{"id":2941,"date":"2012-05-23T21:06:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T01:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2012-05-23T21:10:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T01:10:15","slug":"thanks-to-connect-savannahs-readers-plus-a-few-photos-from-last-nights-best-of-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/05\/23\/thanks-to-connect-savannahs-readers-plus-a-few-photos-from-last-nights-best-of-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to Connect Savannah&#8217;s readers, plus a few photos from last night&#8217;s Best Of Savannah party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thanks to all those who voted for me as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectsavannah.com\/news\/article\/106465\/\" target=\"_blank\">Best Local Newspaper Columnist<\/a> in Connect Savannah&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectsavannah.com\/news\/section\/113\/\" target=\"_blank\">Best of Savannah 2012<\/a> readers&#8217; poll.<\/p>\n<p>For many of the winning entrepreneurs, small businesses, and even some of the large businesses, recognition like this one from Connect can buoy the spirits and boost the bottom line. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to get paid more for the win, but it&#8217;s still an honor to know that some of Savannah&#8217;s citizens read my stuff regularly enough to vote for me. I&#8217;ve tried hard over the years in my Savannah Morning News columns to give people information they want, analyses that they might not read elsewhere, and heads-ups about things they&#8217;d otherwise never find out about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_00071.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2943\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/05\/23\/thanks-to-connect-savannahs-readers-plus-a-few-photos-from-last-nights-best-of-party\/dsc_0007-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_00071-e1337821392317.jpg?fit=400%2C601\" data-orig-size=\"400,601\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC_0007\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_00071-e1337821392317.jpg?fit=199%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_00071-e1337821392317.jpg?fit=594%2C893\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_00071-e1337821392317.jpg?resize=400%2C601\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_0007\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2943\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>At the same time, I&#8217;ve got to add that I&#8217;m maybe the only columnist in town writing three days a week for a print publication &#8212; so I <em>ought<\/em> to win, right? I&#8217;m not even precisely sure how many times I&#8217;ve won this honor, but I think this is #6 (but it could be #5 or #7). Btw, for the cynical who think that polls like this are always fixed, I&#8217;d point out that Connect itself has three good writers who count as columnists, yet a freelancer for a rival publication keeps winning.<\/p>\n<p>For the second year in a row, I was also runner-up as a local blogger, behind Jessica Leigh Lebos for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoyenta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yo Yenta<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The big awards party is always a great time, and last night it once again took place in the Morris Center at Trustees Garden. The gathering attracted a large number of winners plus their guests, which meant editor Jim Morekis &#8212; with some assistance from community editor Jessica Leigh Lebos &#8212; spent a lot of time emceeing and congratulating the honorees.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck last night by the number of winners that devoted their moment or two on stage to thanking others.<\/p>\n<p>This small photo gallery is in no way comprehensive (I&#8217;m an easily distracted partygoer), but I think it gives a little sense of the energy and diversity that gathers each year for Connect&#8217;s party. I&#8217;m not 100% sure of all the names here, but I&#8217;ve tried to caption them in some way &#8212; I&#8217;m obviously open to making corrections and additions. 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