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Jackson, Miss.—Two websites operated by the Secretary of State’s Office have earned top awards in creativity and digital communication.
Y’all Business, www.yallbusiness.sos.ms.gov, took home a 2017 Platinum dotComm award, and Charities Online earned a Gold. dotComm Awards is an international competition administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. More than 2,200 entries from throughout the United States and 14 other countries submitted sites and other works for consideration.
“Government should work for citizens,” Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann said. “This is why we have made it a top priority to make sure our information and services are available online.”
Y’all Business, Mississippi’s one-of-a-kind resource for free economic development information, relaunched in April 2017 with new data and features, including a mobile interface making it easier to access the site on a cell phone.
Additionally, now users can select one of eight business “groups,” which automatically populates the Y’all Business map with information relevant to a particular type of business. For example, a user interested in opening a restaurant can select the restaurant group, which would populate the map with information about nearby competitor restaurants, median household income, and area traffic counts, among other information.
Y’all Business has garnered more than 129,000 pageviews since its inception in October 2015. Almost 14,000 free business summary, retail market, and other reports have been downloaded from the site. Y’all Business was developed in partnership with The Geospatial Group, a Mississippi company.
The Charities Division completed its process to move all registration forms online in April 2017. Charities and other entities required to register in the State can also verify and approve their information online before submitting it. Currently, more than 3,700 charities are registered in Mississippi, and more than 4,100 charities have filed exemption paperwork.
For more information about the Charities Division, or filing paperwork online, visit http://www.sos.ms.gov/Charities/Pages/default.aspx.
