Got some exciting news for you all. You've just picked up a nice award. Confused? Let me explain...
Last night FWi won a gong at the annual Association of Online Publisher's Awards. It was an award aimed at sites - like us - that have been finding ways to get readers talking more to us journalists and each other through things like forums and blogs.
The judges said they liked what we were all doing because we were showing that traditional business journalism can have a fun, social side (Farmer Frank must have bunged them a tenner or they realised from the forums that farmers must have a sense of humour to keep farming 
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They were also impressed by the way you are helping us to do our jobs better. I guess a good example would be this summer's wet weather. Thanks to the tips and photos everybody sent us to Harvest Highlights etc, we were able to do a better job at reflecting the fact that farmers were experiencing the worst harvest in living memory.
Anyway I just thought I'd let you know. It's a publishing award so probably doesn't quite generate the same excitement for you all as the Farmers Weekly awards . But it is one that - quite literally - we wouldn't have got without you.
PS I might treat you to a picture of us at the event later on. If nothing else, it will give you a laugh! [:D
