Clock Ticking Down on Webby Nominees
Posted on: April 26th, 2007 by Matt Raymond
The deadline is fast approaching to vote in the 2007 Webby Awards, the Internet equivalent of the Oscars.� (Voting requires registration, to separate the �men from the bots.�� OK, bad joke.)� Fast, as in tomorrow (April 27).
The Library is nominated in two �People�s Voice� categories, which are decided by popular vote and will be announced May 1: Our overall site is nominated in the Government category, while our THOMAS subsite is nominated in the Law category.
I didn�t know it at the time, but in 2006 when the Library went to New York to accept its People�s Voice award in the Cultural Institutions category, I was also in attendance with my UNICEF colleagues as we picked up the People�s Voice award for Charitable Organizations Nonprofit.
The awards ceremony itself is a hoot, in that acceptance speeches are kept to a strict limit of five words.� You can accept with fewer words, but if you go over, you can prepare to be booed by the assembled audience.
I wrote last year�s UNICEF speech, which was by far the shortest of hundreds that I have written in my career: �Make us obsolete: Help children.�
And I believe the Library�s speech was a succinct and eloquent, �By the people, for people.�
If I might be permitted to repeat one of the best speeches in Webby history, it would have to be Al Gore in 2005, who said quite simply: �Please don�t recount this vote.�
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April 27th, 2007 at 10:19 am
I hadn’t heard about the (succinct) speeches–thanks for sharing some of them with us!