SA blog wins Best African Blog at 2009 Bloggies

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Glad to be a Girl is a personal blog written by phillygirl on her day-to-day experiences and opinions. She also tweets as @philly_girl.

Commented phillygirl on her win: "I am amazed by the win! I mean sure, we all enter these things with the best of intentions. Generally, I do it because I hope to be one of the finalist (like in the 2008 Bloggies) because those lists stay up there with a link to your blog indefinitely. So the international (and even local!) exposure is what it's all about to me.

"That said, winning is fantastic and I'm enjoying the increased traffic and hoping to snag a few new regular readers from it, even though I'm well aware that my blog won't appeal to everyone.

"Also, I hope everyone will remember we have our own local brand of Blog Awards on the go currently too," she added.

Other competitors

Other competitors in the Best African Blog category included West Africa Wins Always, Being Brazen, Appfrica and Scarlett Lion.

The Bloggies is the longest-running blog awards running on the web. All nominations, finalists and votes are decided by the general public.

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For a list of all the winners, go to http://2009.bloggies.com/.