Jostle Awards 2016

The Jostle Awards celebrate our customers and how they use their intranet to bring employees together, simplify working life, and reach new heights!

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This year we celebrate extraordinary customers in eight categories. All but one category has two awards. Our All Star winners are customers who’ve proven their mettle year over year. Our Rising Star winners are customers off to a strong start in their Jostle journey.

Intranet Strategy

This award recognizes the use of the Jostle intranet as a key component of an organizational strategy to create a connected and vibrant workplace.

Winners

All Star

Pure Resourcing Solutions Ltd.

“Jostle underpins our employee engagement strategy and is integral to all elements of our company culture. It supports our key values of team work, quality, innovation, reward, support, and delivering the best results.”
Gill Buchanan Chief Operating Officer

Rising Star

Kinzler Construction Services

“We needed more than a “go-to” place for important documents. Jostle functions as our employee newsletter, employee directory, and accountability chart. It’s also a great place to recognize and connect coworkers—not only individuals in the office, but also our field staff located all across the US.”
Jason Mortvedt Marketing Director

Intranet Launch Strategy

We’re constantly amazed by the creativity of launch activities. This award celebrates the customer with the best launch plan and execution.

Winner

Red River Mutual

“What we want to do with Jostle is create a workspace culture; one that will change the way our employees connect with one another and encourage longevity in their careers here. Our launch campaign was designed around three phases: Anticipate, Welcome and Engage, and Embrace.”
Jennifer Ewankiw Director of Strategic Initiatives

Leadership Excellence

This award recognizes a leader or leadership team that has best participated on their Jostle intranet to help support and achieve organizational goals.

Winners

All Star

Armstrong Watson

“The firm as a whole has a better understanding of what is going on and what direction we want to go in. Partly because Jostle centralises all this information into a single place and makes it easy to consume but also partly because the management team have increased the volume of their communications now they have a simple channel to use.”
Paul Dickson Chief Executive

Rising Star

CaptureRX

“The business challenges we're solving with Jostle include aligning our employees with internal communication, culture, and document sharing. Our CEO and leadership team set the standard.”
Matt Luttrell Marketing Specialist

Nurturing Workplace Culture

This award recognizes the skillful use of the Jostle intranet to reveal and enhance workplace culture through connection, recognition, and communication.

Winners

All Star

Heyday

“At work, at home, or on the go on the mobile app–there are a lot of ways that everyone in our company can stay in touch and up to date through Jostle. This allows our employees to bond and get to know each other on a more personal level—which is critical for our workplace culture.”
Maxwell Bennett Operations Manager

Rising Star

Innisfree Hotels

“Innisfree Hotels is centered around our company culture. Jostle has been the train that delivers that culture throughout the company. Our company culture is laid out in different virtues, and we use Jostle to educate employees and reinforce those virtues.”
Jillian Glenn Director of Marketing

Employee Engagement Focus

This award celebrates the customers that drove employee engagement with a Jostle intranet by bringing people and teams together, celebrating success, and sharing information.

Winners

All Star

AutoSource of Florida

“Jostle has helped bring positive changes to many areas within AutoSource. These changes begin with employee retention and happy workers. I love that we have a platform to recognize all of the great things our people do—like making the INC. 5000 list this year!”
Joe Jakubowski Director of Technology

Rising Star

Oncam

“There is a common passion within our team to drive innovation in a culture of true teamwork and collaboration. Jostle has enabled this to happen and has enabled the whole company to share their views, ideas, and successes on a daily basis.”
Therese Hume Marketing Manager

Extraordinary Internal Communications

Purposeful and creative communication leads to outstanding results. This award recognizes the customers whose actions and activities on their Jostle intranet have led to exemplary internal communication with a positive employee experience.

Winners

All Star

Per Scholas

“The number one challenge Jostle solved since we launched in 2016 and continues to solve, is organizational-wide communication. As a result, Jostle has helped us literally and mentally evolve as a national organization.”
Kenneth Walker Senior VP Core Mission Support

Rising Star

Bentley's Pet Stuff

“From our naming contest, which resulted in our naming Jostle 'Bark About It', it's become our one-stop-shop of communication for all teams across the country. From news to social interaction to policies and procedures to education. And most importantly, it’s everyone's daily stop to celebrate wins and share ideas across the country!”
Lisa Senafe Founder

Community Building

This award recognizes customers that create and support bustling communities of people inside their organizations with their Jostle intranet.

Winners

All Star

BTI Studios

“We are all about encouraging open communication and making sure that everyone in our company feels part of one whole team. Jostle is helping us by offering so many different ways to share updates or information across our 21 global offices.”
Sophia Klippvik Executive & Marketing Assistant

Rising Star

District of Lake Country

“Prior to Jostle, our intranet was a one way tool for communication. Now we have a vibrant way to recognize staff, share critical information, and connect our diverse team. Not only does it keep our internal team informed, but it helps them be prepared for contact with the public too.”
Holly Flinkman Manager of HR and Health Sustainability

Navigating Change

Aligning and motivating people through change is difficult. This award shines a light on customers that demonstrated how technology can help overcome challenges of organizational change.

Winners

All Star

Plexxus

“Over the past 5 years I've watched strangers become colleagues become friends. And I think that is in large part thanks to Jostle. This was especially true when our organization integrated with another and we had to on-board over 75+ employees. Jostle helped create a space where our new colleagues would feel welcome and part of the team right away.”
Amanda Connolly Communications Manager

Rising Star

Coweta-Fayette EMC

“Our Jostle intranet—called The Grid—is a game changer for us. We can now share information across departments and from person to person. We’re connecting employees in corporate headquarters, district offices, and in the field. It’s been a steady climb and we’re excited to see it progressing so quickly.”
Chellie Phillips VP of Communications and PR