Moving past OMG and SQUEE and into a very simple, very stable...

[heidi]

WOW.

And I think I'll be stuck there for a few days, at least!

And here's why...

FictionAlley was nominated for a WEBBY award! Of course, we're up against LiveJournal and Friendster, but as I just wrote in an email to bradfitz, if FictionAlley, for some bizarre reason, actually wins, it's a victory for LJ as well, because LJ really is a part of FA's community - hence, things like fiction_alley!

If you're not familiar with the WEBBY's, they started back in 1996, when a number of Silicon Valley denizens created an award to honour the best of the web at a snapshot in time. You can see the judging criteria here, and after looking at the criteria, it seems clear to all of us at FA that the nomination is not for us - the admins, the coders, the mods - it's for ALL the users of the site, all the authors, the artists, the posters, the reviewers. They, and by definition, all of you, are the ones who make FA a community.

And I love, love, love all of you!

Now, of course, I have to do the gratuitous plug for votes - I'm also adding the link to my LJ and I ask ALL of you to please vote and plug the link in your LJs, your FA sigfiles, your Yahoogroups - everywhere. I don't have any expectation that we're going to win, but I would love to not come in last ;). You can, therefore, vote here; please do. We think this may be the first time a fandom site has been nominated for the COMMUNITY category, and it would be great to get as many votes as possible from all the members of the community!

: dances off, again, to squee!

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ETA: BK deLong of The Leaky Cauldron is a part of mitopencourseware's team, so vote for them in the SERVICES category!

Comments

[cousncarla.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS! Wow, Heidie, that's great! I'm glad your and everybody's hard work is being recognized. Congrats again!

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's pretty amazing! CONGRATS!!!!

Will definately vote! :) :) :)

[no-remorse.livejournal.com]

Oh we are going to lose so badly against friendster and livejournal. But it's an honour to be nominated.

[likebunnies.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the nomination! I already went and voted. This is really great for all of fandom even if Livejournal seems to be in the lead. *kicks LJ*

[marie-j-granger.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, Heidi! FictionAlley is a true testament to the power of the good side of the fandom. As one of the... hundreds? thousands? of people who love the site, I could never thank you enough for all you do for it.

[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's really cool! I'm really glad that FA got nominated. So many people do work there for little credit.

*goes off to vote and plug*

~Ayla

[sinisteral.livejournal.com]

That us just so amazing! Fictionalley has my full support although I do go on livejournal quite often. I don't expect FA to win, but it'd be so great if did =D! votes*

[eibbil-libbie.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that's just....Congrats, Heidi. That's...okay, words are so totally failing me right now.

So instead I'll dance around the house and squee for you.

*applauds madly*

[dragongirlg.livejournal.com]

*dances around* Hurray! That's too cool for words.

[noblerot.livejournal.com]

I remember covering the Webbys awards for the first few years. Celebrity presenters, formal ceremony, the lot. Free booze. Mmmm.

Will toddle off to vote for FA now. Congratulations on the nomination, and good luck!

[aegeus.livejournal.com]

Hee, I saw on Zymon's LJ earlier. This is so cool, congratulations Heidi.

*uses Natalie icon to go with your music choice*

[zorb]

Had a thought - do you think there's any way you can find out what FA's scores on their criteria were? Might be useful for future redesigns.

[siyahsaclikiz.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Just went and voted for FA.

Selin

[chresimos.livejournal.com]

Congrats! FA totally deserves the nomination. <3

[kete.livejournal.com]

congrats, heidi! you don't know me, but i think FAP is a great website and i'll vote for it. i can't understand all the poor envious bitches on FW who have to make a kerfuffle out of someone's innocent joy of being nominated. but then you just have to look at the number of clicks your site reaches to understand where those people come from.... heads up, hope you'll make it!