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Test Blog Monday  12.22.09

 

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Testing image insert  12.20.09

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Test BLOG  12.13.09

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We're Live!!  11.11.09
After months of hard work, scrambling and late nights, we are finally live today. Thanks to everyone who has helped with this: our Advisory Board, particularly Chad Stoller, Josh Klein, Tom Ajello, Christina "CK" Kerley, Tac Anderson, Whitney Hess and Tim Nolan who served as sounding boards, idea generators and then some. The people at International Awards Group in New York who spent weeks testing and retesting: Hal, Donovan, George, Gus, Matt, Rich, Allie, Joha Jany. Ali Matlock, IAG's tech wizard, who worked nights and weekends to pull this together. Jim Smyth and Michael O'Rourke who helped make the vision a reality, and Austin Roesberg, who designed the logo and the site (with a much-appreciated assist from Aeryn Daboin and Tom Ajello of Poke) and Sarji and the team at TCTI who did most of the heavy lifting on building the site. My wife and kids for listening to me ramble on about this for months. We're hoping to create something special here, something that will help our audience by giving them recognition, standards, and a place to connect. This is all brand new. So please, if you have suggestions of what we could be doing differently, better, more of-- of if you just want to say hi, please leave us a comment. Alan Wolk Executive Director PS: Check out the first in a series of videos we'll be doing on the changing state of our digital universe. The first installment can be watched via the post below.
The Buzz, EPISODE 1: Serendipity & Anonymity  10.15.09

The Buzz is a series of panel discussions about the evolving state of the digital world, sponsored by The Hive Awards. Hosted by Adweek Digital Editor Brian Morrissey, The Buzz is designed to stimulate, provoke and delight. This episode's panel includes Noah Brier, Head of Planning & Strategy at The Barbarian Group, Ian Schaferr, Founder & CEO of Deep Focus and Alan Wolk, Blogger, Creative Strategist and Executive Director of the Hive Awards.

 

Welcome To The Hive Awards  10.08.09
The Hive Awards started as a pipe dream, about a year ago, when I was looking at web award shows and realized that none of them rewarded things like user experience, content strategy or even coding. At least not on any significant level. What’s more, the awards that were being given out seemed to go to big, high profile sites in glamor industries. Which is not to say that those sites weren’t deserving, just that they didn’t seem to reward all the people working in the trenches, what i called the unsung heroes of the internet. And so an idea was born. When I pitched the idea to Jim Smyth and the team at International Awards Group, they immediately understood the value of such a show and agreed to work with me to develop it. Together, we came up with the name Hive Awards as a paean to the “hive mentality” inherent in building a web site or application. There are many people with many different roles, all of whom must work together and build off what the others have created. It is only by cooperating and working together that they’re able to create the final product. Our show recognizes that dynamic and seeks to reward each function within the hive. We’ve also divided up the different job functions by industry category. Because we realized that the content strategy for an entertainment site is always going to be a whole lot sexier than the content strategy for an insurance industry site. By allowing each industry category to be judged separately, we’re leveling the playing field and giving everyone who's done something unique and special a chance to be recognized. Finally, we see the Hive Awards as a chance to help set standards in the industry and to give newcomers something to strive for. The interwebs are still so new and evolve so quickly that having something to point to and say “this is what good work looks like” should prove very useful. Since this is our first year (and in keeping in line with the notion of “hive mentality”) we’re looking to you, our audience, to give us feedback and suggestions. We don’t presume to know it all, so if there’s something that doesn’t make sense or you feel could be made better, please let us know. Welcome aboard.