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crowdfundingNominations are now open for the Other Project category of the Rose and Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category celebrates the innovation of projects that don't fit neatly into the other categories. Everyone is encouraged to make nominations and, later, to vote. Please read the complete details below, and then make your nominations in a comment on this post.
The nomination period is now CLOSED. Voting posts will appear shortly. Thank you all for your enthusiasm.
Attention Nominees: You can get an official Nominee badge to post on your project page. Other images for promoting the Rose and Bay Awards are also available. Click here for images.
What Is the Rose and Bay Award?
The Rose and Bay Award focuses on a growing business model known as "crowdfunding" or "cyberfunded creativity," which directly connects creative people and patrons of the arts online. This award recognizes exemplary projects and enthusiastic patrons. It spans five categories: Art, Fiction, Poetry, Other Project, and Patron. (Other Project includes any cyberfunded creativity that isn't art, fiction, or poetry -- or that spans more than one category.) The categories and their handlers are listed below:
Art:ysabetwordsmith
Fiction:
Poetry:
Other Project:
Patron:
The award period for eligible activities spans January 1-December 31, 2009.
The nomination period spans January 1-January 31, 2010.
The voting period spans February 1-February 28, 2010.
Award Rules
1) In order to be nominated, a project must be "cyberfunded creativity" aka "crowdfunding." That means it must be creative material marketed directly to an audience online, with money involved somehow. There are many variations of this business model; all are welcome; and if you're not sure a project qualifies, you may ask.
2) In order to be nominated, at least part of the project must be visible online without charge. If the project is normally visible only to paying subscribers or the like, and the creator wishes for it to be eligible, then s/he may offer temporary or partial access for voting purposes. (If the available material is temporary and/or partial, it needs to say that at the top of the screen, to avoid annoying visitors who might otherwise think they're about to see a complete piece.)
3) This award will go by calendar years. So in order to be eligible for the first round, a project or patron must have been active on or between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009.
4) For this round, nominations will be made in comments to this nomination post. A nomination consists of the project title, creator name, award category, a link to the project page, and a sentence or few summarizing the project and its crowdfunding approach. Example:
Project Title: "Awesome Content"
Creator Name: A.J. Muse
Link: http://awe.some.content.com
Category: Other Project.
Summary: "Awesome Content" is a story about A.J. Muse's three ferrets, told in a combination of music and fiction, illustrated by photos; it is funded by a combination of donations and photo sales."
5) You may nominate a maximum of three projects per category. You are not required to make that many nominations or to cover all the categories. You may not nominate your own project; that's tacky.
6) Nominations for the Other Project category will be collected by ysabetwordsmith.
7) Voters are strongly encouraged to browse the nominees before making a final decision; that's what the links are for, and the purpose of this award is to promote the splendor of crowdfunded projects.
8) Voting will take place via LiveJournal polling in this community, open to all. You may cast one vote per category. (There may need to be more than one poll question per category, and runoffs, if the number of nominees is high.) You may not vote for your own project, nor yourself as a patron; that's tacky.
9) Winners will be announced after the polling is completed. The winner of each category will receive a "Rose and Bay Award" certificate in recognition of their achievement.
Where To Find Crowdfunded Projects
If you don't already know what projects you would like to nominate for this category, please browse around and see what you can find. Here are some resources that might be helpful:
http://www.epiguide.com
How You Can Help
As a new award, Rose and Bay depends on your enthusiasm to make it a success. Here are some ways you can help that happen:
1) Make some nominations. Leave yours in a comment to this post, and watch for separate posts to appear for the other four categories.
2) Mark the voting period on your calendar. Make sure you come back to this community in February to cast your votes.
3) Promote the Rose and Bay Award by blogging about it, emailing your friends, posting it on social networks, or any other method you can imagine. Everyone is encouraged to spread the word as far as possible whether you are a creator, a donor, or a curious bystander.
4) If you're a patron or audience member, highlight your favorite cyberfunded projects from 2009 and direct people back to the award. Are you following other patrons whose tastes match your own to see what they sponsor or recommend? Mention them too! This makes it easier for people to find eligible nominees.
5) If you're a creative person, let your audience and patrons know which of your projects are eligible for the Rose and Bay Award, including a link to the relevant nomination page(s). Do you have an "honor wall" or other place acknowledging your patrons? Mention that too! Let your fans know there is a way for them to honor your project and the patrons who make it possible.
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Date: 2010-01-05 12:15 pm (UTC)Creator Name:
Link: http://wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com/46940.html
Category: Other Project
Summary: Busking in Cyberland is a series of articles on or relating to crowdfunding. It is funded by donations.
Nomination
Date: 2010-01-03 05:49 am (UTC)Creator Name: Victoria Borah Bloom and Bard Bloom
Link: http://crowdsourcetarot.makeincense.com/
Category: Other Project.
Summary: "The Crowdsource Tarot" is a divination deck created by audience suggestions, with descriptions and interpretations added by the Blooms, and subsequent illustrations provided by various contributors. It is funded by donations, and you can also buy a copy of the deck.
