AOAS' own David C. Grosvold, 3rd Place winner of the Astronomical League's Webmaster of the Year Award! |
This year's Webmaster of the Year Award was administered by Bob Schneider. According to Mr. Schneider, this year's competition was between only 5 nominees, which gave the three judges plenty of time to spend on each site for evaluation. The judges used the following four things when considering each website: 1) Content, 2) Ease of Navigation, 3) Ability to Attract People, and 4) It must have a link or reference to their involvement in the Astronomical League. The first three catagories are rated on a scale of 1 to 10 (lowest to highest) for a highest possible score of 30 points. The final catagory was a requirement for consideration in the competition.
This year's First Place winner was Drew Carhart of the Naperville Astronomical Association at www.naperastro.org. The second place winner was Travis Swaim of the Oklahoma City Astronomy Club at www.okcastroclub.com. There are no runner's-up and only the First place winner receives a plaque. Please click on these links above to examine the other winning sites.
Since June 18, 2003, our AOAS website has had 170 stories and articles posted, 54 links added to all types of companies and sources of interest to astronomers, and we've posted 413 events announcing conjunctions, observing sessions, classes and other happenings. We've also run 11 poll questions to get the low-down on how our members and visitors feel about all types of subjects. As of tonight, only two weeks short of having been "up-and-running" for a full 3 years, we have had 876,565 "events" to the system! Not only is our website attractive, it is perhaps more importantly a widely-used website.
We could not be more proud of our website, nor more proud of our webmaster extraordinaire, Dave Grosvold. I hope that all our members will hold your heads just a little higher, and throw your chests out a little further whenever you have the opportunity to tell someone about our (now) Award Winning Website! It gives me the desire to do more, and to do it better than ever, so that we might well be chosen as the FIRST place winner of the Astronomical League 2007 Webmaster of the Year Award!
CONGRATULATIONS, DAVID!
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