Australian Web Awards 2010

Entries Closed, so the Judging Begins

Entries for the 2010 Australian Web Awards closed at 23:59 WST last night.

Chairperson Helen Burgess and Judging co-ordinator Gary Barber,  now has the unenviable task of sorting through the entries and checking them against the entry criteria, then beginning the mammoth validation task - all this before the judging process can begin.

Award Annoucements

The results of the regional finalists for NSW, VIC and the ACT will be annoucned at a event in Sydney at Web Week in October 2010. Where as the regional finalists for QLD, SA, NT and TAS will be annouced in Brisbane in mid October 2010.  The finalists for WA and the overall national category winners will be announced in Perth at gala event on 6th Novemebr 2010.

A big thank you to everyone who entered - this is going to be a very interesting competition as there are entries from all the states and territories in Australia across the categories!

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How to Enter

Registrations are now open. They close on 8 July 2010 at 23:59 WST.

3 easy steps to get started

  1. Register an account for the Web Awards
  2. Activate your account using the email that you will receive
  3. Sign In to your account to start adding your award entries

In order to be eligible for the 2010 Australian Web Awards, sites must:

  • be launched or significantly re-launched (in terms of design and/or major features) in the 2009/2010 financial year (July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010)
  • be primarily developed in the state of entry
  • be entered by the site developer or owner
  • and if you are a student provide a Lecturer / Teacher as a referee for your entry as well as your college/university email address.

Sites are evaluated according to a set of judging criteria that has been developed and refined over the last five years. View the 2010 categories, read the judging process and check out the Judging Chairperson’s hints and tips for entrants.

Information Required for Entry

When entering the Australian Web Awards the judges will require supplementary information about the site you have entered, such as:

  • Client name and contact details.
  • Information on the purpose, target audience, objectives, technical features, usability, and special features and challenges you encountered.
  • Who does the content update to the site.
  • A number of screengrabs of the site, these maybe used for promotional purposes.
  • Names of the people in the project team.

Pricing

  • Business, Government and Not-for-Profit: $33.00 inc GST (per entry)
  • Student: $11.00 inc GST (per entry)

Award Categories

The categories for 2010 are as follows:

  1. Student
  2. Blog and Off the Shelf
  3. Virtual – for small and micro businesses without a “real” shopfront
  4. Online Retail – online transactional site (payment methods varied) B2C, C2C (with shopfront)
  5. Enterprise – for non transactional services for commercial use B2B, B2G, G2B
  6. For the People – for non transactional services focusing on the general public (non commercial) sector, typically catalogue and brochure sites
  7. Government – local, state & federal
  8. Education
  9. Media
  10. Arts & Events
  11. Not for Profit
  12. Innovation
  13. Mobile – for sites seen in mobile device
  14. Most outstanding – this will be announced at the AWA Awards Dinner with the finalists being made up of the winners of all the other categories.

Sites can be entered into more than one category, but a separate entry fee will apply for each.

From the winners of each category, a Most Outstanding winner will be selected by the Judging Panel for each of the three state groupings:

  • Group one from New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory.
  • Group two from Queensland, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania.
  • Group three from Western Australia.

The National finalists will be the winners from each state grouping for each category, and then a National Most Outstanding will be selected from this final group of Australia-wide winners.

Judging Process

Standards Compliance, Validation

Validation is done to ensure that appropriate standards are adhered to. All entries will go through a automated pre-selection process at the beginning of the judging process, and any entry that does not meet validation criteria will not go further in the judging process.

Please see the hints and tips page to ensure you have the best chance of passing the pre-selection phase. We consider a valid site to be one with NO validation ERRORS, and less than THREE validation WARNINGS in total for the pages tested.

Please note: that sites that don’t automatically pass the automated validation will be manually checked as there are a number of EXCEPTIONS that we understand are out of the control of you as a developer. We are judging your work, not your clients. Examples of such exception include:

  • Sites controlled by Content Management Systems (CMS) controlled by the client; and
  • Third party applications (such as JavaScript Widgets or Google Ads)
  • Specification limitations based on current browser implementation short comings

If in doubt, please ask one of the Australian Web Awards Judging sub-committee for advice.

Judges Comments

For the first time this years judges will be giving brief comments on each site. These comments are aimed at improving and fosters the use of best practices within the web industry.  The comments will remain

anonymous, and NO correspondence will be entered into over these comments.  This is being done as a service to the industry. 

