Regular readers of this blog will be most interested in the following categories:
10. Institutional Web Sites: this year, you can submit your entire institutional site, or you can submit subsites within your institution (such as an admissions site or an alumni site). One of the most important criteria in judging will be results, so think about how you present the results of your work in your submission. And note that if the URL on your submission is not correct, your entry will be eliminated!
11. Interactive Multimedia Programs: This is the category for CD-ROMS and DVDs.
12. Technology Innovatons: New this year, this category was developed to recognize ”…innovative uses of technology such as blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, Pod-casting, text-messaging, Web-based video/ photo hosting (such as youtube.com and flickr.com) or other innovative electronic or Web-based media used to enhance an established program. Eligible programs may come from any area of institutional advancement (fundraising, alumni relations, and communications and marketing).” Note that results will be important in judging this category, too.
This year, web-based “periodicals” will be judged as part of category 21. External Audience Tabloids and Newsletters and category 22. Internal Audience Periodicals, although I suppose there is no reason why you couldn’t enter a great website in category 12.
Before you enter anything, I suggest you read the judges reports on websites and alumni magazine websites from 2006.
Michael Stoner Co-Founder and Co-Owner Was I born a skeptic or did I become one as I watched the hypestorm gather during the dotcom years, recede, and congeal once more as we come to terms with our online, social, mobile world? Whatever. I'm not much interested in cutting edge but what actually works for real people in the real world. Does that make me a bad person?