BlogPaws 2012 Pet Blogging and Social Media Award Winners Announced

BlogPaws, the first online pet community to establish an offline social media conference, announced the twelve winners of the 2012 BlogPaws Nose-to-Nose Pet Blogging and Social Media Awards in an exclusive red carpet awards ceremony on Saturday, June 23rd at BlogPaws 2012 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Pet lifestyle expert, author, humanitarian and television personality, Wendy Diamond, emceed the awards ceremony. Halo, Purely for Pets and Freekibble.com, were the official sponsors of the 2012 BlogPaws Nose-to-Nose Pet Blogging and Social Media Awards, who generously provided prizes for the winners, along with donations of 5,000 meals each to the shelter/rescue organization of the winner's choice.

All award winners were asked to vote for one group they wanted to receive $100 in their name. BlogPaws “rounded” that number up and donated $2,000 to WorldVets.org. This donation was one of the six announced at the now-traditional closing of every BlogPaws conference. A total this year of $12,120 in cash and many pet products were donated for this year's local pet welfare organization, Friends of Animals Utah.

The 2012 BlogPaws Nose-to-Nose Pet Blogging and Social Media Awards twelve winners were selected in an “Oscar-award”style by a panel of industry professionals and were not a popularity contest. Winners are: