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CITY OF ELIZABETH WEB SITE WINS MARCOM CREATIVE GOLD AWARD
ELIZABETH, NJ, December 6, 2006 -- Mayor Bollwage announces that the City of Elizabeth’s new website has received the Gold Award in the MarCom Creative Awards 2006 Competition. The award is presented annually to organizations that exceed a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.
“The City of Elizabeth is pleased and excited to have been chosen to receive MarCom’s Creative Gold Award,” said Mayor Chris Bollwage. “Through enhanced technology, new features, and community photo galleries, we are able to provide the most efficient and effective information to our residents and visitors through our website.”
The City of Elizabeth’s redesigned web site, www.elizabethnj.org, was launched in September of this year. The new site is an easily navigable and well designed site that provides visitors with information about everything from events calendars, to press releases and public notices. Through the site visitors can find phone numbers to various City departments, demographic info, and event photos as well as guides to business and shopping opportunities, useful links and much more. Later this month the award winning website will become bilingual, offering the information in Spanish.
There were over 5,000 entries from throughout the United States and several foreign countries in the MarCom Creative Awards 2006 competition. The Gold Award is presented to those entries judged to exceed the high standards of the industry norm.
Winners were selected from over 200 categories in seven forms of media and communication efforts - marketing, publications, marketing/promotion, public service/pro bono, creativity and electronic/interactive.
The MarCom Creative Awards is an international awards competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communication professionals. Entries to the Creative Awards Competition comes from corporate marketing and communications departments, advertising agencies, pr firms, design shops, production companies, and freelancers. The competition is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Past winners include individual communicators as well as media conglomerates and Fortune 500 companies.
“In Elizabeth we are dedicated to providing accurate and up to date information to everyone who live and work in our great City,” said Councilman Frank Cuesta. “This award recognizes our efforts to provide a creative and professional web page where we can highlight the many opportunities our city has to offer. I am also thrilled that the website will be in Spanish considering more than 50 percent of the City’s population is Hispanic.”
MarCom Creative Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The international organization consists of several thousand marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, media production, and free-lance professionals. The Association oversees awards and recognition programs, provides judges, and sets standards for excellence.
