If you have a site, why not promote it, or you think you are worthy of an award? Nominate yourself. You can also nominate anyone here.

To follow the nomination through out the period, use this hashtag on twitter: #nwa2010. you can nominate someone, web product, startups or a website that fits into any of the categories below. To promote yourself or your site, use our promote page to generate the code.

Format

Nomination, Voting(Popular votes and Awards board) and Announcement.

Duration

Nomination November 9th – December 15th 2010

Voting: December 16th 2010 – January 9th 2011

Announcement of Winners: January 10th 2011

You can join our awards Community on Facebook.

Voting Categories

1. Nigerian Web Personality of the Year
2. Website of the Year
3. Nigerian Web Developer of the Year
4. Nigerian Blogger of the Year
5. Startup Friendly ISP
6. Startup Friendly Investor
7. Mentor of the Year
8. Startup of the Year
9. Web Designer of the Year
10. Event of the Year
11. Most Functional Site of the Year
12. Analyst of the Year
13. Internet Connection Product of the Year
14. Internet Marketer of the Year
15. Most Influential Nigerian on Facebook
16. Most Inspiring Nigerian Online
17. Best Corporate use of Social Media
18. Top Industry Website (Bank)
19. Top Industry Website (Media/News)
20. Top Industry Website (Telecom)
21. Top Industry Website (Celebrity Website)
22. Top Industry Website (Entertainment)
23. Web Savvy Celebrity
24. Nigerian Social Networking Site of the Year
25. Nigerian Diaspora of the Year
26. Nigerian Blog of the Year
27. Best Money Making Blog of the Year
28. Most Informative Blog of the Year
29. Most Beautiful Blog Theme
30. Web Hosting Company of the Year
31. Internet Company of the Year
32. Internet Lifetime award

Below are the categories we are thinking about, we need your input to make it the best;

Voting Categories

1. Nigerian Web Personality of the Year
2. Website of the Year
3. Nigerian Web Developer of the Year
4. Nigerian Blogger of the Year
5. Startup Friendly ISP
6. Startup Friendly Investor
7. Mentor of the Year
8. Startup of the Year
9. Web Designer of the Year
10. Event of the Year
11. Most Functional Site of the Year
12. Analyst of the Year
13. Internet Connection Product of the Year
14. Internet Marketer of the Year
15. Most Influential Nigerian on Facebook
16. Most Inspiring Nigerian Online
17. Best Corporate use of Social Media
18. Most Influential Nigerian on Twitter
19. Top Industry Website (Bank)
20. Top Industry Website (Media/News)
21. Top Industry Website (Telecom)
22. Top Industry Website (Celebrity Website)
23. Top Industry Website (Entertainment)
24. Top Industry Website (ePayment)
25. Web Savvy Celebrity
26. Nigerian Social Networking Site of the Year
27. Nigerian Diaspora of the Year
28. Nigerian Blog of the Year
29. Best Money Making Blog of the Year
30. Most Beautiful Blog Theme
31. Web Hosting Company of the Year
32. Internet Company of the Year
33. Internet Lifetime award
34. Creative Digital Artist of the Year

If you think there is an interesting aspect we have not included, please indicate in the comment we will adjust before we make our final list. The official website will be launched before the nomination begins.

Also, we will be announcing our panel of judges as the nomination continues.

If you want to join us as sponsor, talk to us now info [at] webtrendsng.com.

We’ve also worked with various organizations doing the same thing in the industry. From Barcamp Nigeria 2010, to  NICE2010, MobiFest2010 and other reports and analysis that are helping players in the industry take good decisions. With God, we believe this will be another power-packed event that will showcase good things happening in the Nigerian web industry.

This year’s awards will be held at a physical place which we believe will also give more people in the industry room to network.

Schedule:

Nomination: November 1st-December 3 2010

Voting: December 6th- December 17th 2010

Event day: December 18th 2010

Venue will be announced very soon!

For sponsorship, kindly mail us: info@webtrendsng.com Let’s make this happen!

