Awards

Government Standard of Excellence WebAward

The Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud web site was awarded the 2011 Government Standard of Excellence WebAward for outstanding achievement in Web Development. The Web Marketing Association's annual WebAward Competition is the premier award recognition program for Web developers and marketers worldwide. Sites are judged on design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting, and ease of use.

Communicator Award 2011

The Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud website was awarded the Silver Interactive Award of Distinction for health-related websites. The Communicator Awards is the leading international creative awards program honoring creative excellence for communication professionals. Founded by communication professionals more than a decade ago, the Communicator Awards is an annual competition honoring the best in advertising; corporate communications; public relations; and identity work for print, video, interactive, and audio.

eHealthCare Leadership Award

The Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud Web site was awarded the Platinum award for the Best Overall Internet Site by the eHealthcare Leadership Awards in 2010. This leading awards program recognizes the very best Web sites of healthcare organizations.

Aesculapius Award

The Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud Web site was awarded the Aesculapius Award of Excellence by the Health Improvement Institute in 2010. The Aesculapius Award, named for the ancient Greek God of healing, recognizes outstanding organizations that have provided health information to the public through the use of World Wide Web (WWW) sites or television or radio public service announcements (PSAs).

MarCom Awards

The Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud Web site was awarded the Gold Award for Best Web Site Overall by MarCom Awards in 2010. The international competition includes entries from 5,000 marketing and communication professionals worldwide. The Gold award is a tremendous achievement and is only presented to those who exceed the high standards of the industry norm.

Outstanding Web Site Awards

In 2009, The Quit Tobacco — Make Everyone Proud Web site was named an “Outstanding Web Site” by the Web Marketing Association Web Award judges. Founded in 1997 to help set a high standard for Internet marketing and development of the best websites on the World Wide Web, the Web Awards is the premier annual website award competition that names the best Web sites in 96 industries while setting the standard of excellence for all website development. Sites are judged on Design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting, and ease of use.

Interactive Media Awards

The Interactive Media Awards presented the Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud Web site with a 2009 "Outstanding Achievement" Award. The Outstanding Achievement award is the second highest honor bestowed by IMA and an extremely challenging award to win. Winning Web sites have excelled in all areas of judging criteria, and represent a very high standard of planning, execution and overall professionalism.

Horizon Interactive Award

The Horizon Interactive Awards is a prestigious international competition recognizing outstanding achievement among interactive media producers. Since 2001, the competition has received many thousands of entries from countries around the world and nearly all 50 US States. Each year, those entries are narrowed down to the best of the best to be recognized and promoted on and international stage for their excellence. The judging process involves a Horizon Interactive Awards advisory panel, end user panel and a worldwide panel of judges consisting of industry professionals.

The Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud campaign was awarded a gold award in the government category.

Aesculapius Award

The Health Improvement Institute awarded the Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud site an Award of Excellence in 2009. These awards are intended to encourage and recognize Web sites which continually display excellence in health communications.

eHealthCare Leadership Award

The eHealthcare Strategy & Trends presented the Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud site a Platinum award in the Best Overall Internet Site category. This leading awards program exclusively recognizes the very best Web sites of healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare associations, online health companies, pharmaceutical/medical equipment firms, suppliers, other healthcare organizations, and business improvement initiatives.

PR News Platinum PR Award

PR News awarded the Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud site an Honorable mention in the Web site category on October 2, 2008. PR News' Platinum PR Awards honor the year’s most outstanding communications initiatives and programs in the highly competitive and dynamic PR arena. The coveted awards set the industry benchmark for excellence across all areas of PR.

W3 Award

The Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud site has been awarded 2007 and 2009 Silver-level W3 Awards. The W3 Awards, sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, honor creative excellence on the Web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites and marketing programs.

Webby Award

The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences awarded the Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud site an Official Honoree of the 12th Annual Webby Awards in the government category. The Official Honoree distinction is awarded to work that scores in the top 15% of all work entered into the Webby Awards. With nearly 10,000 entries received from all 50 states and over 60 countries.

NAGC Award

The Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud site has won the NAGC Gold Screen Award. An annual Distinguished Service Award bestows the organization's highest honor on a member; Awards of Excellence recognize government agencies or individuals for significant achievement; and Service Awards are presented to members for noteworthy service.

Silver Omni Award

The Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud site has won a Silver-level 2008 Spring Omni Award. The Omni Awards were created to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding media production in a variety of fields. The Omni Award carries with it the distinction of being chosen by your peers as an example of excellence. Displaying the Omni allows clients to recognize your level of professionalism and success.

Bronze Omni Award

The Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud Web site (http://www.ucanquit2.org) was awarded the bronze Omni Award in the Fall 2010. The Omni Awards recognize outstanding media productions that engage, empower and enlighten. The judging process for the Omni Awards is rigorous. With a panel of three independent judges, each entry is rated based on a standardized set of criteria.