{"id":36411,"date":"2018-11-21T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=36411"},"modified":"2018-11-21T08:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T07:56:55","slug":"top-vblog-2018-voting-is-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/top-vblog-2018-voting-is-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Top vBlog 2018 voting is now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36414 size-full\" title=\"top-vblog-2018-01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/top-vblog-2018-01.jpg\" alt=\"top-vblog-2018-01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ericsiebert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Siebert<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vsphere-land.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vSphere-land<\/a>\u00a0just opened the voting for the\u00a0<strong>Top vBlog 2018,<\/strong>\u00a0a yearly contest for voting the\u00a0<strong>top VMware and virtualization blogs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This event\u00a0recognizes the\u00a0<strong>hard work<\/strong>\u00a0bloggers do and the support they give to the community. Also for this year the sponsor of this contest will be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en?s=turbonomic\">Turbonomic<\/a>,\u00a0the real-time application performance control system for the software-defined data center.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last year <em>Nolabnoparty<\/em> blog was\u00a0<strong>ranked #41<\/strong>\u00a0and I hope of course to consolidate this position even if new interesting blogs are present in this contest.\u00a0If you are a reader of\u00a0my blog and find my\u00a0<strong>articles useful<\/strong>, I will really appreciate\u00a0<strong>if you can vote<\/strong>\u00a0for <em>Nolabnoparty.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My blog is listed as\u00a0<strong>NoLabNoParty (Paolo Valsecchi)<\/strong>\u00a0on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thevpad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vLaunchPad<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Rules for voting Top vBlog 2018<\/h2>\n<p>This year the\u00a0<strong>total points<\/strong>\u00a0a blog can accumulate follows same rules as the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Three factors determine the total points a blog can accumulate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of <strong>received votes<\/strong> and <strong>ranking<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Number of <strong>post published<\/strong>\u00a0, more posts have been published in 2017 more point the blog receives<\/li>\n<li>Blog <strong>design<\/strong> and Google PageSpeed score<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition <strong>new rules<\/strong> have been introduced this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Up to 12 blogs<\/strong> can be voted ranking them based on your preferences<\/li>\n<li>To be eligible for Top vBlog voting, the blog must have <strong>at least 10 posts published<\/strong> during 2017<\/li>\n<li>This year is also confirmed the <strong>voting in special categories<\/strong> to help distinguish certain types of blogs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before making your vote, consider the most important\u00a0<strong>aspects of the blogs<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quality<\/li>\n<li>Style<\/li>\n<li>Clearness<\/li>\n<li>Frequency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Why voting for this blog<\/h2>\n<p><em>Nolabnoparty.com<\/em> is a blog mainly focused on <strong>explaining procedures<\/strong> and not just reporting news. I'm working hard to make published articles as clear as possible and easy to understand. Procedures are\u00a0<strong>extensively tested<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>documented in every single step<\/strong>\u00a0to succeed with the installation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36416 size-full\" title=\"top-vblog-2018-02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/top-vblog-2018-02.jpg\" alt=\"top-vblog-2018-02\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Additional info can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vsphere-land.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vSphere-land<\/a>\u00a0and voting is open <strong>until\u00a0December 15th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/topvblog.questionpro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vote your favorite blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance for your support!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Siebert\u00a0from\u00a0vSphere-land\u00a0just opened the voting for the\u00a0Top vBlog 2018,\u00a0a yearly contest for voting the\u00a0top VMware and virtualization blogs. This event\u00a0recognizes the\u00a0hard work\u00a0bloggers do and the support they give to the community. Also for this year the sponsor of this contest will be\u00a0Turbonomic,\u00a0the real-time application performance control system for the software-defined data center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903],"tags":[1937,699],"class_list":["post-36411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","tag-top-vblog-2018","tag-vmware-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}