Website wonder

MIRBOO North’s community website has been highly commended in an international competition.
Mirboo Country Development Inc. (MCDI) has been operating the website www.mirboonorth.vic.au for the last six years on the community’s behalf.
MCDI members Jaci Hicken, Maxine Kiel and Heather Butler recently travelled to Crown in Melbourne to be guests at the Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards, ANZIA.
The MCDI and www.mirboonorth.vic.au were nominated for the Leonie Dunbar Memorial Award for community websites.
This award was in memory of Leonie Dunbar (1957 – 2013) who for eight years was the driving force behind community websites through the auDA’s (.au Domain Administration Ltd) Community Geographic Domain Names.
Five community websites nominated for this award, ranging from suburbs of state capitals (Taroona and Carlton), state capitals (Sydney) to regional towns (Apollo Bay and Mirboo North).
To be eligible, entrants had to be a not for profit community website for a local area in Australia or New Zealand and demonstrate how their community website had made a positive contribution to the local area.
On accepting the award, Ms Hicken said, “To have the Mirboo North community website acknowledged with a highly commended is a great honour for us. It is recognition of the MCDI’s commitment to its residents. We hope this award encourages others to create or contribute to their local community’s website.”
Apollo Bay won the award.

Fantastic achievement: celebrating the highly commended award for community websites were, from left, Jaci Hicken, Maxine Kiel and Heather Butler of Mirboo Country Development Inc., with judge Graham McDonald.

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Posted by Sarah Vella on Sep 9 2014. Filed under Community. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry