It  is with a great sense of goodwill that we announce the Results of the Blog your Thots Contest, the online awareness campaign of the CAN Conquer CANcer initiative launched by us during Non 2005. Just mere words cannot express our feelings at the support, encouragement and enthusiasm the initiate witnessed thanks to 1000s who participated in it across the Blogsphere and the Web. A Big Thanks goes out from all of us here at Connexions and the CCC team to everyone personally - the contestants, the gifts sponsors, folks who blogged about it, corporate who put the details up on their intranets, personal and cancer related websites, the media... the list is endless.

We know that there was a delay in announcing the results. But as one judge put it - "This is not just something like rating a blog. This is something more intense, more solemn and definitely tougher." Yes, just about everyone of the entries MADE A DIFFERENCE to those who read it. Every single one of them conveyed the message that CANcer is Conquerable. Every one of them mattered making the process of rating them a very concentrated job for the judges. And they did go about it that equaled the enthusiasm of the Contestants. Thanks a Million folks for your time and energy and your support to the CCC initiative.

But then this is a Contest and we need to have winners and results. The Entries were rated on these 4 parameters - Originality, Overall Content, Motivational/Informational factor and Judges Own. The last parameter was to allow the judges to rate on any other parameter that they wished to. The ratings were on a scale of 1 to 5. We arrived at the final tally by adding up all the 8 judges' ratings. The final results had differences in between them ranging from just 0.50 to 1.00 points. And we have a tie for the 2nd place (we will award separate prizes to both the winners). We have also announced 10 Special Mentions based on certain factors and parameters .

All Winners will also be notified by email and we will be dispatching the prizes during the 1st week of February. We will be also posting a variety of interesting statistics related to the Contest during this week and the next. So keep dropping in to check out how many times your blog referred visitors to the CCC pages and other such stats.

This is not the en d... rather this is the beginning. We will be launching the next contest in the 2nd week of February and we look forward to your continued support. This Contest ends....but the Initiatives continue.

Click the Results Button above to check out the Winners.