[BOTM September 2007] Nomination Thread

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month September.

Please note the BOTM Rules here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/info.php?do=botm

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of August. Also, please note, that the current voting thread for BOTM August will remain open as well until the 31st of August as well.

When nominating please post the site name, URL to the forum, a short description what makes your board stand out from default vBulletin, and a reason for nomination that will motivate others to second the nomination. If the staff feels that a nomination post is too promotional it will be edited accordingly.

Any sites without a name, URL, description and reason for nomination will NOT be entered into the poll. Please ensure that your nomination is in the format:

Originally Posted by Sample Nomination

Site Name: vBulletin.org
URL: www.vbulletin.org - this must be clickable
Description: Official vBulletin Modifications Site
Reason for Nomination: Not Nominated. This is an example nomination.

When seconding sites, please ensure that you use the same post for the maximum of 3 allowed seconds. Any seconds not located in your first seconding post will not be counted. Please also ensure that you include the site name or URL for the site you are seconding in your post. If there is no name or URL provided then the post will be ignored when the nominations are counted.

Also, please make sure that you are seconding a forum that has already been nominated by its forum owner. Any seconds for a forum that has not been nominated yet will be counted as null and void.

Please posts only nominations or seconds, no "Thank you" posts are needed, they clutter the thread and will be deleted.

Any queries regarding the BOTM Contests should be sent via PM to Danny.VBT.

Best of luck to all nominees!

[TruthElixirX]

Originally Posted by ERuiz

Site Name: Virtual American Airlines

URL: http://www.virtualaa.com

Description: Virtual American Airlines is a site dedicated to simulating real world American Airlines operations, by using Microsoft's Flight Simulator software to allow it's members (pilots) to fly scheduled AA flights and subsequently accumulate flight hours.

Reason for Nomination: We at Virtual American Airlines strive on quality and this is clearly apparent by the way we maintain and operate our website. But what really sets us apart from the rest of the Virtual Airlines in the flightsimming community is our family-oriented environment. We have been together as a "family" since the year 2000. We originally started out as a Virtual Airline named AirPUERTORICO.

We then went through some changes and transitions, but throughout all these years, we have stayed together. I really hope you guys enjoy our website. Like I said before, we are all about quality and putting out the best that we have to offer.

SECOND'D!

[Modin]

Originally Posted by BigSoccer Tech.

Site Name: BigSoccer - Share the Passion!

Site URL: http://www.bigsoccer.com

Description: BigSoccer is the leading forum for soccer fans around the world. Now 12 years old we have over 100,000 registered users, serve 820,000 uniques a month, and served 20mm forum pages in June. Our members talk about every soccer club, league and tournament on earth. BigSoccer is one of the largest vB's, and one of the earliest, since the v1beta days.

Reason for Nomination: We relaunched our site just days before the end of last month's nominating process. It was a complete revamp, with major functionality extensions built in vB and vBadvanced. We've reskinned the site, built a personalized navigation tool that remembers your prefered state of which categories are open and closed, and added a "digg" tool, for both external links and internal threads. The new dynamic homepage makes use of Ajax and CSS, plus personalization, to give you an alternative view into the forums, or forum category, or forum itself. You now have an ability to sort by various measures of popularity (a mix of diggs, replies, views, and time) or last post time (ie latest threads), and the HP will remember your preference the next time you come back. This provides you a more intuitive insight into where the action is in the forums and allows people to find valuable and interesting content in areas of the site they might normally have noticed, due to our size and depth.

Seconded

[Elber]

Originally Posted by exc1te

Site name: Polski Support vBulletin [Polish vBulletin Support]
URL: http://vBulletin.net.pl/
Description: Unofficial Polish vBulletin Support forums.
Reason for Nomination: I just want to know what others think about the site (mostly the design), and also would like to advertise a wee bit, just to increase traffic This is not first support board in Poland, but it's most professional so far (others are really bad). I think it will change the vBulletin scene in Poland, as we're quite nicely located on google and people do appreciate our support.

I second that board!

[AyeCapn]

Site Name: Blackbaud User Society

URL: www.blackbus.org/forum

Description: Officially the biggest unofficial group of users of Blackbaud fundraising software

Reason for Nomination: What started out as a simple discussion forum a year ago has blossomed into a pro-active software development and support advocacy group. Our members all work for non-profits and use the forum to get the most out of their Blackbaud software investment.

We feature a custom skin to match our Joomla and Pligg integrations, and a tendency towards hacks that encourage user participation and revisiting the site such as cyricx's Instant Email Notification, ChipIn donation widgets, and the vbGeek's Geek Gazette newsletter. We have embedded a demofuse.com site tour on the front page as well.

