Web Marketing Association Announces 2006 Winners in its Annual Web Site Awards Competition, WebAwards

West Simsbury, CT (PRWEB) September 27, 2006

The Web Marketing Association (http://www.webaward.org) announced today the winners of its tenth annual WebAward Competition for outstanding web site development. More than 2,300 web sites from 35 countries were adjudicated in 96 industry categories during this year's WebAward competition.

Entries were judged on top web site design, copy writing, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, and use of technology.

The World Wide Web continues to evolve in terms of Web site development and the expectations of visitors to sites, said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. The Web sites today are more integrated than ever and have multimedia tools embedded into the site rather than as links. The WebAward winning Websites have once again set the standard for all Web development. This accomplishment serves as an invaluable marketing opportunity for both the winning website and company and serves as a benchmark for all Websites within the each industry.

The 2006 Best of Show WebAward is presented to New York-based Big Spaceship (http://www.bigspaceship.com), for its outstanding work on the "TBS: Department of Humor Analysis" web site at http://www.tbshumorstudy.com. The web site also won for Best TV WebAward. TBS's Dept. of Humor Analysis works hard to put the "very-" in front of "funny." To help TBS steer clear of common pitfalls in this cut-throat, dog-eat-dog, rabbit-outwit-duck, duck-shoot-pig, anvil-smush-coyote, Chico-trip-Zeppo field of funny business, Big Spaceship joined forces Mother Interactive to turn their very silly questionnaire into an addictive, fully interactive web site.

R/GA (http://www.rga.com) was named Top Agency at the 2006 WebAward Competition, taking home 19 WebAwards. The Top Agency Award recognizes the consistently outstanding development pursued by interactive firms when creating top website designs. R/GA has also won more WebAwards than any other organization during the past decade, although this is their first Top Agency Award. R/GA, headquartered in New York, won 12 Outstanding and 7 Standard of Excellence WebAwards.

Agencies or companies winning six or more WebAwards in 2006 include the following:

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DrivingSales Announces Winner of Inaugural Auto Dealer Strategy and Best Practices Contest

Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) July 30, 2008

DrivingSales, the auto industry's original online community and social networking site, today announced the winner of its inaugural Strategies contest. Strategies and other best practices are an essential part of the DrivingSales experience, as members of this fast growing automotive community get the opportunity to demonstrate their expertise and benefit from the shared knowledge of their peers. Members who posted strategies competed for the best rating from fellow members, in a fun competition for sharing best practices. Nathan Scripps, Director of Sales for Jumpstart Automotive Media, submitted the winning sales strategy, entitled "The Long Spiff."

The winning submission challenges dealers to think long-term about spiffs for sales people. Instead of strictly focusing on short-term daily, weekly or monthly sales, Scripps proposes incentives that reward staff members for repeat and referral business. In this way, sales people begin to view customers as life-time clients, rather than just one-time sales. (Visit http://www.drivingsales.com for the complete strategy.) For posting the winning strategy Scripps will receive a new MacBook Air laptop.

Looney Labs Announces Partnership with Publishers Services, Inc. One- Stop Shopping for International Distributors and Book Trade

College Park, MD (PRWEB) June 22, 2009

Looney Labs, makers of the award winning games, Fluxx and Treehouse, and Publishers Services, Inc., a leading North American sales and fulfillment service, are excited to announce a joint venture where PSI will perform the majority of Looney Labs' International Hobby Game Distributor fulfillment and sales and fulfillment for book and other key accounts in the United States beginning July 1, 2009.

"This strategic partnership will allow Looney Labs' games to be sold to International Distributors as part of PSI's one-stop shopping and shipping portfolio. This also improves our international customers' efficiency by being able to order and restock all of Looney Labs' games side-by-side with all of the other products PSI offers," said Jessica Blair, Director of Sales & Marketing at Looney Labs.

Ross Jepson, PSI International Sales Manager, said, "If you currently deal with PSI, you now have access to a whole new library of great evergreen games with Looney Labs." PSI will provide information for this new group of games all available at PSI's standard discounts and terms.

