We at Going Interactive are pleased to announce that we received another great award for best Web & Interactive Marketing – Web campaign/microsite and our work on the Printies Website and Design Studio!

The AMYs are the annual marketing award of the American Marketing Association Atlanta chapter. The AMYs celebrate more than just great creative — they reward companies that craft innovative strategies, unforgettable creative and produce outstanding results.

It was a pleasure to celebrate all the work everyone created and to see all the marketing campaigns, ideas and talent under one roof.

Going Interactive - Agency Conference Room turned to Printies War Room

We’d especially like to thank all of the Going Interactive teammates who gave blood, sweat, and tears for what seemed like 24 hours for 7 days a week. We could not have done any of this without such a dedicated and hardworking group who worked together on finding creative solutions to very difficult obstacles.

Special thanks goes out to Lead Developer Randall for his all of his hard work and for breaking new ground on the Adobe AIR front for GI.

Jason for design, usability, and direction – and – Doug for overall project management, testing and strategy.

Brad for all his efforts in the Flex world.

Zach for all his Flash support and work on the front-end.

Phil, Matt & Sherry for video work and tons of testing.

Thank you to our families and friends for all their support, as it kept us all going knowing they were cheering for us every step of the way.

Going Interactive Team enjoys a pizza lunch from our client Printies

More About the Award Winning Project:

Printies Design Studio is a new Hi-Tech Arts & Crafts toy that allows your child to turn their designs into stuffed toys using your home computer, inket printer, and patent pending Printies fabric sheets. Each child becomes their very own toy artist by using the amazing online design tools and created their own custom plush stuffed friend.

Going Interactive used a unique combination of Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR to develop one of the first RIA style kids toys of it’s kind. After only being live for only a months, there are thousands upon thousands of users and has been growing steadily throughout 2010. Click to find out where you can buy the Printies Design Studio.

To learn more, contact us at Going Interactive.

Web: www.goinginteractive.com.

Phone: 770-643-3014

Email: info(at)goinginteractive(dot)com

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Going Interactive wins 2 Addy Awards for Public Service Websites. The big event was at the beautiful Georgia Aquarium Ballroom

Atlanta-based creative agency Going Interactive was awarded two Addy Awards for their work on 2 distinct public service/nonprofit websites.

A Gold Addy was awarded for Going Interactive’s design of Home Safety Council’s website, www.homesafetycouncil.org.  The Home Safety Council is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing home-related injuries that result in nearly 20,000 deaths and almost 21 million medical visits each year.  The website was re-designed and re-launched to include hundreds of pages of home safety informational content, an online video library, online quizzes and polls, an interactive forum, an official Blog and social marketing tools like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Here’s a quick overview of the Home Safety Council website.

A Silver Addy was garnered for www.RealTalkATL.org, a web site sponsored by the Future Foundation of Atlanta. The Future Foundation is a leader in effective education and prevention services for at-risk youth in Fulton County. Each year, over 800 male and female youths, ages 12-18, participate in Future Foundation’s Real Talk ATL program, promoting abstinence until marriage and healthy relationships. RealTalkATL.org is a Flash-based website that features animated interactive content, quizzes, photo and video galleries, blogs and more, designed to support the Future Foundation’s cause in a fun and engaging manner to teens.

Here’s a quick overview of the Real Talk ATL website.

Going Interactive steered both these non-profit projects in concept, strategy, architecture, design, development and production.

Principal and Creative Director Jason Davenport said, “We’re thrilled to be recognized for our work by industry peers, but it’s extra meaningful when that work is for organizations that are trying to positively impact people’s lives.”

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About Going Interactive

Going Interactive is a new kind of creative agency. Going Interactive works hand-in-hand with agencies, corporations and fortune 500′s to produce rich interactive media, reaching both B2B and B2C market segments. Going Interactive has a team of award winning designers, developers, and strategists that are skilled in the latest software and trends to keep things fresh and cutting edge.

Going Interactive has worked with a large variety of brands and products both on and off screen including Cartoon Network, CNN Radio, Dixie Food Service, Georgia-Pacific, Neustar, Peachtree TV, Printies, Ron Clark Academy, Rubiks Revolution, TechnoSource, UPS, Wegener.

Going Interactive delivers creative strategy and execution to each client and clearly understand the business and design objectives in making things user-friendly, engaging and adaptable for the future. Going Interactive has a strong hold on creative online marketing approaches and how to utilize all types of online social tools including DWOM (digital word of mouth) tools like blogs, rss, emails, video, games, contests, bookmarking, rich media, banner ads, as well as on-going interactive marketing campaigns.

