posted by Jessica on April 25th, 2013  |  National Recognition for Our Friends at Axonify

We are thrilled that local company, Axonify, founded by our John and Rebecca, has been nominated as a finalist for the Canadian Digital Media Network’s “Moonshot” awards. These awards recognize Canadian companies that create jobs and wealth for Canada through innovation in digital media.

Axonify is Waterloo based and has created a revolutionary online employee training process. The company is dedicated to changing the way employees learn and retain knowledge through the continuous delivery of personalized, bit-sized content in a fun, social and rewarding way.

In addition to Axonify, the other great finalist companies include Desire2Learn, Vidyard, Miovision, Magnet Flowers, Voices.com, Nionik Labortories, TalentEgg Inc. and Zighra.

There are four categories in the competition and Axonify is nominated for two:

CDMC Digital Media Globalizer of the Year
An award recognizing the Canadian company that has contributed the greatest increase in international sales, investments or other contributions to the growth of the Canadian digital media industry (2012/2013).

CDMN Digital Media Company of the Year
An award recognizing the Canadian company that has made the greatest contributions to the growth of the Canadian digital media industry (2012/2013).

We eagerly anticipate the May 14, where the awards will be presented for the CDMN Moonshot Awards at the Toronto Convention Centre and look forward to seeing what Axonify has in store for the upcoming year!

For more information about Canada 3.0 or the Moonshot awards visit their website.

 

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posted by Jessica on April 17th, 2013  |  Our March Storytelling Contest Winning Winter Photograph

We want to send out a big thank you to everyone who submitted a winter photograph for the March Storytelling Contest. There were so many great entries that choosing a winning photograph was difficult.

Congratulations to Joe Martz for having taken our winning photograph!

When asked about the story behind the photograph, Joe Martz shared:

“I remember it being a very mild day and we had a dose of hoar frost in the morning. That stuff is pretty sensitive to temperature so I knew it wouldn’t last very long at all so I just wandered around in the backyard with no coat on photographing it. I tried a bunch of different compositions and even used my macro lens to get real close to some of the detail. For the winning shot I purposefully used a shallow depth of field to give it sort of a surreal look. I thought the frost on the branches and thorns had an interesting look and the little bits of red added just a bit more interest to the photograph.”

If you want to check out more of Joe’s work, you can find him here. Or you can tweet him.

 

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