"Along with these great international distribution benefits, this new partnership expands Looney Labs' games to the US Book Trade," says Kristin Looney, President and founder of Looney Labs. "We started working with Barnes & Noble at Toy Fair earlier this year, and we are excited to transfer their distribution and account management to PSI beginning in July. PSI will also now offer our games to a half dozen other significant new accounts."

Based in College Park, Maryland, Looney Labs designs, produces, and markets award winning, specialty card and board games. Founded in 1996 by Andy and Kristin Looney, both former NASA engineers, Looney Labs proudly manufactures all of their games in the USA. The Looneys believe that one of the most important things they create is the fun people have while playing their games. To learn more about Looney Labs and to see a complete listing of all their games visit, http://www.looneylabs.com.

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Bank Companion Announces Apple iPad Integration for Jack Henrys Silverlake System

Edison, NJ (PRWEB) November 09, 2011

Bank Companion, a leading provider of mobile banking software to banks, community banks and credit unions around the world today announced integration of the Apple iPad with the Jack Henry Silverlake system.

Commenting on Bank Companions availability on the Apple iPad for Jack Henrys Silverlake system, John Rovito, Bank Companions Senior Director for Sales & Marketing stated:

To date, more than 25 million Apple iPads have been sold with that figure continuing to rise each month. Integration of the Apple iPad with Jack Henrys Silverlake core processing system is therefore just another step in Bank Companions ongoing commitment to making its mobile banking platform available across all mobile channels and devices, not just smartphones but also each of the new Tablet PCs that enter the market and gain widespread use.

About Bank Companion

Bank Companion is an industry-leading mobile banking platform that enables banks, community banks and credit unions to provide their customers with 24/7, anytime anywhere banking. Bank Companion gives financial institutions a competitive edge by integrating state-of-the-art technology with a host of innovative mobile marketing and advertising features. The result is a secure and scalable platform that helps your organization to increase loyalty, acquire new customers, cross-sell products plus much more.

Bank Companion is brought to you by ZSL, Inc, a global provider of software and technology services to the banking and financial sector. (http://www.zsl.com) Headquartered in Edison, NJ, the company currently employs more than 4000 IT consultants worldwide. Additional offices include: the U.K. Canada, France, Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai, and India.

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Casenet Announces Release 4.5 of its Innovative TruCare Care Management Platform

Bedford, MA (PRWEB) June 10, 2011

Casenet, LLC, a leading provider of innovative healthcare management software products, today announced its release of TruCare 4.5. Release 4.5 builds on the foundation of TruCare's state-of-the-art functional architecture, to deliver increased authorization and claims payment accuracy, reduced Medicaid fraud and abuse, and enhanced Pervasive Population Management. This new TruCare release culls data from 140 key metrics to feed into its newest core module - Opportunity Identification.

Real-Time Authorization Web Services

The Real Time Authorization Outbound Interface (RTAOI) is available as an alternative to Casenet's high-speed 278 batch processing for outbound authorizations. The RTAOI allows for authorizations entered into TruCare to be sent real-time to the customers administrative system, including each line-Item request, for immediate validation. In turn, the TruCare Web service supports a real-time response from the administrative system, which enables the TruCare user to view the administrative systems authorization status while simultaneously processing the authorization in the TruCare Utilization Management subsystem.

This very sophisticated two-way real-time web service has been developed so that the administrative system interaction is generic and extensible, which enables it to operate with any administrative system.

Enhanced Medicaid and Dual Eligible Transportation Capabilities

TruCare Release 4.5s transportation functionality assists Medicaid plans with tracking the transportation benefit a benefit vulnerable to overuse or even fraud. TruCare enables a user to request, authorize, review, and monitor member requests for transportation services. This subsystem includes a flexible and easy-to-use recurring transportation authorization function, and a batch-process invoicing feature, which in turn allow more simplified billing for a plans transportation vendors.

