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GotVMail, The Entrepreneurs Phone System™, chosen as MITX Finalist for "Gary Busey on Business" Video Campaign
GotVMail (http://gotvmail.com), The Entrepreneur's Phone System™, has been selected as a finalist in the Best Use of Video category of the 13th Annual MITX Awards. GotVMail's innovative viral video campaign featuring actor Gary Busey, which launched in mid-July 2008, was one of four entries chosen as a finalist by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange in the video category. The MITX Awards recognize excellence in the creation of web innovations designed, produced or developed in New England. Begun in 1996, the MITX Awards has grown to the largest and most prestigious awards competition in the country for web innovations and celebrates the best creative and technological accomplishments emerging from New England.
Needham, MA, October 20, 2008 — GotVMail Communications LLC (http://gotvmail.com), The Entrepreneur's Phone System™, has been selected as a finalist in the Best Use of Video category of the 13th Annual MITX Awards. GotVMail's innovative viral video campaign featuring actor Gary Busey, which launched in mid-July 2008, was one of four entries chosen as a finalist by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange in the video category.
The MITX Awards recognize excellence in the creation of web innovations designed, produced or developed in New England. Begun in 1996, the MITX Awards has grown to the largest and most prestigious awards competition in the country for web innovations and celebrates the best creative and technological accomplishments emerging from New England.
"In its thirteenth year, the MITX Awards have continued to expand not only in volume of entries and but also in the level of innovation and sophistication of the work, " said Kiki Mills, executive director of MITX. "It is testament to a vibrant and dynamic industry that has grown to become an economic engine of the New England economy."
More than 40 videos of Busey discussing themes of entrepreneurship, business cliches, and excuses for missing work, were released July 15 and garnered some 400,000 impressions by Oct. 1. A special landing page linked to the GotVMail Web site.
"We are ecstatic to be chosen as a finalist in the MITX competition, especially as this work was done in-house, leveraging the dynamic skills of GotVMail's multitalented team," said Siamak Taghaddos, co-founder and CEO of GotVMail. "This campaign was about having fun with entrepreneurship, and everyone at GotVMail enjoyed it."
Among the other finalists in the video category are companies who did work for Reebok, General Motors Corp., Comcast Corp., and MassMutual Financial Group. GotVMail will be recognized with the other finalists in the category of Best Use of Video at a gala awards ceremony traditionally attended by over 1,000 of the region's top internet business and marketing professionals. Winners will be announced at the ceremony in the Boston Marriott Copley Place on Wednesday, November 19th. Tickets can be purchased at www.mitxawards.org.
The 2008 MITX Awards program is sponsored by Atom Group, Blue Sky Factory, DLA Piper, DoubleClick, EyeWonder, Fidelity, Google, IBM, Kelliher Samets Volk, OptumHealth, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rocketship, Sportgenic and Technology Review.
About GotVMail
GotVMail's Virtual Phone System works just like large company phone systems, but is designed specifically for on-the-go entrepreneurs. Any small business can sound more professional and streamline its communications by creating a virtual office that connects callers to employees wherever they are, on any type of phone - home, office, VoIP, or mobile. Customizable for 1 or more employees, GotVMail requires no equipment to purchase, is easily managed online, and starts at only $9.95 a month. GotVMail — The Entrepreneur's Phone System. For more information, visit gotvmail.com.
About MITX - (www.mitx.org)
Established in 1996, MITX -- the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange is the leading industry organization focused on the web, bringing together the digital technology, marketing and media community to engage in what is next for the web and how it will impact the marketing and business worlds. Reaching more than 6,000 professionals in New England, MITX is a dynamic and growing community of thought leaders, collaborators, and individuals in search of insight, education and opportunity. With more than 60 events annually, MITX provides its members with the opportunity to promote their companies to targeted audiences and provides a valuable forum for networking to source potential business leads, partnerships, ideas, funding and other likeminded peers in the industry. MITX is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. For more information please go to www.mitx.org.
Press Contact:
Erik Arvidson
GotVMail Communications
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Jaime Hodges
MITX
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