Awards for bi.org

Naturally such an excellent site as bi.org has won plenty of awards, but we certainly won't object to getting more ;-) Please nominate us for any awards you think are suitable!

Awards we've won

"The Rainbow Award is exclusively bestowed upon those gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendereds who have made a contribution to the GLBT Web community through excellence in content, design, creativity, presentation or overall concept of their personal Web page." Awarded September 1996.

[netgiver award] "NetCulture Correct Sites Created By NetGenerous People. It's all about Content: We just think that the Internet is an important world-wide communication tool in which multi-cultural thoughts, ideas and information can be shared. This award is a 'Thank You' & a recognition of everyone who is making an effort (no matter how small it is) to provide free useful information or services to the Internet world-wide community..." Awarded September 1996.

"The Freedom Awards were brought into being in order to recognise and praise Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered WWW sites. There are many different reasons why a site would be given the Freedom Award - and not just because they've got some really cool cgi scripts on their server. To us, content is the most important reason. We are looking for sites which contribute something to our community." Awarded October 1996.

"At Astrology-Dot-Net we appreciate those Web sites that contribute information to the Web community in a way that stands out from the flood of ordinary sites. We created the Astrology.Net Gold Star Award to recognize those sites as valuable members of the online world." Awarded January 1997.

"The goal behind the TOTALLY COOL QUEER SITE Awards is to showcase the many wonderful sites that have been created by members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) community. We invite you, the Queer WebSurfing public, to nominate those sites which you believe are outstanding examples of both Queer Pride AND excellent Web Design." Awarded March 1997.

[funky diva award of excellence] "This award will be given to those pages made by Women and Men of the LesBiGay community who's web pages reflect excellence in both form and content and are a positive resource for us.." Awarded April 1997.

"The Webmaster Award is given to qualified webmasters by our staff. The criteria for our award is that the site must have Unique & Useful Content or Subject Matter, Exceptional Graphic Design, or both." Awarded July 1997.

"Excellence Without Excess is dedicated to the recognition of Web authors who have succeeded in creating profound, informative, intelligent and entertaining pages without the use of extraneous graphic devices that reduce accessibility, usability, efficiency and depth of content. It exists to celebrate good taste and moderation, to reward those who rely on their own ingenuity -- not on a set of prepackaged attention-grabbing tools -- to create worthwhile programming for this new communication medium." Awarded August 1997.

[outstanding site] "Because of your contribution to the Gay and Lesbian Family Community, you were nominated to receive our OUTSTANDING SITE AWARD. Often our site awards are for site content, but we also recognize an individual or group contributions to our Gay and Lesbian Family Community. Your site is exceptional, thank you. It takes all of us to make a better world!" Awarded September 1997.

"The THREE-WAY 'Site of the Honor' awards pages which excel in at least one of: design, unique use of web space, scope of material covered, a sense of humor, ease in navigation, topic, plus the site must show true Pride in Our Community." Awarded January 1998.

"For Service to the Gay Community. The IGGW Black Claw Award is conferred upon those individuals, organizations, or web pages which have made significant contributions to web page design and/or to the community at large. " Awarded March 1998.

"For outstanding web sites that rise above the rest in content, design and usability we award our Most Prestigious Award, to recognize web sites which exhibit intuition, graceful design, and usefulness in information." Awarded May 1998.

"For Excellence in the Gay Community. The IGGW Black Claw Award is conferred upon those individuals, organizations, or web pages which have made significant contributions to web page design and/or to the community at large. " Awarded July 1998.

"Revenge Online Award of Excellence is given to sites because: they have a well designed and interesting site, and they have a site which promotes gays/lesbians/bisexuals in a positive manner as well as being a top resource." Awarded July 1998.

Revenge 5-star award

"Links²Go Key Resource award, Gender and Sexuality category: an award that is both exclusive and objective, based on an analysis of millions of web pages, looking at how page authors index and organize links on their pages. " Awarded November 1998.

As well as awards for the site as a whole, some of our users have won awards for their home pages.

Britstuff Top 40 for Nick Smith's homepage, August 1997.
Funky Diva Award of Excellence for Bi Community News, April 1997.
Médaille d'Or for Web Site Excellence for Nick Smith's homepage, January 1997.
Freedom Award for the Purple Book, November 1995.
Freedom Award for Bi Community News, November 1995.

Reviews of bi.org

"As well as providing free WWW space, there is a large set of pages detailing resources (e.g. groups, organisations, magazines, Internet newsgroups). This site also hosts Bi Community News, a national newsletter for bisexuals and The Purple Book, a down to earth (and frequently blunt) guide on sex and sexuality aimed at 'freshers' at Cambridge University."
UK Yellow Pages November 1996.

"There are very few good resources for bisexuals on the 'net, something which really does needs to be addressed, this site is one of the few. In a world were many see bisexuals as the ultimate sexual outcast this site can offer help, advice and a contact point. There's also health advice, mailing lists and you can also get free web space. Great work."
Revenge Online July 1998.

"A very good-looking site which aims to "serve the worldwide bisexual community by providing a free Internet presence for bisexual individuals, groups and non-profit organisations." They've just moved to a shiny new server and must be one of the fastest, user-friendly and most informative resources on the web today."
Cool Site of the Day UK March 1999.

Awards on the Internet

You might like to visit some of the awards sites at Yahoo! - Best of the Web (not that I'm suggesting you tell them how great bi.org is - oh no, not me ... )

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