News Feature

Winners of the Web Business 50 Awards

December 01, 2001 — CIO —

ABF Freight System Inc.*
Fort Smith, Ark.
www.abf.com
ABF customers can effortlessly ship and track their goods on ABF’s informative, easy-to-navigate site.

AIRS (Advanced Internet Recruitment Strategies)
White River Junction, Vt.
www.airsdirectory.com
AIRS’ well-designed website provides a wide range of recruiters with everything they need to know about the recruitment industry, including news and search tools.

Alliance Consulting
Philadelphia
Quest
Quest, the company’s intranet, organizes information and tasks so that the nearly 800 employees can collaborate and communicate virtually.

American Cancer Society Inc.
Atlanta
www.cancer.org
Cancer.org offers patients and their families information, resources and the ability to connect with each other in the fight against cancer. Pages 58, 80, 96

AtomShockwave Corp.
San Francisco
www.shockwave.com
A cornucopia of games and animated shorts make Shockwave.com stickier than a wet lollipop. The site also cleverly plays ads while users wait for their games to download.

Baptist Health Care
Pensacola, Fla.
www.ebaptisthealthcare.org
Baptist’s comprehensive website offers its members a wealth of information and innovative online services such as an interactive "health calculator" and health-risk analysis.

Bid4Assets Inc.
Silver Spring, Md.
www.bid4assets.com
Bid4Assets fills an underserved niche by auctioning off assets such as real estate, computer equipment and financial instruments rescued from foreclosures and bankruptcies.

Cisco Systems Inc.*
San Jose, Calif.
Cisco Employee Connection (CEC)
The cost savings and influences this intranet has had on Cisco’s culture make it one of the best internal corporate websites ever.

CNET Networks Inc.
San Francisco
www.mysimon.com
MySimon takes the intimidation out of comparison shopping on the Web with its user-friendly design and shopping-bot technology.

Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corp.*
Parsippany, N.J.
www.coldwellbanker.com
Coldwell Banker eases the painstaking home-buying process for customers and provides its sales force with 10,000 leads a month.

Department of Veterans Affairs*
Washington, D.C.
www.vabenefits.vba.va.gov/vonapp
No red tape here. Veterans can easily submit their own benefits claims via the Web, allowing the department to process them faster.

Drugstore.com Inc.
Bellevue, Wash.
www.drugstore.com
This site has one-stop shopping for pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. The drug-interaction checker lets users cross-check prescriptions to avoid bad interactions.

Eastman Chemical Co.*
Kingsport, Tenn.
www.eastman.com
Eastman’s site is a complete guide to buying chemical and plastics products. Customers can revise and track their order shipments and get expert help on products and technical data.

eLance Inc.
Sunnyvale, Calif.
www.elance.com
A blooming marketplace for those seeking or offering creative freelance services, this site offers several methods of checking the quality of service providers.

Ernst & Young LLP*
New York City
The Branding Zone
A useful, complete resource for Ernst & Young employees, the intranet site offers valuable content designed to keep users up to date on corporate branding-related news and tools.

eRoom Technology Inc.
Cambridge, Mass.
www.eroom.net
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