Galveston.com & Company’s newly-launched blog site, blog.galveston.com, was named a Finalist yesterday in the Hospitality & Leisure category for Best Web Site or Blog in The 2011 American Business Awards.
The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.
This year’s Stevie Award winners will be announced during the annual gala on Monday, June 20 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. More than six-hundred executives from across the U.S.A. are expected to attend. The event will benefit Camfed (camfed.org), which fights poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa by educating girls and empowering women to become leaders of change. The ceremonies will be broadcast on radio nationwide by the Business TalkRadio Network.
More than 2,800 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in more than 40 categories, including Most Innovative Company of the Year, Management Team of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year, and Executive of the Year. Galveston.com & Company’s blog.galveston.com is nominated in the Hospitality & Leisure category for Best Web Site or Blog.
Galveston.com & Company captured a Stevie for Best Overall Website Design in 2006, as well as a second Stevie in 2007 for Multimedia: Public Information for its entry, Second Life Galveston Island.
“All of us at Galveston.com & Company are thrilled to once again be nominated by The American Business Awards. We absolutely realize the importance of blogging and social networking in regard to promoting Galveston Island as a tourism destination to the world, AND as a place to consider calling ‘home.’ Our new blog and its integration with social networking giants like Facebook and Twitter underscores this vision,” said Jim Cordell, Vice-President of Galveston.com & Company. “By launching this vibrant new blogging community, we are not only dramatically increasing our web presence, but – hopefully – visitors to Galveston Island as well. Quite simply, growing audience engagement via blog.galveston.com is a logical next step.”
Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April and May. Stevie Award winners will be selected from among the Finalists in each category next week by members of 10 specialized final judging committees. More than 150 executives will have participated in judging this year.
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of Finalists in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/aba.
About Galveston.com & Company
Galveston.com & Company, Inc. is a destination marketing corporation based in Galveston, Texas. The company specializes in destination portals, as well as online lodging, cruise, parking, and transportation reservations; and event ticketing via its proprietary DestinationNext module. For more information, contact Galveston.com & Company at via phone (409)763-8676 or email at websites@galveston.com
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.
Sponsors and partners of The 2011 American Business Awards include Infogroup, IBM Netezza, American Support, Citrix Online, Epic Media Group, High Performance Technologies Inc., iolo technologies, LifeLock, Merisel, PetRays, SDL, SoftPro, and Vérité, Inc.
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