“[tap tap] Is this thing on?”
If you’re one of the millions of people who’ve recently joined the social network BlueSky, you’ll recognize that opening statement as an in-joke among new arrivals, who often use it for their first post at their new home. And yes, you’ll also find us there, relocating (as so many of us have) from the website sadly no longer known as Twitter.
Joining the X-odus, as necessary as it felt, still wasn’t an easy decision for us, since we’ve been using Twitter to promote the best Canadian legal content online ever since it was founded in 2008. But platforms change, and life goes on.
What matters is that through all the upheaval of recent times, Canadian lawyers and legal professionals have continued to create high-quality, trustworthy, and incisive online materials to increase people’s understanding of and accessibility to the law. And once again, we are here to recognize and celebrate the very best achievements in this area.
So even if you’ve recently traded in your bird for a butterfly, it’s still time to spread your wings! It’s time to prepare for the 19th Annual Clawbie Awards! Today, December 1st, we are pleased and proud to throw open nominations for our annual awards seeking the best, most original, and most influential Canadian legal content on the Web.
Every year, we invite all our friends, acquaintances, and colleagues in the Canadian legal sector to share their favourite online publications. That includes:
- Blogs;
- Newsletters;
- Podcasts;
- Videos, and
- Social Media Accounts
But this year, we especially need your help! As we migrate away from Twitter, we are focusing our promotional efforts on two other social media platforms — LinkedIn and BlueSky — that traditionally have received less Clawbie traffic.
So we need you, faithful Clawbie community, not only to nominate your own favourite candidates, but also to spread the word on these platforms that the Clawbies are back! We’re hopeful that publicizing the awards on these two sites will further invigorate the already robust discussion of the best in Canadian online legal content.
With your contributions and collaboration, we are absolutely confident that this year’s awards, presented as always on New Year’s Eve, will be the best ones yet! Will you join us? Here’s how:
Eligibility
The Clawbies celebrate free online Canadian legal content. Like we said, everything is available: blogs, podcasts, videos, social accounts, legal newsletters, platform commentary, CanLII Connects, white papers, and more.
Participation
While we always review everyone listed at Lawblogs.ca, we also need you, the Clawbie community, to bring to our attention the most helpful, engaging, and informative Canadian legal content — especially newer publications in their first or second year.
Whether on LinkedIn or BlueSky, we’re still using the classic hashtag #clawbies2024 — be sure to include it in your nominations.
Rules
The same two as every year:
#1 “The Humble Canadian”: Please don’t nominate your own publication or project for a Clawbie. The only reliable way to bring your work to our attention is to nominate other candidates — follow this rule, and we’ll take a look at your work too!
#2 “Three and Free”: Nominate up to three digital publications or authors (remember to use the #clawbies2024 hashtag) that are freely available, at no monetary cost. Include a brief explanation of why you think those publications deserve an award.
Nominations will be accepted until the end of day on Monday, December 16th, 2024. Then stay tuned for the big reveal on New Year’s Eve.
Happy nominating!
