This year’s Net Visionary Awards shortlist has been announced.
The Net Visionary Awards are an annual awards ceremony that celebrate the best in online business in Ireland.
Well done to all shortlisted and I’m looking forward to hearing the results, but being a web designer the award that draws the most interest from me is for ‘Web Designer Excellence‘.
Web Designer Excellence Shortlist
1. Daniel Quinn
2. The Design Suite
3. New Media
4. Sabrina Dent
5. Lightbox Multimedia
What about Northern Ireland?
As far as I can tell (correct me if I’m wrong) there are no Northern Ireland based businesses shortlisted, even though the Net Visionary Awards are for the whole of Ireland. Is the standard not as good up here? Are we not making as big an impact online? Was there just a lack of interest in the awards and no one was actually nominated? Or maybe it’s because the majority of websites/services we use are based in England?
Let me know your thoughts on this.
In regards to web awards in NI, there used to be the Goldeneye T Awards , but judging by the standard of ‘Websites of the month‘ featured on their site, this hasn’t been running for a couple of years.
Unless I’m mistaken, it looks like there’s a gap for web awards for Northern Ireland (maybe another event for @goodonpaper to organise 
)
Net Visionary Awards
The IIA & Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary Awards 2009 will be held on Thursday 21st May in the Crowne Plaza, Dublin Northwood.
Who do you think should win the web designer excellence award and what do you think of the shortlist?
Written with love from Lee Munroe.
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April 17th 2009
Christopher Murphy says:
Disappointing that there appear to be no entries from north of the border. Lookaly anyone?
April 17th 2009
David Airey says:
There’s a niche in the market for you, Lee. Northern Ireland’s cream of the online crop.
Lookaly seems great, though I’ve not used it before today.
Enjoy the weekend mate.
April 19th 2009
Lee says:
Thanks guys
@David: Yep there’s a gap there for filling
April 20th 2009
Paul Anthony says:
Agreed. I think the County dropdown here..
http://www.iia.ie/membership/
speaks volumes.
April 20th 2009
Roseanne says:
Hi Lee,
Roseanne here from the IIA – we’ve tweeted some
Thanks for the great blog post and no harm to draw everyone’s attention to any area not being represented. As I said we are an all-island organisation but sadly the staff here are, of course, prohibited from nominating anyone for the awards so even if I thought you were a fabulous designer I personally could do nothing about it. I think we made enough noise about nominations to be heard in the North Pole never mind Northern Ireland but I will take it into account next year and redouble my efforts to make our announcements heard island-wide.
@Paul Anthony – FYI that dropdown is populated depending on the content included by the members. If the members don’t include their county, it’s not included in the drop down. So it may not be a very clear representation of our member base up north. We have quite a few actually and I’m looking forward to a trip north in June – I’ll let you know more about this closer to the time.
Talk soon,
Roseanne
April 23rd 2009
Lee says:
@Roseanne: Thanks for the response. Us Northerners will just have to make more of an impact for next year
Best of luck with the awards night
April 24th 2009
Roseanne says:
@Lee Thanks for the good wishes. I think next year I’ll develop a “Nominate me” badge as well to allow people like yourself to draw attention to the fact that you wouldn’t *hate* to be nominated
Have a great weekend!
R