The ONYAs - a celebration of New Zealand's web industry

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!