Emiricol
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Heyo Morrus. In my experience working with awards programs, a couple of things have shown themselves to be workable solutions (depending on the industry of course.)
1) Having an "editor's choice" style award *AND* a "people's choice" style award is an excellent idea.
2) Have the People's Choice awards 1-3 months after the Editors' Choice Awards are announced. This way, people will investigate the winners prior to their own vote, and possibly thereby be exposed to a bunch of new products prior to the vote
3) Yes, allow each company to submit as many products for as many categories as each publisher wishes; but allow each product to be submitted to only a single category!
Just some not-so-original ideas, hope they help!
1) Having an "editor's choice" style award *AND* a "people's choice" style award is an excellent idea.
2) Have the People's Choice awards 1-3 months after the Editors' Choice Awards are announced. This way, people will investigate the winners prior to their own vote, and possibly thereby be exposed to a bunch of new products prior to the vote
3) Yes, allow each company to submit as many products for as many categories as each publisher wishes; but allow each product to be submitted to only a single category!
Just some not-so-original ideas, hope they help!
Morrus said:Since last year's ENnies ceremony, I have spoken to numerous publishers about the way things were set up. Mostly, people were fairly happy with the process, although two main areas of concern came up repeatedly:
1) Publishers felt disadvantaged by the fact that they could only enter one product per category, and felt that they were playing a guessing game trying to match products to categories. The solution to this is to allow publishers to enter as many products as they like for as many categories as they like.
2) Publishers were - by and large - disappointed by the fact that the ENnies were voted for by the public, turning the contest into one of popularity. Those publishers with smaller print runs and less coverage of retail outlests were disadvantaged because, while their products may well have been very good, nobody had seen them - and thus nobody voted for them. The solution to this is to have the judges themselves choose the winners, although a 'People's Choice' style award should be added to allow the public to participate.
I'd appreciate your opinions on these issues, and on any other related issue that may spring to mind. I'm making some decisions over the next couple of weeks, so if you have any concerns, or even if you just agree with the above proposals, now is the time!