Media Releases

September 9, 2011

NEDC Wins 2011 New Media Award (New York)

The Niagara Economic Development Corporation (NEDC) has been awarded a "standard of excellence" award from the New Media Institute in New York, for its corporate website - niagaracanada.com.

The New Media Institute's 2011 New Media Awards Competition announced 27 winners in this year's website awards competition. "This year's competition was thrilling with websites ranging from local to global. Winners are not judged solely on design, but how well they are using this technology to serve and communicate to their audiences," said Barbara Eber-Schmid, Executive Vice President of the New Media Institute, which holds the annual New Media Awards. "Congratulations to all of the winners who so rightly deserve to be recognized for their display of excellence in new media communications."

To view the winners of the 2011 New Media Awards, go to: www.newmediaawards.org

About the New Media Awards -- Website Awards Competition
The New Media Awards is the New Media Institute's annual competition celebrating excellence in online communications. Websites are judged based on how well they serve their audience, considering the overall user experience, ease of navigation, content and design.

About niagaracanada.com
A virtual information portal, NEDC's corporate website serves as an access point for people to understand and appreciate everything about Niagara's ideal location for investment and superb quality of life. It functions as a powerful communications and marketing platform to tell Niagara's story to the world: that Niagara is a vibrant, diversified, exciting place where "natural power and people power come together in one perfect location". The website is a window for the world to see who we are and what we have to offer, and a vehicle for NEDC to initiate and sustain regular interactive communications with its key target audiences.

Click here to go to www.niagaracanada.com.

Guy Graveline, Director of Marketing and Economic Development
Niagara Economic Development Corporation
ggraveline@niagaracanada.com