Channing Smendziuk is Miss Teen Canada

2010 Miss Teen Canada World Winners press release gives insight into the action-packed week of activities, events and experiences that culminated in a dazzling night, the Grand Finale on July 17th.

Congratulations to 17 year old Channing Smendziuk from Brandon, Manitoba. She’s the 2010 Miss Teen Canada-World. The girl is tall and beautiful, and smart and funny; she’s a very good blogger who finished with a score over 8.0 in the blog component of the pageant.

Be sure to check the MTC-W facebook group for more news and updates about Channing’s most recent adventures, and her follow her challenges at the Miss Teen World pageant in Houston Texas.  After that climactic event, and in company with all of the agents and producers choreographers photographers and web storytellers that she meets abroad, Channing will be traveling all across Canada as part of the pageant next year and speaking at Me to We and modeling and acting on the side. If she does as Smojoe says then we’ll all have lots to read about and can cheer her along from the sideline comfort of a good weekly blog.

2010 Miss Teen Canada pageant produced some truly brilliant teen bloggers.

This year the blog component was worth 10% of each participant’s total score. Smojoe was the blog judge and graded each contestant on their overall blogging skills. The competition was a big success because it taught valuable skills as well as brought a great many other people to the main MTC-W website.

Smojoe graded each each blog individually, but using a standard measuring stick. I awarded points for level of sidebar sophistication, quality of narrative, amount of good information in the content especially as it related to the three blog assignments. Basically I looked for talented bloggers that would best showcase the entire MTCW Blog Army program, in the future, and I found them…

Read posts by these four top ranking blog notables – Smojoe applauds their terrific potential as DIY media machines. In the next few years a great many large businesses will seek young dynamic individuals such as these four bloggers to spread their messages online; if these four participants keep blogging, they’re sure to be rewarded with great jobs.

Cynthia Loewen could be a professional blogger, today.

Cynthia Loewen summarizes her experiences at the Miss Teen Canada world pageant on her OnSugar Blog.  This young lady is a strong blogger with great skill at encapsulating her emotions in short meaningful sentences. Her pictures and links are presented in a professional manner and she deserves the high score she received for her personal blog.

Jaya Pham also proved to be a great blogger with a cool sidebar and good writing style. If you have a minute, check out how Jaya Pham blogs the Miss Teen Canada pageant experience on her OnSugar blog.

Who had the highest score in the 2010 MTCW Blog Competition?

The two highest blog scores were awarded to Shelby Gobbo who also wrote a terrific summary of the pageant, and a Ryerson media student named Trinh Theresa Do - both contestants received 9.9.

In the not so recent past Smojoe has written his wisdom here about the many nuances of pictures and how they are the visual candy that most encourages clicks. But did you know they can also be statistics counters? have a look at the ‘statistics’ on your own Flickr or PhotoBucket account and you will see how many people have viewed your photos. This information is yet another metric that can be used to help assign prices to buzz media campaigns.

Story fragmentation depends upon using only original images because your own personal pictures make the very best story hooks.

Pictures can be used as Stats counters with a Flickr or PhotoBucket account.

Smojoe uses pictures in many different ways, but did you know they can be used as readership statistic collectors? In the example below its possible to survey how many people opened the Bells and Bows logo that was hosted on Smojoe’s account on PhotoBucket.com

While I was away in Europe, it became the most popular picture in my entire gallery simply because it was manifest on the template of the Miss Teen Canada – World 2010 Blog Army.

Remarkably, the Bells and Bows Logo has been clicked on and opened  20,728 x since it was uploaded to the 2010 Miss Teen Canada blog army template, about three months ago.  That’s because 24 out of 62 finalists used the company as their own sponsor in their TV show ideas (blog challenge #2). That’s interactive social media! This is another piece of compelling sales collateral that can be used to satisfy corporate sponsors; the pageant really is a shot in the arm of digital relevance that’s perfect for anyone selling products or services to young people.