| BiddingForGood is One of the 8 Companies in Massachusetts Selected by AlwaysOn |
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| Friday, 22 January 2010 15:51 | |||
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BiddingForGood, the leading cause related e-commerce platform solely for organizations engaged in auction fundraising for nonprofit causes, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies major developments in the creation of marketing tools, services, venues, and advertising, branding, and public relation campaigns. BiddingForGood was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts across the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
BiddingForGood and the other OnMedia 100 winners will be honored at the OnMedia conference scheduled to occur on February 1-3, 2009 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City, where company CEO Jon Carson will speak about “Branding for Good.” Carson will explain how innovative brands are building positive brand equity by doing “good” and why the intersection of social good & corporate profit is the new sweet spot. OnMedia NYC is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the global advertising and media establishment. The two-and-a-half day executive event will feature technology CEOs from Silicon Valley leading presentations and high-level debates with the global advertising and media establishment, about disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries. “Our view is that we are still moving up a very steep Internet innovation curve, which means the media world will continue to be radicalized.” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. “We congratulate the OnMedia 100 winners for their success in introducing the tools, services, and platforms that continue to disrupt the old ways of Madison Avenue for the benefit of marketers and content consumers alike.” Other winners in Massachusetts include: -Viximo, of Cambridge, creates virtual goods used on social networking and gaming Web sites. It won in the category of Community Networks. -Turbine, of Westwood, creates software used on social gaming sites. It won in the category of Digital Publishers. -Goby, of Boston, is a niche search engine. It won in the category of Next Generation Search. -uLocate Communications, of Boston, designs located-based software applications for mobile phones. It won in the category of Next Generation Search. -HubSpot, of Cambridge, creates Internet marketing software. It won in the category of Technology Enablers. -Skyhook Wireless, of Boston, designs location-identifying software that works on a browser plug-in. It won in the category of Technology Enablers. -Lattice Engines, of Boston, designs analytics and business intelligence software. It won in the category of Analytics and Research. -SeeWhy, of Andover, creates Web site optimizing software that woos back users by targeting abandoned shopping carts and Web site visitors. It won in the category of Analytics and Research. The OnMedia 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. About BiddingForGood BiddingForGood is the leading cause related e-commerce platform connecting consumers and marketers to non-profit fundraising auction events. Online auctions powered by BiddingForGood have generated over $75 million for non-profit organizations by allowing them to expand their bidder universe and access a new source of items. Clients can secure more items by delivering a stronger and more measureable marketing value to item donors to ultimately raise more money from more participants as well as BiddingForGood’s donated item program. The company works with dozens of brand marketers through a unique product advertising program to enable them to efficiently reach affluent donors just as they are spending in a trusted environment. This cause marketplace can be experienced at www.BiddingForGood.com. | |||
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About the Author: Dianne Crampton is Group Development Consultant and Leadership Coach. For the past twenty years she has helped not-for-profit leaders and their teams learn how to work well together to consistently achieve goals with high levels of group and individual satisfaction. She is also the founder of the TIGERS group development model. The model addresses six collaborative core values necessary for creating an ethical, quality-focused and successful team culture. The values are trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. The TIGERS model passed a rigorous validation study through Gonzaga University and was Crampton’s dissertation for her Master’s of Arts designation in Organizational Leadership. As president of TIGERS Success Series, Dianne has published in a business anthology endorsed by Stephen Covey and written for trade magazines. Merrill Lynch nominated her business for Inc. Magazine’s regional small business and entrepreneurial awards. Her work with Native Americans was recognized at a United Nations sponsored conference in 1994. Dianne is also the creator and distributor of the TIGERS Team Wheel game. This game helps Board Chairs and Executive Directors identify behaviors that build collaborative groups and behaviors that cause conflict, morale problems, production failures, and misunderstandings. For more information go to http://www.corevalues.com/Game.htm |