Groundswell Awards

Forrester Groundswell is running an online contest and review of social technology websites. One major benefit of this contest is that a number of good websites are able to get exposure to interested users. The overall categories seem to be quite broad and can overlap which creates some category confusion. The other issue with the awards is that all the websites are self-submitted. This practice take some of the quality out of the awards since all the awards are given to websites that nominated themselves. Other websites that are unaware of the Groundswell awards are left out, which means that the best websites for "Listening" may be left out of the awards process. I think the idea is great, but Groundswell may need to re-consider the process of awarding websites.