Key Metrics

A standard set of 140 key metrics is provided in TruCare Release 4.5 with optimal ranges, filters, and units, to configure as appropriate. TruCare allows clinical users to record, view, and trend a member's laboratory results, immunizations, vital signs, and other clinical data. Release 4.5 performs automatic unit conversion and graphical displays of key metric data. In addition, all standard key metrics can be identified specifically as HEDIS measures for a member.

Opportunity Identification

TruCares Opportunity Identification functionality analyzes the broad spectrum of member data contained in the system, including:

Link Building Company Announces an Increase in the Search for Keyword, "Backlink Building Services"

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 09, 2011

Link Building SEO Company, a marketing company that provides directory submission services and helps clients climb the search engine rankings using organic SEO methods, announced today an increase in the search for keyword, "Backlink Building Services." The internet marketing company keeps track of searchable keywords related to the site, and this term has had a 10% increase in searches on the Internet in the last quarter. This has, in turn, showed an increase in clients who are looking to increase their site's visibility online. Utilizing successful SEO services, including article distribution, natural link building, directory submissions, contextual link building, article submission and syndication, RSS feeds syndication, press release distribution, social bookmarking, link baiting and many more, to ensure that clients achieve the search engine ranking position they deserve.

"Having clients realize more and more that internet marketing is the key to helping their website grow, is very exciting," said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director for the Link Building Company.

Link Building Company is owned and operated by the Internet Marketing Company. The Internet has become an extremely competitive market these days, and search engines place a great deal of importance on the quantity and quality of links pointing to a website. As one might already know, inbound links are the most important factor as to how search engines determine where a website will rank in search results. Google and other engines rely heavily on inbound links to a website to determine authority, relevance and overall popularity of a website across the Web. In a nutshell, the more quality links there is, the higher a website will rank. At the end of the day, it is all about rankings!

For more information, please visit http://www.linkbuilding.org

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Ukulele Bluegrass, Jam-Band The Applebutter Express, Announces Southeastern U.S. Tour

Nashville, TN (PRWEB) October 25, 2011

On Tuesday, December 13, The Applebutter Express will headline a performance at the historic Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, TN. The live performance will be recorded and filmed for release in 2012 as "The Applebutter Express Live at the Belcourt" and will kick off the bands' first ever tour of the southeastern United States, with dates planned for Atlanta, GA, Birmingham, AL, Tallahassee, FL, and Sewannee, TN.

National tour planned for 2012 with dates to be announced.

Released in July 2011 to rave reviews, The Applebutter Express' self-titled debut album has received a warm reception from both live and radio audiences across the country. Recorded and mastered in Sarasota, FL, at Audio Images Inc., and produced by Kyle Biss and Shannon Moore, this record captures the passion and enthusiasm live audiences have been feeling for The Applebutter Express.

"The first time I saw The Applebutter Express, I commented to Kyle (Biss) and Shannon (Moore) that I'd never smiled so much at a performance," added Nikki Chavez, manager of The Applebutter Express and CEO of In Tune Music. "After two days watching them perform in Nashville, I knew we had to share their music with a larger fan base, and the Southeast was a natural starting place."

While in Nashville in December, Kyle, Shannon and their new band will also be returning to the studio to write and record songs for a future release.

About The Applebutter Express

The Applebutter Express was started by Kyle Biss (ukelele, vocals) and Shannon Moore (vocals) in 2004, when the two began working together in a Tampa, FL, record store. Realizing their shared taste in music, the duo began performing in what would later become The Applebutter Express. In September of 2011, Jack Ray (bass) and Joe Trivette (fiddle) joined The Applebutter Express and instantly added more energy and musical complexity to what was already an exciting act to follow. Their special blend of ukulele and vocal harmony creates a unique sound that is reminiscent of bluegrass while still capturing elements of folk, rock, and funk. The Applebutter Express has shared bills with artists such as The Parliament Funkadelic, Soulive, The North Mississippi All-stars, Bobby Lee Rogers, and Zack Deputy.

Preview the album on iTunes or visit the music tab on The Applebutter Express Website to hear full-length songs from the bands' self-titled album. To book The Applebutter Express, contact Nikki Chavez, In Tune Music, at 615-275-6921 or intunemusic(at)comcast(dot)net.

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