A celebration of New Zealand's web industry
Congratulations to Xero, winner of the ‘Best web application’ category for Xero!
Craig Walker from Xero finally get to make his ’satisfying double-entry’ joke!
The finalists and Wayne Forgesen from sponsor Intergen
Xero for Xero
Pocketsmith for Pocketsmith
DNA, YouDo & Powershop for Powershop
Congratulations to Kiwibank and Springload ,winners of the ‘Best mobile website or web application’ category for Kiwibank Mobile Internet Banking!
Kiwibank and Springload accepting their award
Kiwibank and Springload for Kiwibank Mobile Internet Banking
We’re extremely pleased to announce the two finalists in the “Best mobile website or web application” category.
Site: Kiwibank Mobile Internet Banking
Site: Tourism Wellington Mobile Site
Congratulations to the finalists and the judges commented on the high standard of both these sites.
This category is sponsored by 3months.
Entries have been flying in for ONYAs and as expected, we’ve been thoroughly impressed by the innovation, creativity and beauty of the work submitted. My, what a talented web community we have in this country!
To allow us to put on an even greater celebration of this talent, we’ve decided to move the ONYAs award ceremony to the evening of Friday 19 February – which incidentally is the last day of Webstock 2010.
This change allows the ONYAs to be the climax of Webstock week – a true celebration of the NZ web industry, held at a time when those from the industry are together. It gives us more opportunity to showcase the best of the New Zealand web in front of an international audience. And it allows more time for entrants to put together compelling entries about their work!
It also means we can fully support the Liz Dengate Thrush Foundation who are holding the New Zealand Internet Industry Awards which are scheduled for 20 August 2009. While the audience is slightly different to that of the ONYAs, these awards are another great way of celebrating NZ’s vibrant and talented web industry.
We’ll let you know soon the revised date for the closing of entries, but it will allow all those designers, developers, content writers, UX professionals and site owners more time to submit their work for review by our outstanding line up of judges.
Thanks to those who’ve entered so far, to our most excellent judges and our sponsors – Shift, NZ Post and Idealog – without whom the ONYAs would not be possible.
Stay tuned for more information and in the meantime, why not enter the ONYAs!
We’ve had a few queries from people who’ll be entering the ONYAs asking the best way to go about it, or the appropriate category, or even what we’ll be looking for. So here’s a brief guide to entering.
We’re expecting that people (the agencies or internal teams) will enter themselves for the awards. The ONYAs are about recognising the work that the industry does – the awards will go to the people who did the great work: the HTML, or the design, or developed the application. It makes sense to us that you’re proud of your work, and you think it’s good, that you stand behind it and you’d love for it to be recognised!
An exception to people entering their own work may the the “Most Outstanding Website” category. If a number of agencies have collaborated on the site, it may make sense for the site owner to enter on behalf of these agencies.
The work you’ve done is probably a whole lot better than you think. Maybe it’s a Kiwi thing, but we do have a tendency to downplay our accomplishments. Don’t get hung up on thinking what you’ve done isn’t good enough – if you’re thinking that, chances are it’s good enough! Yes, the ONYAs are about celebrating excellence, and yes, the judging panel is scarily-good, but the work done here in New Zealand is equally good. Know that, and let others know about it.
Ok, so that said, here’s something else to think about it. You know the Oscar category for “Best Song”? Invariably it’s for a song in a film that’s crap may not be as good. The ONYAs have a number of categories and judging is strictly within the parameters of those categories. The site as a whole doesn’t need to be perfect in order for your work in a particular category to be enter; to become a finalist; to win. If you’re entering one of the content categories, you won’t be judged on the quality of the site’s HTML, or the beauty of its design.
A site can be entered in multiple categories. Yes, we know there’s the potential for the ‘Titanic’ of New Zealand websites to sweep the awards, but you know what, if it’s good enough, it deserves to be celebrated.
Finally, and most crucially, we need your support. The support of the industry is crucial to the success of the ONYAs. We’re launching the awards because we think it’s important and we think the time is right. This is not a soulless, moneymaking venture. This is a celebration of the craft of making great websites. But we can’t enter for you – that’s where you come in!
Oh, and this is the first year of the ONYAs. We won’t have got everything right. We welcome your feedback on any issues. Unfortunately, neither the Webstock management nor the ONYA judges are bribable. We wish it were otherwise.
So, what are you waiting for – Enter now!
We’ve wanted to have some awards for the New Zealand web industry for a couple of years now. We think it’s a world-class industry, doing some amazing work. We’ve wanted to celebrate that. If Webstock is about connecting and informing and educating the industry, then the ONYAs are about celebrating what we do.
Entries are now open for the ONYAs and will be open until Friday 24th July. We’d love to see a lot of entries. There’s such great sites and applications out there that deserve to be more widely known. Please help spread the word about the ONYAs by letting people know entries are now open.
An event like this simply could not happen without the support of sponsors.
We’re delighted that the ONYAs are being presented in association with Shift, our major sponsor. Shift have been a leader in the New Zealand web scene for a decade now and it means a lot to us that they see the potential of the ONYAs.
We’re also pleased to welcome category sponsors NZ Post and Idealog. NZ Post are the sponsor of the Best content (personal) category and Idealog a sponsor for the Most Innovative category. Idealog has been a supporter of Webstock and the ONYAs since we started and we’re delighted that NZ Post are now involved.
Good luck!
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