Questions for entrants:

  • What is the purpose / objective of the website?
  • How does the website generate business for the website owner? Directly or indirectly, online sales or marketing/brochure style, giving information to the target market.
  • Describe the target audience or market segments of the website.
  • Is there a Content Management System and does the website owner update their own content? If so, has the website owner been given guidelines for updating their own content?

General criteria

General criteria are used for all successfully validated entrants of the awards. Different Categories have the criteria weighted differently accordingly. As such, not all criteria are relevant to all categories, and may be omitted from those categories weighting.

Again, if in doubt, speak to one of the Australian Web Awards Judging sub-committee members for advice.

Fitness for Purpose

  • Does the website suit its target market and deliver its message in an engaging and appropriate fashion?
  • Is it relevant, fulfilling / achieving its purpose / objectives?
  • How do you measure success?
  • Does it meet identifiable goals?

Design

  • Is the website aesthetically pleasing?
  • Does it create meaningful visual interest?
  • Is it visually suitable for its purpose?
  • Is the colour choice appropriate for the target market?
  • Is the website designed to appeal to the target market?
  • Does the visual design represent the image /persona of the business or agency?
  • Is the branding of the business or agency consistent?
  • Does the website use consistent elements and appropriate graphics and images?
  • Typography:
  • Does the website make use of ‘white space’?
  • Are the size and style of fonts appropriate?
  • General Layout of the page and alignment use visual design techniques to appear uncluttered.

Content

  • Is the content written in clear and simple terms?
  • Is the amount of content on each page appropriate? This means the content not being too wordy.
  • Is the language and tone of the wording natural and familiar to the website’s target market?
  • Is the content informative?
  • Are keywords and key phrases used in a balanced way throughout the content?
  • Is there limited use of unnecessary jargon and acronyms?
  • Are appropriate policies included e.g. Customer Satisfaction Guarantee, Returns, Security, Privacy, Copyright easy to understand?

Information Architecture

  • Is the content structured to help target market find information easily?
  • Is the content mark-up appropriately? (This is not the code but headings, paragraphs etc)
  • Are headings obvious and descriptive?
  • Does the website have clear, predictable navigation with uncomplicated structure?
  • Are internal links managed well? Is there a site map or search facilities where appropriate?
  • Are the menu groupings logical and easy to follow?

Development

  • Does the website use any technologies other than HTML & CSS in the site. Technologies include databases, shopping carts, forms, payment processes, calculators, search processes, news and mailing lists.
  • Do the website technologies achieve the functionality requirements?
  • Are the technologies simple, logical and easy to use?
  • Do the various parts of the website download in an adequate time frame?
  • Do the Title and Description meta-tags have adequate keywords?
  • Is the website optimised appropriately for search engines?
  • Innovation
  • How innovative is the system or technologies?
  • Does the system or technologies use technique/s in new and exciting ways?
  • Will the system or technologies have a big impact on the target audience
  • Uniqueness
    • How unique is the system or technologies? This can be based on the uniqueness of the idea, User Interface or implementation
  • Marketability
    • How difficult will it be to sell the system or technologies to the target audience?
  • Online Security criteria for Retail category and for websites providing user registration/login facilities.
    • Certificate type – What is the level of certificate installed on the site
  • Customisation
    • is the site a built from the ground up implementation?
    • is the site an out of the box implementation?
    • is the site a customisation of an existing online store environment?
  • Selling Functionality
    • Is the shopping catalogue easy to browse or search?
    • Are you able to register for product updates?
  • Shopping Cart Flow
    • Is it easy to add another product to the cart?
    • How easy is it to create an account for the website?
    • Is the checkout process uncomplicated and easy to use?

Functionality

  • Does the website technologies function as expected?
  • Does the website display consistently in various, widely-used web browsers.
  • Is the website free of spelling or grammar errors, broken links, out-of-date or obviously inaccurate content?
  • Does the website display in mobile or small screen devices?
  • Are links to and from external sources managed well?
  • Are contact details provided for customer enquiries?

Credibility and Validity

  • Does the website include a Privacy Policy (where required by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) http://www.privacy.gov.au)?
  • Is security of customers personal and financial information assured?
  • Can customers access their information submitted to the website?
  • Does the website include a Customer Service Policy or information?
  • For Online Businesses are ethical issues such as goods return or refunds addressed?
  • Is the website free of inappropriate content?
  • Does the website include contact names, addresses and phone numbers for the business?

