The Winners of the 2009 W3 Awards have been announced by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. In its fourth year, the W³ Awards received nearly 3,000 entries from Ad agencies, Public Relations Firms, Interactive Agencies, and interactive media professionals from around the world.  The W3 Awards honor outstanding Websites, Web Marketing and Web Video created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers and creators worldwide.

The Winners of the 2009 W3 Awards have been announced by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. In its fourth year, the W³ Awards received nearly 3,000 entries from Ad agencies, Public Relations Firms, Interactive Agencies, and interactive media professionals from around the world.  The W3 Awards honor outstanding Websites, Web Marketing and Web Video created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers and creators worldwide.

Politics4All has been awarded three “Silver Awards” for creative excellence from the International Academy of the Visual Arts’ W3 Awards in the following areas: Politics, Social Networking and Political Blogging. Website entries are judged on the following factors: creativity, usability, navigation, functionality, visual design, and ease of use.

“We were incredibly impressed by the quality and creativity of this year’s entries. W3 winners continue to set the bar in Web development and design, push the limits of web advertising creativity and advance the use of web video. We are thrilled to have reviewed such a diverse and respected pool of work” said Linda Day, the executive director of the IAVA. “On behalf of the entire Academy, we congratulate this year’s W³ Award winners as they continue to advance Internet creativity and greatly contribute to the robust and ever-changing online community.”

The W3 Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms.

Thanks to the design and development team for all of their hard work and to the Virticle Media Group team for their support as well.  We couldn’t have gotten here without each one of you.

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Politics4All has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Blog – Political category in The 13th Annual Webby Awards.

Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, established in 1996 The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites.

The Official Honoree distinction is awarded to work that scores in the top 15% of all work entered into the Webby Awards. There were nearly 10,000 entries received from all 50 states and overmore than 60 countries.

Winners are chosen by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a global organization whose members include David Bowie, Harvey Weinstein, Matt Groening, Jamie Oliver, Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser, AKQA Global Creative Director Rei Inamoto, and R/GA CEO Bob Greenberg.

Recognition by the Webby Awards puts you in an esteemed group of industry leaders such as Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo!, iTunes, Google, FedEx, BBC News, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, NPR, Salon Magazine, Evite, Meetup, Wikipedia, Flickr, ESPN, Comedy Central, PBS, and The Onion.

Needless to say, the Politics4All team is pretty excited about this honor.  But we couldn’t have done it without all the people who come to our site every day. Thanks for coming to the site and making it what it is!

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Politics4All made it through three rounds of voting to win first place for the best political Website in Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Award’s for  People’s Choice.

The 2nd Annual Open Web Awards is a multilingual, international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology which recognizes and honors the top achievements of websites and services in 26 categories.  Over 100 of Mashable’s Blog Partners help make this the biggest Open Web Awards to date spanning 25 countries and written in 10 different languages.

We were up against some great political Websites, 270toWin, CreateDebate, Freedom Speaks, Govit, GovTrack, HuffingtonPost, Infidels are Cool, Precise News and you2gov.

We would like to thank everybody who voted and supported us through the voting rounds.  We couldn’t have done it without you!

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