THE BEST OF THE ROTARY WEB 1997 - THE WINNERS |
Here are the results from Roger Siddle: Congratulations to the winners! Rotaract District 2420 is on the 3rd place with your votes! Thank you! http://www.oocities.org/SouthBeach/Marina/1571/ Aysegul *********************************************** THE BEST OF THE ROTARY WEB 1997 - THE WINNERS It has been difficult to administer the voting this year. There were practical problems because people did not use the voting form, or were confused by the numbers used to identify sites. In view of the number of votes, an automated e-mail system was used and many forms were rejected with error messages. I would like to thank the patience of all those who resubmitted their votes. A deeper problem was how to prevent people sending in multiple votes for their favourite site. The rule of one e-mail address, one vote seems fair until you try to make it work. It is flawed because one person can usually set up multiple mailboxes on their account. If however you ignore the mailbox and only allow: one domain, one vote - you allow only one vote from AOL or Compuserve! There is no way of catching this and all you can do is to review the votes for blatant manipulation. Finally you have the problem of Rotarians who interpret the rule of one e-mail address, one vote as a licence to send in duplicate votes from different addresses. The record was four from the same Rotarian but there were others. In these cases only the first vote was counted. Eventually a total of 336 voting forms were accepted with 844 votes which produced the following results: THE POLL WINNERS - Best Club Site 1st: Zamboanga City - http://www.jetlink.com.ph/users/rczc/ 2nd: San Salvador Cuscatlan - http://www.gbm.net/rotary_cuscatlan 3rd: Helsinki Eira - http://jarvi.vk.hk.hit.fi/roteira Best District Site 1st: 1420 - http://yritys.kolumbus.fi/rotary/D1420/ 2nd: 9980 - http://www.es.co.nz/~rotary/home.htm 3rd: 5060 - http://www.sd83.bc.ca/comm/rotary/rotary.htm Best Rotaract Site 1st: Rotaract Club of Malacca - http://www.ag.com.my/d3310/Rotaract/ 2nd: Cuscatlan-ESEN - http://www.gbm.net/rotary_cuscatlan/rotaract 3rd: Rotaract District 2420 - http://www.oocities.org/SouthBeach/Marina/1571/ Best Interact Site 1st: Interact Club Headquarters on the Internet - http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/home/jhwang/interact/index.html 2nd: SFI Interact Club - http://www.webcom.com/lwloo/SFI_Interact_Club/ 3rd: Club Interact Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico 4150 - http://www.oocities.org/CollegePark/Quad/1142/ Best of the Rest 1st: Rotarians On The Internet Home Page - http://www.es.co.nz/~rotary/roti.htm 2nd: Fellowship on Population and Development - http://www.sd83.bc.ca/comm/rotary/ifpd/ifpd.htm 3rd: World Service Database - http://www.rotaract.de/service AWARDS BY THE PANEL OF JUDGES All of the 183 sites entered for the contest were visited, apart from a few which could not be reached. Each site was marked according to a script which awarded upto 20 marks for the homepage and upto 20 marks for the rest of the site. We were looking for good design with an individual style. Ease of navigation was important, but above all we were looking for sites with useful, original content. A dazzling homepage with nothing but links to www.rotary.org and a list of board members would not score highly overall. On the basis of the marks allocated, awards were made as follows: Highly Commended (in alphabetical order) RI District 1080 - http://www.gurney.co.uk/rotary/ Bluffton - http://www.rotary7770.org/bluffton Blumenau Verde Vale - http://www.flynet.com.br/rotary/ Brighton - http://www3.sympatico.ca/covenant/rotary/ Denver Tech Center - http://www.idgroup.net/rotary.htm Interact Club Of SMJK Hua Lian - http://hlinteract.base.org/ Library of Rotary Graphics - http://www.elfco.se/rotary/grafik.html Makati North - http://www.globe.com.ph/~rotarymn Memphis East - http://www.hitechdata.com/rotary Shrewsbury Darwin - http://www.datanet.co.uk/darwin/ World Service Database - http://www.rotaract.de/service Honourable Mentions (in alphabetical order) RI District 3310 - http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~hbfong RI District 5050 - http://www.cyberpage.com/rotary/ RI District 5160 - http://www.rotary5160.org RI District 7150 - http://district7150.org Club 100 - http://www.rotary100.org Dyrehaven - http://www.image.dk/~bml_aqr/rota-uk.htm McAlester - http://www.icok.net/~rotary RJ Tijuca - http://www.tijuca.com/rotary Rochester Rotary II - http://www.apluscomputer.com/rr2/ Rotaract Club at the United Nations in NYC - http://www.rotaract-nyc.org Santa Rosa West - http://www.sr-rotary-west.org Shepperton - http://www.surreyweb.org.uk/rotary_club_of_shepperton/ Youth Exchange Program District 3400, Indonesia - http://www.centrin.net.id/yepd3400 SERVICE TO ROTARY: MULTI-LINGUAL SITES It may be the World Wide Web but in the beginning it spoke English. As it has spread round the world, members of the Rotary movement have created sites in their own language. Some have gone further and worked to bridge nations with web sites in two or more languages. This year the judges would like to acknowledge the value of such sites and the work that has gone into them. Listed below are just a few which have made that effort, but we hereby recognise all such sites. Geras-Waldviertel Rotary Club - http://www.Austria.EU.net/RotaryGeras/ Dyrehaven Rotary Club - http://www.image.dk/~bml_aqr/rota-uk.htm RI#2620 International Service Committee - http://www2.shizuokanet.or.jp/usr/ri2620 Rocha Rotary Club - http://www.netgate.com.uy/rotary/rocha/ Hua-Lien Central Rotary Club - http://www.tpe.wownet.net/~neuro/rotary/index.htm Cafetal Rotary Club - http://www.cafetal.base.org Ronneby Rotary Club - http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-23598/rotary/rbyhem.htm THANK YOU Thanks to everyone who took part, web masters, voters and fellow judges. Watch out for the "Best of the Rotary Web 1998". Roger Siddle. Director ICUFR. |
