Entries are now open for the WA Web Awards 2006.

Excit­ing, huh? I wish I had some­thing cool to enter, but this year, I’ll be part of the organ­is­ing team only.

Last year we had a cock­tail awards pre­sen­ta­tion evening – but this year we’re going all out with a 3 course din­ner, at the Parmelia Hilton again. Last year was fun – com­plete with the awards chair­per­son acci­den­tally set­ting a col­league on fire – and this year should be even better.

The 2006 awards judges are again mostly from inter­state. Sonja Bern­hardt will be back with us, as will Matt Voer­man, the only local on the panel. Join­ing them are John All­sopp, Cameron Adams, and a “mys­tery judge” who is still to be announced. The judg­ing process, over­seen by Megs Car­pen­ter, is a long and ardu­ous process, and our judges are vol­un­teers who only do it for the love, ado­ra­tion and an awards night jun­ket to Perth. So immense thanks are due to them in advance for the hard job they have ahead of them.

Thanks are also due to our spon­sors, with­out whom the whole thing wouldn’t be pos­si­ble. So far we have Web­Cen­tral, Bright Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and Perth IX as Gold level spon­sors, Edith Cowan Uni­ver­sity as Sil­ver level, and Cen­tral TAFE, Crum­pler Bags, and Site­point as Bronze level.

Judg­ing cri­te­ria, cat­e­gory list and entry forms are on the offi­cial web site now.