Best General Interest Website

In preparation for celebrating 90 years of service to the community in 2013, CCPL asked Marcus Thomas to recreate their existing website to reflect their new strategic plan and facilities master plan with the mission of being at the center of community life by creating an environment where reading, lifelong learning and civic engagement thrive.

Marcus Thomas designed and developed a new CCPL website that spotlights how their branches are no longer a quiet, do not disturb zone, but a wealth of dynamic activities and resources that anyone can tap into for inspiration and growth. New navigation was developed to give the user instant access to the multitude of available resources.

Contributors:

ECD:	Joanne Kim
Creative Director:	Laura Seidel
Art Director:	Phong Nguyen
Copywriter:	Kevin Delsanter
Developer:	Nick Zwinggi
Developer:	Leandro Filipczyk

MARCUS THOMAS LLC

Website: www.marcusthomasllc.com

Location: United States

About the Agency:

Marcus Thomas grew up like most agencies – strongly rooted in brand-building principles. We have a firm grasp on how the four Ps of marketing affect a company’s bottom line. We’re schooled in marketing strategy and consumer insights. What makes this agency different is that we saw a long time ago that a brand cannot be wholly owned and managed. Or picked up and protected from the outside world. It never could. In the mid 1990s, that awareness drove us to see how digital strategies and technologies might impact a brand and its constituencies. So we grew our digital DNA. We hired digital natives. We made sure everyone in the agency had a POV on emerging technologies, platforms and social media. And we built a development team that is unmatched by agencies of our size. Today, Marcus Thomas is a fully integrated marketing communications agency focused on audience insight, idea generation and alternative delivery. We focus our digital DNA and organize our research, account service, creative, media and public relations teams into four communities of practice: CPG, B2B, Home & Garden and Professional Services. But we’re not overly rigid. We’ve learned to get out of the way and let the magic happen. Marcus Thomas is the product of a union between two of Northeast Ohio’s oldest and largest independent advertising and public relations firms: Marcus Advertising, founded in Cleveland in 1946, and Ira Thomas Associates, founded in Youngstown in 1937. DigiKnow, a pioneering digital marketing and technology firm in Cleveland and Buenos Aires, joined Marcus Thomas in 2011. Think creatively. Risk intelligently. Work passionately. Makes a great t-shirt, but it also happens to be our vision statement. We live to find new ways to solve problems.