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Sevnthsin garners Webby honor for JCPenney Weekly Deals mobile ap

A boatload of congratulations and mad props to our pals at Sevnthsin whose JCPenney Weekly Deals mobile apps were named an official honoree for the 2011 Webby Awards! Being an honoree is quite the achievement. Of the 8000 submissions to the Webby Awards fewer than 15% are recognized with the Official Honoree designation.

Also, we have to thank them for the shout out. We’re happy we could help them on their way to nabbing such a great honor.

The Nerdery ranked #1 on list of Best Places to Work

In case you haven’t heard The Nerdery was ranked #1 on Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal’s Best Places to Work list.

The rankings were determined by employee surveys created by Quantum Workplace, which reported the results to the Business Journal. We topped the list of medium sized companies – those with 101 to 1,000 employees – that do business within the Twin Cities thirteen-county metro area.

The nerds had a lot of nice things to say about working at The Nerdery, including:

“Every day I wake up and actually look forward to going to work. I know that my opinion matters, what I do matters and that I am valuable to the company.”

We take our Nerdery culture seriously, and that makes winning this award a great honor.

Want more? Take a look at what Nerdery leaders had to say and get a few tips on how to create a rocking workplace.

Nerds in the News: Webchallenge garners award for philanthropy

While we don’t organize and helm the Overnight Website Challenge for awards, it’s nice to get recognized.

The Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal recently announced that we received The Jefferson Award for Public Service in recognition of our record for spurring volunteerism among our nerds and throughout the web development community with the webchallenge. In the first three years of The Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge, volunteers have donated approximately a million dollars worth of professional services to 39 nonprofits.

The Jefferson Award was created in 1962 by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Senator Robert Taft, Jr., and Sam Beard as a “Nobel Prize for public service.”

We promise not to let it go to our heads. Non-subscribers, you can read the whole article right here.

Friday Links: Communication Arts’ best interactive (and some other stuff)

Before we get to the links, we just have to mention that Communication Arts has released its list of the best interactive projects of the year. We’re pretty happy to see two projects we got to work on made the list. Fallon’s Skimmer and Colle + McVoy’s Take Me Fishing. Pretty rad way to end the week, isn’t it?

• In honor of the Oscars on Sunday, AdFreak has complied the 66 best movie taglines of the past 20 years. It’s a fun list.
• If you missed Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion, you should probably watch it. It’s pretty good.
• IE6 Funeral.
• Make does a nice little Q&A with the makers of that fabulous Ok Go video that took the Internet by storm this week.
• Homer’s iPhone.
• Lego games, four kinds of awesome.
• John Lennon’s Citroën ad fairly indefensible
• For The Nerdery’s bikers: 10 amazing bikes of the future.
• Darth Vader disco ball.
• Infographic of the week: What people are really buying onlive vs. offline.

Sevnthsin wins RACIE award, makes us blush

First of all, congratulations to Sevnthsin & JC Penney on their Racie award for the JC Penney Weekly Deals iPhone App.

Second of all, thank you for mentioning us in your post announcing the win. We’re always happy to help!

“Congrats to all involved, especially our boys down at The Nerdery who moved mountains at the 11th hour many a time during the pre-holiday build up.”

Take Me Fishing.org wins Bronze Anvil Award

We’re pleased as punch to tell you Take Me Fishing.org received a 2009 Bronze Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) for superior performance in the design and execution of an individual tactic within a broader public relations program.

That’s a mouthful, ain’t it?

Take Me Fishing.org was a website we built with Colle+McVoy for the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation.

We raided the tackle box to create a social media mash-up of apps already attracting an online audience – including YouTube, Google Maps, RSS feeds, and blogs – to give visitors a familiar experience and build community through a sort of Facebook for fishers. Users share the secrets of favorite fishing spots by uploading locations to Hot Spots, a Google Maps app.

Countless graphics and layouts designed by Colle+McVoy were created for more than 2,500 pages of content, backed by a database of more than 12,000 boating and fishing locations across the U.S., a comprehensive “Fishopedia” resource of fishing–related information.

Learn more and listen to the nerds talk about how we helped Colle+McVoy build this award-winning site.