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• Best Business Blogger

  The person who receives this award will have achieved substantial breakthroughs in using blogging as a successful business tool. They will have shown strategic vision in using blogging as part of the marketing mix.

  Nominations should be for an individual/company who has used blogging as a business or communication tool and embraced best practice in the medium. There should be evidence of long-term use of blogging.

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• Best Business Video & Podcasting

  The person who receives this award will have achieved substantial breakthroughs in using online video or podcasting as a successful business tool. They will have shown strategic vision in using audio, whether video or podcasting, as part of the marketing, content or e-learning mix. Evidence of use across a number of platforms such as websites, mobile, social media networks, will be recognised.

  Nominations should be for an individual who has used online video or podcasting as a business or communication tool and embraced best practice in the medium. In addition, they will have demonstrated both strategic vision and impressive tactical abilities in achieving success. There should be evidence of long-term use of online video or podcasting.

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• Best Online Financial Service

  The person that receives this award will have achieved substantial breakthroughs in helping to build an excellent online financial service with their company. They will have shown strategic vision and demonstrated impressive tactical abilities in achieving success in a competitive environment.

  Nominations should be for an individual who has built a successful, service oriented online financial service.

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• Best Online Trader

  The Net Visionary Best Online Trader Ireland Award recognises an individual or company who has demonstrated the potential of the internet to trade effectively and efficiently online from Ireland to the national and international marketplace.

  Nominations should be for an individual or company who can show demonstrable online trading success in the Irish market and/or in the international market. Or the nominee should show how they have successfully revolutionised an existing trading environment.

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• Best Use of Social Media

  The person who receives this award will demonstrably enhance an existing use of social media or develop a new application for existing social media platforms. The application must display a viable benefit to businesses in Ireland.

  Nominations should be for an individual/group who has displayed best use of social media for business in Ireland.

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• e-Government Award

  The Net Visionary e-Government Award will be presented to an individual within the eGovernment sector who has driven forward projects that will enhance interaction between government services and the general public.

  Nominations should be for an individual working within Government, semi-State or Local Government, who has initiated, project managed or delivered new internet based technologies, programs or services that benefit the general public.

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• Innovation Award

  The Net Visionary Innovation Award recognises that the convergence of internet technologies and business ideas can create a specific new perspective on how business and administration in Ireland is conducted.

  Nominations should be for an individual(s) who have developed a new technology or new use of an existing technology in an innovative way. In addition, the innovation should have a commercial aspect to it and have resulted in a new business generated for the nominated person's business.

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• Internet Entrepreneur

  The Net Visionary Internet Entrepreneur Award recognises individuals that have achieved substantial breakthroughs in building a successful internet business. He or she will have shown strategic vision and demonstrated impressive tactical abilities in achieving success online.

  Nominations should be for an individual/company who has built a successful, business enabled by the internet, in the past two years. There should be evidence of long-term sustainability in the business.

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• Internet Marketer

  The Net Visionary Internet Marketer Award recognises an individual who has excelled in the field of internet marketing through innovative techniques and successful executed campaigns using various online marketing techniques.

  Nominations should be for an individual who has excelled in the area of internet marketing. The candidate will be expected to show proof of the campaigns worked on and results obtained. Campaigns will be considered based on their innovation, creativity, use of media and return on investment for the client.

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• Journalist Award

  The Journalist Award recognises the importance of journalists in Ireland educating, informing and challenging organisations to ensure that our use of technology is optimised to the benefit of business and society as a whole. It is open to all journalists who produce material for recognised publications in online, email, print, broadcast, trade or national media.

  Nominations should be for a journalist who has consistently provided balanced and informed commentary and insight. The journalist will have demonstrated a clear understanding of the issues facing the Internet industry in Ireland and acted as an authoritattive voice for commenting on these issues.

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• Mobile Internet Innovation

  The Net Visionary Mobile Internet Innovation Award recognises an individual who has excelled within the mobile internet space. The business application can be SMS, WAP, MMS or Java based, delivered via GSM, GPRS or 3GSM. Content applications will also be considered.

  The award will recognise those initiatives, applications or services that are technologically, commercially or creatively innovative.

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• Online Tourism Award

  This award goes to the individual who has consistently promoted Ireland as a tourism destination by best use of internet channels and technology.

  The individual will have demonstrated how to leverage the internet to show a discernible return on investment. The individual may be a property owner, attraction provider, suppler to the tourism industry or other related individuals.

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• Overall Net Visionary

  The Overall Net Visionary Award is awarded by the Board of Directors of the IIA. The person winning this award will have developed a leading and innovative service, platform or product and successfully brought it to the online global marketplace.

• Social Contribution

  The Net Visionary Social Contribution Award recognises that the development of the economy in terms of technology is inclusive to all segments of Irish society.

  Nominations should be for an individual who has either used technology to address specific social or educational needs or campaigned on issues relating to the inclusion of education and all society in technology advances.

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• Web Designer Excellence

  The Net Visionary Web Designer Excellence Award will be presented to a web designer that can put forward the URL of three unique samples of their own work (from three independent web site projects over the previous 12 to 36 months) showing the quality of their graphical design, navigability, accessibility and usability.

  Nominations should be for an individual who is prepared to declare that the three URL samples taken from three independent web sites are their own work. The Nominations vetting process may reject any nominated websites that are independent but are not considered unique in that they have a similar design & function.

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• Web Developer Excellence

  The Net Visionary Web Developer Excellence Award will be for an individual who has used development techniques to integrate applications that allow the user to interact with the site. The URL of the project worked upon must be provided as part of the nomination process and the project must be completed, live and available to use. Projects in beta or test phase will not be accepted.

  The winner will be able to demonstrate how the website's interactivity permits complete end-to-end servicing of a user's needs, and will show how the technology has thereby enhanced the customer relationship.

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