Irish Web Awards

Longlist for the Web Awards. A shortlist will follow in the next few days. Winners announced on October 11th.

Best Podcaster – sponsored by Irish Mortgage Brokers

• Playlist Mix
• Boards.ie Podcasts
• South East Radio
• Nialler9 Podcasts
• Mum Centric
• Irish Beats
• Podcamp Ireland
• Another World Radio
• PC Live Radio
• The Comic Cast

Best Videocaster – sponsored by eType Ireland

• Buckled Cranium
• Ballywire Media
• RTE on YouTube
• Movies.ie
• Balcony TV
• Gazontheraz
• Yogatic
• Mike Kelly TV

Best Discussion forum – Sponsored by Brand Ignite

Boards.ie
Thumped
Peoples Republic of Cork
Irish Webmasters’ Forum
The Property Pin
Queer ID
Garaiste
Gaire
Eskimo Friends
Movies.ie
Wiffy.ie
Bodywhys.ie
IrishBusinessWomen.com
EducationPosts.ie
Foot.ie
Poetry Ireland

Best Online Publication – sponsored by Red Cardinal

The Sunday Tribune
The Irish Independent
European Irish
The Evening Herald
The Belfast Telegraph
Analogue Magazine
The Irish Examiner
Silicon Republic
State Magazine
Connected
Blather
The Clare People
GCN
The Irish Times

Best Radio Website – sponsored by IGOPeople

Phantom 105.2 FM
2fm
Raidió na Life 106.4fm
Beat 102103
Feile FM
All 80s
South East Radio
East Coast
Today FM
Newstalk
iRadio
Red FM

Best Music Site sponsored by UMusic.ie

Thumped
State
Goldenplec
DownloadMusic
Indie Limerick
2tone
Dublin DJs
Muzu TV
Nialler9
Drop-d
Irish Beats
Enda Reilly
Cluas
Album Archive
Kilkenny Music

Best Sports Site – sponsored by Spinnakerpro.com

• Foot.ie
• Team GearedUp
• Blue Demons
• Out In Ireland
• Old Belvedere
• Munsterfans
• Togher Athletic Club
• Leinster Rugby
• Athenry Athletic Club
• Hogan Stand
• You Boys in Green
• RTE Sport
• Munster Rugby

Best Entertainment Website – sponsored by Sensorpro.net

• Movies.ie
• Entertainment.ie
• Poetry Ireland
• Travors
• Muzu.tv
• Filmreviews.iw
• Boards.ie
• RTE Entertainment
• Flatmates
• Lighthouse Cinema

Best Technology Site – sponsored by BH Consulting

• Silicon Republic
• Liquid Learning
• Tech Central
• Camara
• Frequency DB
• Segala
• Justin Mason
• Bytesurgery
• Twit.ie

Most Innovative Website – sponsored by iQ content

• Big Word Project
• Next Action
• Zignals
• Tellit IT
• Pixenate
• Tailored Films
• PhotoBooth.ie
• Ask Chili
• Fine Tuna
• Pumps.ie
• Mortgages and Loans
• Pix.ie</li>
• Decisions for Heroes

Best Third Level Website – sponsored by the Irish Computer Society

• UCC
• Trinity College Dublin
• UCD
• Sligo IT
• Queens University Belfast
• The Access Office, NUI Maynooth/a>
• National College of Ireland
• Limerick IT
• Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
• Letterkenny IT

Best Education Website – awaiting a sponsor

• Fis Book Club
• Image Bank
• Spunout
• Anseo.net
• Jobs in LIS
• Digital Film School
• Zulu Notes
• Irish Butterflies
• Maps Scoilnet
• Poetry Ireland Education
• Stephen Kinsella
• Liquid Learning
• Camara
• Skoool.ie

Sponsored by InterTradeIreland’s SeedCorn Competition

• Pix.ie
• PutPlace
• Locle
• Mortgages and Loans
• Nooked
• Our Memory Of
• BookMeetingRoom.com
• Next Action
• Url.ie
• LouderVoice
• Twitterfone
• Zignals
• eWrite
• Album Shopper
• Edenbee
• PropertySwap.ie
• Poll Daddy
• Decisions For Heroes

Alexia Golez created the below flyer with the tagline Fall In Love With the Web Again. We love the flyer and especially the phrase so we’re nicking it for the Web Awards. Thanks Alexia!

Wow, our inbox is getting more and more mercy pleas from developers and website owners asking for extensions. It looks like the Irish Web on Monday will see a tonne of new websites launch, judging by the emails we’re reading.

The strict nomnation deadline is for midnight tonight. We will allow exceptions if you have a valid enough reason and you can give us a snapshot of what this new website will look like. We’re sorry but we can’t wait a week or a month!!! to see your new website and judge it.

The categories of Best Practice, Most Accessible Website and Schools will have extensions for another week as the number of submissions are quite low.

Photo owned by robstephaustralia (cc)

We’ve been getting a few emails and calls over the past two weeks from website owners who want to have their work nominated but also want to sponsor the Awards. Since it’s one or the other we encourage people to go for being nominated.

You can still contribute to the Web Awards though by talking it up, downloading the logos and making badges for your website and blogs etc, getting as many people to nominate their favourite Irish sites and by coming along on the night and having fun. Having fun being the most important thing you can do.

Don’t forget that nominations for the Web Awards close at 11.59pm on Friday the 29th of August!

We’re really thrilled that sponsorship slots are being snapped up so quickly. Today alone we got four more sponsors. There are still sponsorship slots left at €450 each. Read about our sponsorship philosophy.

This is the list of slots ready to be sponsored:

• Best Radio Website
• Best Podcaster
• Best Videocaster
• Best Discussion forum
• Best Government Website
• Best Council Website
• Best Education website
• Best Practice




• Most Beautiful Website in Ireland

If you want to be a sponsor then email contact < at > Awards.ie

Firstly, remember the closing day for nominations is this Friday.

We’re looking for judges for Round 1 and Round 2 of the Web Awards. Got an interest in design but your site(s) are not relevant to the Irish scene? Not got a site? Want to work on a very transparent awards event?

Send us an email contact < at > awards.ie with the subject line: Judge me and reasons why you should be considered.

Photo owned by adewale_oshineye (cc)

There are now just a few days left to nominate your favourite websites. The closing date is Friday 29th of August at 11.59 PM. Get nominating!

There are other notable Award competitions out there for the Irish Web Industry so why not consider them too?

IIA Netvisionary

One that’s on a few weeks after the Web Awards is the IIA Netvisionary Awards. Nominations are already open. They’re also free. Go get nominating! The night itself is great too and is full of networking opportunities.

Digital Media Awards
The Digital Media Awards come back around again in February 2009 and having been a judge for the past two years and knowing other judges, while the criteria isn’t public, the judging is fair.

Some people have been asking us to hand over our logos and graphics so they can do their own photoshopping and so forth with them. Nice idea.

Here’s the logo directory and you can download the logos from there and do what you want with them. Have fun.