Commercial Product or Service of the Year
Visible Technologies
Nominated for TruCast®
Visible Technologies helps companies listen to and learn what consumers are saying about them online via its comprehensive social media analysis and participation software platform, TruCast®.
“It is a tremendous honor for Visible Technologies to be named Commercial Product or Service of the Year by the Washington Technology Industry Association. Winning this award speaks to the growing need for social media monitoring, analysis and engagement technology and further validates our success in the marketplace.” - Dan Vetras, Chief Executive Officer, Visible Technologies
Consumer Product or Service of the Year
Wetpaint
Nominated for Wetpaint
Wetpaint powers socially published websites that let anyone collaboratively create, collect, and organize content to build an online community around whatever they’re passionate about.
“On behalf of our nearly 1.5 million site creators and 8 million users, Wetpaint is honored to receive the WTIA Industry Achievement Award for Consumer Product of the Year. Although we provide the platform, it is the fans’ passion for entertainment, sports, politics, and social activism that inspires us every day to produce the best and most empowering online community service available.” - Ben Elowitz, CEO, Wetpaint
Breakthrough Start-up of the Year
Ontela
Nominated for Ontela PicDeck
Ontela provides a ridiculously simple solution that automatically saves every camera phone picture a user snaps to their e-mail, PC, and web photo albums.
“There's a lot of awards ceremonies in this business, but this one is really special because it comes from the community. It means a lot to us at Ontela to receive this honor from a group to which owe so much. Thank you!” - Dan Shapiro, CEO, Ontela
Service Provider of the Year
AdReady™, Inc.
Nominated for AdReady®
AdReady makes the creation and management of sophisticated online display advertising campaigns incredibly easy and effective for advertisers and publishers of all sizes.
“We are honored to be named ‘Service Provider of the Year’ by the Washington Technology Industry Association, and very proud to be among such past winners as Classmates.com and Concur Technologies, two companies to which AdReady has close ties. This recognition highlights AdReady’s commitment to combining great technology with great service.” – Aaron Finn, President and CEO, AdReady
Best use of Technology in the Government, Non-profit or Educational Sector
Snohomish County Planning & Development Services
Nominated for The Inspection Improvement Project
The Inspection Improvement Project uses technology available today to provide great customer service for how inspections are requested, documented and results communicated.
“Snohomish County’s staff is dedicated to innovative design that saves staff time and benefits our constituents. This project is one example of that dedication. We are pleased to have been selected for this honor.” – Aaron Reardon, Snohomish County Executive, Snohomish County Planning & Development Services
Technology Innovator of the Year
Darrin Massena, Picnik
Darrin is the Co-Founder & CTO at Picnik. Darrin has developed software for the last 28 years. Prior to Picnik, Darrin co-founded Spiffcode and was a development manager at Microsoft for 11 years, where he was a "Leonardo DaVinci Award" winner.
“I am honored to be recognized by the WTIA as the ‘Technology Innovator of the Year’ and appreciate all my peers who voted for me.” - Darrin Massena, Co-Founder & CTO, Picnik
Technology Leader of Tomorrow
Israel Zemeadim – Washington Middle School, 8th Grade
“It would mean being one step closer to be able to go to college.” - Israel Zemeadim, Washington Middle School
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