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http://www.maryland.gov/Pages/default.aspx
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- (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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Contacts:
NIC Maryland
Janet Grard, 443-924-7405
jgrard@egov.com
Source: NIC Maryland
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