--- title: Video Awards | Michael Gallagher description: The video awards blog of the Stevie Awards, the world's premier business awards programs. --- [![stevie-awards-full-logo](https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Stevie%20Awards%20Blog%20Theme%20Files/stevie-awards-full-logo.png?width=347&height=70&name=stevie-awards-full-logo.png "stevie-awards-full-logo")](http://stevieawards.com) Click to View Posts by Stevie® Awards Categories ## Michael Gallagher ### Recent Posts ## [2 Award-winning Videos That Brought XPLANE to "Gamestorming"](https://blog.stevieawards.com/video-awards/bid/49647/2-Award-winning-Videos-That-Brought-XPLANE-to-Gamestorming) Posted by [Michael Gallagher](https://blog.stevieawards.com/video-awards/author/michael-gallagher) on Fri, Feb 04, 2011 @ 01:48 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [Tweet](http://twitter.com/share) *Business-design consultancy XPLANE of Portland, Oregon received a Stevie Award for Best Motivational Video in the [video awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/70_816_3660.cfm) categories of The 2010 [American Business Awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/aba).  The entry deadline for the 2011 ABAs is March 31.* In 2009, XPLANE produced a four-and-a-half-minute video, *[Did You Know? 4.0](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2634_20550.cfm)*, which visually informs about how the new world of social media and the latest communication technologies have forever changed the world’s media landscape.  This award-winning web video has received over a million views since it was posted on YouTube, and still makes fascinating viewing more than a year later. ![Dave Gray](http://thestevies.com/images/Update/0211XPLANE.jpg)Founded in 1993 by Dave Gray, XPLANE has evolved from an information- design company into a global-communications and business-transformation consultancy. Now part of the Dachis Group, XPLANE drives results for leading corporations through what it terms *Business Design Thinking*. In keeping with this, Gray—together with XPLANE consultant James Macanufo and Sunni Brown of Bright Spot Information Design—recently produced a business book, *Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers*, explaining how tangible artifacts such as sticky notes and index cards make group creative thinking more effective. A short video from the XPLANE creative team using these same tools to provide a sneak peek into why this book is so useful in today’s business world.  You can view it at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mrtu4MmthE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mrtu4MmthE). Drawing largely from the visual thinking techniques that have made XPLANE famous, *Gamestorming* started out as a way to formalize a collection of visual thinking tools and grew into a handy playbook that anyone can use to think bigger, solve faster, and create more effectively. *Gamestorming* is a mindset: It fosters a new a way of thinking that is collaborative, fast-paced, and fun.  ***[Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers](http://www.amazon.com/Gamestorming-Playbook-Innovators-Rulebreakers-Changemakers/dp/0596804172)*** is available now, and for more information, check out the Gamestorming blog at [http://gogamestorm.com](http://gogamestorm.com/). 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stevieawards.com/video-awards/bid/49647/2-Award-winning-Videos-That-Brought-XPLANE-to-Gamestorming#comments-listing) Topics: [video awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/video-awards/topic/video-awards), [American business awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/video-awards/topic/american-business-awards), [stevie awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/video-awards/topic/stevie-awards), [XPLANE](https://blog.stevieawards.com/video-awards/topic/xplane) ## [Video Awards Categories in The 2011 American Business Awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/video-awards/bid/45213/Video-Awards-Categories-in-The-2011-American-Business-Awards) Posted by [Michael Gallagher](https://blog.stevieawards.com/video-awards/author/michael-gallagher) on Thu, Oct 28, 2010 @ 04:07 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) The subject-specific [categories for business- or work-related video and film productions](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/70_816_3660.cfm) will be the same for the [2011 ABAs](http://www.stevieawards.com/aba) as they were in 2010, but we've eliminated the function and craft categories for video and film (the categories for direction, editing, and the like). Here are the categories in which you can enter your productions that were introduced since January 1 2010 (the letter/number combinations are our internal category codes): H01. Internal/Employee Communications H02. Magazine Format H03. Meeting Modules H04. Motivational H05. Orientation H06. P.R.: Annual Reports H07. P.R.: Government H08. P.R.: Industrial H09. P.R.: Media & Entertainment H10. P.R.: Non-profit Fund Raising H11. P.R.: Other H12. P.R.: Technology H13. Sales: Direct Response Marketing H14. Sales: Government H15. Sales: Industrial H16. Sales: Media & Entertainment H17. Sales: Other H18. Sales: Technology H19. Sales: Product Sales H20. Sales: Service Sales H21. Security/Safety H22. Teleconferences H23. Tourism/Travel H24. Training You can enter your productions through the ABA's easy-to-use online submission system, or offline - depends on whether or not your production is available online.  All of the [video awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/aba) categories require that you submit a brief of up to 100 words about the objectives and results of your work, plus the word itself, and optionally you can provide creative and production credits for the work. 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