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A-SIG Awards

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Web Site Awards

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• The A-SIG website received a Silver award for the Best Health/Healthcare Content category in the 2006 eHealthcare Leadership Awards competition! (302.4 KB PDF file) We tied with medicare.gov in our category! Web Diva: Cynthia Lockley.
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• Note: 2006 – EEVL is no longer available (see 2004 entry below). Most of its services have been incorporated into the new Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology online service, and into the TechXtra service. The SIG is now listed in Intute under Computing > Computers And Society > Social Issues Computing > Information Interfaces And Presentation (e.g., HCI) > User Interfaces at http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=j.d.pacey.1097154838 Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in their database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.
 
APEX 2005 award
• Won 2005 APEX® Awards for Publication Excellence in the category of "One to Two Person-Produced Web & Intranet Sites". The 2005 APEX® awards were based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the success of the entry—in the opinion of the judges—in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence. A total of 4,942 entries were evaluated. Of those entries, 100 APEX Grand Awards were presented in 11 major categories to honor the outstanding works in those categories; and 1,523 APEX Awards of Excellence recognize excellence in 109 individual categories. Web Diva: Cynthia Lockley.
 
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• Earned a Gold Award for Excellence from The American Association Of Webmasters June 2005. Web Diva: Cynthia Lockley.
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We see all the hard work and dedication that you have put into constructing your web site and your efforts are well deserved. Your site displays: A nice clean Design and Layout of Website, with quality content and informative information for your visitors.

 
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• Included in the ACM SIGCHI Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Resources Bibliography: HCI Webliography: Accessibility Resources 2005
 
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• Included in the Best of the Web collection for Computing information sites by EEVL: the Internet Guide for Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing 2004 [United Kingdom]
 

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Publications Awards

• Special Needs Committee Brochure Wins Award

APEX 2001 award
2001—Congratulations to the STC Special Needs Committee, whose 2001-2002 promotional brochure won an Award of Excellence in the APEX 2001 publication competition! There were over 5100 entries. Of those, only about 28% won awards – 75 Grand Awards and a little over 1300 Awards of Excellence. The committee's Award of Excellence indicates their brochure truly stood out above the crowd. Designers, editors, and production managers: Jodie Gilmore and Judith Skinner.
 

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