Website Awards

LifeLock of Tempe, AZ, U.S.A. won a Stevie® Award for Best Website in the website awards categories of The 2011 International Business Awards, the world's premier business awards program. (The 2012 IBA entry deadline is 16 May, you can download your entry kit today.) Here we look at LifeLock's successful use of emerging technology.

In 2010, LifeLock was tasked with using innovative technology to redesign their website. This project was initiated to:

• Align with new branding principles,
• Educate consumers on identity theft and LifeLock services, and
• Demonstrate value and provide self-service to members.

The website award winner's redesign helped the organization achieve many successes including:

LifeLock.com: From Jan 19, 2011 through April 13, 2011 (vs. 12 weeks prior)

• Visits up +95.22%
• Pageviews up +128.33%
• Average Pageviews up +16.96%
• Mobile Visits up +153.47%

Member Portal: From Feb 1, 2011 through April 10, 2011 (vs. 10 weeks prior):

• Visits up +36%
• Average Time on Site up +43% (increase of 3.5 minutes)

Read LifeLock's winning entry and check out the award winning website, here.  

About LifeLock:
LifeLock helps consumers to render their personal information useless to thieves, backing it up with a one million-dollar service guarantee. Unlike other security services, LifeLock specializes in the prevention of identity theft rather than the reporting of it, providing customers with the tools to proactively protect their personal information. For more information, visit www.lifelock.com.

Rethink Autism, Inc. of New York, New York, USA won a Stevie® Award  for Best Website - Health Products & Services in the website awards categories of The 2011 American Business Awards, the premiere business awards program in the U.S.A. (The 2012 ABAs are accepting entries. Request your entry kit here and submit by the April 25 final entry deadline.) Here we look at Rethink Autism’s award-winning online services.

Rethink Autism uses technology to deliver autism treatment programs worldwide. The website award winner provides several services including:

• Implementation training for parents and teachers,
• Comprehensive educational lessons,
• Tools for evaluating needs and tracking student progress, and
• An online professional support system.

Rethink Autism also provides an online community for families and teachers to connect with professionals.  Rethink Autism's site offers several resources, including:

• Message boards,
• Q&A forums,
• Free webinars,
• Weekly tips, and
• Seminars

Rethink Autism uses a variety of techniques that allow users to easily navigate the site, connect with others, and find desired information.

Read Rethink Autism's winning entry and check out the award winning website here.  
About Rethink Autism
Launched in 2009, Rethink Autism is an online website service that provides clinical best practice autism treatment programs worldwide. Rethink Autism's online services provide training to families and teachers for implementing treatment, tools for evaluating needs of the students and tracking their progress, a complete video-based curriculum with over 1,200 teaching steps, and an online professional networking support system.  Rethink Autism is based in New York City and has 10 employees.

We've just updated our 10 Tips for Winning Web Awards in the Stevie® Awards tipsheet for 2012!  Get it here.

Let us help you get the most out of your Stevie® Awards web awards submissions: Download our 10 Tips for Winning Web Awards in the Stevie Awards tipsheet.

Our newly updated tipsheet will help you:

1. View all of the possible website award categories.
   Web awards include categories for recognition of IT professionals, as well as categories dedicated to exceptional web sites, blogs, videos and other produced tools.
2. Get an introduction to our new app awards for smartphones and tablets.
   Submit entries for your organization's latest app (issued or updated since January 1, 2011).

3. Increase your chances of winning a Stevie Award!
   Get insider tricks to help you choose the best web award categories for your organization.

The 2012 web awards tipsheet provides helpful information on three of our Stevie Awards programs, including:

• The American Business Awards (Entries are now being accepted. Request your entry kit here.)
• The International Business Awards (Entries will be accepted starting in January. Sign up here to receive the entry kit.)
• The Stevie Awards for Women in Business

Which website, blog, video, or application will you be submitting for the 2012 Stevie Awards?

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It summarizes the 10 best ways to get recognized for your web site, blog, or creative work in the four Stevie Awards competitions in 2011 (which include The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service).  For the most part it recommends the web site and blog awards, interactive multimedia awards, and other categories that web folks should focus on, and outlines the general submission requirements for those categories.

Elite Editing is a New York–based full-service editorial company, offering proofreading, editing and writing help for businesses, academics and individuals through the website EliteEditing.com. The company earned one of the website awards in the 2010 Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the global competition for women entrepreneurs, executives, and the organizations they run.  Company owner Jennifer Rotner accepted the Stevie at the awards dinner in New York on Friday, November 12 2010.  See her acceptance speech here.

EliteEditing.com allows users to upload documents and pay instantly so that, no matter the deadline, their work will be delivered on time and error-free. The site also functions as an extensive writing resource, offering an invaluable list of articles, links and writing tips that is constantly evolving, with new, original content added daily.

The next opportunities to win web awards and blog awards from the Stevies include the website and blog awards categories of The 2011 American Business Awards, and the web awards categories of The 2011 International Business Awards.