Digital & Technology

If you want to make your home the No. 1 destination in your neighborhood this Halloween, then load up on Skittles. According to social analytics provider StatSocial, the Mars Inc.-owned treat is the most influential candy brand on Twitter.

Breaking through the proverbial clutter online is one of the biggest challenges facing communicators. The challenge grows more acute when there’s a holiday that brands and organizations want to leverage to boost their visibility. With its new “Halloween Hills” experience, Target is killing two birds with one stone.

Over the past decade, the field of public relations has evolved into a real-time, fast-paced practice. Yet, even within this evolution, the effectiveness of telling an organization’s story has remained a steadfast rock.

Winner: Sam Ford, Peppercomm As the Director of Audience Engagement at Peppercomm, an award-winning strategic communications/marketing firm, Sam Ford helps clients think about how to better tell stories that matter to the publics they seek… Continued

Winner: United Nations Foundation The United Nations Foundation’s website includes rich detail on the group itself, who it works with and what it is hoping to accomplish.  Founded in 1998, the United Nations Foundation builds… Continued

Winner: Waggener Edstrom Communications Waggener Edstrom Communications (WE) believes in the transformational power of communications and its ability to shift perceptions, alter behavior and create change to deliver substantial business impact to its clients. For… Continued

Winner: Time Warner Cable – Time Warner Cable Untangled Blog Time Warner Cable (TWC) has successfully evolved its Untangled Blog from a siloed content vehicle staffed by a single author, best viewed on desktop, to… Continued

Blogger Winner: Brian Solis Brian Solis’ blog is ranked in the top 10 marketing blogs in the AdAge Power 150 and is also a Top 100 business blog as ranked by Technorati. A digital analyst,… Continued

Winner: APCO Worldwide – IKEA Brighter Lives for Refugees: the One Night without Lights Social Media Challenge In 2013, more than 2 million people became refugees – a near twenty-year record. The refugee camps these… Continued

Winner: Esurance – #EsuranceSave30 Esurance opted to buy the first commercial slot following Super Bowl XLVIII, and by doing so, saved 30 percent, which added up to a whopping $1.5 million. Instead of just absorbing… Continued