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Prix Boomerang 2005 – What A Night

I just got back from the Prix Boomerang 2005 awards show here in Montreal. The Boomerang awards are presented by InfoPresse Magazine and dedicated to celebrating the best in Quebec interactive marketing.
The Prix Boomerang took place at the Centre Mount-Royal and kicked off with a hot (as in temperature-wise) and happening cocktail. With nearly eight hundred people in attendance, the scene was also enhanced by “actors” doing all sorts of weird stuff – like someone ironing clothes in a bathrobe, a couple talking in bed and someone else in a faux Hawaiian scene hanging out in Bermuda shorts. Bizarre but cool.
The awards ceremony was a blast. I had a chance to do a two-minute speech on NABS – National Advertising Benevolent Society – which is known as BEC (le Benevolat d’Entraide aux Communicateurs) in Quebec and the Twist Image website was a finalist in the B2B Promotional Website category (sadly, we did not take home the award).
The post-event party was hosted by Sympatico MSN and nothing says “love-in” like free beer and catered food.
Final thoughts: A lot of the winners were either big portals or very well crafted Flash sites. I call this the PorP website model (Pretty or Portal). In the coming years, I hope the Boomerang Awards people start choosing sites based on usability, functionality, conversion, traffic generated, revenue creation, community building and brand lift.
I look forward to the InfoPresse Prix Boomerang 2006.
If you are interested in reading more about the event and the winners, go here: InfoPresse – Prix Boomerang 2005 Article – Les Gagnants Des Boomerang 2005 (the article is in French).
The website also has a list of the winners: InfoPresse – Prix Boomerang 2005 Website.
This was the 11th edition of the Boomerang Awards – wow… eleven years of interactive awards.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.

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