The This Week in Mentalists 2013 Awards – The Winners

It gives me great pleasure to announce the This Week in Mentalists Awards 2013, recognising the best in mental health blogging (and for the first time this year, vlogging). You can view the results for 2012 here. 2013 was a year in which the weekly This Week in Mentalists blogging roundups stopped running. I don’t think this is because people aren’t writing blogs anymore – far from it; in fact there’s more and more. I think it’s more due to changes in the way blogs are used. Whereas before they acted as self-contained online communities, they’re now more part of a multi-platform social media dialogue involving Twitter, Storify etc. With each year we’re seeing more and more innovation in the way people use social media to talk about mental health. When done responsibly, I think that’s a very useful and healthy thing. A few words on how the winners were selected. The first round was a straight public vote in which people were asked to submit blogs for nomination (unfortunately some nominations had to be discarded due to suspicious voting patterns). The blogs with the most nominations then went through to the judging panel. Our judges all had considerable experience of mental health, either as providers or users of services, and all were extensive users of social media in mental health in their own right. They included two winners and one nominee for the Mark Hanson Award for Digital Media at the Mind Media Awards, as well as sever...
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