February Nomination: Company Nurse’s Digital Diagnosis

Imagine you’re a salesperson for a large IT company, and just like any typical week, you’re driving around the city, visiting clients, making sure business stays hunky-dory. As you get out of the car along the street of your favorite customer, you trip and put your hand to the ground -- right into a patch of broken glass. A crimson rush emerges from the ensuing gash; it looks deep. And it hurts. As you’re reaching for the spare napkins you keep in your glovebox, you wonder if this will require stitches. Will this get infected? You’re no doctor. Think quickly. What do you do next?

January Nomination: Phoenix Suns Whips Up a Tweetup

Though not the first NBA team to embrace the direct-to-many world of social media, our very own Phoenix Suns was the first to equip its Twitter arsenal with a dangerous new weapon: the Tweetup.

December Nomination: Kontaktmag’s On-the-Fly DIY

The sky is falling in the publishing biz. It seems that no matter where you turn, newspapers and magazines are folding (pardon the pun) -- and a huge contributor to the plight of this paper-based industry is the cost of printing and distribution. We call it the Great Crumpling.

November Nomination: The Clarendon Hotel Shows Us the Goods

Trying to increase your business’ exposure without increasing your budget? Few solutions seem as unlikely as inviting people to strip down and then throwing money at them. It may sound downright wicked, but the results were heavenly for Phoenix’s Clarendon Hotel and Suites, turning the property from a great hotel into a vacation destination for local families and travelers alike.

October Nomination: Build a Castle with NetPro’s Sand

Wow, companies sure love sending out junk mail. Every time we go to the mailbox we find piles of fliers, collections of catalogs, and pounds of postcards waiting to be carried inside. But as much as we’d like to spend our days calling each company thanking them for their kind consideration, most of us just don’t have the time. Busy IT managers are no different, so Phoenix’s NetPro nixed the paper and invited them to play in the sand.

September Nomination: Fender University Rocks the Dean's List

We’re glad that our school days are far behind us. We don’t often find ourselves longing for the wet sting of spitballs, and the memories of wedgies are nearly as painful as the real thing. But what if you replaced the wedgies with whammy bars and the spitballs with shredding solos? This August, Fender Musical Instruments did it, and 20 lucky students from around the globe became Fender University’s inaugural class of rock.