Nominations have now been opened for these two categories. RTE’s ICE TV programme will announce this later today too. You can nominate here and nominations are open until November 7th. The winners will be announced in early December.
Oh and we have a Bebo Profile too!
I’m going to be putting in an order for more Web Awards trophies with the trophy maker in the next few days. It seems some people broke or had their Web Awards trophies broken on them and other people want copies of them as both the designers and website owners want to keep the lovely bits of glass. Trophies cost about €70 each or thereabouts.
If you want to order trophies then email contact < at > awards.ie with details of the trophy you want.
Enda from Access NUIM.
A great pic of the Silicon Republic crew by John Williams.
Love this summary of the Irish Web Awards from Gita.
And this one from Maryrose on what it means to win an award.
This is a great photo from Phil
Loads more photos here.
Muzu.tv took the W and made it an M:
Photos from Saturday from the folks at Entertainment.ie are here.
Our own photos are on the way quite soon.
Rick O’Shea needs thanking because he made the Web Awards a fun night out with many people who became friends from the gathering. It was far from MCing he did, he brought warmth, depth and other th ending words to the show. It’s obvious from the Blog Awards and the Web Awards that Rick loves to be friends with a crowd and not just announce winners to a bunch of people and get the hell out of the place as soon as possible. Rick, we love you. If you want an event to be fun then Rick is your man. Hire him, do, do!
Sponsors:
Moviestar.ie, the backers of the Irish Web Awards and a bunch of people that were a pleasure to work with. It was a case not of “We want this from you because we gave you money” but a case of “Ok, what can we do, is there more we can do?” The way we were treated was fantastic.
The same goes for every other sponsor this year. Between them and Moviestar.ie, they made sure this event happened, that we could afford a fantastic venue, buy a few drinks for everyone, feed them quality food, hand out beautiful trophies and enjoy sugarific cupcakes.
The helpers, the volunteers, the mighty Web Awards armyfamily:
Thanks to Alexia Golez for coming up with the tagline “Fall in Love with the Web Again” and a logo mashup that ended up on cupcakes, thanks to John Williams who did the videos that worked perfectly when the battery didn’t, thanks to John Blackbourn the amazing Webawards dev guy, thanks to Steven Day for being a bodyguard and pointman throughout the event, thanks to Ryan Whalley for being da bomb when it comes to photos, Darragh for looking after the sponsors during the evening,
blank line to catch breath
thanks to the music maestro and the man with the best t-shirt of the night – Brian Greene for being brilliant oh and VOTE for him in the local elections, thanks to Sinéad Keogh for helping out in the build up to the event and on the night, thanks to Jonathan for helping out too, Stephen Boyce too, thanks to Alan O’Rourke for doing the logo, thanks to Laura and Elly for refusing Northern Bank Notes and 3 Euros notes while on the door and having cheques directed to rest in our personal accounts, thanks too to Ciara from Find a Conference Venue who suggested the Radisson as the venue and thanks to Rebecca Whitehead who organised everything on the Radisson side.
Thanks to all those we forgot to thank too both last night and in this post. We’ll update it later when our brains get back to normal. (30 seconds after pressing publish we add more people we forgot!)
Judges
Thanks to a massive team of voluntary judges that we asked a lot of, possibly too much.
The surprises
Thanks to Fran Hollywood (yes it is his real name) from MadeInHollywood for creating the big huge 4 foot by 6 foot Ws and the dozens of mini Ws. Reports of giant Ws in taxis and being walked down streets today was hilarious. Big up to David Behan for suggesting Made in Hollywood chat to us. Thanks to Carol from Dublin Cupcakes for making the cupcakes and adding the logo to them.
Most importantly
Thanks to the Irish Web Community for doing what they do. For giving feedback on what categories to choose, for what should be in the scorecards, for nominating, judging and further judging the websites and for just being brilliant. For wanting to be the best, for wanting to see the best and for encouraging and helping each other to become the best. You all rock!
Thanks to Keith Bohanna for the photo:
Best Online Publication – sponsored by Red Cardinal
Irish Times
Best Radio Website – sponsored by IGOPeople
Phantom FM
Best Podcaster – sponsored by Irish Mortgage Brokers
Playlist Mix
Best Videocaster – sponsored by eType Ireland
RTE
Best Sports Site – sponsored by Spinnakerpro.com
munsterfans.com
Best Music Site – sponsored by UMusic.ie
State Magazine
Best Entertainment Website – sponsored by Sensorpro.net
Entertainment.ie
Best Technology Site – sponsored by BH Consulting
Silicon Republic
Best New Web Application/Service – sponsored by InterTradeIreland’s SeedCorn
Poll Daddy
Most Innovative Website – sponsored by iQ content
Pixenate
Best Discussion forum – sponsored by Brand Ignite
Boards.ie
Best Government Website – sponsored by Interactive Return
Aras Kids
Best Council Website – sponsored by Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd
Dublin.ie
Best Third Level Website – sponsored by the Irish Computer Society
Access NUI Maynooth
Best Education website –
FIS Book Club
Best eCommerce / Services Website – sponsored by Cybercom
Spicendipity
An Suíomh Gaeilge is Fear – sponsored by Edgecast Media
Focal.ie
Best Practice – sponsored by Lightbox
Pix.ie
Most Beautiful Website in Ireland – sponsored by Beaut.ie
Twitterfone
Most Useful Website in Ireland – sponsored by DoneDeal.ie
Irish Times
Most Accessible Website – sponsored by iQ content
Kanchi
Grand Prix
Best Website – sponsored by Moviestar.ie
Boards.ie
For those that want to livevideo the Awards using QIK the group for the Moviestar.ie Irish Web Awards is here.
For those wishing to upload photos to Flickr or Pix.ie, the tag to use is IWA08, the same goes for Twitter.
If none of the above makes sense to you, congratulations, you’re not addicted to the Internet!
Many want to know if they can get net access at the Web Awards. At registration tomorrow, ask for a voucher and you’ll have access to the hotel’s wifi. You have to then log onto the gateway and type in a password and you can get access to the Net after that.
Thanks to some last minute interventions by the badboy of Irish Landscaping, Peter Donegan, two companies have come forward to sponsor the drinks reception that will be held before the Awards ceremony on Saturday.
Thanks to Atfar Construction:
and Priority Engineering:
