Inside LabourStart

It’s that time of year again.

As we did last year, this year we’ll invite all our readers to submit their nominations for sites and our correspondents will choose which sites make the short-list.

Then we’ll invite all our readers to vote to choose the 2009 Labour Website of the Year from that short-list.

I’ll make the nominations form available online as from tomorrow, announcing it in our mass mailing.

Readers will have about three weeks to make their nominations, which will close on 31 December.

In January, correspondents will have at least a couple of weeks to select the short-list.  Then voting will begin.

There’s a lot of programming work involved, as we basically recycle the software each year, but with modifications.  I don’t have all the stages ready yet, but the submission of nominations works and has been tested.

It works in 8 languages at the moment – English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, and Polish.