The Katie Awards

Last night LevelTen went to the Katie Awards. We were a finalist for best corporate website. We didn't win, but it didn't matter because the MC said that we should all be proud for just being selected as finalist. So we were proud. Personally, I am blame us not wining on LevelTen being a new comer and being typecast as Katie Award outsiders ;-) . We will get them next year. The show itself was pretty amazing. I really had no idea how big a deal the Katies were. It was a big, formal gala that with over 600 people (over 60 tables of ten people each (I'm good at math)) at the Hyatt Regency downtown. There were lots of regional celebrities and top professionals in the communications fields. The whole show was very well produced. Fun all around. Side Note: We would not have even been there if Neil hadn't suggested we register for the award and Liz and him put together the submission. Good job guys! The whole thing I also thought was a little bizarre, particularly some of the esoteric award categories. I know these types of recognition awards are common in the advertising and communications world but they are not in IT and consulting the world I grew up in. So all the hoopla seemed a little surreal. Then I thought, what if there was a similar awards for IT and consulting? So I created the top 10 categories for an IT consulting awards show.

1. Best documentation
2. Best specialty application feature
3. Best migration plan
4. Best supporting developer
5. Best coding comments layout
6. Best use of a fast Fourier transforms by a middle market developer
7. Best general feature by a Spanish-language programmer
8. Best algorithm design by a academic or research service
9. Best internal formail app
10. Best algorithm porfolio