Apr
14

PoliPulse Nominated for Webby

Colin Moffett

It’s not likely anyone from this office will ever have the opportunity to be nominated for an Oscar. Of course, we’ll never say never, but who needs an Oscar when you’re up for a Webby Award?

Powell Tate’s PoliPulse project has been nominated for the 15th Annual Webby Awards in the “politics” category for a website. The award was established in 1996 during the Web's infancy and is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Past winners include Amazon.com, Google, BBC News, Twitter and Wikipedia.

We’re extremely excited about this award as no other public affairs or communication firm made it this far in the “politics” category. We’re in good company as nominees for this award — we’re up against the New York Times, Politico, NPR, and FactCheck.org.

PoliPulse is our unique data visualization tool that presents a daily graphic summary of the topics driving online conversation to spot trends around concerns of current events. For example, our most recent topics are about a potential government shutdown, the debate around whether college athletes should be paid and the opinions of nuclear energy in light of the situation in Japan.

Here’s the best part about The Webbys: The winners - at least in part - are up to you. While the official Webby Award is decided by the Members of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, The People’s Voice Award is decided by you - the online community.

We encourage you to vote.

 

Michael Stopford

Executive Vice President and Senior Global Corporate Strategist

Brian Wommack

Senior Vice President

Lance Morgan

Chief Communications Strategist