Accessibility

  • Does the website adhere to WCAG Priority One and Priority Two?
  • Is the markup valid and semantic?
  • Is there a separation of content, presentation and behaviour layering, making use of Cascading Style Sheets, and unobtrusive scripting?
  • Is the website viewable in different browsers and different platforms?

Judges

Helen and the Judging sub-committee have been hard at work sourcing judges to evaluate the hundreds of entries that will come in.

With entrants from all states of Australia, the job of judging is going to be bigger and more difficult than ever.  The current judges for the 2010 Australian Web Awards are:

Australians

Internationals

Dmitry Baranovskiy

Dmitry BaranovskiyDmitry has over ten years experience in creating web applications. Having started as a back end developer, more recently he has changed his orientation to front end development and even pure design. These days he spends his working hours as Software Architect at Sencha.

He is also the creator of Raphaël, the JavaScript Library, as well as a Optimus, the Microformats transformer. At any given moment he is always working on three secret projects, though no one knows where he gets the time for any of this.

Dmitry is on Twitter as @dmitrybaranovsk.

Gary Barber

Gary BarberGary Barber is the principal user experience consultant at radharc with a focus usability, interaction design and information architecture. He is a realistic standardista, with 15 years experience in the web industry, who is constantly mentoring and exercising his passion for creativity, usability, accessibility and minimalist user experiences.

Gary currently works with not-for-profits, government agencies and medium to large business all with an aim to make the web a more usable place.  He also rants wildly on these subjects on this blog - man with no blog.

He is currently the main cat herder for Perth Port80 and is on the Judging Sub-Committee for the Australia Web Awards. When he’s not doing all this he can be found rock climbing or taking photos.

Gary is on Twitter as @tuna.

Sonja Bernhardt

Sonja Bernhardt Sonja Bernhardt has more than 20 years experience in the technology industry and over a decade of active involvement in judging award programs, Sonja brings significant background and experience to the judging table, in particular her reality and reason philosophy, enquiring mind and focus on a good user’s web site experience brings value.

Sample judging experience includes:

  • Overall Chair of the Australian Judging Panels for the Asia Pacific ICT Awards  
  • Australian representative on the International ICT Awards Judging Panel
  • One of a select group of judges in the prestigious 2002 World Congress "Secrets of Australian IT Innovation" Awards
  • Judge in numerous WiT (Women in Technology) awards, including American based Anita Borg Institute Technology Awards
  • Judge in the prestigious National “Secrets of Australian IT Innovation” Competition
  • Chief Judge for Queensland in the Australian Institute of Project Management - Project Managers Awards
  • Judge on prior Web Awards.

Nathanael Boehm

Nathaneal BoehmNathanael Boehm is a Canberra-based user experience designer specialising in web interaction design and social media.

Since the start of his career as a web application developer in 2000 he has developed websites and web applications for a long list of large organisations including the Department of Defence, Australian Federal Police, Qantas, Optus, ANZ, Australian High Tech Crime Centre, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Centrelink and more.

He is also involved in the Government 2.0 initiative in Australia with his participation in Public Sphere and the Government 2.0 Taskforce in 2009, his involvement in OpenAustralia since 2008 and his work as a Federal Government employee in social media and advocacy for participatory democracy and citizen-centric service design.

Mike Brown

Mike Brown

Mike is a co-founder of Webstock. He is also one of the creators of FullCodePress and of the ONYAs - awards for New Zealand's web industry.

Along the way, he has actually done hands-on website work, focusing on front-end development, information architecture and user experience. He still thinks it's magic when stuff appears in a web browser!

Mike's favourite artist is Bob Dylan. His favourite drink is red wine. He dreams occasionally of cycling around the world.

Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan Ben Buchanan started creating web pages 14 years ago, while completing a degree in everything but I.T.

He worked on three generations of Griffith University's corporate website and redeveloped masthead News Limited sites including The Australian. He was also the Frontend Architect for the ground-up rebuild of News Digital Media's CMS, which powers the metropolitan mastheads, The Australian and news.com.au.

He now works as a Frontend Developer for Atlassian and writes at the 200ok weblog.

