We realize you were impressed before when we were just regular old "Internet Evolution," but now that we are award-winning Internet Evolution, you must be simply floored.
That's right. Today Internet Evolution was the proud recipient of three (yes, that's 3!) "Best of the Web" awards from min, including the awards for Digital Team of the Year, Best B2B Video Show, and Best B2B Community/Social Network.
Joining some other minor names in the consumer and business-to-business digital publishing space, like Sports Illustrated, Condé Nast, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Scholastic Inc., and Time Inc., Internet Evolution's staff came together for an awards breakfast of eggs, coffee, and crusty croissants in New York City honoring nominees and winners for outstanding digital initiatives over the course of the past year.
Along with Condé Nast, Internet Evolution took home the award for the Digital Team of the Year (i.e., the BIG one) for -- per min's verbiage -- "creativity, resourcefulness, mastery of digital media, and success in the past year executing digital goals."
To catch a glimpse of the tech-savvy and dangerously attractive Digital Team of the Year -- including Stephen Saunders, founder of Internet Evolution; Chris Williams, Web development manager; Warren Hultquist, director, Web operations; Ken Surabian, design director; Kevin Cramer, copy chief; Amy Averbook, director, corporate marketing; Terry Sweeney, editor in chief; Mary Jander, ThinkerNet editor; and myself, Nicole Ferraro, site editor -- check out our far-out photo below. (But please resist the urge to ask us to send you an autographed copy, because that is just so Web 1.0.)
Grabbing further accolades, Internet Evolution also won the Best of the Web Awards for Best B2B Video Show, honoring the Web Wide World video documentaries; as well as -- and of utmost importance -- the award for Best Community/Social Network, honoring you!
Taking a bit of a serious note here, because of you, our readers, and your consistent engagement with each other, the ThinkerNet bloggers, and the staff, Internet Evolution is truly the first successful B2B social network. You have proved that such a community can work and can work really, gob-smackingly well. We thank you completely for making the idea of Internet Evolution a reality by keeping up your end of the conversation and always challenging us and each other with new ideas about the future of the Internet. These awards are yours as much as they are ours.
Congratulations and thanks again to the whole Internet Evolution team, to our sponsor, IBM -- and especially to our readers who have made all of our successes possible.
Congrats to everyone - I enjoy the site very much, get educated far more often than I educate I think, which is a great thing. The blogs are so well done and well researched - makes it a lot of fun to read and often comment.
Guess you're talking about the Nobel Peace prize. Maybe our time will come. The cyberspace could be a great venue for the promotion of peace, good will and harmony, really.
God bless IE and may more people join the Community!
Our sincerest heartfelt thanks for all the kind messages. It's one thing to write about social networks as a model for online activity, and quite another to be a part of the IE community that has emerged on the site and these message boards in our 18-month lifespan.
Thank you to all our readers, ThinkerNet contributors, message board moderators, and of course, our tremendous sponsor IBM. The digital team of IE is much larger than the nine people in Nicole's cosmic photo.
Congratulations and I proudly say that I am very glad to be part of IE! Hopefully there will be more awards in the future as we all contribute towards the development of the cyberspace as an instrument of making the world a better place.
RE: "#4,286 in Nigeria,"....is that a sign of the criminal element possibly watching the good guys at IEvolution to see what they're saying about security issues??
Many thanks to everyone for all of your kind words, and congrats again to all of you who make up the now-award-winning IE community. We hope your newfound fame doesn't disrupt your regular lives too much. As always, we really appreciate your involvement and hope that you'll continue to be a part of this community for a looooooong time. We promise to keep making it worth your while!
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We're live on IE Radio with Naomi Baron, author of Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, and professor of linguistics and language at American University.
Hey, IE Radio fans! We hope you're ready for another exciting interview. Today we're welcoming Naomi Baron, author of Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, and professor of linguistics and language at American University. Baron is joining us at 2:00 p.m. ET.
The Internet is making us stupid. No wait, the Internet is making us smart. Multi-tasking helps us consume more information... orrrr it reduces the amount of knowledge we can retain.
The Web has become the preferred spot for documenting personal flaws. With every online confession, Web users are crafting their detailed autobiographies and setting them free for the public's consuming pleasure.
Earlier this week, Facebook made a big fuss over the fact that it has allegedly registered its 500 millionth user. In an effort to celebrate, we here at Internet Evolution called for your Facebook Horror Stories. Hoo boy, was this going to be fun!
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We do love our social networking, but, according to computer scientist Jaron Lanier, we may be diminishing ourselves when we join the hive. “May be? Ha!” says Mr. Cramer.
Saunders is wrong on Hulu, Fritz thinks. By most measures it's been
a success, and there's no reason this model won't become even bigger in the next three years. Oh, and he hates Steve's hat.
As enterprises leap into the Web 2.0 world of blogging, commenting, and social networking, just 'being there' won't deliver ROI. You may want a 'Web Evangelist' to systematically harvest the feedback in order to polish your product or service.
More companies are trolling social networks to find and vet potential job candidates. Beware the pitfalls of blurring the line between personal and professional lives.
There's a public-policy war on copyright that nobody is winning, and inconsistencies in viewpoint and interpretation seem to be multiplying. We need to step back and think our policies over again, or we risk having a strategy that fails everyone.
Ultraviolet is an industry-wide attempt to standardize video content delivery across multiple platforms. Apart from the fact that it’s based in the cloud, relies on the DRM system, and isn’t backed by Apple… it sounds great!
The FCC's Sixth Broadband Report has a hidden secret. But here’s a hint: The regulatory body plans to regulate broadband as a telecommunications service.
Once defined by epic journeys, planning, and maps, the phrase "on the road" takes on new meaning in a digital age, where we can make all our decisions using our connected devices en route.
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