Ocean Recon nominated for best Service/Employment in the 14th annual Webby awards
By Sammi Needham at April 14, 2010 | 2:45 pmPrint
Announced today, Ocean Recon has been nominated for Best Service/Employment in the 14th Annual Webby Awards. Vote online to help us win the internet’s top honor. Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.
Ocean Recon (launched in 2009) is a visual treat from Visual Jazz for Australian Defence Force Recruiting, developed to provide a detailed insight into what life is like as a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Submariner. Working with the RAN for over a year, we have managed to create the most immersive and realistic representation of Submariner life available online.
“Nominees like Visual Jazz are setting the standard for innovation and creativity on the Internet. It is an incredible achievement to be selected among the best from the nearly 10,000 entries we received this year.”
said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the Webby Awards.
Ocean Recon is a project that we at Visual Jazz are very proud of so it’s a great honour to be in the running for a Webby.
As a nominee, Ocean Recon is also eligible to win a Webby People’s Voice Award, which is voted online by the global Web community. From now until April 29th, Ocean Recon fans can cast their votes in The Webby People’s Voice Awards.
Winners will be announced on May 4th, 2010 and honored at a star-studded ceremony in New York City on June 14th where they will have an opportunity to deliver one of the Webby’s famous five-word speeches with the world. Past Webby Award winners – and their speeches – include Al Gore (“Please don’t recount this vote.”), Stephen Colbert (“Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.”), and Michel Gondry (“Keyboards are full of germs.”) Check out a full list of last year’s five-word speeches.
The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 650-person judging academy whose members include Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, R/GA’s Chief Bob Greenberg, “Simpson’s” creator Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington, and Harvey Weinstein.