Going Interactive has added experience in developing product-based sales and marketing tools that are designed to demonstrate features, attributes and benefits in an engaging way. These interactive tools help drive top-of-mind awareness, push customers to place orders, and create leads for sales forces.

Going Interactive is located outside Atlanta, in historic Roswell, Georgia.

Web: www.goinginteractive.com.

Phone: 770-643-3014

Email: info(at)goinginteractive(dot)com

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Printies Design Studio is a new Hi-Tech Arts & Crafts toy that allows your child to turn their designs into stuffed toys using your home computer, inket printer, and patent pending Printies fabric sheets. Each child becomes their very own toy artist by using the amazing online design tools and created their own custom plush stuffed friend.

Going Interactive is pleased to announce that the Printies Design Studio has recently been named one of Dr. Toy’s “Best Picks New Products 2009,” and it also has been selected as one of FunFare magazines’s “Hot Dozen,” Time to Play’s “Most Wanted”, and The Toy Insider’s “Hot 20” holiday toys of 2009.

You can also help make Printies an even bigger success, vote for the Printies Design Studio on the People’s Play Awards website now!

Going Interactive, a creative agency, worked from ground up with Techno Source in the concept, strategy, creative, and full execution of the new RIA (rich internet application) using the latest in interactive technologies like Flash, Flex, and Adobe AIR.

It was great to work on a project that is targeting the exact ages of my own kids. They really enjoyed being guinea pigs in our early initial usability testing!”

- Going Interactive – Creative Director & Designer,  Jason Davenport

More About the Printies Application:

Printies Cat Design Stage - RIA (Rich Internet Application) created by Going Interactive

The Printies Design Studio offers kids an online experience that is simple, intuitive and entertaining.  MyPrinties.com has thousands of professional art assets and design tools like coloring, painting, and resizing effects.  There, children can start with a blank canvas or select from quick start templates that allow them to modify professional designs.  Kids can customize everything and can even add photos and other scanned images for truly limitless customization.

The Printies line makes its debut with three themed activity kits: Printies™ Pet Design Studio, Printies™ Ocean Design Studio, and Printies™ Jungle Design Studio.  Each Printies Design Studio kit retails for just $19.99 and includes everything needed to make six complete Printies using a home computer and inkjet printer.  Refill packs, which offer more of the original templates for the child, retail for $9.99 and are available for each of the themed Printies Design Studio kits.  Refill packs require the corresponding Printies Design Studio kit, which is sold separately.

Printies Design Studio kits and refill packs are appropriate for children ages 6 and up and are available for purchase now at BJ’s Wholesale Club, Target, Toys “R” Us, and Walgreens stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com, Target.com, and Toysrus.com. For additional information, videos and more visit www.myprinties.com.

Design using the Printies Design Studio, print out, and stuff

Wegener Communicaitons – wegener.com

MyBoxercraft Retail – myboxercraft.com

Ron Clark’s Great American Teacher’s Club – greatamericanteachersclub.com

and last but not least our own site goinginteractive.com

Visit the Communicator Awards site here.

Last night (3.19.09) Going Interactive brought home two big awards from the AMA AMY ceremony.

MyBoxercraft.com was the overall winner of the Web Transactional category and took Gold.

Ron Clark’s – Great American Teachers Club microsite was a runner-up in the Web Microsite category.

GI would like to thank all of the Going Interactive team members who participated in making both of these sites successful as well as the clients for the great opportunities.

Here’s some photos of last nights event:

GI’s infamous “audience shot from the stage”

Principal’s Jason Davenport & Doug Davenport saying “thanks”

The awards

See more photos on the Going Interactive Flickr feed

Don’t forget you can also “fan” us on Going Interactive Facebook

GI has been selected as a winner for the category “Web & Interactive: Web Campaign/Microsite” with their Ron Clark (famous educator) marketing site “Great American Teachers Club Advance Membership Promo“.

GI is also a winner in the category of “Web & Interactive: Transactional Web Site” for our work on Myboxercraft.com for BoxerCraft.

Going Interactive also took home a Bronze Addy Award for the MyBoxercraft.com consumer based online retail site!

GI wants to thank the their fantastic clients and all those GI team members who were involved in the strategy, design, development and creation of these 2 Addy Award winning sites.