Mashable.com Announces First Annual Open Web Awards to Celebrate Web 2.0 Communities

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Mashable.com today announced the opening of nominations for its first annual Open Web Awards (http://www.openwebawards.com/), created to recognize and celebrate the best online communities representing Web 2.0 technologies. The Mashable.com-hosted Open Web Awards is the first online, open collaboration awards event to use widget technology to collect votes from all over the web. This unique approach will enable partner blogs and websites from multiple countries to take part in the voting process and allow their global readers to nominate their favorite Web 2.0 sites. Winners will be announced on December 20, 2007.

The online event will be followed by a live award ceremony in San Francisco on January 10th at the Palace Hotel. Online event partners and industry leaders will be in attendance at the invite-only celebration to recognize the winners of each category of the Open Web Awards. Sponsorship opportunities for companies and organizations interested in participating in the awards event will remain open until Wednesday, December 5, 2007. For more information, please contact Adam Hirsch, community and marketing director for Mashable at (646) 233-4009.

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