Navy.mil Award Well Deserved

Navy.mil was award an honorable mention by the Webby Awards. Might sound silly, but it really is an honor. It is also well deserved.

The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for the Web, recognized Navy.mil as an "Official Honoree" April 10.

The Webby Awards recognize work exhibiting remarkable achievement. The Navy.mil web site is produced for the U.S. Navy by Naval Media Center.

Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Web sites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Web sites. The awards are judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a global organization that includes David Bowie, Harvey Weinstein, Arianna Huffington, AKQA Global Creative Director Rei Inamoto, Matt Groening, Jamie Oliver, Internet inventor Vinton Cerf, and RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser.
"The Webby Awards honors the outstanding work that is setting the standards for the Internet," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards. "Navy.mil's Official Honoree selection is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of its creators."

It took me awhile to get used to the new setup, but I think the Navy has done an excellent job with its official web content lately. I want to point something else out, every warship that has thus far deployed in 2008 has had its website updated, and most of the websites have been very well done. I see this as a good thing, websites for warships in the past have been lacking, and I'm being kind attempting to avoid specifically insulting the crap they had on the web in some cases.

I don't know if the same webmasters running Navy.mil are building the new websites for ships making deployments, or if there are other webmasters doing that work, but the Navy has made 2008 a banner year for its internet outreach and deserves both recognition and credit for it. Very nice they get that recognition through the Webby Awards.

I'll try to remember to highlight the ships that get new websites as the next round of strike group rotations pick up over the next few months.