Vote for 2011 Cassies Awards
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 at 2:00pm -- Holly Wright
As many of you know, we are introducing a new awards ceremony called the Cassies at the User Conference this year. Cassies will be awarded to people who have gone above and beyond the call of duty in using Cascade Server and helping our clients.
Thank you for taking the time to submit your nominations. We have finalized the submissions, and the official list of nominees is below. You don't have to be attending the User Conference to vote or even to win. Click here to cast your vote for the Cassies before Friday, September 2nd!
- Most Creative Use of Cascade Server - What is the most innovative functionality that your organization has implemented using Cascade Server?
- Union College - For its integration with social media.
- University of Houston - For its use of centralized social media and rich media community site that engages their student audience and allows students to upload their own videos and pictures.
- Concordia College - For its clean and thorough site for managing and displaying their videos as well as segmenting them by topic.
- Best New Site powered by Cascade Server - Has your organization rolled out a new Cascade-powered website over the last twelve months? What makes it unique?
- Langara College - Langara uses Cascade's webservices to synchronize course information with its public website. It has around 2500 pages which are managed (or automatically updated) through Cascade. They've used LDAP authentication to let every employee have an account and they're utilizing groups to manage permissions of 100+ users.
- University of California Santa Cruz - UC Santa Cruz has a great design, clean implementation and great use of structured data blocks and reusable formats.
- Clarkson University - Clarkson has a very creative design and shows off their campus well through photos.
- University of Saskatchewan - USASK's site uses a fresh, clean design that has great functionality. The navigation is good and simple and the focus on their academic programs is right on homepage. Also, all design for this site was done in-house.
- Customer MVP: Most helpful non-Hannon Hiller to assist other clients - Our Cascade user community is awesome, and many of our clients frequently jump on our help forum to assist other customers. Who has been the most valuable player on the help forum? Who has shared great code examples and given advice on the high-ed listserv?
- Jason Aller (University of California Davis)
- Andrew Bauserman (William & Mary)
- Lee Roberson (Northwestern University)
- Earl Fogel (University of Saskatchewan)
- Hannon Hill MVP: Most helpful Hannon Hiller - Which Hannon Hill team member has provided the best customer service? (Voted on by clients only)
- Tim Reilly, Support Manager
- Joel Baxter, Support Engineer
- Penny Harding, Services Manager
- Charlie Holder, Services Trainer
- Chris Armistead, Client Relations Manager
- Lightening Bolt Award - How quickly did your company roll out Cascade Server to your users?
- Texas A&M Texarkana - They implemented their new site within just a week and have gone through a re-design already.
- Southern Illinois University-Carbondale - They implemented a new site while going through re-design, and updated services work to reflect new materials as they came in. Nice looking site! It took about a month from the start of Services work to launch.
- Hawai'i Pacific University - They implemented new site quickly and built out thousands of pages in just a few weeks.
- Biggest Fan of Cascade Server - Which client has been Hannon Hill’s biggest cheerleader, giving testimonials, referrals, interviews and webinars? (Voted on by Hannon Hill team members only)
- Winston Churchill-Joell (Sarah Lawrence College)
- Nate Tanner (University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics)
- Karmon Runquist (Wentworth Institute of Technology)
- Tony De Castro (Hawai'i Pacific University)
- Deborah Feldman (Northeastern University School of Law)
- David Shipley (University of New Brunswick)
- Early Adopter - Which client has had the best integration of a new Cascade Server feature or a partial site upgrade that best showcases the functionality of Cascade Server?
- University of Scranton - For its mobile website implementation (prior to and in version 6.8).
- University of California Santa Cruz - For being the first ones to implement Structured Data Blocks in production; they actually postponed their launch until the feature was available.
- University of New Brunswick - For its use of the WordPress connector and for using database publishing so extensively.
Congratulations to all the nominees! If you haven’t yet signed up for the User Conference, register today! The last day to register is Monday, August 29th.
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