Commercial Investigations Inc, Best Bank & Best Credit Union Web sites of 2008 to be Named by Web Marketing Association in Annual WebAward Competition


Best Bank & Best Credit Union Web sites of 2008 to be Named by Web Marketing Association in Annual WebAward Competition

West Simsbury, CT (PRWEB) April 16, 2008 -- The Web Marketing Association announces the call for entries for its 12th annual international WebAward Competition for Web site development at Web Award Web site (www.webaward08.org). The WebAwards is the standards-defining competition that sets benchmarks for 96 industries, including bank & credit union web sites, based on the seven criteria of a successful Web site. The deadline for bank & credit union web sites to enter to be judged is May 31, 2008.

"The bank & credit union industry is very competitive when it comes to Web development and companies can benefit from the independent evaluation of their online efforts," said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. "In terms of banks & credit union websites, judges are looking for sites that both inform and educate their users. They should not overtly cross-sell products and services as this disrupts the user experience."

Web sites are judged on seven criteria including design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copy writing and ease of use. Each WebAward entry is judged against other entries in its industry category and then against an overall standard of excellence.

All entrants benefit from receiving valuable feedback in terms of their specific scores compared against the average scores for their industry. They also may receive specific comments from the WebAward's professional judging panel on their Web site development efforts.

Winners of a WebAward in the bank & credit union categories will also receive:

? Image plaque or certificate of achievement

? Increased visibility for their company

? Marketing opportunity to promote the company website to the media

? Links to your site from the highly ranked WebAward site to help SEO

? Admiration of peers, friends and co-workers

Each year the Web Marketing Association names the Best Bank Web site and Best Credit Union Web site based on the scores submitted by the competition judges. Recent winners of the Best Bank Web site and Credit Union Web site include:

Banking

2007 - Organic, Inc. for Bank of America No Fee Mortgage Plus

2006 - Carat Fusion for Wachovia Championship 17

2005 - Agency.com for Sainsburysbank.co.uk

2004 - Ion Global Limited for HSBC Card Services HK

A complete list of past winners and the entry form for companies who wish to compete for 2008 honors can be found at the Best Bank Web site page (http://bank.webaward.org)

Credit Union

2007 - Extractable for SAFE credit union

2006 - Webnbeyond for Union America Mortgage

2005 - America First Credit Union for www.americafirst.com

2004 - Imirage, Inc for APCI Federal Credit Union



A complete list of past winners and the entry form for companies who wish to compete for 2008 honors can be found at the Best Credit Union site page (http://creditunion.webaward.org)

Using the quantifiable data collected from more than 15,000 Web site evaluations over the past decade, the WebAwards has defined and recognized industry-specific benchmarks for successful Web sites in each of the seven judging criteria and released an Internet Standards Assessment Report to detail the findings of the study. A copy of the 2009 Internet Standards Assessment Report, including details regarding the bank & credit union industries, will be provided to all participants.

Judging for the 2008 WebAwards will take place in June through August and winners will be announced in September. Judges will consist of a select group of Internet professionals who have direct experience designing and managing Web sites,-including members of the media, interactive creative directors, site designers, content providers and webmasters - with an in-depth understanding of the current state-of-the-art in Web site development and technology. Past judges have included top executives from leading organizations such as A&E Television Networks, Agency.com, Blattner Brunner, Bridge Worldwide, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Comedy Central, Disney, Euro RSCG, Ion Global, J. Walter Thompson, John Deere Company, New York Post Interactive, Organic, Inc., Refinery, R/GA, Saatchi & Saatchi, SAP, Starwood Hotels, Sun Microsystems, Warner Bros. Online, Xerox and Zugara.

The 2008 WebAwards are sponsored by the following leading organizations: Burst Media, PRWeb, AllBusiness, Misukanis & Odden, Small Army, ExactTarget, ad:tech conferences, NewsUSA, MediaPost's OMMA conference, TopRank Online Marketing, Creative Chocolate Printing Company, PhizzPop, Internet World UK, Search Engine Strategies, Webmaster Radio, Rovion's InPerson, Snap Shots and Website Magazine.

