How to Enter
Please follow the steps below to make an entry into the Data Strategy Awards 2011. Please ensure you have read and understood the steps before entering as the process has been updated this year.
Download the specific entry template/s for the category/ies you wish to enter from the categories page and complete the entry template/s offline. Obtain client approval for your entry/ies if applicable.
Return to the Make an Entry page and follow the steps below:
- Fill in the registration box with your email address and registration details and then proceed to the 'Awards Summary' page
- Please click 'Enter this Category' by the category you would like to enter
- Enter the requested information
- Upload your completed entry template and any supporting material*
- To complete your entry, click 'Save & Go to Awards Summary'
- If you would like to make further entries, please expand the category list and repeat steps 2-5
- In order to submit your entry/ies for review by the judges you must tick each entry and press 'Submit and Pay' (see note below re: amendments as these must be made prior to submission)
- Select a payment method and press 'Proceed to Payment'
- Complete your payment details – Cost per entry: £235 + UK VAT
- Your entry/ies will now be considered submitted and the above rules of entry will apply
- Note your 4-digit entry number/s which will be provided on your automated email confirmation
Prior to 'submitting' your entry/ies you may leave and return to the site to edit them until the extended entry deadline on Friday 15th July 2011. Once registered as an entrant as per point '1' above, you will receive an email detailing your chosen password along with a link that will enable you to return to your unsubmitted entries and edit as necessary. Once ready to submit return to step '5' above and complete the process.
Please ensure you click the 'logout' button before leaving the site to save your entries.
Entries may be edited up until the point of 'submission'; all submissions must be made by Friday 15th July 2011. Please note only submitted entries will proceed to the judging stage. Entries will not be considered fully submitted until you have proceeded to the payment stage and selected a payment method.
IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO AMEND OR SUBMIT ENTRIES AFTER FRIDAY 15th JULY 2011.
*Supporting Material
When making your entry you may upload a piece of supporting material if necessary – for example a pdf, Word, Excel, Powerpoint or Jpeg file. Please ensure that the file and your entry template together do not exceed the maximum upload limit of 5MB per entry.
Please bear in mind that the first round of judging will be done solely on the basis of the information supplied in the category-specific entry template.
COMMERCIAL CONFIDENCE
It is very important that you fully complete the entry template. In particular, details of return on investment should be provided. The more information you supply, the better the judges will be able to assess your entry.
For the purposes of judging, all information provided will be treated in the strictest confidence and will only be viewed by the judging panel and the Chair of Judges. However, in order to compile the Online Awards Supplement, some information may be needed from the winners' written entries.
Any information that is commercially sensitive and which may not be used in the Online Awards Supplement should be clearly marked 'judges eyes only'.