The highlights of the event includes room for code camps which is a platform where people are expected to form a group and choose any project and build right from the event. This is believe that it will help make the much clamoured collaboration amongst Nigerian developers possible. With about 2hrs made available for the codecamp, it should be able to kick start the next startup from the best brains in the country.

Also, product launch will be made available at the event which will give attendees opportunities to launched their latest invention on the platform. This will help them get the product to key people in the industry which otherwise they may not be able to get in touch with. To register your product launch, you can drop a comment or edit the wiki to add your product.

Sponsors’ list is growing even as more sponsors are still needed to make the event successful. For any inquiries and sponsorship, mail barcampnigeria [at] gmail.com

Congratulations to the future awards winners. These two people are basically into web that is why am choosing to speak about them. See full list here.

Bade Adesemowo is the CEO of Bincom ICT, a company he founded couple of years ago.

Kunle is a creative artiste and have been instrumental in the design of various artistic stuff. He is part of Naijaborn team and the CEO of K-stunt Media.

We celebrate these young Nigerians as they have despite all odds taken giant steps to register their footprints on the timeline of Life.

You guys deserve it and you won. Big ups!

There some categories that had no nominees or too few, they are;

• Startup Friendly ISP
• Startup Friendly Investor
• Event of the Year
• Top Analyst of the Year
• Best Corporate use of Social Media
• Top Industry Website (Celebrity Website)
• Web Savvy Celebrity
• Best Money Making Blog of the Year
• Internet Lifetime Awards

These categories needs your nomination. The nominations for this categories extended till this Friday 12th February 2010.

Thank you and spread the word!

So far, hundreds nominations have been received and many more going on daily. If you own a site or you personally falls into the categories highlighted, why not promote yourself or nominate someone now.

If you think you’ve the right website or personality, why not nominate your self or place the banner on your site?

Join the nomination now… Click here!

We announced recently that we would be hosting the Nigerian Web Awards for 2009. As you know, for the past 12 months we have kept you up to date on the happening on the web world around the world and Nigeria, we are poised to recognize sites that have consistently show the tenacity of the Nigerian spirit. The award is modeled around Mashable Open Web Awards.

As the industry enlarges, we enjoin you to starts nomination of Nigerian site that fits into any of the categories listed below. Remember it is one vote per day per person and as long as the nomination last. The timeline is; 21st December 2009 – 21st January 2010 Nomination, 21th January – 6th February 2010 Voting begins, 8th February Announcement of Winners. Go to the awards page here.

Voting Categories

1. Nigerian Web Personality of the Year
2. Website of the Year
3. Nigerian Web Developer of the Year
4. Nigerian Blogger of the Year
5. Startup Friendly ISP
6. Startup Friendly Investor
7. Mentor of the Year
8. Startup of the Year
9. Web Designer of the Year
10. Event of the Year
11. Most Functional Site of the Year
12. Top Analyst of the Year
13. Internet Connection Product of the Year
14. Internet Marketer of the Year
15. Most Influential Nigerian on Facebook
16. Most Inspiring Nigerian Online
17. Best Corporate use of Social Media
18. Most Influential Nigerian on Twitter
19. Top Industry Website (Bank)
20. Top Industry Website (Media/News)
21. Top Industry Website (Telecom)
22. Top Industry Website (Celebrity Website)
23. Top Industry Website (Entertainment)
24. Web Savvy Celebrity
25. Nigerian Social Networking Site of the Year
26. Nigerian Diaspora of the Year
27. Nigerian Blog of the Year
28. Best Money Making Blog of the Year
29. Most Informative Blog of the Year
30. Most Beautiful Blog Theme
31. Web Hosting Company of the Year
32. Internet Company of the Year
33. Internet Lifetime award

We are proud to be associated with our partners; Greenlagos.com, Sturvs.com, Naijaborn.com, and ucheugo.net.

As the awards nomination continues, we shall be posting update about the proceeding and also talking more on each category.

The award is open to all web company/personality that falls into the categories outlined above. IF you think you have what it takes, you can nominate yourself and past the nomination banner on your website. Click here to copy the code to paste on your website.

Start nominating now!