Full shortlist of Association of Online Publishers award nominees

The full list of nominees for this year’s AOP awards, which span 16 categories (courtesy of the AOP):

Launch 2008
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk/katine
Hearst digital - allaboutyou.com
IPC Media - Goodtoknow
James Publishing Ltd - World Reviewer
Redwood - www.yourfamily.org.uk
Channel 4/Zone - Channel 4 Food

Editorial Team - Business
Building - Building.co.uk
Centaur Media - thelawyer.com
CNET Networks UK - silicon.com
Dow Jones & Company - eFN.com
Incisive Media - Accountancy Age
Incisive Media - Legalweek.com
Reed Business Information - PersonnelToday.com
Reed Business Information - XpertHR.co.uk

Editorial Team - Consumer 2008
BBC Worldwide - bbcgoodfood.com
Financial Times - FT.com
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk/sport
IPC MEDIA - nme.com
IPC Media - Nuts.co.uk
Sky News - Sky News Online
Trinity Mirror - Gazette Communities

Research & Insights Project 2008
Guardian News & Media - GNM Total Audience
IPC Media - IPC Media for The Origin Panel - Women’s Space
ITV Online - Ad Innovations-Itv.com
Orange UK - Exposure - Orange UK
Reed Business Information - Travolution
Trinity Mirror - ARRON 2007/2008 Digital Audience Research

Online Advertising Sales Team - Consumer 2008
Bauer Media - Bauer Media Digital Sales Team
Channel 4 - Channel 4
Financial Times - FT.com
Future Publishing PLC - Future Publishing - Digital Agency Team
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk Ad Sales Team
Haymarket Consumer Media - whatcar.com
ITV Online - www.itv.com

Online Advertising Sales Team - Business 2008
CMPi - Building Magazine Online Commercial Team
Incisive Media - Accountancy Age Integrated Sales Team
Redactive Media Group - People Management online sales
Reed Business Information - RBI Job Sites
Reed Business Information - RBI e-Newsletters
UBM - BD & Building Virtual Careers

Innovation 2008
Financial Times - Mockingbird Model
Guardian News and Media - Guardian Publisher Network
ITV Online - Interactive Vouchering – Coronation Street and Harveys Furniture Store
Lonely Planet Publications - Lonely Planet Audio Phrasebooks for iPhone (and iPod Touch)
Jobsite (Assoc Northcliffe Digital) - BeMyInterviewer.co.uk
Lulu Enterprises UK - Lulu.com
TSL Education - TES Resource Bank

Cross-Media Project 2008
CMPI - www.thepublican.com/proudofpubs
Guardian News and Media - British Gas Greener Living Partnership
Incisive Media - Young Professional from Accountancy Age
IPC Media - The WKD Nuts Football Awards
Reuters Media - Bearing Witness: Five Years of Reporting War in Iraq
Seven Squared - ASOS ON FACEBOOK
TelecomTV - Mobile Planet
Times Online - Times Archive

Commercial Partnership
Bauer Media - Bauer Media Zoo Royal Marines 2008
Bauer Media - FHM / Nivea for Men Really Useful Guide
Channel 4 New Media - Ford Bite
Financial Times - Financial Times SST Commercial Partnership 2008
Incisive Media - Adviser Academy - IFAonline and JPMorgan
Reed Business Information - New Scientist Visions of the Future with UniversalMcCann for Microsoft
Telegraph Media Group - Telegraph Media Group and Cisco
VideoJug - Microsoft Office 2007 “It’s a new day, It’s a new office” VideoJug Series

Use of Video 2008
BBC - BBC News website
Channel 4 - Embarrassing Bodies
Financial Times - FT.com
Guardian News and Media - Zimbabwe election: The stolen ballots
IPC Media - NME.COM Video
News Group Newspapers - Sun TV
TelecomTV - TelecomTV
Telegraph Media Group - Telegraph TV

Mobile Site 2008
Brownbook Limited - Brownbook.net
Channel 4 - Big Art Mob
CondéNet UK - Glamour Mobile
CondéNet UK - GQ Mobile
Lonely Planet Publications - Lonely Planet m-site
News Group Newspapers - Sun Mobile

Online Community 2008
National Magazine Company - www.runnersworld.co.uk
News Group Newspapers - My Sun
Reed Business Information - Farmers Weekly Interactive
The National Magazine Co - www.babyexpert.com

Website 2008 - Business
Dow Jones & Company - eFN.com
Faversham House Group Ltd - www.edie.net
MarketClusters Ltd - StrategyEye
Reed Business Information - Hairdressers Journal Interactive
Reed Business Information - XpertHR.co.uk
Reed Business Information - Bankersalmanac.com
Reed Business Information - Farmers Weekly Interactive
TSL Education - www.tes.co.uk

Website 2008 - Consumer
Associated Newspapers Ltd - Mail Online
BSkyB - Sky News
Guardian News and Media - guardian.co.uk
IPC Media - marieclaire.co.uk
IPC Media - nme.com
National Magazines Company - youandyourwedding.co.uk
News Group Newspapers - Sun Online
VideoJug - www.videojug.com

