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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1723241" data-attributes="member: 63">I'm afraid my internet will give out on my soon, so I'll make this brief.First, I'd like to suggest we close this thread and open a new one, consolidating all the good ideas we've had, and clearing out those comments made that might come across poorly to people who haven't read the whole thread.  Since a lot of people seem to be digging Denise's (Dextra's) ideas, it will behoove us to have them earlier in a thread, so people who just pop in can comment on them.Second, I heavily encourage all publishers who are nominated next year to host 5 to 10 page pdf samples of their nominated products on their sites, or to put up galleries of art.  The ENnies site would list the nominated products, provide a description of the product, its publisher, its product line, and maybe a two-sentence explanation of why the judges picked it.Also listed would be links to samples of nominated products.  That way, hopefully no voter would have to be entirely uninformed.  I'm not sure if we'd want to include some sort of option like "Click here if you have only read the publisher's hosted sample" so that votes based on just that would be weighted less, or if instead we'd have everyone pick their primary choice (worth 3 votes) and their secondary choice (worth 1 vote).Third, as a member of EN Publishing, I'm gladly willing to take on some of the responsibility of making the awards run smoothly.  I'm not as much of a micromanaging ***** as Denise (*grin* I love you Denise *grin*), but I've got my fair share of nitpickiness.  Also, heck, it might allow us to have one or two ENPub products at the ENnies booth, if no one objects.So:1) Move back the date to submit products to March 31st.  Determine judges by January 31st.  Require publishers to send products to judges directly.  Additionally, the publishers must be able to deliver product images of anything they submit to the web boys at ENWorld.  Entry fees seem like they'll be necessary, but they'll be modest.2) Once the top five are selected, we send out an email and a snail mail letter to the point of contact for the companies whose products have been chosen.  Those companies will be asked to RSVP, and will be heavily encouraged to host samples of their products on their sites in easy-to-find locations (and to send links to us).3) ENnies voting should start probably in the middle of July.  Do it after Origins and the US 4th of July holiday, but early enough that we'll be able to have everything set up and ready to go by the end of July.  Actually, remind me what date GenCon 05's gonna be?4) The ENnies booth should preferably not have a huge honking board shielding it from half the people walking past us.  We should have a banner, a computer with internet access (wireless?) so people can see the site, and a slide show demo of some sort showing the nominees.  We will have a list of the nominees, and a nicely bound folder with a page devoted to each award, so people can flip through it.  I'm going to encourage EN Publishing to prepare 'sampler CDs' with copies of all of our pdf products, which we can maybe raffle off or something, to encourage people to come to the booth.  Gamers love swag, and our booth lacked swaggage.5) The ENnies ceremony.  Yes to a preshow cocktail thingy.  Yes to more formal attire and ushered seating.  Yes to an after party.Okay, so not that short of a post, but those are my comments and ideas.  Oh, wait, product categories.I am fully in favor of opening the awards to more than just d20, because GenCon likes us and we share in their fame.  However, we do share, so we should keep some of our own focus, and thus we cannot completely do away with one or two d20-only categories.</blockquote>

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