Net Visionary Awards: Shortlist Announced

This year’s Net Visionary Awards shortlist has been announced.

The Net Visionary Awards are an annual awards ceremony that celebrate the best in online business in Ireland.

Well done to all shortlisted and I’m looking forward to hearing the results, but being a web designer the award that draws the most interest from me is for ‘Web Designer Excellence’.

Web Designer Excellence Shortlist

1. Daniel Quinn

2. The Design Suite

3. New Media

4. Sabrina Dent

5. Lightbox Multimedia

Cast your vote here.

What about Northern Ireland?

As far as I can tell (correct me if I’m wrong) there are no Northern Ireland based businesses shortlisted, even though the Net Visionary Awards are for the whole of Ireland. Is the standard not as good up here? Are we not making as big an impact online? Was there just a lack of interest in the awards and no one was actually nominated? Or maybe it’s because the majority of websites/services we use are based in England?

Let me know your thoughts on this.

In regards to web awards in NI, there used to be the Goldeneye T Awards , but judging by the standard of ‘Websites of the month’ featured on their site, this hasn’t been running for a couple of years.

Unless I’m mistaken, it looks like there’s a gap for web awards for Northern Ireland (maybe another event for @goodonpaper to organise ;-) )

Net Visionary Awards

The IIA & Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary Awards 2009 will be held on Thursday 21st May in the Crowne Plaza, Dublin Northwood.

Who do you think should win the web designer excellence award and what do you think of the shortlist?