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Posted by dustinw on May 14th, 2008 comments 2 Comments

With most big web gatherings, the only red carpet you’ll witness is after the cocktail waitress spills the red wine tray on the floor, and the only celebrity sightings are contained within a powerpoint slide.

Webby WinnerBut once a year, the community of web professionals commonly dubbed “geek” become rather chic. The Webby Awards take place in June and are known as the Oscars of the Internet. Being a judge for the awards, I’ve had the pleasure of attending two Webby Award Gala events and must say there is no higher honor and no grander event for a web professional.

Back in March, I was pleasantly surprised to see the T-Mobile Sidekick wiki on the ballot for judges to choose from– not because it meant I could skip judging the telecommunications category due to the obvious conflict of interest, but rather because it’s a great Wetpaint website run by Sidekick enthusiasts.

Looks like the other judges agree, as the T-Mobile Sidekick wiki has officially won a 2008 Webby. Congratulations to the Sidekick wiki members for growing the site, T-Mobile for sponsoring the site, and Wetpaint for making it all possible!

Now the only question is, when we stand up on stage with the likes of Stephen Colbert, Michel Gondry, and Mark Zuckerber, what should our five-word acceptance speech be?

Keyword Tags: Collaboration, Web 2.0, New Media, User Experience, User Generated Content, Events, Wetpaint, Wikis, General, Fun

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I’ll lead off with a couple 5-word speech ideas:

“Kickin’ it in true wiki-fashion”

“Every site’s canvas deserves Wet Paint”

“Batman chose the wrong sidekick”

“Sidekick fans makin’ sweet wiki”

By Dustin on May 14th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

“Batman chose the wrong sidekick”

Oh Dustin. Why?

“11,000 people know a lot.”

“This is not for Paris.”

“Can we twitter the award?”

By TroyJMorris on May 14th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

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