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eNilsson wins 2 Reed Awards
January 23, 2009
Washington DC – In Thursday’s Reed Award banquet, Westford MA based, eNilsson International captured two Reed Awards for its outstanding work in the 2008 presidential campaign. This year’s banquet was held at the Washington, DC Marriot Hotel.
In the category of “Best Use of Innovative Technology” eNilsson took first place for its ElephantScheduler. The ElephantScheduler is a web-based campaign logistics tool that is used to manage candidates, political surrogates and VIPs. During the 2008 presidential campaign, the ElephantScheduler was used to manage 36,965 political events for Senator John McCain, the RNC, the Republican National Convention and the Romney for President campaign.
In the category “Best Online Fundraising Tool” eNilsson took first place for its ElephantTrakker. Over the course of the 2008 election cycle, eNilsson’s political fundraising tools process and manage over $100 million. The ElephantTrakker was built for the Mitt Romney for President campaign as a, first of its kind, social networking political fundraising tool. By the end of the Romney campaign, the ElephantTrakker was used to raise and manage over $65 million.
The bi-partisan Reed Awards recognize excellence in campaign management, political consulting and political design, and bestowed honors last night in more than 50 categories for television ads, direct mail, get-out-the-vote operation, collaboration and technology.
Winners, selected by a panel of over 30 judges representing the industry's best campaigning experts including: George Stephanopolous, Dick Morris, Christine Pelosi, Joe Trippi, Christine Todd Whitman, and Mike McCurry.
“During the day-to-day heat of the campaign, one never takes a moment to step back and see how far and how fast our products have grown. It is fantastic to be recognized for our teams’ work.”
Erik Nilsson, eNilsson Managing Partner
The awards, named after Campaigns&Elections Politics magazine's founder Stanley Foster Reed, and embodies his mission to strive for excellence in political campaigning.
“Chosen from the largest and smallest organizations in the industry, the winners will represent the latest techniques and talent in the business.”
Matthew Cooper, Washington editor of Conde Nast Portfolio
About Campaigns & Elections
Campaigns & Elections was launched in 1980 by Stanley Foster Reed. Within a short time, the magazine became required reading for political professionals around the US. Campaigns & Elections Politics magazine is now read in over 40 countries and Campaigns & Elections campaign training programs have been used around the world including former Soviet Bloc countries.
About eNilsson International llc
eNilsson builds beautiful and innovative online software that radically increases client productivity while being fun and easy to use.
Since 1998, eNilsson’s teams of designers, marketers and engineers have come together to build user-centric solutions for problems as diverse as:
• fundraising tools that have collected and managed over $100 million,
• automating workflow for two presidential campaigns,
• tracking genetic code of 1,105,589 species,
• educating the public on the importance of good infant nutrition.
With offices in Westford, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Sydney Australia, eNilsson serves political, corporate and non-profit clients including Pfizer, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Republican National Committee.
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