Bakotopia Wins an Edgie!
I'm extremely happy to accept Bakotopia's 2006 Digital Edge Award for Most Innovative Participation! We're the winner for such sites that are run by newspapers with circulations between 50,000 and 99,999.
The "Edgies" are given every year by the Newspaper Association of America's New Media Federation. Bakotopia is one of a handful of winners chosen from 187 entries by 42 experts from various media fields -- including newspapers, broadcast, educational institutions and Classifieds. Rock on!
Everything about Bakotopia and the "Bakomatic" platform that powers it has been a team effort, so I would like to thank the following people from the team who helped make it happen:
Mark Jackson, Mick Martinek and associated software developers from Precision Technologies LLC in Fort Collins, Colorado. Mark worked closely with me to build the original architecture that powered Bakomatic 1.0. We have since grown our relationship with his company, Precision Technologies, to build future versions that support two other Web sites and many more to come.
Chris Ladd, an incredibly talented software engineer (and much more!) who we hired internally in October 2005. Chris is also a great product visionary, and you can expect to see more of his ideas in action in 2006.
Mary Lou Fulton, Vice President Audience Development, for accepting my wacky proposal to build an interactive Web site for 18-35 year olds in Bakersfield. Not only did she believe and trust me, but she convinced others to do the same. She has been a champion at the executive level for Bakotopia, and other similar leading-edge initiatives at the Californian that would otherwise never have gotten traction. It all starts at the top!
Matt Munoz, the lead singer of the band Mento Buru who joined as the new Bakotopia product manager only a few months ago. He is already making waves by recruiting dozens of bands and producing the very entertaining Bakotunes podcast each week. I'm sure all of this helped impress the judges.
Numerous others at The Bakersfield Californian who supported us in this effort. It's not easy to look outside the box when you work in a company with just one product that has been around, largely unchanged, for over 100 years. In particular, our publisher Ginger Moorhouse, CEO Richard Beene and the executive staff that supports them are extremely progressive. Without their determination to embrace the changes that are rocking the media world, nothing that people like me and this team propose would ever see the light of day.
Congrats to all!
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The "Edgies" are given every year by the Newspaper Association of America's New Media Federation. Bakotopia is one of a handful of winners chosen from 187 entries by 42 experts from various media fields -- including newspapers, broadcast, educational institutions and Classifieds. Rock on!
Everything about Bakotopia and the "Bakomatic" platform that powers it has been a team effort, so I would like to thank the following people from the team who helped make it happen:
Mark Jackson, Mick Martinek and associated software developers from Precision Technologies LLC in Fort Collins, Colorado. Mark worked closely with me to build the original architecture that powered Bakomatic 1.0. We have since grown our relationship with his company, Precision Technologies, to build future versions that support two other Web sites and many more to come.
Chris Ladd, an incredibly talented software engineer (and much more!) who we hired internally in October 2005. Chris is also a great product visionary, and you can expect to see more of his ideas in action in 2006.
Mary Lou Fulton, Vice President Audience Development, for accepting my wacky proposal to build an interactive Web site for 18-35 year olds in Bakersfield. Not only did she believe and trust me, but she convinced others to do the same. She has been a champion at the executive level for Bakotopia, and other similar leading-edge initiatives at the Californian that would otherwise never have gotten traction. It all starts at the top!
Matt Munoz, the lead singer of the band Mento Buru who joined as the new Bakotopia product manager only a few months ago. He is already making waves by recruiting dozens of bands and producing the very entertaining Bakotunes podcast each week. I'm sure all of this helped impress the judges.
Numerous others at The Bakersfield Californian who supported us in this effort. It's not easy to look outside the box when you work in a company with just one product that has been around, largely unchanged, for over 100 years. In particular, our publisher Ginger Moorhouse, CEO Richard Beene and the executive staff that supports them are extremely progressive. Without their determination to embrace the changes that are rocking the media world, nothing that people like me and this team propose would ever see the light of day.
Congrats to all!
Technorati Tags: Bakotopia, Bakomatic, Edgies, Digital Edge Awards, Community, Social Networking, Web 2.0
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2/19/2006 12:23:00 PM
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