NIC and Partners Win Top Government Marketing Awards

Kansas.gov, RI.gov, Texas.gov, Utah.gov, and Virginia.gov take top honors

OLATHE, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Five portals from the NIC (Nasdaq: EGOV) family of companies took top honors at the sixth annual GovMark Council Awards ceremony held today in Falls Church, Virginia. In total, GovMark recognized 12 government technology marketing programs for outstanding marketing efforts to promote eGovernment services.

“Just as our teams are constantly looking for new government services to place online, we also find new ways to market those services”

NIC portals receiving GovMark Awards include:

• Kansas.gov – “Outstanding Creative Marketing Program” for its “Final Piece to the Puzzle” series of marketing activities to promote a product suite to local government, http://www.kansas.gov/puzzle.
• RI.gov – “Outstanding State and Local Marketing Campaign” for the website, http://www.saltwater.ri.gov, to create awareness about a new state saltwater fishing registry law.
• Texas.gov – NIC partner, the Texas Department of Information Resources, won “Outstanding State and Local Marketing Campaign” for their work with NIC to promote the new Texas.gov.
• Utah.gov – “Outstanding State and Local Marketing Campaign” for the website, http://broadband.utah.gov, to increase awareness of and participation in the state’s broadband project.
• Virginia.gov – “Outstanding Interactive Marketing Campaign” for the innovative use of Web 2.0 and collaborative tools on the Commonwealth of Virginia’s portal website http://www.virginia.gov.

“Just as our teams are constantly looking for new government services to place online, we also find new ways to market those services,” said Robert Knapp, NIC Executive Vice President. “Marketing eGovernment services is another value we provide our state partners without using appropriated taxpayer dollars.”

The GovMark Council is a not-for-profit forum that facilitates education and networking for senior-level marketing executives who serve the government Information Technology and Telecommunications (IT&T) market.

About NIC

NIC manages more eGovernment services than any provider in the world. The company helps government communicate more effectively with citizens and businesses by putting essential services online. NIC provides eGovernment solutions for 3,500 federal, state and local agencies across the United States. Additional information is available at http://www.egov.com.