan (www.Sarah-Morgan.com) and Jane Porricelli
(www.MomGenerations.com/blogs/jane/) sensed something missing and set out to fill
the void. The result? The 2009 Hot Blogger Calendar contest
(www.HotBloggerCalendar.com).

Press Release Body: New York, 10/20/08 - The blogging world is no stranger to
conventions, conferences, expos and awards that celebrate its unique, varied online
communities. But bloggers Sarah Morgan (www.Sarah-Morgan.com) and Jane Porricelli
(www.MomGenerations.com/blogs/jane/) sensed something missing and set out to fill
the void. The result? The 2009 Hot Blogger Calendar
contest(www.HotBloggerCalendar.com).

The idea stemmed from a hottest blogger poll on Playboy.com (all female, of course),
which Porricelli countered with a Hottest Male Blogger contest on her personal blog.
After the enthusiastic response she received, Porricelli joined forces with Morgan
to take the next step - putting together a Hot Blogger Calendar. Between August 18
and August 25, blog readers nominated their hot blogger picks - both male and
female. The contest received 359 nominations and included tech bloggers, real estate
bloggers, mommy bloggers, dad bloggers, celebrity bloggers, political bloggers,
social media bloggers, style bloggers, PR bloggers, humor bloggers, sports bloggers,
travel bloggers, shopping bloggers and business bloggers.

Then the voting began. From August 25 through September 1, readers voted for their
one favorite male blogger and one favorite female blogger from the list of nominees.
Of the 23,745 unique votes cast, 24 hot bloggers - 12 male and 12 female - emerged
as the winners.

"Sarah and I were blown away by the response to the contest," says Porricelli. "In
just two weeks we had over a million hits to our site, and we actually crashed the
servers the night we opened up the voting!"

"We encouraged people to get creative in order to get votes, and they didn't
disappoint," adds Morgan. "Some made YouTube videos, some wrote hilarious blog
posts, some held raffles and at least one even solicited sponsors to donate to
charity for each vote he received. We put all creative vote-getting schemes on the
Hot Blogger Calendar blog so the competition could see what they were up against."

Porricelli and Morgan held a calendar photo shoot for the bloggers in Manhattan on
October 5, with photographers Bill Wadman (http://www.billwadman.com/) and Meg
Wachter (http://www.megwachterphoto.com/), and make-up artist Jillian Villafane
(http://www.jillianvillafane.com/), offering their professional work.

The two 2009 Hottest Blogger Calendars (one with the 12 females, one with the 12
males) will be available for purchase in November, with a portion of proceeds
donated to charity, making it the hottest feel-good gift for the holidays.

The Hottest Bloggers are: Chick Shopper Chick (http://www.chicshopperchick.com/),
This Girl Called Automatic Win (http://marielynbernard.blogspot.com/), Amy of
Permission to Peruse (http://www.sabennett.com/wp/), A.V. Flox
(http://omgomgomfg.com/), Jill Notkin (The Daily Grind)
(http://workathomemom.typepad.com/), Technology Goddess
(http://technologygoddess.com/), Trisha of momdot (http://www.momdot.com/),
Blessings From Above (http://www.kupiec.blogspot.com/), Miss Britt
(http://miss-britt.com/), TheMia (http://themia.org/rocks/), The SlackMistress
(http://www.theslackdaily.com/), Katja Presnal (Skimbaco)
(http://skimbaco.blogspot.com/), The Comics Curmudgeon (http://joshreads.com/),
Avitable (http://avitable.com/), Geri Druckman (http://www.gdruckman.com/),
shawnp0wers (http://www.brainofshawn.com/), NYC Watchdog
(http://www.apileofdogbones.com/), betheboy (http://betheboy.com/), Ghost of Keywork
(http://kywork.blogspot.com/), Busy Dad (http://www.busydadblog.com/), Francesco
Explains It All (http://francescoexplainsitall.blogspot.com/), Pete Cashmore
(http://mashable.com/), Peter Shankman (http://www.shankman.com/), Backpacking Dad
(http://backpackingdad.blogspot.com/).

Sponsors include Barrington Printing (http://www.barringtonprinting.com/) and Mom
Generations (http://www.momgenerations.com/).

Numerous sponsorship opportunities are still available for the 2009 Calendar and for
the 2010 edition with its various Hot Blogger Calendar events. If you'd like more
information or would like to schedule an interview with Jane Porricelli or Sarah
Morgan, please phone 401-451-7779 or email jane@hotbloggercalendar.com or
sarah@hotbloggercalendar.com.


Web Site: http://www.hotbloggerca

Contact Details: Jane Porricelli
401-451-7779
jane@hotbloggercalendar.com