One of our business contacts called me from Cebu last night to tell me that B&B’s Project 01 (http://www.ads4export.com) won a bronze medal in the Araw Awards’ Interactive category. I wrote a lengthy entry sometime ago about how we threw that site together in about a week’s time, and the fact that it still took home the bronze says more about the competition than it does about the quality of our work, I think.
Like the Philippine Webbys (which one of B&B’s other sites, http://www.atayala.com, is currently a finalist for), I find it a bit difficult to take these local awards seriously. My rant on the Webbys hasn’t changed since their inception 5 years ago, but the Araw Awards is a different animal altogether. That site that we built — Ads For Export — is the official site of the Araw Awards, for goodness sake. It’s like awarding a Webby to http://www.philippinewebawards.com for, you know, having a really cool site and all.
Anyway, whatever. If I get anything out of this situation it’s the fact that I can now officially use the word "award-winning" in our corporate profile, and as long as nobody asks me exactly what the circumstances of that award was, I don’t have to admit that I think those "circumstances" were a bit shady.