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Web Marketing Association is Looking for the Best Web sites in 96 Industry CategoriesApril 2, 2007; 04:04 AM The Web Marketing Association is now accepting entries into its 11th annual international WebAward Competition. The WebAwards is the standards-defining competition that sets industry benchmarks and recognized the best web sites in 96 industries. The deadline for entry is May 31, 2007 and the WebAward Web site is located at www.07webaward.org. "Even the most amazing web sites remain invisible without the proper recognition," said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. "The WebAward competition not only recognizes the best web sites on the Internet today, but our participants get valuable feedback from our experts judges to help make their web site better in the future". The WebAwards competition judges website entries on seven criteria: design, innovation, content, use of technology, interactivity, copywriting and ease of use. Participants receive not only their score for each criteria, but the average for their industry and the overall WebAwards to provide them benchmarks for their own web development efforts. Judges are leading Internet professionals that are selected from hundreds of nominations every year. They volunteer their time and talent to help improve the standard of excellence of Web development. Most judges have participated in the WebAwards for several years. Judging for the 2006 WebAwards will take place in June through August, with winners announced in September. Judges will consist of a select group of Internet professionals who have direct experience designing and managing Web sites, including members of the media, interactive creative directors, site designers, content providers and webmasters, with an in-depth understanding of the current state-of-the-art in Web site development and technology.
Participants in the 2007 WebAwards will receive:
If your site wins a WebAward, you will also get: "The WMA's WebAward competition is the only major award program to provide in-depth, quantitative analysis of results that help entrants develop standards of excellence for future innovation," said Rice. "We even publish extensive data aggregated from the award participants in the annual Internet Standards Assessment Report. The competition's highest honor, the 2007 WebAward "Best of Show," will be given to the one site that the judges believe represents the pinnacle of outstanding achievement in Web development. Last year's Best of Show winner was NewYork-based Big Spaceship (www.bigspaceship.com), for its outstanding work "TBS: Department of Humor Analysis" web site at www.tbshumorstudy.com, The Web Marketing Association will also recognize the interactive agency winning the most awards in the competition with the "Top Interactive Agency" WebAward. The 2006 Top Agency award was presented R/GA (www.rga.com), taking home 19 WebAwards.
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