A massive thanks to all of you who nominated or voted for me in the recent Computer Weekly Blog Awards. 

It was a real pleasant surprise to make it to the short list and to be the runner up in such a competitive category as Independent It Professional Male was quite a result especially for my first outing. 

Without “doing a Gweneth” I just want to say thanks for all my TechHead readers, I appreciate all your feedback and comments on the site – keep them coming, along with any new suggestions on post topics you’d like to see or improvements to the site.

Here is the list the category winners along with the runner up.  Congratulations to all those who won and those who were nominated.

• CIO/IT director
  Winner: Capgemini – CTO Blog
  Runner up: CIO Blog – Peter Birley

• IT consultant and analyst
  Winner: ITP Report – Alim Ozcan report
  Runner up: The IT Skeptic

• Individual IT professional male
  Winner: Steve Clayton – Geek in disguise
  Runner up: TechHead

• Individual IT professional female
  Winner: Flynny’s blog – EMC Consulting
  Runner up: A girl’s guide to Project Management

• Company/corporate: large enterprise
  Winner: Technology blog – Capgemini
  Runner up: TechCrunch

• Company/corporate: SMEs
  Winner: Girls’n’Gadgets
  Runner up: The Symbian blog

• Project management (including methodologies, e.g. Agile)
  Winner: A girl’s guide to Project management
  Runner up: ZDNet – IT project failures – Michael Krigsman

• Sustainable and green IT
  Winner: Greenbang
  Runner up: Kate Craig-Wood – Kate’s Comment

• IT security
  Winner: Graham Cluley’s Blog Sophos
  Runner up: Countermeasures

• Open source in business
  Winner: BrianTeeman.net
  Runner up: ComputerWorld UK – Open Enterprise

• IT Twitter user of the year
  Winner: @gcluley
  Runners up: @stephenfry and @rickmans