Ektron Announces All-Star Customers and Partners at Successful Synergy 2007 Conference.Over 250 Customers Attend Synergy 2007 Worldwide Customer Conference NASHUA, N.H. -- Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in Web content management software, named several customers and partners All-Stars award winners at its inaugural Synergy 2007 Worldwide Customer Conference in Boston on September 13th. Hundreds of customers and partners were nominated for the honor which distinguishes users that have best leveraged Ektron's content management technology to develop the most dynamic, engaging and interactive Web sites. The Ektron All-Star award winners were selected from twenty categories of Web sites developed with Ektron CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. 400.NET. All nominees were eligible to win best overall Web site of the year, an honor which was awarded to King's Daughters Medical Center King's Daughters Medical Center is located in Ashland, Kentucky and is the city's largest employer at over 3,400, generating $155 million in payroll a year.[1] It is a locally controlled not-for-profit 385-bed hospital that offers "cardiac, medical, surgical, paediatric, of Ashland, Kentucky Ashland is a city located in Boyd County, Kentucky, USA, nestled along the banks of the Ohio River. The population was 21,981 at the 2000 census. Ashland is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). . Winners received an engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. Louisville baseball bat and tickets to a professional baseball game Noun 1. baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League in their region. "We spent hours looking at the entries and nominated Web sites, and narrowed it down to three finalists per category," said George Rassias, Ektron VP of Sales. "The winning Web sites featured a distinct range of content functionality that meets the needs of everyone who interacts with the site, from employees to partners to customers," added Rassias. "Ektron's All Stars have built highly successful sites that combine clear design and navigation with compelling content and forward-thinking strategies." said Bill Rogers, founder and chief executive officer, Ektron. "It's really exciting to see how Ektron's customers are building their sites with advanced features such as GeoMapping, taxonomy, enhanced search, Wiki support, search engine optimization Designing a Web site so that search engines easily find the pages and index them. The goal is to have your page be in the top 10 results of a search. Optimization includes the choice of words used in the text paragraphs and the placement of those words on the page, both visible and hidden , and community building features such as blogs, forums, and membership." With no prior asp.net experience, King's Daughters Medical Center Web development team was able to use CMS400.NET to easily customize its events calendar, online bill payment and physician search feature, which seamlessly links patients with physicians in addition to other Web 2.0 features found on its homepage. "In creating a new site we felt that our biggest challenge would be porting old information to the new site and doing so in a timely manner," said James Stout James Stout (May 6, 1910 - August, 1986) was an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Known as "Jimmy," he began working at a racetrack as a stable boy then in 1930 became a professional jockey. , Web Designer, King's Daughters Medical Center. "The ease of development is the best feature for us. This is by far the best CMS system for the money," added Stout. In addition to the MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. , Ektron recognized the All Star Starting Line-Up of the best websites in 19 solution-specific categories: * Best Association Web Site- Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Grand Ronde may refer to one of the following places or entities in the U.S. State of Oregon:
* Best K12 Web Site- Montgomery County Public Schools Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is a school district that serves Montgomery County, Maryland, USA. It is currently the largest county in Maryland serving over 137,000 students. http://www.mcps.k12.md.us * Best Higher Education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. Web Site-Medill School of Journalism and Web solutions http://www.medill.northwestern.edu * Best Entertainment Site Web Site- Alliance Theater and Square Root Solutions- (Platinum Partner) http://www.alliancetheatre.org * Best Financial Web Site-Paybefore.com www.paybefore.com * Best Government Web Site-City of Frisco, Texas http://www.ci.frisco.tx.us * Best Healthcare Web Site- King's Daughters Medical Center http://www.kdmc.com * Best Travel Web Site -Kenya Airways http://www.kenya-airways.com * Best Insurance Web Site- Penn National Insurance Penn National Insurance is a property-casualty insurance company, headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1919 by the Pennsylvania Farmers and Threshermen's Mutual Protective Association, under the name Pennsylvania Threshermen's and Farmer's Mutual Casualty Company, http://www.pennnationalinsurance.com/portal * Best Manufacturing Web Site- Fiat and AKQA AKQA All Known Questions Answered www.fiat.com * Best Media Web Site -Business365.com and platinum partner Optiem www.business365.com * Best Non Profit Web Site-The Boston Foundation and partner Enforme Interactive http://www.tbf.org * Best Religious Web Site- Moddy Ministries and platinum partner C2 Group http://www.moodyministries.net * Best Retail Web Site - Dean and Deluca and gold partner IT Strategists http://www.deandeluca.com * Best Online community Web Site -Sportbikes.com http://www.sportbikes.com * Best Services Web Site -Compass UPS and certified partner Allied Consulting http://compass.ups.com * Best Homebuilding Web Site -Plunkett Raysich Architects and gold partner Versant http://www.prarch.com * Best Technology Web Site - Teleperformance and BGT BGT Busch Gardens Tampa BGT Britain's Got Talent (TV show) BGT Branch If Greater Than BGT Bodenseewerk Geraetetechnik GmbH (German defense company) BGT Be Glad To BGT Backpack Gear Test platinum partner http://www.teleperformance.com/usa * Best Energy Web Site -Consumers Energy http://www.consumersenergy.com/welcome.htm About Ektron Ektron's Web content management and authoring solutions are affordable for any organization and simple enough for anyone to use, yet offer webmasters, designers and developers all the tools they need to create, deploy and manage interactive Web, intranet and extranet sites on one platform. With Ektron CMS400.NET, companies can do what they want on the Web, including developing rich sites for personal, two-way communication with visitors, building community through memberships, blogs and forums, and attracting more repeat visits using RSS feeds and Web alerts to increase business opportunities. An open API allows for easy customization and extension. Ektron is headquartered in Nashua, N.H., and has more than 20,000 customer implementations worldwide, including Unilever, Intel and Pfizer. For more information, visit http://www.ektron.com. All trademarks recognized. |
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