We are very proud to be sponsoring Gamification Summit 2012 in San Francisco this coming June 20-21. For an industry that only popped up a few years ago, we still can’t believe the recognition and support that gamification has all over the world.

At this years conference, Gamification Summit 2012 has announced the first ever GAwards: Best in Gamification Awards to recognize the best gamification applications and companies in the past year. Categories include; greatest impact, social good, enterprise, and consumer facing, among others.

We are very happy to be nominated along with some of our awesome clients, but we need your votes!

It’s easy to do, just visit the links below, login to List.ly using your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts and click the little thumbs up button on the right hand side of the nomination.

GAwards: Gamification Greatest Impact Award – BigDoor

GAwards: Best Consumer Facing Use of Gamification – Big Brother Sweden AND MLB

GAwards: Best Use of Gamification in the Enterprise (HR) – Dell

GAwards: Best Use of Gamification in Social Good – Nickelodeon

Feel free to share with your friends as well! We appreciate all of the support from clients and fans!

Posted in: Awards, Blog, Gamification

Update: We even more pleased to announce that BigDoor has been selected as a winner in the “Internet/Social Networking” category!

We’re very pleased to announce that BigDoor has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious TiE50 Awards Program! The program is part of TiE’s global network that includes more than 14,000 entrepreneurs and professionals that are dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. Each year TiE50 recognizes the world’s most enterprising technology startups. BigDoor was selected as part of a comprehensive evaluation, screening and judging process. Thousands of qualified nominated companies are evaluated on business model, IP value, and leadership team. From the nominations the list is narrowed down to 100 per segment. We’ll be following along with all the finalists and are asking all BigDoor fans to visit the BigDoor page and vote for us!

Posted in: Awards, Blog, Startups, Success, Technology

Last night the Seattle Tech Community celebrated the WTIA Industry Achievement Awards. BigDoor took home the award for “Best Early Stage Company of the Year.” It was an honor to be nominated and even more exciting to win! We are so lucky to have such a great team that works tirelessly everyday, we couldn’t have won without all of them. More important than the awards is the work that the WTIA does for the tech industry in the state of Washington, they are truly a great asset to the tech community. Thanks again to everyone who was involved in the awards, as well as everyone who attended last night and made it a great event.

Winners included:

·      Best Seed Stage Company: Zipline Games
·      Consumer Product or Service of the Year: DocuSign
·      Commercial Product or Service of the Year: (tie) SEOMoz, Skytap
·      Technology Accelerator Award: Founder’s Co-Op
·      CEO of the Year: Steve Singh (Concur)

For a complete recap of the event and winners click here.

Posted in: Awards, Blog

Today we’re pleased to announce that BigDoor has been nominated for the Washington Technology Industry Association’s Industry Achievement Awards. Along with Appature and GreenCupboards the WTIA has nominated BigDoor in the “Best Early Stage Company” category. We’re really excited to see many of our fellow startups listed as well, including Founder’s Co-Op; Lighter Capital; Simply Measured and Zipline Games. Congrats to everyone!

The list of nominees include:

·      Best Seed Stage Company: Simply Measured, Spiral Genetics, Zipline Games
·      Consumer Product or Service of the Year: DocuSign, Parallels, Zillow
·      Commercial Product or Service of the Year: EagleView Technologies, SEOMoz, Skytap
·      Technology Accelerator Award: Founder’s Co-Op, Lighter Capital, Opscode
·      CEO of the Year: Ben Huh (Cheezburger), Steve Singh (Concur), Bryan Mistele (INRIX)

Posted in: Awards, Blog, Technology

We like awards and we’re excited to report that we’ve been named one of the “Hottest Companies in Seattle” as recognized by Lead411. We’re proud to be included with some other great local companies including Cozi Group, PopCap Games, Redfin, SEOmoz Inc, Swype Inc, Tableau Software, Verdiem, Zulily and more. Lead411 recognizes the fastest growing technology companies in Seattle with an initial list of 1,050 that was ultimately narrowed down to the top 49 in the area!

Posted in: Awards, Blog