NEW YORK, Jan 19, 2012 (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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