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NEWS: Double win for SU at Smedias
Queen’s Students’ Union have won in two categories at the 2010 Smedia Awards. VP Gareth McGreevy picked up the ‘Website of the Year’ award for the QUBSU website, and ‘Society Publication of the Year’ for the Student Handbook.
BY BRENDAN HUGHES
The 10th annual Oxygen.ie National Student Media Awards took place in the Mansion House in Dublin last night. The awards were dominated by Dublin-based student media, with Dublin City University emerging as the biggest winners, claiming 10 prizes.
President-elect McGreevy missed out on winning ‘Editor of the Year’ for his SU Mag work. The award instead went to University College Dublin.
Other QUB nominees failed to win awards: Cillian de Búrca lost out on ‘Radio DJ of the Year’, and Law Society publication, The Verdict, failed to garner enough public support to win the ‘People’s Choice’ category. McGreevy’s win for the Student Handbook also came at the expense of both SU Mag and The Verdict, being nominated in the same category.
It is reported that some students attending the awards expressed confusion at the final nominations tally. In some instances, students became nominees for categories they hadn’t entered, such as SU Mag’s nomination for ‘Society Publication of the Year’.
A full list of the nominees and winners can be found at the Oxigen.ie website.
Tags: brendan hughes, Gareth McGreevy, qub, QUBSU, Queen's Radio, students' union, su, the verdict
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Would society publication of the year not be for a magazine or handbook produced by a student society such as the law society or English society? that’s the diary we all get at the start of the year isn’t it? Must go check out Union website!
Congratulations to Gareth McGreevy. I do have one small issue with this though. Is the website not, excluding some minor content changes, exactly the same as it was last year?
Also, is the website all completely controlled by VP Campaigns Communications? If so, well done! I’d wonder why any SU website would win an award though. Sure isn’t it just a POI? In that case, I’m going to award my sock, just for being a sock.
@ OAP
I don’t think the website is completely controlled by Gareth. More like well done to the professional web design company that made the website.
Must’ve been sore writing up this one Gown team
more like web-shite of the year, right?
it’s awful. info is hard to find and the events calendar thingy is never up to date.
looks nice sure….. but style over content! seems like someone just vomited every web based idea on a pink background and thought that makes it good. lol
Fair play to Gareth. There is now a discussion board, photo gallery as well as other sections added. You can also change the colour jd1991 if you maybe looked. lol
A forum, photos and you can change the colour!
Groundbreaking.
In all seriousness these awards always were and always will be a money generating exercise for the organisers.
Not to say the winners aren’t doing good work, but the way the smedias are run is pure suspect to say the least.
discussion board – difficult to use, limited features and something that has been outdated for several years now due to the rise of social networking.
gallery – a basic feature in ANY website like this. it is ridiculous that it was not there from the start….. even the crappy old website had one.
sections added? more like tacked on as the union realises that the original website was missing soooo much. it just gets worse and worse with every little feature of the day they add on. so messy. who wrote the brief and signed it off – james murphy? more incompetence!
surely they could have got a compsci student to do it better and for free?
Have you Seen McGreevy’s Just started his first campaign of the year, he’s put it on Facebook and Everything!:
“Gareth McGreevy’s new year starts after May Day! PEC be prepared for a visit!”