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Dell Wakes Up From Slumber, Sponsor Pakistan Blog Award

By Jamil Arif on June 17, 2010



Releasing a press release after almost month after a very successful event is out of understanding, whether the PR Department is sleeping and suddenly got up and found that they have press release to send out or its just negligence on the part of the Dell as they not have enough time to make it Public.

Dell recently sponsored Pakistan’s first ever blog awards ceremony held at a local hotel in Karachi. It was a pioneering event in which Pakistani blogs were awarded for their brilliant content and quality. Altogether 207 blogs participated in the competition in the 41 defined categories.

Head of Marketing CSMB at Dell Pakistan, Nubla Iftikhar presenting an award at Pakistan’s First Blog Awards ceremony

The participating blogs were scrutinized and judged by 14 experts from different fields. The main categories were technology, politics, education, humor, business, science, health care, Urdu blogs, celebrities, automobiles, literature, sports, photo blogs, music blogs, video blogs, food blogs and many others.

The competition was hard-hitting among blogs of different categories; one blog in each field was chosen among them and awarded as the best blog. More than 300 people, including bloggers, technology experts and industry specialists participated in the awards distribution ceremony and enlightened the evening.

Head of Marketing for CSMB at Dell Pakistan, Nubla Iftikhar stated, “Dell is happy to have pioneered the concept of recognizing talent in Pakistani blogs; there’s a lot of enthusiasm, skill and the urge to create interesting content.”

Nubla Iftikhar was also one of the judges from the panel of the blog awards.

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