Leslie Doherty

Leslie is known for criticism of literally expression on the web, while working late at night with a pet lizard on car engines.

Warren Duff

Warren Duff Warren was appointed to CEO of ineedhits.com in August 2008, after joining the company in 2002.  ineedhits.com is a Search Engine Marketing company specializing in assisting small to medium businesses all over the world promote their businesses on Google, through Search Engine Submission, Search Engine Optimization and Pay Per Click services.

During his time with ineedhits, Warren has played a strategic role in various capacities including COO and Business Development Manager. 

His primary goal as CEO is to continue the company's clear vision and direction to further assert itself as a leader in the global SME search marketing environment, by continually developing the people, processes and products at the heart of the business.

Warren attends the major industry conferences and seminars, ensuring that his knowledge of the industry and marketplace is up-to-date. He has been invited to speak or be a panellist at a number of industry conferences.

Warren has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering – Computer Systems Engineering, from Curtin University of Technology and is a graduate of the Microsoft PTY Intern Program. Warren has several years of experience in customer service and enterprise levels sales.

Ruth Ellison

Ruth Ellison Ruth Ellison is a user experience practitioner and information architect living in Canberra. She is extremely passionate about designing for inclusive and useful user experiences. She is fascinated by the psychology of design and the way humans interact with technology. Ruth currently works at Stamford Interactive on many interesting Government and private sector projects.

When not busy with design and accessibility work, Ruth can be found exploring graffiti and street art through the lens of her camera, helping to organise TEDxCanberra, BarCampCanberra and a number of other events, as well as sharing her love of robots. Ruth can occasionally be found blogging at ruthellison.com

Ruth is on twitter as @RuthEllison.

Jessica Enders

Jessica EndersJessica Enders is Principal of Formulate Information Design, an Australian business providing form design consulting services to government agencies, companies and not-for-profits.

Jessica has designed forms—in paper, on the desktop and on the web—for some of Australia's most influential organisations including Wesfarmers, SEEK, Origin Energy, GE Money, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

In 2009 Jessica was named Canberra BusinessPoint Emerging Entrepreneur and in 2010, an insurance quoting and purchasing interface, which Jessica designed for Kmart Tyre & Auto Service Get a quote, won the international Pegasystems "Customer Experience Transformation" award, beating many big names in the industry such as Zurich, American Insurance Group and ING.

Formulate's aim is to fix users' frustration by creating efficient, effective and user-friendly forms. Jessica knowledge, skills and experience extends to all aspects of a form's design, including the way questions are asked, the layout of the form and the business process and workflow that surrounds it. She looks forward to playing an active role judging the Australian Web Awards, and hopes to see some great forms!

April Garvey

April GarveyApril Garvey combines over 13 years of online consumer marketing successes from a diverse range of organizations such as Wall Street giants Citibank and GMAC, digital pioneers Kanoodle.com and Etrade.com, and most recently international software giant Rosetta Stone, where April directed online marketing and web strategy in the US, UK, DE, and JP.

April has first-hand experience working on both the online retail side as well as experience developing advertising networks on the publisher side.  She served as Vice President of New Product Development for Kanoodle.com, a pioneer in search-targeted sponsored links. Today, April leverages this insider experience to help advertisers intelligently grow their online business while mitigating the high risk of fraud inherent with advertising networks and affiliate partnerships

April holds degrees in Marketing (BA), Instructional Technology (MA) and her MBA. She is currently acting as President & Founder of an online consulting company called Web By Numbers, located just outside of Dulles, VA, alongside AOL, Network Solutions and Omniture/Adobe.

Penny Hagen

Penny HagenPenny is a Design Strategist with over 10 years experience delivering design projects and design training in Australia and New Zealand. With a background in interface and interaction design Penny is an experienced practitioner of human-centred-design approaches and combines hands on design experience with a knowledge of emerging design research methods.

Penny is currently completing a PhD in participatory design methods for social technologies at UTS in Sydney. Prior to this latest research adventure Penny worked as the Projects Director/Strategist at Digital Eskimo guiding the user experience design process, overseeing production of a range of sites, services and social action initiatives and driving their experimental design research program.

Nic Hodge

Nic Hodge A Professional Geek for Microsoft, Nick has over 23 years of IT industry experience in a variety of sales, technical, management, marketing and strategic roles. As a sought-after presenter, prolific social networker and a closet workaholic, Nick just loves technology. Especially software technology.

