[cma-l] Community Radio Toolkit Web Awards

[Phil Korbel]

apologies for cross posting


> The Community Radio Toolkit is delighted to announce the winners of
> the Web Award for Community Radio Stations. The winners’ websites
> were selected on the basis of ease of use, welcoming messages, key
> features for radio station websites, clear invitations to get
> involved as well as their look and design. 
> 
> The joint winners are Weave FM and Harborough FM.  
> 
> This new web award was launched this year to showcase community
> radio station websites, highlighting good practice and engaging
> features.
> 
> The Community Radio Toolkit - a joint enterprise of the Community
> Media Association and Radio Regen –supports community radio
> practitioners with web-based resources, emphasising mutual support
> and sharing of expertise. This web award aims to inspire and inform
> practitioners by showing the sector’s diverse and varied approaches
> to website design and content. 
> 
> Weave FM impressed the panel with its accessible, attractive and
> welcoming website. “This is an excellent site and very user
> friendly. The colour schemes and visuals are very warm and friendly
> and navigating through the site is very straightforward”, said panel member Tom Buckham.  We found Weave FM’s website particularly
> inviting and informative about getting involved as a volunteer or a
> board member. Visit them at www.weavefm.com
> 
> The panel found Harborough FM’s website offered a good
> representation of the local community with a dynamic feel and a
> clean look. Panel members Michelle Doust and Bill Best of the
> Community Media Association considered it  “most inviting to
> potential volunteers. A very welcoming website that is easy to
> navigate”. Check them out at www.harboroughfm.co.uk 
> 
> Special commendations go to Feile FM at www.feilefm.com for an
> attractive, warm and friendly site and US-based  Wyce at
> www.wyce.org for its professional look and variety of music-oriented features. Radio Active at {www.radioactivelive.com" } www.radioactivelive.com were commended for their striking design,
> fulsome content and good use of technology.
> 
> The panel was made of Bill Best, Technical Manager and Michelle
> Doust, Multimedia & Information Officer of the Community Media
> Association, Tom Buckham, Station Manager with Future Radio and
> Danielle Lowy, Online Communities Coordinator with Community Radio
> Toolkit. 
> 
> The panel would like to take this opportunity to thank all entrants
> to the award. We were impressed by the range of features and
> functions that the websites offered across the board and
> particularly enjoyed sites showing the personality of their station
> and community. On some websites more work could be done on ease of
> navigation as well as the level of interaction offered to existing
> and potential volunteers and listeners.
> 
> To see the full list of entrants, and for your chance to vote for
> ‘the people’s favourite’, please visit the Community Radio Toolkit
> website at
> {http://www.communityradiotoolkit.net/course/view.php?id=9"
> }http://www.communityradiotoolkit.net/course/view.php?id=9 
> 
> Here you will also find a series of articles and ‘how tos’ on
> building and running your community radio station website.
> 
> Congratulations again to our winners, Weave FM and Harborough FM who
> receive a goodie bag with a Community Radio Toolkit handbook, FM
> radio pen, USB drive and mousemat as well as a special Community
> Media Association mug. 
> 
> With good wishes
> Danielle Lowy
> 
> Danielle Lowy
> Online Communities Coordinator
> Radio Regen 
> 12 Hilton Street
> Manchester M1 1JF   
> www.radioregen.org
> www.communityradiotoolkit.net - a place for community radio people
> to learn, talk and share