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Your family nominated for AOP Award

September 10, 2008

Hot on the heels of our gong for “Best Landing Page” at the APA Creative Awards, the Your family site has been nominated for an AOP award in the category of “Best launch”.

Great to be recognised at the digital awards, the one everyone wants to win.  We’re up against some prestigious competition in The Guardian, IPC, Channel 4 and Hearst digital but who knows after last years victory for ZDNet?

Whatever the outcome, it’s always a great night out and a chance to catch up with all the gossip in the on-line publishing world.

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ZDNet wins “Best business website 2007″

October 4, 2007

AOP Awards Sometimes, when you are months into a big project with a long time still to go to launch, you wonder if it’s all worth it. Will anyone notice? Was that big idea we had really the right one? What if somebody launches before you and steals your thunder?

Were you were mad to even set out on a path in the first place?

I’m sure we all have those doubts and there were plenty of times in the development of the new ZDNet site that I questioned my sanity.

I say new but in fact it’s been nearly a year since we launched (it’s one year old on 30th October) and last night at the AOP Awards, the publishing industry voted ZDNet.co.uk “Best Business Website 2007″

The judges said: -

“This site has displayed a fantastic use of web 2.0 and is in tune with the user. Really revolutionary, with a thinking behind the site that is streets ahead of its peers”

Amazing really that a site conceived nearly two years ago should be praised for being ahead of it’s time even now. When we started out on the project, some of what we were doing was completely unproven and we had no idea if it would work.

Last night proves that we weren’t mad (well not much) and that we had a vision that has become the benchmark for other publishers. It’s nice to know that somebody noticed as well.

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ZDNet stars at Association of Publishers event

January 18, 2007

I blagged myself an invite to the latest AOP event this week where Suzie Daniels was up on stage with the likes of Yahoo to talk about the social networking experience ZDNet has gained from this part of the site.

The audience were all on-line publishers of one description or another and Suzie talked about the lessons learned so far, the importance of having built a solid platform and the cultural changes that are taking place inside the organisation. There was a very lively Q+A session at the end and It just demonstrated how far ahead the team at ZDNet are with their thinking.

It has prompted several comments across the blogosphere, the most notable, this one at the Guardian.

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