Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Intranet Awards!

This year’s entrants in Ragan’s 2015 Intranet Awards showed they had what it takes to be named the best in the business!

This year’s Special Edition showcases a company who added a unique twist to their intranet in the style of the Daily Show, an intense story that highlighted an airline’s heroes in a hurricane, and an employee network that connected more than 40,000 people and much more!

Please join us in congratulating the first-ever winners of Ragan’s 2015 Intranet Awards!

Innovation

Best Article

WINNER
Heroes After the Hurricane
Alaska Airlines

Honorable Mention

  • 3M, 3M Newsroom Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC Connects Feature Story Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC Connects 24/7 Story Erie Insurance Group, Get to Know Jen Kubiak

Best Launch or Re-Launch

WINNER
The New InSite
Spectrum Health

Honorable Mention

  • Health Sciences North, The Hub Sealed Air Corporation, Intranet Re-Launch DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc, DaVita New VillageWeb Cisco Systems, Re-Launch of Intranet UW Health, UW Health’s New Intranet: U-Connect Sister of Mercy of the Americas West Midwest Community and Chip Thompson, Redesign of the West Midwest Community Intranet

Best Use for HR

WINNER
Dos and Don’ts of Employee Travel
Alaska Airlines

Honorable Mention

  • ASPCA and Interact, ASPCA MasterCard, MC Central Citrix, Backstage Marsh & McLennan Companies, Colleague Connect Enterprise Intranet SHIFT Communications, Intranet Launch Inspires Independence with Communication

Best Use of Video—Over One Minute

WINNER
Be An Ally
Cardinal Health

Honorable Mention

  • 3M, 3M Newsroom Erie Insurance Group, Behind the 90th  HCSC, Blue Bear Employee Relief Fund

Best Use of Visuals

WINNER
MC Central
MasterCard

Honorable Mention

  • Dex Media, A Brief History of Us: How Dex Got to Where it is Today  TriHealth Inc, TriHealth Kenwood Video Tour Wellington International Airport and Interact, 1634

Best Viral Campaign

WINNER
JAZ Tank Startup Challenge
Thomas Jefferson University & Hospitals

Honorable Mention

  • Alaska Airlines, March Madness – Livery Bracket Magenta Living and Interact, Yeti TriHealth Inc, Together We Triumph

Collaboration

Best Blog

WINNER
LiveWire Blog
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Honorable Mention

  • Chapman University Office of Communications and Media Relations, Happenings Blog HCSC, Compliance and Ethics Blog

Best Internal Social Networking/Use of Social Media

WINNER
EVA – Merck Digital Workplace
Publicis Pixelpark and Merck KGaA

Honorable Mention

  • DIRECTV, now part of the AT&T family, DIRECTV’S CORE HCSC, Shout Out! Iris Intranet and SMO Breda, Mijn SMO Breda, a unique social intranet for both employees and clients

Best Online Discussion

WINNER
Employee Meeting Questions
Alaska Airlines

Honorable Mention

  • BD, Values Jam

Design

Best Intranet Design

WINNER
EVA – Merck Digital Workplace
Publicis Pixelpark and Merck KGaA

Honorable Mention

  • Canterbury City and Interact, iCan Constellation Brands, Inc, OpenBar Oxford Innovation and Interact, The Voice Sealed Air Corporation, Intranet Re-Launch Ruder Finn and Novartis International AG, Long Live Life Awards 2015 UW Health, UW Health’s New Intranet: U-Connect

Grand Prize

Grand Prize Best Intranet

GRAND PRIZE
Building A More Engaging Backyard
Yahoo Internal Communications OK

Honorable Mentions

  • Citrix, Backstage
  • IBM CIO/VSA, Your IBM
  • Esurance, Esurance Resource & Information Network (erinet)
  • Publicis Pixelpark and Merck KGaA, EVA – Merck Digital Workplace
  • Sport England and Interact, Transforming Our Intranet from a Mini to a Porsche
  • Text100 and Jive Software, Jive’s Brewspace Connects