Awards Page for WorldSweeper.com

In 2011 WorldSweeper.com's Editor Wins National APEX Awards of Excellence for 16th Consecutive Year!

WorldSweeper.com Website Wins for 4th Year in a Row!

We're pleased to report that one of the two awards we received in mid-2011 (for projects done in 2010) was for the 'quality, design and content' of this WorldSweeper.com website.

In addition, we won an APEX for our ground-breaking coverage of the cleanup of the event commonly known as 'Burning Man.'

This feature length article was entitled 'The Cleanup of Black Rock City: It's All About the MOOP.'

For 2011, a total of 3,000 entries were evaluated, with 957 of those winning an APEX Award of Excellence in one of 130 subcategories. Other APEX Award winners for 2011 included:

• AARP
• American Journal of Nursing
• American Red Cross
• National Association of REALTORS
• Bank of America
• Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Our WorldSweeper.com editor, Ranger Kidwell-Ross, has won an APEX Award of Excellence for one or more of his projects for a nationally record-setting 16 years in a row. In the history of this national competition, no other individual or organization in the U.S. has ever won an APEX that many years in a row.

In 2010, WorldSweeper.com's Team won two APEX Awards. One of our APEX Awards for 2009 was for the quality, content and design of the WorldSweeper.com website. In addition, we won an APEX for our first-ever April Fools' Day news alert that advised readers that a street sweeper would be going into space.

In 2009, WorldSweeper.com's Team won two APEX Awards. One of our APEX Awards for 2009 rewarded the quality, content and design of the WorldSweeper.com website. The the other was for a website the WorldSweeper.com Team designed and wrote for Commercial Power Sweeping, Inc.

The previous year we also won two APEX Awards. One of our APEX Awards for 2008 was for the quality of the WorldSweeper.com website. The other Apex Award was for the Christmas Season ad you see above, which was produced for client, Sweeper Parts Online. This full page advertisement appeared in SweeperMarket Magazine in December of 2007.

Through the years, the majority of Ranger's yearly awards were for his American Sweeper magazine and companion website, AmericanSweeper.com, both of which were historically sponsored by the Schwarze family, founders of Schwarze Industries, Inc. (and now owners of Victory Sweepers, Inc.)

Since his first award nomination for American Sweeper-related projects in 1994, Ranger won a total of 13 individual Awards for these two projects. Schwarze sponsorship for both AmericanSweeper.com and American Sweeper magazine was discontinued at the end 2004 by Schwarze Industries Inc. and its parent company, The Alamo Group.

In addition, through the years Ranger has also won APEX Awards for other sweeping-related projects, including:

• Fundamentals of the Power Sweeping Business (2002)
• Sweeping Around the World, Asia (2002)
• Junkyard Wars, Battle of the Sweepers (2003)
• Schwarze.com Website, Design/Usability (2003)

In 2004, Ranger was awarded the competition's prestigious Grand Award for his online travelogue Sweeping Around the World, Europe. The travelogue was one of only 100 Grand Award-winning projects selected by contest editors, out of a total of over 6,500 contest entries.

APEX contest judges called Ranger's online sweeping travelogue "A journey, a quest, an informed and educational look at how it's done in Europe. Compellingly-written, interesting features make superb stories, marvelously told by a first-rate story teller."

We are very proud of the award-winning tradition of excellence that has now been reproduced at the WorldSweeper.com website. Many thanks to all those in the power sweeping industry who are participating as both sponsors and visitors.

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