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BATON ROUGE – The American Advertising Federation–Baton Rouge announced the winners of its coveted ADDY® Awards competition honoring creative excellence in advertising Saturday night during the award ceremony at the Louisiana State Museum.

With more than 60,000 entries annually, the national ADDY® Awards are the world’s largest and arguably toughest advertising competition. The ADDY® Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognizing all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from around the world. The American Advertising Federation conducts the ADDY® Awards through its 200 member advertising clubs and 15 districts. It is the only creative awards program administered by the advertising industry, for the industry.

This year’s local competition produced 446 entries from Baton Rouge professionals and LSU students. Judging was held January 16, 2010 at Lamar Advertising. Renee Miller, President/Creative Director of The Miller Group in Los Angles, Ca.; Jim Dudley, Broadcast, Copywriter, Creative Director of Dudley Creative in Roanoke, Va.; and Jimmy Ball, Art Director/Designer, Photographer, Interactive of Jimmy Ball Design in Dallas, Texas, served as judges for the competition.

Gatorworks brought home a Silver ADDY award for their client project, Santa’s Online Wishlist. Santa’s Online Wishlist is an interactive website where children can dress a snowman, have fun in Santa’s Toy Factory, view Santa’s Mailroom, and best of all send emails to Santa Claus. The website took approximately 6 months to hand-draw, custom illustrate, and then custom animate using Adobe Flash software. David Link, Creative Director and lead designer/developer on the project, said, “It’s really nice to be recognized for our hard work, especially in a community as talented as AAF.”

At the red carpet ceremony, 41 gold ADDY®s, 50 silver ADDY®s, three Special Judge’s Awards, a Mosaic Award, Best of Show and Best of Category awards were presented. Advertising students were also recognized with 17 gold ADDY®s, 19 silver ADDY®s, a Best of Show and Special Judges’ Awards. ADDY® 2010* also recognized professional excellence on the business side of the advertising industry with its Pinnacle Awards.

One of our ventures was recently featured on Killer Startups. See the article below:

If we conducted a poll asking the average John and Jane what is their preferred way of accessing the news, I am sure CNN & Co. will top the list effortlessly. As strong as Twitter is, it needs a couple more apparitions and mentions in shows like Oprah’s in order to make the guy in the cornershop turn to it for good. Still, those who are even partially tech-savvy know the advantages that it brings about. And if they don’t, visiting a site like Newstwit exemplifies perfectly the way it is used to transmit the most recent news.

The site gathers together the latest news, arranged by category. Some of these include “Sports”, “Tech”, “The left” and “The right”, along with a section that is dedicated from start to finish to national coverage. Besides, a “Hot Channels” section spotlights the best of the best to be found here.

The content of each one of these sections is presented back to the user in real-time, and that is exactly where the charm of the site lies. As a platform, Twitter is characterized by providing twitterers with information the kind that had journalists screaming “Stop press! Stop press!” in the past. Now all that they have to do is tweet out. And as readers, all we have to do is visit a site like Newstwit in order to catch the latest copy.

Originally published by Killer Startups.com: http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/newstwit-com-read-news-the-twitter-way

The Capital Area United Way on Wednesday kicked off a new effort to raise $100,000 in four weeks, according to a news release.

The United Way selected 15 business professionals to participate in its new Donor Development Class. They were nominated by other business leaders and chosen because of their development expertise, community influence and desire to make a lasting change in Baton Rouge.

The top-performing member will receive a one-year honorary membership in the CAUW Tocqueville Society, a group of donors who give at the $10,000 level and above.

The class members are:

• Michael Adams, Scully Financial.
• Ian Dallimore, Lamar Advertising.
• Barbara Anne Eaton, Burns and Co. Realtors.
• Milton Hammer III, Lee Doughtery and Ferrara Investment Management.
• Ashley Keller, WBRZ.
• Kim Lambert, EMCO.
• Eric Lewis, Sable International.
• Natalie Noel, Help Solutions.
• Anthony O’Connor, Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry.
• Davis Prescott, Iberia Bank.
• Marshall Price, Regions Bank.
• Brian Rodriguez , GatorWorks Web Design.
• Cindy Stumpf, C.J. Brown.
• CT Taylor, AFLAC.
• Amy Underwood, Wright and Percy.

Advocate staff report. Published September 17, 2009 – Page 5B