Protagonize a winner at 2009 W3 Awards
Another under-the-radar award win for Protagonize! We recently received notification from the International Academy of Visual Arts that Protagonize was a Silver Award winner in two categories in the 2009 W3 Awards. Protagonize won in both the Community and Publishing categories of this year’s awards. We’re pretty stoked to win another award, let alone two!
The W3 Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, marketing programs, and video work created for the web. Currently in its fourth year, the W3 Awards received nearly 3,000 entries from ad agencies, public relations forms, interactive agencies, in-house creative professionals, web designers, graphic designers, and web enthusiasts.
You can see a full listing of the winners over on the official awards site, as well as a gallery of the best-in-show and gold award winners over at the IAVA Winners Gallery. We at Taunt Media would like to issue a hearty congratulations to all of the other winners for 2009 — cheers!
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Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction. One author writes a story, and others post branches or chapters to it in different directions. The result is an organic, evolving story where everyone can participate.
In June of 2008, Protagonize was selected as a finalist in the 2008 Canadian New Media Awards, for "Excellence in Social Media Websites". In July of 2008, Backbone Magazine and KPMG named Protagonize as one of the top 20 Web 2.0 projects in Canada in their PICK 20 competition. In March of 2009, Protagonize was selected as a finalist in the 2009 SXSW Interactive Web Awards. Protagonize has attracted over 10,000 authors since its debut in late December, 2007.
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