Re: Nomination
Date: 2010-01-04 01:25 pm (UTC)Re: Nomination
Date: 2010-01-05 07:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-05 03:27 am (UTC)Creator Name: Genesis Eve Whitmore
Link: http://www.little-tales.com/
Category: Other Project
Summary: "Little Tales" is a furry webcomic. Updates are posted three days a week with slice-of-life strips on Monday and Friday and a retelling of the classic G.K. Chesterton story, The Man Who Was Thursday, on Wednesdays. (Ah, the irony! ;) The first year of strips has been collected into a printed volume and is available for purchase from the artist.
Nomination!
Date: 2010-01-05 01:50 pm (UTC)Creator Name: Miintikwa
Link: http://miintikwa.livejournal.com/tag/one+card+draw
Category: Other Project.
Summary: Once a month,
(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-05 08:03 pm (UTC)Yes...
Date: 2010-01-05 08:23 pm (UTC)We haven't had much luck attracting webcomic creators to this community; maybe this will help with that.
And yes, several of the initial categories cover a very wide range of material. I wanted to start with a reasonable number of categories. For the ones that attract the most nominations, we can look for subdivisions or for things that might benefit from having their own category. Then if there's enough volunteer help next year, those subdivisions or additions can be made official.
Re: Yes...
Date: 2010-01-06 06:46 pm (UTC)Re: Yes...
Date: 2010-01-06 08:35 pm (UTC)I think that "Webcomic" is a sufficiently large and popular field to have potential as a separate category in 2011. We'll see how many nominations come in. Meanwhile, I have noted your willingness to manage this category if that happens. Thank you!
Nomination: Digger, a webcomic by Ursula Vernon
Date: 2010-01-05 11:48 pm (UTC)Creator Name: Ursula Vernon
Category: Other Project
Link: http://www.diggercomic.com/
Summary: From the website - "A wombat. A dead god. A very peculiar epic." Digger is a webcomic, telling the story of a female wombat who hits a patch of bad air while digging a tunnel and ends up somewhere ELSE. There, she encounters a variety of different creatures, including the statue representation of a god, oracular slugs, a child made of shadows, a hag, and quite a menagerie of other creatures. Just trying to find her way home, she gets tangled up in the greater (and most annoying) workings of fate.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-06 06:40 pm (UTC)Creator Name: Alina Pete
Category: Other Project
Link: www.weregeek.com (http://www.weregeek.com/)
Summary: A color web comic about a group of male and female geeks, unusual for its gentle humor and compassionate touch. Also very creative and very funny! When donations reach a cap the artist posts an extra web comic on the weekend.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-06 06:44 pm (UTC)Tip-oriented fiction and poetry (occasionally with her daughter's work as well).
Summary: Reframed myths.
Nomination
Date: 2010-01-06 08:53 pm (UTC)Creator Name: Tiffany Ross (
Link: http://aliendice.com/
http://syke.livejournal.com/
Category: Other Project.
Summary: "Alien Dice" is a science fiction webcomic about a bizarre game ... imagine a cross between Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, and nanotechnology. This project is crowdfunded through PayPal donations, competitive ChipIn donations, and sales of related merchandise; a first issue is available in hardcopy.
Nomination
Date: 2010-01-06 09:12 pm (UTC)Creator Name: Tom Smith (
Link: http://filkertom-itom.blogspot.com/
http://www.tomsmithonline.com/buystuff.htm
http://filkertom.livejournal.com/
Category: Other Project.
Summary: "iTom" is a project in which full-time filk musician Tom Smith posts free songs online at his Blogspot blog. Several iTom albums are available for purchase, and there is also a guitar box into which people can throw random donations -- these are on his Tom Smith Online site under "Buy Stuff."
Nomination
Date: 2010-01-13 08:55 pm (UTC)Creators Names: Phil and Kaja Foglio
Link: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php
Category: Other Project.
Summary: "Adventure, Romance, MAD SCIENCE!" Girl Genius is a long-running webcomic, funded by a combination of donations (for which the donor receives nifty desktop wallpaper) and sale of hardcopy collections of past strips. This is an epic, ongoing story which has been running for years -- don't expect to read just the last few strips and have any idea of what's going on! But take a look for yourself; catching up is *well* worth the time invested.
[No LJ account; call me "Just Doug"]
(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-20 05:56 am (UTC)Creator Name: Christopher Steininger
Link: http://www.deadheaven.net/Pages/page00001.html
Category: Other Project.
Summary: A high fantasy graphic novel involving an elven assassin, a power struggle between young powerless king and his clerics, and numerous other characters. The art is absolutely incredible and the story (so far) intricately woven. Some of the best quality art and graphic storytelling I've seen in a free website.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-25 08:23 pm (UTC)Creator Names: Nicholas Brienza and Egypt Urnash
Link: (NSFW!) http://5glasses.com/ (http://5glasses.com/) (NSFW!)
Category: Other Project
Summary: An anthropomorphic science-fantasy with some of the most striking art I've ever seen in a webcomic. Involves nudity and sex, etc. so may not be the cup of tea preferred by some, but the story and characters are lively and thoroughly enhanced by the art. Volume 1 is complete (and was collected in softcover in September), and I understand that Volume 2 is upcoming.
Notifying Nominees
Date: 2010-02-01 11:44 pm (UTC)Re: Notifying Nominees
Date: 2010-02-02 04:27 am (UTC)