By Sergey Guryakov

If you scratch your head when someone mentions the general demise of print media over last few years, you live in a bubble (someone had to tell you). In an era where smart phones and iPads provide the public access to a virtually unlimited and ever-expanding mass of fresh content, Newspaper businesses (particularly local newspapers) simply cannot compete.

It’s not just the lack of fresh content that’s holding local newspapers back.  It’s their lack of connection to the public at large. While they print stories about people in the community, they don’t encourage reader involvement.  How does one reply back to an article, for example, that they feel completely misrepresents a story? Answer: They don’t!  Thanks to the birth of social media, however, newspapers’ long used “gate keeper approach” to information has given way to a more interactive two-way dissemination of news.

The American Design Awards recognizes Blue Water Media’s design team for its website design excellence.

Washington DC – (February 3, 2010) Blue Water Media, a Washington DC based web design agency, brought home a number of web design awards in 2009.  The latest awards are from the American Design Awards.  The organization judges thousands of websites each year by analyzing four categories: creativity, effectiveness, practicality, and ethics.  This recognition is an outstanding achievement for the Blue Water Media team.

The American Design Awards awarded Blue Water Media with three gold awards and one silver award.  The three gold awards recognize Blue Water Media’s work on the websites of Jim Walker Office Furniture & Planning (http://www.officefurnituredc.com/), Hook Restaurant (http://www.hookdc.com/), and AdJuggler (http://www.adjuggler.com/). The silver award recognizes Blue Water Media’s work on Doctors Express (http://www.doctorsexpress.com/).