Long Island, New York (PRWEB via PRWebDirect) May 9, 2007 -- Long Island Exchange (http://www.longislandexchange.com), the Internet's largest online Long Island based website, is honored to announce it has won three categories in the 34th Annual Best on Long Island Awards for the second consecutive year. It is the first independent local based news and information portal to ever achieve these category wins.
"Long Island Exchange is simply the best," said John Colascione, Long Island Exchange CEO. "We are thrilled that LongIslandExchange.com has again topped the voting at this year’s BOLI Awards, especially considering the caliber of the other nominees. We're delighted that Long Island Exchange gets a little credit where credit is due. It's taken hard work and tremendous dedication to bring this site to where it is."
Other noteworthy winners this year include: Newsday Inc., BigBuzz Interactive, Austin & Williams, The New York Times, Cox Radio, Curran & Connors Inc., Barnstable Broadcasting, New York Institute of Technology.
LongIslandExchange.com has won a gold certificate of excellence for Internet, News, Media, and Publications, - a gold certificate of excellence for Internet, Independent, - and a bronze certificate of excellence for Internet, Best Web Site of the Year. The awards ceremony was held at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury New York on May 7th 2007. This year, the BOLI Awards received 1,375 entries in almost 100 categories. BOLI is a nationally recognized advertising and marketing awards program that attracts participation from agencies, corporate marketers and suppliers industry wide. BOLI statuettes presently reside in 31 states and five foreign countries.
LongIslandExchange.com, is an all-in-one, high-quality entertainment and local destination guide to find anything from local news, real estate listings, online games, classifieds, movie reviews, celebrity gossip, editorial columns, business listings, personal user profiles, local town history, and much more.
About LongIslandExchange.com
Long Island Exchange (www.longislandexchange.com), a 200,000 page web site, provides the Long Island community with up to date information targeted at Long Island New York specifically. Long Island Exchange currently has in excess of 100,000 individual people on the web site each month (Google Analytics April 2007), which most of them live on Long Island or within the New York Metro area. Long Island Exchange is fast becoming the most popular Long Island New York site on the web. Long Island Exchange also won the prestigious 2006 Long Island BOLI Awards, for Internet, News, Media, and Publications, - and Internet, Independent categories making it a 5 time award winner. LongIslandExchange.com was launched in 2002, has experienced explosive growth, and is the largest Long Island based website in private hands.
Contacts:
Long Island Exchange Inc.
Michael Keegan - Vice President, CFO
5 Ketridge Street
West Babylon, New York 11704
Phone: 631-587-7050
Telefax: 631-587-7051
www.longislandexchange.com
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