ActiveDayton.com Receives National Community Service Award.Business Editors DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2001 ActiveDayton.com has been awarded the American Association American Association refers to one of the following professional baseball leagues:
AABB American Association of Blood Banks A professional, non-profit organization established in 1947 and dedicated to the education, formulation of standards, policy and other facets of ) 2001 Award of Merit for outstanding community service in the category of Other Media. This award gives national recognition to individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to voluntary blood donations at the local level. Community Blood Center (CBC (1) (Cell Broadcast Center) See cell broadcast. (2) (Cipher Block Chaining) In cryptography, a mode of operation that combines the ciphertext of one block with the plaintext of the next block. ) of Dayton nominated ActiveDayton.com for this award. Jodi Minneman, COO of Blood Services for CBC states, "With the assistance of ActiveDayton.com, we have been given the potential to reach over 200,000 visitors a month. As the need for blood increases and the number of donors decreases, CBC would not be able to meet the needs of the patients in our community without the help of companies such as Cox Interactive Media, which operates ActiveDayton.com. As today's culture has become an electronic society, ActiveDayton.com has provided CBC with enormous capabilities to reach out to our community. We are so excited and proud of ActiveDayton.com for winning this national award." Tim Darcy, Site Manager of ActiveDayton.com says, "This is a tremendous opportunity for ActiveDayton.com to reach out to our community and provide a real service to the people of the Miami Valley The Miami Valley, broadly, refers to the land area surrounding the Great Miami River in southwest Ohio, USA, and also includes the Little Miami, Mad, and Stillwater Rivers as well. Geographically it includes, Dayton, Springfield, Middletown, Hamilton, and other communities. . Increases in our blood and tissue bank supply help us all. This partnership touches the lives of many. We're glad to be a part of it." ActiveDayton.com works closely with the CBC to promote awareness about blood and tissue donation. In support of the effort, CBC sponsored an "ActiveDayton.com Day" at the center last fall. To promote the event, the city site posted a volunteer blood quiz and a virtual tour of the donation process on their site. Additional advertising on the Web site was also used to promote the event. The results speak for themselves with over 230 donors signing up that day. ActiveDayton.com has continued to work closely with the CBC to recruit donations during critical blood shortages and educate their users. About Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services (CBC/CTS) is an independent, not-for-profit organization. CBC provides blood products to 25 hospitals in the Miami (Ohio) and Whitewater (Ind.) Valleys. CTS (1) (Clear To Send) The RS-232 signal sent from the receiving station to the transmitting station that indicates it is ready to accept data. Contrast with RTS. (2) (Common Type System) The data typing used in . , serving the public through procurement and distribution of human tissue donations used for transplantation, is composed of five regional offices, including Dayton, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. ; Indianapolis, Ind.; Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. ; Portland, Ore. and Fresno, Calif. For more information about a blood drive near you, see www.cbccts.org. About ActiveDayton.com ActiveDayton.com, a Cox Interactive Media city site, was launched September '97 and is locally produced. It provides Dayton residents with a variety of online tools and features, such as free classifieds, job listings and a search engine containing the most comprehensive listing of local Web sites in Dayton. ActiveDayton.com channels include - Traffic reports, local event calendars, Family, Health, Homes, Money, News, People & Chat, Recreation, Shopping, Sports, Technology, and Travel. Local community and interest groups have the ability to build a free Web site as part of the site. ActiveDayton.com is part of a network of local city sites owned and operated by Cox Interactive Media and created in partnership with Cox media partners including two local publications (The Dayton Daily News The Dayton Daily News (DDN) is a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio. It is owned by Cox Enterprises. On August 15, 1898, James M. Cox purchased the Dayton Evening News. and Springfield News-Sun The Springfield News-Sun is a daily newspaper published by Cox Enterprises, which also publishes the Dayton Daily News. Both newspapers contain similar editorial content, but tailor their local news coverage to the area served. ), one local TV station (WHIO-TV) and three Dayton radio stations (News/Talk 1290, K99.1 FM, and The Point). About Cox Interactive Media Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia) has built a top-rated network of city sites reaching 30 percent of the total adult population and 44 percent of adult Internet users. The network consists of 22 local sites in the top 50 U.S. markets. CIMedia (www.cimedia.com), headquartered in Atlanta, was launched in January, 1997 and is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late , Inc. Cox Enterprises is one of the nation's leading media companies and operator of automobile auctions. In addition to CIMedia, major subsidiaries include Cox Newspapers, Inc. (newspapers, local and national direct mail advertising and customized newsletters); Cox Broadcasting, Inc., (TV, spot sales, television production, research and Cox Radio, Inc. [NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CXR CXR abbr. chest x-ray CXR, n chest x-ray; an image of the thoracic cavity, produced by an irradiation scan of the upper torso. ]); Cox Communications, Inc. ([NYSE: COX] cable distribution, programming, telephone and high-speed Internet access services); Manheim Auctions, Inc., which operates auto auctions in North America, Europe and Australia; Cox Enterprises also owns an equity stake in a range of Internet businesses, including AutoTrader.com, the world's largest source of used car listings for dealers and consumers. |
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