United States Capitol Virtual Tour Gets Nomination for Webby Award.

CampusTours and the Architect of the Capitol announced that they have been nominated for a Webby Award for the new virtual tour of the United States Capitol (Architect's Virtual Capitol www.capitol.gov).

Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is an international award honoring excellence on the Internet.

The Architect's Virtual Capitol features a photorealistic interactive map of the entire Capitol campus, animated three-dimensional renderings of many important buildings, videos detailing the work of the Architect of the Capitol, hundreds of photographs and panoramic images, and a timeline cataloging important events in the Capitol's history.

"Nominees like CampusTours are setting the standard for innovation and creativity on the Internet," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the Webby Awards. "It is an incredible achievement to be selected among the best from the nearly 10,000 entries we received this year."

"CampusTours is honored to have been chosen to design and build the virtual tour of the United States Capitol, and we're doubly honored to be nominated as one of only five Websites in the Webby Awards Government category," said CampusTours president Christopher Carson. "The Webby Awards are designed to recognize exceptional web applications and sites, and the Architect's Virtual Capitol, with its' photorealistic map, extensive library of videos, Capitol timeline and hundreds of historic photographs, certainly qualifies."

CampusTours is an interactive media and software company specializing in meeting the marketing, Web and multimedia needs of academic, non-profit and government organizations. CampusTours specializes in developing virtual tours, video tours, and interactive maps that entice visitors and facilitate direct and meaningful contacts with audiences. The CampusTours MultiMedia Engine is currently a software application for producing and maintaining virtual college tours, interactive maps, university timelines, guided tours, interactive video presentations, mobile presentations and alumni/development presentations. CampusTours is the owner and operator of CampusTours.com, a virtual college tour directory.

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