Philippines' Web Award picks three MCGI Web sites as finalists

Manila, Philippines -- Three Web sites entered by the Members Church of God International (MCGI) to a local web award body made it as finalists in the respective categories of organization, community and portal, and celebrities and personalities.  They are: Ang Dating Daan or The Old Path, Kaanib.net and Danielrazon.com.

Last year, the Philippines-headquartered MCGI earned four major awards for the same Web sites entered this year including the Most Popular Website of the Year award for angdatingdaan.org, which the organization enjoyed for five years in a row now.  Only Kaanib.net so far has won an outstanding achievement award in terms of design and development in 2005.

Annually organized by the magazine publisher Media G8Way, the Philippine Web Award celebrates a decade this year as the premier award-giving body for local websites.  From 15 categories this year, there are 69 finalists, which include some popular corporate and organizational sites such as those from Ayala Corporation, Smart Communications, Honda Cars Philippines, China Bank, Chowking, GMA-7, UNTV-37, MTV Philippines, Bench Clothing, San Miguel Corporation, Yehey and EYP, among others.  

People’s Choice Awards, whereby voting was opened since the semi-finals phase, is given to Web sites which receive the most number of votes through online and SMS or mobile voting.   To vote for our entries via SMS, follow the following directions:

• For angdatingdaan.org, type WEBBYS <space> VOTE <space> 72    
• For kaanib.net, WEBBYS <space> VOTE <space> 22
• For danielrazon.com, WEBBYS <space> VOTE <space> 19  

Globe, Touch Mobile, and Sun Cellular subscribers can send the typed message to 2973, while for Smart and Talk N’ Text users, typed message should be sent to 210.  Voting ends until midnight of November 22, 2007.
   
Awarding ceremonies is set on November 23, 2007 at the Teatrino Promenade, Greenhills.