The winner of the Enonic Annual Conference Award 2009

16/10/2009 15:53The Norwegian Public Roads Administration ( Statens Vegvesen ) was awarded the trophy for the best website during the Enonic Annual conference, and was properly celebrated throughout the event.

The Enonic Annual Conference 2009 was held at the distinguished Gamle Logen, on October 15th. One the many highlights during the conference was the announcement of this years winner of the Enonic Annual Conference Award.

The Award

The Enonic Annual Conference Award is an appreciation from Enonic to all the ambassadors of skillfull men and women who improve their websites by combining innovative skills, creativity, hard work and of course the Enonic CMS.  Besides a trophy that manifests these efforts, Enonic will enroll the winner in a Norwegian national competiton known as Farmandprisen, a prestigous Award in the Norwegian Web marketplace.

The criterias set for all participants are that their website has been launched or relaunched during the last 12 months, that it has been created by either our partners or the customer themselves,  and that the website is powered by Enonic CMS.

The Jury

There are many websites who meet the selection criterias, and to ensure an objective evaluation of our candidates, an external jury was established to shorten the list down to 5 nominees for this years award. The external jury contained capasities like

• Anders Stensønes, Webmaster at Apotek 1
• Frank Fardal, advisor at The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment
• Axel Haugen at Finn.no,
• Erik Hafver Rønjum, Senior Usability Specialist at Netlife Research
• Ragnhild Paalsrud at Norsk Film Institutt
• Roar Eriksen.

The Nominees

This years nominees were quite different from eachother, but they all acchieved high marks for ease of use, appropriate amounts of information and clear statements with regards to what mission the website has. The nominees were:

• Antioksidanter.no (by Tine)
• test.skolemelk.no ( by Tine )
• Delta.no
• Kommunikasjonsforeningen.no
• Vegvesen.no

The winner

This years winner was chosen by an online votation during our conference, and we are proud to annonce that this years winner is The Norwegian Public Roads Administration ( Statens Vegvesen ). These are the factors highlighted by the jury, resulting in the nomination.

• User- and serviceoriented
• Modern an trustworthy design
• Flash menu at the top, but fallback with images
• Has the Ida-service and a separate high contrast version
• Fokus on the traffic messaging service
• Obvious and self explanatory usermode portals
• Well balanced amount of information for the average user on the first page

Congratulations to all of you on your win, and we wish you the best of luck in competing for yet another victory at the Farmand Award in march 2009.