More recognition for VisitMaine.com

Portland Webworks, and the official site of the Maine Office of Tourism, VisitMaine.com, continue to garner industry recognition, with two new achievements in recent weeks.

Firstly, VisitMaine.com was named a finalist in this year’s MITX Interactive Awards. Held annually by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, the MITX Awards recognize excellence in the creation of web innovations designed, produced or developed in New England.

Since 1996 the MITX Awards has grown to one of the largest and most prestigious awards competition in the country for technology innovations and celebrates the best creative and technological accomplishments emerging from New England.

“The MITX Awards encompass all things creative and innovative in interactive marketing and technology, and this year saw an increasingly impressive group of forward-thinkers” said MITX president Kiki Mills. “We are proud to be the voice for the region’s digital community and we are thrilled to recognize some of the world’s most inspiring marketing and creative experts through the Awards.”

Portland Webworks will be recognized with the other finalists in the category of Travel,Tourism and Hospitality at a gala awards ceremony at the Boston Marriott Copley Plaza on November 18th, attended by over 1,000 of the region’s top interactive marketing and technology professionals.

As if that weren’t praise enough, Portland Webworks and VisitMaine.com was also recently recognized as a Gold Winner, in this year’s W3 Awards. The W3 Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites, marketing programs, and video work created for the web. The W3 is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms.