The St. Louis Web Developers Organization has an annual awards show. I am please to announce that a site I created won second place for Best Non-Profit Site. The site is the Walter C. Richards Collection, an online gallery of photography from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. It is part of the Webster Groves Historical Society's site and also included in the Missouri State Libraries Digitized Collections database and ViruallyMissouri.org. Thanks for the recognition.

I looked at the other winners and I have to say the work this year was very average. This organization has lost traction in the community the last couple of years and the best work was not entered - what a shame. It's nice to have strong industry communities. Perhaps it will come around.

I had been involved with a similar group, the Not Just An Art Director's Club. It was difficult to get people to help run it and it fell by the wayside. Small organizations are hard to sustain. It's always a few core people that keep them going and they get burned out.