The winners of the 2012 Digital Alberta Awards were revealed earlier this month to a full house.
They include:
Community and Education
Best in Student Interactive Digital Media and Creative Design: First Generation Albertans, Giannitsos & Poon
Best in E-learning: Time to Drill, Sajak & Farki
Best Digital Media Leader – Community Leader, Educator, Program Leader, or Department Head: Owen Brierley, Guru Digital Arts College
Philanthropy
Best Digital Philanthropy Innovation: How a Regional Bank will Change the World, Benevity
Film, Television and Gaming
Best in Cross-platform Content: HDNet Fights Second Screen App, Mobovivo
Best Use of Film, Animation or Special FX: Bear 71, NFB
Best in Gaming: Catch the Princess, Robots & Pencils
Software, Mobile and Startups
Combined Hardware & Software Experience: Water Centre Touchscreen Kiosk, Sajak & Farki
Mobile Entertainment: Country 105 30th Anniversary iPhone App
Mobile Applications: Poynt, Poynt Corporation
Best In E-Commerce Solutions: eThor, Gary Ziegler
Best Digital Startup: UrtheCast
Design and Creative
Best Digital Design: Prius Canada Website, Sajak & Farki
Marketing and Social Media
Best In Social Media: W. Brett Wilson, ZGM
B2C Innovation: Calgary.ca Website Redesign, City of Calgary
Best Digital Advertising/Marketing Campaign: Plenty of Syph, Calder Bateman
The People’s Choice Award for Most Inspirational Digital Leader went to Kurtis Lesick, director at Creative Environment for Emerging Electronic Culture and Faculty at the Alberta College of Art + Design.