2017 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Design > Website Design > Mid Atlantic
Awarded to
ACC Docket Editorial Staff
Entry details
ACCDocket.com
Issue date (if applicable):
Publication name: ACC Docket
Publishing company: Association of Corporate Counsel
Website home page: ACCDocket.com
Please describe the publication's mission and readership:
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) promotes the common professional and business interests of in-house counsel who work for corporations, associations and other private-sector organizations through information, education, networking opportunities and advocacy initiatives. ACC Docket is the official journal of ACC and the only professional journal written by in-house counsel for in-house counsel. ACC Docket provides our members (in-house attorneys) with timely news and practical advice that they can apply to their daily practice.
Every issue balances substantive feature articles with member news and profiles that promote fellowship within the organization. After all, it is this sense of community that makes ACC such a successful nonprofit association. We try to balance informative content with innovative design, and we pride ourselves on our eye-catching covers and feature spreads that convey complex legal topics in an artistic manner. ACC Docket’s primary goal is to balance dense, substantive feature articles with more accessible content, such as columns, promotional announcements, chapter news, and member spotlights.
We promote this strategy in an effort to offer our members a wide variety of content without sacrificing a sense of community. Our subscribers value both the action-oriented advice and research that our articles provide, and have come to recognize the unique aesthetic that the ACC Docket has come to represent over 30 years in print.
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
A well-built magazine website needs to entice non-subscribers with accessible content and satisfy returning subscribers with accessible links to the magazine and its archives. ACCDocket.com does this seamlessly. Few, if any modern magazines can survive without a digital presence. We believe that our website, ACCDocket.com, expands on this task.
This past year has been one in which media companies from around the world pondered hard and soft pay walls, converting to digital-only editions, declining print revenues, and the shortening and compartmentalizing of magazine articles. We too, fretted over these problems.
However, we feel that we struck a reliable compromise with our website. Our approach to the website was simple: make all archival and ongoing print magazine content available to members in digital form, and maintain a vibrant community of writers. ACCDocket offers a service that none of our competitors can match: an unparalleled print archive, stretching back 30 years, and an ongoing and active global conversation about corporate law.
Our design is divided into six popular editorial categories, offers a news tab, a dedicated section of interviews and profiles (some of our most popular offerings), and incorporates an international element. The sidebar on the right of the home page reminds readers that investigations of in-house issues are just a click away in the digital magazine. The careful integration of traditional online commentary and online resources will guarantee the continued success of the magazine for years to come.
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ACCDocket.com
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ACCDocket.com
Category
Design > Website Design > Mid Atlantic
Description
Publication name:
ACC Docket
Company:
Association of Corporate Counsel
Winner Status
- National Gold Award
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