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Prosperity was delighted to scoop the gong for best Listings site at last night’s Eircom Spiders Awards. It was a great night with our many friends from the digital industry : )

And For The Full List of Winners -

Best Financial Services Website -  Bonkers.ie

Best Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Website -  Killarneyonamap.ie

Best Charitable and Non Profit Organisation Website -  National Gallery of Ireland

Best Retail Excellence Website -  The Corkscrew Wine Merchants

Best eBusiness -  Boardsdeals.ie

Best Campaign - Velvet Can Music Grow on Trees

Best News Website - TheJournal.ie

Best Education Website - CourseHub.ie

Best Sports Website- 1escape

Best Entertainment Website - TV3 – 3player

Best Listings Website - Prosperity

Graduate Award - Liam Carey

Best Web Design and Development Agency - Kooba

Big Mouth Award (as voted by the public) - Rukkle.com

Best Community Website (as voted by the public) - Runireland.com

One to Watch Award - Pigsty.ie

Digital Editor Award - TheJournal.ie

Best Mobile App - National Irish Bank Smartphone Banking Application

Internet Hero - Ray Nolan

eircom Grand Prix - TheJournal.ie

Whether or not there’s going to be a White Christmas in the UK, there’ll be a Green Gathering for people in the marketing, creative and digital industries this December.

Thursday, 8 December, the traditional shopping day for Irish country folk will see Irish folk in London have a chance to get together.
Whether it’s talking shop or talking about home, the Green Gathering events hosted by digital agency Cybercom and recruitment specialists Prosperity, give participants a chance to provide support to each other through this series of offline social meet-ups. And of course we have someone lined up to share their experiences. This time it’s Oisin Lunny who has agreed to share some of his experiences from 20 years in the music, technology, marketing and digital industries.
Interested?
1.    Check your diary for a free spot from 6.30pm-8.30pm on Thursday, 8 December
2.    RSVP fast if you’re planning to attend (there is only a limited amount of space available)
3.    Put Central Working just off Tottenham Court Road into Google Maps
See http://www.meetup.com/Green-Gathering/ for further details and updates.

The Innovation Dublin festival may have been on a week at this stage, but there’s still a few weeks to go in the festival programme if you want to put some innovation into your day.

Unlike many other festivals, Innovation Dublin offers employees a valid reason to get permission from the boss to nip out of the office for a few hours.
This afternoon for example a free mobile marketing and m-commerce mini-conference takes place in DCU as part of the festival. Next week, also in DCU is When Search and Social Collide 2011 which includes Gillian Muessig, founding president of SEOmoz as a speaker. Mobile computing & smartphones: what is all the fuss about? at Institute of Art Design & Technology discusses will also highlight the additional skills that are required by application designers and developers in order to create successful mobile applications.

The TED Talks comes to Dublin also in the form of the TEDx series: TEDX Tallaght 2011: Design-Thinking Made Visual.

The keynotes and programme for the first IxDA (Interaction Design Association) annual conference to be held outside North America – Dublin to be precise – have just been announced.

Interaction12, which will be held in The Convention Centre Dublin in February 2012, launched its programme in mid October in advance of the early bird cut off date of 31 October 2011. The programme offers a rich mix of workshops, presentations and speakers.
Workshops include: Tap is the New Click: A hands-on (fingers-on?) workshop for designing for touchscreens and tablets; Mobile Prototyping Essentials; Design with Intent: understanding users and influencing behaviour.
Presentation titles include: How Being a Jock Makes a Better Interaction Designer; The Craft of UX: The need for apprenticeships and practice; Designing the Mobile Wallet Experience; Aristotle’s Storytelling Framework for the Web; Real Users Don’t Do Tasks: Rethinking user research for the social Web; I Hate Process. I Love Process. Why Designers are Divided About Process and What to Do About It.

Quarter Four/Q4 it seems is very much awards season for the web and digital industry.
On 3 October, the Nokia Digital Media Awards 2012 opened for entries. On 22 October, the Irish Web Awards took place and there’s TheAppys on 3 November. However, 10 November sees the turn of the oldest of the bunch – the eircom Spiders Awards.

The eircom Spiders Awards which have a long history – they’re now in their 15th year with eircom the title sponsors since 2004. The judging panel includes leaders from industry, commerce, media and academia and their shortlist is now available to view on the eircom Spiders website.
Though we can’t list all shortlisted in the 20 categories we can tell you that Prosperity.ie has been shortlisted in the Listings category for Irish classified websites/portals that provide users with a user-friendly and content-rich experience for finding jobs, property, motors, dates or other products and services.