"Online" since 1987 and before the web, subsequently working with Internet technologies more years than there have been browsers, Nick has a strong belief that the current revolution of connection, collaboration and communication is going to have dramatic and unforseen effects on the human condition. Some call this hyperconnectivity.

Keith Lang

Keith LangKeith Lang is an Interaction Designer at Skitch.com. He's best known for his previous work within plasq on products including the Award-Winning 'Comic Life' comic creation application. Recent work includes UI and interaction design for Jigsaw Junior, an iPad puzzle application for kids.

You can find out more at uiandus.com where Keith writes on topics including; the application of Cognitive Psychology to Interaction design, motion and animation in design, new and upcoming hardware interfaces and the history of Interaction Design.

Chris Mills

Chris Mills Chris Mills works for Opera (the Viking web browser vendor), evangelizing open web technologies, testing nascent standards (such as CSS3 and HTML5)  and heading up Opera’s education activities. He publishes regular design and development articles on dev.opera.com, and is the creator of the Opera Web Standards Curriculum. He is also one of the core members of the Open Web Education Alliance, a W3C incubator group that aims to develop a worldwide standard for web design and development education.

He is co-author of the book InterACT with Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design.

Outside of work, Chris is a metal warrior, playing really fast drums in the mighty Conquest of Steel. He lives in Oldham, in the Northwest of England, with Kirsty, Gabriel, and Elva, and too many computers.

Duncan Riley

Duncan RileyDuncan Riley is a writer, publisher, speaker and blogging evangelist. After many years online, including stints authoring politically focused websites he discovered the then new blogging in 2002, founding The Blog Herald which went on to become a Top 100 blog worldwide at the time. In 2005 he co-founded the b5media blog network, a company now based in Canada that took $8 million US in Venture Capital funding.

Duncan has a diverse background. Having started in merchant banking in Sydney in the mid 1990’s he’s had stints in Management and as a staff member to a Federal Member of Parliament.

Duncan left b5media in late 2006 and spent 12 months writing for the tech blog TechCrunch.

In May 2008, he founded The Inquisitr, a site that takes up most of his time today. As of May 2010, The Inquisitr received over 1 million unique visitors a month, reading nearly 6 million pages.

Brandy Shapiro-Babin

Brandy is a world leader at mixing jam with sour cream, and is really a pod person with a passion for fly fishing.

Nicolas Steenhout

Nic SteenhoutNicolas Steenhout is a person with a disability who has been an advocate for disability rights and accessibility both online and in the "real world". His interest in web accessibility began in the mid 1990's when a blind friend of his was talking about the issues with images on the internet, mostly without alternative text.

Nic has been active in FOSS development. He was involved as a core team member in the Joomla! CMS as well as later working on Mambo. He uses a variety of open source web based applications - "the best tool for the job" is a mantra he believes in.

When he is not doing online "stuff", Nicolas enjoys food and photography, and combines both online on a recipe/culinary website.

Russ Weakley

Russ Weakley Russ has worked in the graphic design arena for over 20 years with extensive experience in real world CSS. He has also produced a series of widely acclaimed CSS-based tutorials.

He is also internationally recognised for his presentations and workshops on web development, standards and accessibility.

Gian Wild

Gian Wild Gian Wild is the Manager of Usability and Accessibility Services within the ITS Web Centre at Monash University. 

Gian was a Member of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group from May 2000 to August 2006 (with two notable absences). She remains actively involved in WCAG2, having recently served on the taskforce dedicated to addressing the cognitive disability formal objection raised by Lisa Seeman. With other members of the accessibility industry in Australia Gian also liaises with the Australian Human Rights Commission on the status of WCAG2.

She recently completed a peer review of the alternative accessibility guidelines, the WCAG Samurai Errata.   Gian is a regular presenter of seminars across Australian on accessibility issues.

Ben Winter-Giles

Ben Winter-GilesBen is the Senior and founding partner of Kata Professional Pty Ltd. Ben has over 16 years of experience from a very wide selection of Federal Government and non-government agencies and organisations.

Ben is an Industrial Designer by trade, and through that he developed a keen passion for making things actually work well for humans. Among his other passions are health and fitness, body art, horses, and landscape / nature photography.

A Designer at heart, who's made a career of drawing pictures and talking a lot, Ben uses a very 'hand made' approach to design and is often spotted with his large A3 sketch pad and a bunch of pencils in hand at meetings.

