Maryrose Lyons blogging since 2003...

Those Nice Folks At O2

November 12, 2007 at 9:42 am

Are supporting Irish firms to enter the Webbys!

I hear ya! When you say that many small Irish firms may not have the spare cash to stump up the entry fee for the Webby Award, that got me thinking. I made contact with the right people at O2 and that broadband and mobile provider has very kindly agreed to pay for 20 Irish entries in the Webbys! They are very positive about their involvement seeing it as a way to show their support for the web industry. It’s also very much ‘on brand’ in my opinion. The Webbys is a well organised, transparent voting, global awards that rewards best-in-class websites, applications, and other online activity. It’s only right that O2 be associated with that.

Then you’ve got the eircom Golden Spiders. Local. Opaque voting. Accused of spamming (ie. breaking the law). Not known outside of Ireland. Doesn’t really manage to reward the real movers and shakers who are setting Ireland on the global map for web. Kind of fitting for eircom to be involved right?

Keep an eye on the Webbys4Ireland site – we’ll be updating that to make it more interactive and to encourage you to put forward names of those who should be entered on our behalf. We are planning to relaunch the site at Dublin’s Open Coffee taking place on Thursday, 22 November. The closing date for Webbys entries is 14 December. You can always enter yourself anyway – go now!

And thanks to the good people who organised the Dublin Mashup Camp who let me in to start spreading the news yesterday.

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