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The Mumsnet MUM of the year award.

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QuintessentialShadow · 17/04/2009 11:46

Will there be a thread to discuss nominations, or will it all be secret through email?

It must be a hard task doing the judging.
It must be bloody harder than the Christmas appeal, so I dont envy you this task. A whole holiday stands to gain for one lucky winner, wow....

But, what criteria do you use to judge? If I were to put myself somebody forward, so to speak....

What I really would like to ask is:

???? why? What the fuck are you thinking?

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JustineMumsnet · 17/04/2009 13:17

Oh you're all so cynical! What's the harm in it we say? Someone gets a great prize (despite restrictions valid in school hols). So maybe everyone's deserving, or maybe the winner won't be the most deserving, does it really matter? Surely better that someone gets a pat on the back and a lovely weekend than no-one isn't it? And no we're not looking for sob stories, or to publish misery memoirs - in fact maybe we'll just pick the winner out of a big hat of entries because we quite agree, who are we to judge. We see it more as a celebration of all of us, with one lucky winner who gets to meet Gordon Brown (or Sarah if they're really lucky), I suppose.

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JustineMumsnet · 17/04/2009 13:26

There is wheelchair access.

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JustineMumsnet · 17/04/2009 13:43

We'll think about it QS - I can see the argument for random selection but equally the submission will be published so imho I think it should be an entry that both reflects the everyday heroics that we all perform but also captures some of the spirit and wit of MN - the absurdity of it all... It is a MN award after all...

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JustineMumsnet · 17/04/2009 13:44

ps - does anyone else feel nervous when they're bolded?

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JustineMumsnet · 17/04/2009 13:46

Published on MN - and i guess extracted for PR purposes (you can tell we've thought this through).

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JustineMumsnet · 17/04/2009 13:58

That's it. I'm off!

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JustineMumsnet · 19/04/2009 23:35

Yes from our point of view we did this for PR purposes - whoever said that is quite right. That and the fact that we knew we could attract a great competition prize for someone to win.

We don't charge for MN or have a big Government grant, so we can't afford PR or marketing folks but we need to attract people to the site to enable it to stay a certain size, so we can get advertising in and pay the bills. We've turned down more money from advertising and advertising formats than we've accepted in the last year or two - Nestle, Macdonalds, formula milk pop-ups etc. In truth we wish we didn't have to accept any advertising at all, but instead had a license fee or similar to fund us and could take every decision according to what would be the optimal outcome for the community but we don't.

And tbh whilst we understand your distaste about having to choose and concerns about whether the most deserving person is chosen we thought this type of thing was an acceptable compromise in how we operate.

We do it, hopefully, with a bit more wit than it's done elsewhere - making the point that you don't need to be a sob story/ particularly desperate to be worth celebrating - and someone gets a lovely prize.

But at the end of the day if folks feel strongly about it, then we can try to duck out of it. But somewhere along the line you should bear in mind we have to be a bit commercial if we're going to carry on serving and moderating etc.

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HelenMumsnet · 06/05/2009 20:56

Hassled, I'm afraid I'm not quite sure.

But I know a woman who will be - and I'll ask her in the morning.

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JustineMumsnet · 12/05/2009 14:23

Well... OliviaMumsnet is on it but she doesn't work today, so... manana (with a little squiggle above the "n") I presume.

(We'll give her a prod).

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OliviaMumsnet · 12/05/2009 14:25

Will post more tomorrow.

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JustineMumsnet · 12/05/2009 14:27

Blimey she's here on her DAY OFF - get back to your baby woman.

(mañana ta-dah!)

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OliviaMumsnet · 13/05/2009 21:57

Just waiting for a couple of things to be confirmed but watch this space

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OliviaMumsnet · 18/05/2009 15:15

at delay in getting back.

Yes, indeed, custy, hearty congratulations to largeginandtonic.

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OliviaMumsnet · 18/05/2009 16:21

I am SURE you are joking about chidren in cupboards.

LGAT here is all the info re the competition

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