Online Publisher 2008 - Business
Dow Jones & Company - eFN.com
E-consultancy.com - E-consultancy.com
Reed Business Information - Reed Business Information
RICS - RICS
TSL Education - TSL Education
Wildfire Communications - Wildfire Communications Ltd

Online Publisher 2008 - Consumer
Associated Newspapers Ltd - Associated Northcliffe Digital
BSkyB - BSkyB
Hearst digital - Hearst digital
IPC Media - IPC Media
Microsoft - MSN UK
News Group Newspapers - Sun Online
Telegraph Media Group - Telegraph Media Group

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LOUD3R adds to network, sees 200,000 unique users

Niche online publisher LOUD3R is to launch a series of new sites, as part of its plans to create 10 new websites a month on its network.

The new additions include: PREGG3R, for pregnancy; SHUTT3R, for photography; and SUMM3R, for the Olympics.

The semantic engine automatically aggregates and filters multimedia content from a ’source list’ of websites selected by editors. A glossary of terms is created to teach the engine how to identify that content.

The existing network of 25 sites recorded 200,000 unique users over 30 days, according to a press release from the publisher.

Tags: LOUD3R, online publisher

CNET Business Technology Awards open for nominations

Entry is now open to online publisher CNET UK’s Business Technology Awards.

The 17 award categories include IT team of the year, technology marketing campaign of the year and technology innovation of the year

Entrants can register online - the deadline for entries is May 30.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on September 23.

Tags: CNET UK, London, online publisher, technology innovation, technology marketing campaign

OJR: Using Google Trends to fine-tune your news website

Google’s tool can help online publishers tweak their content to maximize traffic from search engine users, says OJR.

‘Google Trends allows you to select up to five words or phrases, then shows you how those search terms rate relative to one another in both the volume of search queries handled by Google, as well as news references tracked by the search engine. It’s an addictive site for a data geek, like me, and essential for any online publisher who wants to optimize his or her publication to attract more visitors from search engines, such as Google.’

Tags: addictive site, google, online publisher, online publishers, search engine, search engine users, search engines, search queries, search terms

Audio: Regional newspapers compete with football clubs online

Leading English football clubs are in competition as web publishers with local and regional newspapers.

Footballing giants, like Manchester United or Liverpool Football Club, have huge online and TV publishing arms which they use as revenue streams and to control the flow of news coming from the club.

But it’s not just the big clubs that have got in on the act.

Journalism.co.uk spoke to William Watt, digital sports reporter with the Lancashire Evening Post, about how he sees the changing landscape of online news now that smaller football clubs, like his local club Preston North End, are publishing their own stories on the web.

For the club hitting a good balance with the local media is the key.

“It’s a tricky job trying to be both press officer and web publisher,” Matt Morris, Preston North End’s media manager, told Journalism.co.uk.

“It throws up a conflict of interest at times as there are elements of competition between the club and the press.”

While there is an onus to feed good stories to the clubs website, he added, the club still needed to be promoted locally as it was in competition with several other local clubs for revenue, that necessitated having a good working relationship with the media and striking a balance between the needs of the club as an online publisher and feeding the local media.

Tags: Journalism.co.uk, Liverpool Football Club, local media, Matt Morris, online news, online publisher, Preston North End, web publisher, web publishers, William Watt

Oh my Widgety Goodness, it’s the survival of the fittest…

Widgety Goodness 2007 was right on our doorstep today in Brighton, so I popped down to check out if there was anything new and interesting from an online publisher’s point of view.

We heard about widgets that automatically deliver content tailored to you and your friends’ Facebook profile, and we heard about widgets that overlay full-screen internet TV, to provide additional information about the video you are watching or just so that you can chat to your friends online.

We even heard the burgeoning widget universe being described as a Darwinian disco (© Steve Bowbrick), which conjured up for me a vision of a lot of middle-aged publishing execs trying to get on down with the young things on the dancefloor and dancing out of time like deranged orangutans.

Naturally, we heard a lot of pitches. But also a helpful dose of scepticism, as the following video sample from Russell Davies of the Open Intelligence Agency, shows:

Not good news for glossy magazine publishers then. Those perfume ads help pay for a lot of people’s wages.

Laura will update with more tomorrow, but bottom line, widgets will be getting smarter, cheaper and more ubiquitous in 2008. As long as publishers and marketeers don’t forget to put the user in control, they can be a good method of delivering personalised content across a number of social and local platforms.

Tags: online publisher, Open Intelligence Agency, Russell Davies, Steve Bowbrick

Telegraph wins top AOP award; Guardian wins three others

STORY ABOUT AWARDS AND FULL LIST OF WINNERS HERE:

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Tags: Association of Online Publishers, Daily Telegraph, online publisher, Shane Richmond, Telegraph Media Group, Telegraph.co.uk, Trinity Mirror