Ben is somewhat of an analogue designer for a digital world, and this lends itself to a certain simplicity and human feel to the design solutions he works with. You can find Ben in all the usual internet lurks, twitter, facebook, and of course through Kataprofessional.com.au

Ben can be found on twitter as @wintergiles.

Jeremy Yuille

Jeremy Yuille Jeremy Yuille is an interaction designer, digital media artist and academic with a background in digital art, music, performance and architecture.

He has a Bachelor of Design Studies from the Architecture department of the University of Queensland and a Masters of Design from the Spatial Information Architecture Lab at RMIT University.

Jeremy is a co-founder of the Media and Communication Design Studio at RMIT, where he undertakes collaborative research with the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID), supervises postgraduate students, and holds interaction design studios. He is also a certified scrum-master, and has been a director of the Interaction Design Association.

Past Finalists

The finalists and winners for 2009 were:

Blog

Winner: Peter Dancewicz (WA) – Wedding Lightroom

Virtual

Winner: Truelocal.com.au (NSW) – True Local

Retail Category

Winner: Clever Starfish (WA) – Sophie Kyron Jewellery

Sell to People

Winner: Bam Creative (WA) – Yuki Jo

Sell to Corporate

Winner: Loop 11 (VIC) – Loop11

Government

Winner: WA Museum and Equilibrium (WA) – nick cave – the exhibition

Education

Winner: Creative Nature (WA) – John Curtin College of the Arts

Media

Winner: WotNews (QLD) – WotNews

Not For Profit

Winner: WA Museum and Equilibrium – nick cave – the exhibition

Edge of the Web

Winner: Loop 11 – Loop11

Arts & Events

Winner: WA Museum and Equilibrium (WA) – nick cave – the exhibition

FAST.hit Most Outstanding Award

And finally, the FAST.hit Most Outstanding Award went to WA Museum and Equilibrium (WA) – nick cave – the exhibition

Sponsors

Events such as the Australian Web Awards would not be possible without the support of our sponsors. The Australian Web Awards Committee would like to extend our thanks to all of our sponsoring organisations for making our big ideas achievable.

If your organisation is interested in sponsoring the awards, please see sponsorship opportunities.

Sponsors will be announced soon.

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About

In 2009, the Web Awards went national – open to entries from around Australia.  Again in 2010 in association with Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA) , the Australian Web Awards Committee is pleased to present the Australian Web Award for 2010. The prefect place to showcase outstanding work from Australian Web Designers and Developers. 

Previously the AWIA ran the WA Web Awards, open to web sites created primarily in Western Australia, between 2005 and 2008.

About AWIA

The Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA), formally known as Port 80 Inc. was established in 2002 as a monthly industry evening for the web industry in WA. In 2004, Port 80 incorporated as a not-for-profit association with the following constitutional objectives:

  1. To further the advancement of the web industry within Australia;
  2. To educate the general public about the role of professionals in the web industry;
  3. To foster greater ties with like-minded organisations.

During the latter part of 2006, the committee decided to re-brand Port80 and become AWIA to better reflect the position in the industry the organisation wanted to take. Since then, AWIA has shown a steady growth in memberships from both WA and the eastern states. The organisation now has representatives in Canberra (ACT) and Melbourne (VIC), with Adelaide (SA), Sydney (NSW) and Brisbane (QLD) soon to follow.

AWIA has become one of the largest dedicated web industry association of its kind in Australia. Our monthly networking meetings regularly attract 40-60 individuals from varying cross-sections of the web industry, our occasional speaking events have attracted 150-200 attendees each, and our online forums have over 450 active participants and a total of over 40,000 posts. Our combined invitation list and forum membership is over 1400 people and increasing.

For more information, please visit Australian Web Industry Association website.

Contact

The 2010 Australian Web Awards committee is a lean, mean fighting machine made up of:

  • Helen Burgess (Chairperson) - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
  • Gary Barber - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
  • Brendan Underwood - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
  • Naomi Allen - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
  • Ashul Shah - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Media

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Important Dates

  • Brisbane Cocktail Party

    TBA
    Brisbane, Qld

  • Sydney Cocktail Party

    TBA
    Sydney, NSW

  • Gala Dinner

    Saturday, 6 November 2010
    Perth, WA