Circle.com Receives Prestigious Federal Design Achievement Award for U.S. Senate Web Site.Business/Technology Editors BALTIMORE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2000 Circle.com, (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CIRC) a leading provider of end-to-end Internet services, has received the much coveted U.S. Federal Design Achievement Award for its design of the U.S. Senate Web site. The awards, authorized by the White House, are given out every four years to federally funded design projects ranging from architecture and historic preservation to graphic design, engineering, urban design, and planning. This year, for the first time, Web sites have been added as a category. Only 35 projects out of a total of 338 entries received awards. William Ivey, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. , presented the awards. The Circle.com redesign of U.S. Senate Web site (www.senate.gov) makes the Senate's vast legislative, historic, art, and library resources easily accessible to the public. Circle.com identified three main objectives for the redesign of the U.S. Senate Web site: to act as a gateway to the sites of individual senators; to make it easy to find legislative information; and to serve as America's library for the vast historical, art, and architectural archives of the U.S. Senate. In order to humanize this venerable institution, and to reflect the human interest factors which were likely to motivate visitors, the Circle.com design team captured interesting and unusual events (and urban myths) in Senate history and included them on the Web site, using some of the Senate's most famous art and artifacts to tell these stories. As an example: there is a myth that the crystal chandelier in the small Senate rotunda once hung in a brothel. In fact, it first hung in the Maryland Theater in Baltimore, then in a Washington, D.C. church and ended up in the Capitol in 1965 after the church was demolished. "The United States Senate Web site lets you follow history-making events every day," Circle.com chief executive officer Robert T. Wilke said. "It is an extraordinary historical and educational resource for all Americans." The redesigned site was launched to coincide with the start of the 106th Congress and, coincidentally, with the opening of impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. hearings against President Clinton. During the hearings, hits on the newly launched Web site increased 30-fold to almost one million a day, according to Senate staff. The Senate Web site also is now under consideration to receive a Presidential Design Award, winners of which will be announced this summer. About Circle.com http://www.circle.com/ Circle.com (NASDAQ: CIRC) is an Internet professional services provider that creates complete end-to-end Web enabling services for its Fortune 1000 and emerging Internet-based clients worldwide. Circle.com, through its 14 offices and over 500 associates worldwide specializes in Internet-based customer relationship management systems. Circle.com is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland and is a division of Snyder Communications, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SNC SNC St Norbert College (De Pere, Wisconsin) SNC Sistema Nervioso Central SNC Société en Nom Collectif (French: Partnership) SNC Système Nerveux Central (French: central nervous system) ). Clients include: American Legacy Foundation The American Legacy Foundation (ALF)[1][2][3] is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing teen smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. , drugstore.com, GTE, Guinness, IBM, Lexmark, Lotus Development, MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company , MyWay.com (A subsidiary of CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) ), OfficeDepot.com, The PNC Financial Services PNC Financial Services (NYSE: PNC) is a U.S.-based financial services corporation, with assets of $92.0 billion. PNC operations include a regional banking franchise operating primarily in eight states and the District of Columbia, specialized financial businesses serving Group, Symantec, UPS, Wall Street Journal.com. |
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