About the WebAwards

Now in its 12th year, the annual international WebAwards competition sets the standard of excellence in 96 industry categories by evaluating Web sites and defining benchmarks based on the seven essential criteria of successful Web site development. The goal of the Web Marketing Association, sponsor of the WebAwards, is to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective Web sites on the Internet today. Entrants benefit from a Web site assessment by a professional judging panel and the marketing opportunities presented to an award-winning Web site. For more information, visit

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New York, NY (Bluehost) April 16, 2008 -- ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom producing journalism in the public interest, today announced further additions to its news staff. Eric Umansky, former "Today's Papers" columnist for Slate, is senior writer and will become the lead daily contributor to ProPublica's enhanced web site, which will launch later this Spring. Susan White, former enterprise editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, will become an editor at ProPublica. Sheri Fink, MD, Christina Jewett of the Sacramento Bee, Abrahm Lustgarten, formerly of Fortune magazine, and Joaquin Sapien, formerly of the Center for Public Integrity, are joining ProPublica as reporters.

Paul E. Steiger, editor-in-chief of ProPublica, said, "Managing Editor Steve Engelberg and I are very pleased to have been able to recruit these superb additions to ProPublica's news team. They provide a depth and breadth of experience that we think will enable us to get off to a strong start this year, and to build ProPublica into a top-flight investigative journalism operation."

ProPublica, when fully staffed later this year, will have the largest news staff in American journalism devoted solely to investigative reporting, with roughly 25 fulltime reporters and editors. ProPublica will be supported entirely by philanthropy and will provide the articles it produces, free of charge, both through its own web site and to leading news organizations selected with an eye toward maximizing the impact of each article.

Stephen Engelberg, managing editor of ProPublica, noted, "With these appointments, we now have a news staff of 12 people in place or on the way, with more to come very soon. The soul of a great investigative team is its reporters and we've been fortunate to attract a very high level of reportorial talent. Their willingness to help us create ProPublica reflects the enduring desire of journalists to write great stories that have impact and make a difference."

Eric Umansky wrote Slate's "Today's Paper's" feature from 2001 until 2006. He then received a Gordon Grey fellowship from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Earlier in his career, Umansky was a senior associate editor of Brill's Content magazine, and the editor of Motherjones.com.

Susan White worked at the San Diego Union-Tribune from 1994 until 2007, serving ultimately as the newspaper's enterprise editor. She played a key role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of corruption by former U.S. Rep. Randy Cunningham. Her experience at the Union-Tribune included stints as border editor and writing coach. Earlier in her career, Ms. White worked for 14 years as a reporter and television critic at the Lexington [Kentucky Herald-Leader.

Sheri Fink has been an independent reporter and producer since earning her medical degree and Ph.D. in neurosciences from Stanford University ten years ago. Most recently, Dr. Fink has been a Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow in Health. She has also been a frequent contributor to PRI's "The World", Discover magazine and the IAVI Report. She is the author of War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival, which won a American Medical Writers Association special book award.

Christina Jewett has worked at the Sacramento Bee since 2002. Her reporting on criminal justice has been honored with awards from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the National Commission on Crime and Delinquency.

Abrahm Lustgarten is a former staff writer and contributor for Fortune, and has written for Salon, Esquire, the Washington Post and the New York Times since receiving his masters in journalism from Columbia University in 2003. He is the author of the forthcoming book China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet, a project that was funded in part by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Joaquin Sapien was a reporter for The Center for Public Integrity from 2005 until earlier this year. He was the lead reporter on a year-long investigative project on "Superfund's Toxic Legacy," which just received the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in non-deadline online independent reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists. Before joining CPI he wrote for Environmental Media Services.