Blackbaud has about 15,000 clients and we have almost 10% of that clientbase in our membership.

[curriertech]

Originally Posted by AyeCapn

Site Name: Blackbaud User Society

URL: www.blackbus.org/forum

Description: Officially the biggest unofficial group of users of Blackbaud fundraising software

Reason for Nomination: What started out as a simple discussion forum a year ago has blossomed into a pro-active software development and support advocacy group. Our members all work for non-profits and use the forum to get the most out of their Blackbaud software investment.

We feature a custom skin to match our Joomla and Pligg integrations, and a tendency towards hacks that encourage user participation and revisiting the site such as cyricx's Instant Email Notification, ChipIn donation widgets, and the vbGeek's Geek Gazette newsletter. We have embedded a demofuse.com site tour on the front page as well.

Blackbaud has about 15,000 clients and we have almost 10% of that clientbase in our membership.

Seconded!

[JonnyQuest]

seconded.

Originally Posted by BigSoccer Tech.

Site Name: BigSoccer - Share the Passion!

Site URL: http://www.bigsoccer.com

Description: BigSoccer is the leading forum for soccer fans around the world. Now 12 years old we have over 100,000 registered users, serve 820,000 uniques a month, and served 20mm forum pages in June. Our members talk about every soccer club, league and tournament on earth. BigSoccer is one of the largest vB's, and one of the earliest, since the v1beta days.

Reason for Nomination: We relaunched our site just days before the end of last month's nominating process. It was a complete revamp, with major functionality extensions built in vB and vBadvanced. We've reskinned the site, built a personalized navigation tool that remembers your prefered state of which categories are open and closed, and added a "digg" tool, for both external links and internal threads. The new dynamic homepage makes use of Ajax and CSS, plus personalization, to give you an alternative view into the forums, or forum category, or forum itself. You now have an ability to sort by various measures of popularity (a mix of diggs, replies, views, and time) or last post time (ie latest threads), and the HP will remember your preference the next time you come back. This provides you a more intuitive insight into where the action is in the forums and allows people to find valuable and interesting content in areas of the site they might normally have noticed, due to our size and depth.

[gatorenvy]

Site Name: Gator Envy
URL: www.gatorenvy.com
Description: University of Florida Gator sports discussion forum.
Reason for Nomination: This is the best looking Gator sports forum on the web. The site isn't even a year old and we have a solid membership. Along with the custom design, Gator Envy also has many created content pages and uses a dozen mods.

[Nomar86]

I second www.gatorenvy.com

[VIPER-MAN]

Originally Posted by BigSoccer Tech.

Site Name: BigSoccer - Share the Passion!

Site URL: http://www.bigsoccer.com

Description: BigSoccer is the leading forum for soccer fans around the world. Now 12 years old we have over 100,000 registered users, serve 820,000 uniques a month, and served 20mm forum pages in June. Our members talk about every soccer club, league and tournament on earth. BigSoccer is one of the largest vB's, and one of the earliest, since the v1beta days.

Reason for Nomination: We relaunched our site just days before the end of last month's nominating process. It was a complete revamp, with major functionality extensions built in vB and vBadvanced. We've reskinned the site, built a personalized navigation tool that remembers your prefered state of which categories are open and closed, and added a "digg" tool, for both external links and internal threads. The new dynamic homepage makes use of Ajax and CSS, plus personalization, to give you an alternative view into the forums, or forum category, or forum itself. You now have an ability to sort by various measures of popularity (a mix of diggs, replies, views, and time) or last post time (ie latest threads), and the HP will remember your preference the next time you come back. This provides you a more intuitive insight into where the action is in the forums and allows people to find valuable and interesting content in areas of the site they might normally have noticed, due to our size and depth.

Originally Posted by soletrader

Site Name: Traders Laboratory

URL: www.TradersLaboratory.com

Description: A financial forum for active traders mainly dealing with derivatives.

Reason for Nomination: We have a ton of custom work done on the site. The system is a complete makeover of vbulletin with unique skin and look.

Second!!

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by gatorenvy

Site Name: Gator Envy
URL: www.gatorenvy.com
Description: University of Florida Gator sports discussion forum.
Reason for Nomination: This is the best looking Gator sports forum on the web. The site isn't even a year old and we have a solid membership. Along with the custom design, Gator Envy also has many created content pages and uses a dozen mods.

Being a native Floridian, I'll gladly second this site. Very nicely designed.