Frequently asked questions

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There is a $10 submission fee for each website.

 

YES, we will celebrate Drupal Innovation on May 22nd, 2013 during DrupalCon in Portland Oregon.  

Try to ask yourself which one it mostly fits into. If you just can't decide, err on the side of the more specific award.

(Non-Drupal) Examples:

• www.Apple.com is primarily an Enterprise website, even though they've got a great ecommerce store.
• store.Apple.com is primarily an Marketplace website, even though it's part of a much larger enterprise website.
• www.Amazon.com is primarily a Marketplace website, even though they have some social and enterprise components.
• Drupal.org is primarily a Community website although it has a lot of Enterprise and Non-profit characteristics.

Categories

As you are choosing a category for your nomination, please make sure that the site matches the definitions below: (Drupal Website of the Year is not nominated directly, it is selected from among the finalists by the voters. Each voter will be asked to designate one site on their ballot from any category to receive their Drupal Site of the Year vote. All finalists are automatically included in Drupal Website of the Year voting.)

Best B2C Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best B2C Website Website Built with Drupal Description: Nominees for Best B2C Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations in business to consumers. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best B2B Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best B2B Website Website Built with Drupal Description: Nominees for Best B2B Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations in business to business. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Government Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Government Website Built with Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Government Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations in government. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Health Care Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Healthcare Website Built with Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Healthcare Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations in healthcare. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Education Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Education Website Built with Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Education Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations in Education. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Political Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Political Website Built with Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Political Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations in Politics. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Marketplace/eCommerce Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Marketplace/eCommerce Website Built With Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Marketplace/eCommerce Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations that are eCommerce, eBusiness, or Marketplace in nature regardless of particular business model used. This would include B2B, B2C, C2B and C2C, and mobile commerce websites.

Best Retail Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Retail Website Built with Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Retail Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations in Retail. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Social Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Social/Community Website Built With Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Social Website Built With Drupal represent implementations of Drupal that are primarily social or community-driven in nature.

Best Media Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Media Website Built With Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Media Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations for Media industry websites. These could include websites for print or electronic magazine, podcasting, broadcasting, news, mass communications, etc.

Best Entertainment Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Entertainment Website Built With Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Entertainment Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations for Enterdainment industry websites. These could include websites for music, movie, film, etc.

Best Sports Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Sport Website Built with Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Sport Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations in sports news, sporting culture, sports teams, sports data, sporting events, and sports history. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Religion & Spirituality Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Religion & Spirituality Website Built with Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Religion & Spirituality Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations sites focusing on the spirit or the soul, spiritual practice - traditional or otherwise. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Non-Profit Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Non-Profit Website Built With Drupal Description:Nominees for Best Non-Profit Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations for Non-Profit businesses. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Fundraising Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Fundraising Website Built With Drupal Description:Nominees for Best Fundraising Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations for Non-Profit businesses. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Advocacy Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Advocacy Website Built With Drupal Description:Nominees for Best Fundraising Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations for Non-Profit businesses. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Association Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Association Website Built With Drupal Description:Nominees for Best Association Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations for Associations. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Personal Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Personal Website Built With Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Personal Website Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations for personal, non-business websites. This might be a personal blog, podcast, resume, etc. website that is owned and operated by an individual for primarily non-commercial purposes. Nominations can be for either the entity's primary website or a secondary website.

Best Weird Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Weird Website Built With Drupal Description: Nominees for Best Weird Website Built With Drupal is a catch-all for Drupal websites that do not fit in another category. It might be truly-bizarre, off-the-wall or just plain fun.

Best Integrated Mobile Experience Website Built With Drupal

Long name: Best Integrated Mobile Experience Built With Drupal Description:Nominees for Best Integrated Mobile Experience Built With Drupal represent Drupal implementations regardless of particular business model used. This would include B2B, B2C, C2B and C2C websites.

Drupal Book of the Year

Long name: Drupal Book of the Year Description: Nominees for Drupal Book of the Year

Drupal Module of the Year

Long name: Drupal Module of the Year Description: Nominees for Drupal Module of the Year

Drupal Theme of the Year

Long name: Drupal Theme of the Year Description: Nominees for Drupal Theme of the Year

Drupal Event of the Year

Long name: Drupal Event of the Year Description: Nominees for Drupal Event of the Year

Sponsorship funds and individual donations are used in the following ways:

1. Paying for the expenses related to creating and running Blue Drop Awards. This may include things like awards, trophies, design, hosting, website development, marketing, events and press releases.
2. Prizes awarded to the winning websites and the site builders behind them.
3. Increasing the awareness of Drupal outside the community. We plan to create marketing materials and an ongoing podcast highlighting winners, finalists and nominees throughout the year. We intend to support the community's efforts represented here: http://drupal.org/node/938474 and here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/173644.

Nomination is a very quick process. It goes something like this:

1. Sign up for an account.
2. Read the nomination requirements.
3. Nominate a qualifying website.
4. If you need to, save it and finish later. It's a great idea to bookmark it so you can find it easily.
5. Pay the $10 submission fee via PayPal
6. Important: When your nomination is complete, set the "Finished?" field to "Nomination is complete." and click "Save".

Unless notified otherwise, you are finished nominating. You can nominate another website now! Here's what happens next:

1. Within 2-3 business days, the Nomination Committee will review your nomination.
2. If it approved, you will receive an email and your nomination will go live on the website.
3. If it is not approved, you will receive an email explaining why and what you need to do.

What to do if there are any hiccups? Contact us using the Feedback form. We're pretty good about responding quickly.

We hope not! We respect Drupal's meritocracy system. We hope the Blue Drop Awards will make it easier to see the outcomes and to highlight some of the countless ways that the community contributes to Drupal. Ultimately, the community will decide who wins, so the meritocracy system is an inherent part of the Blue Drop Awards.

No! You can nominate ANY qualifying site, even if you didn't even touch it! If you just like it, nominate it. It's helpful if you know who the developer is or a contact at the owner organization. If we have time, we'll try to help but we may not have time. That's the risk. If we (or you) find someone who knows a lot more about it, we may transition the node to that person so they can add the details.