Maryland.gov Honored with Two Prestigious International Awards
17 April 2017 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Maryland’s award-winning website, www.Maryland.gov, was
recently honored with a 2017 Gold Hermes Creative Award and a 2016
Gold Horizon Interactive Media Award in the Government Website
category. Winners of the Hermes Creative Award and Horizon
Interactive Media Award are recognized worldwide on a global stage
as the top designers and developers of websites, mobile apps,
videos, and more.
Hermes Creative Awards and Horizon Interactive Media Awards are
two of the most prestigious awards in the field of interactive and
creative media. The international competitions recognize
outstanding execution of industry trends and those who are able to
stay on the cutting edge of technology while maintaining a high bar
for visual design. This year, the Hermes Creative Award boasted
over 6,000 entries from around the world administered by the
Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, an
international organization consisting of several thousand
marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, digital
media production, and free-lance professionals. The Horizon
Interactive Media Awards judged over 1,200 entries from around the
world, including 40 of the 50 United States and 20 countries.
Maryland.gov’s engaging design is based on a combination of
analytics, surveys, customer service data, focus group feedback,
and industry best practices. Maryland.gov was developed with a
mobile-first approach and utilizes responsive design techniques for
flexible display on smartphone, tablet, desk, or laptop devices.
Visitors can easily access hundreds of time saving online services
and agency sites, including more than 300 social media
channels.
Maryland’s innovative social media strategy promotes social
engagement by deeply integrating Twitter feeds throughout the site.
This approach provides meaningful updates and information relative
to the section of the site being visited, delivering a
best-in-class communications platform.
A prominently placed search box utilizes predictive text to
dynamically update results while the user enters a search term.
Results are categorized by online services, publications, maps as
well as all portal content to quickly locate information across the
enterprise of Maryland government.
Maryland’s use of GIS state data mash ups within the Near You
geo-location mapping service integrates the Motor Vehicle
Administration’s queue system with office locations to display
current wait times at branch offices. State park, agency locations,
and even state jobs are visibly displayed using this
citizen-centric feature. Maryland.gov is truly cutting edge,
putting citizens’ needs at the forefront of design.
The Maryland.gov website was developed for the state of Maryland
at no cost by NIC Maryland, through the self-funded digital
government services contract with the State Department of
Information Technology (DoIT).
About NIC Maryland
NIC Maryland builds, operates, maintains, and markets the
official website of the state of Maryland, www.maryland.gov
and its digital government services. NIC Maryland is a
collaborative public/private partnership managed by the Department
of Information Technology (DoIT) and NIC Maryland. NIC Maryland
helps Maryland state and local government entities web-enable their
services and operates without tax funds through a self-funded
digital government services contract. NIC Maryland has developed
dozens of digital government products and services for the state of
Maryland since the contract was awarded in August 2011.
About NIC
Founded in 1992, NIC Inc. (NASDAQ: EGOV) is celebrating 25 years
as the nation’s premier provider of innovative digital government
solutions and secure payment processing, which help make government
interactions more accessible for everyone through technology. The
family of NIC companies has developed a library of more than 12,000
digital government services for more than 4,500 federal, state, and
local government agencies. Among these solutions is the
ground-breaking digital government personal assistant, Gov2Go,
delivering citizens personalized reminders and a single access
point for government interactions. More information is available
at www.egov.com.
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NIC MarylandJanet Grard, 443-924-7405jgrard@egov.com
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