Help Newton Win a Crunchie for “Best Design”

Help us win a Crunchie!  What the heck is a Crunchie?  The Crunchies are to technology what the Oscars are to Hollywood.  The awards celebrate the best technology and design accomplishments of 2009.  Sponsored by GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch, the  awards will be presented to a packed house on Friday January 8, 2010 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco.

Starting today, you can nominate our popular, easy-to-use applicant tracking software, Newton, for “Best Design”. The Crunchies Committee will choose five finalists per award category based on the submitted nominations and the company accomplishments made during 2009. Popular voting will open on Monday, December 21 and run through midnight PT, Wednesday January 6, 2010.

Here’s an example of our design work:

Newton Software has already been nominated for “Best Design” and now we need your support.

1. First, we need your help getting noticed by the judges so NOMINATE us yourself! or click on the badge below.

2. When we make it, we’ll need your vote sometime between December 21^st and January 6^th 2010.  We’ll let you know when we are in the running.  You can vote here

The Top Reasons to Nominate Newton Software for a “Best Design” Crunchie

• You are a friend, an associate, or a contact that respects us and wants to see us win an award.
• You feel bad for us for starting a recruiting software company amidst the worst recession in decades, possibly centuries.
• We are underdogs and it’s cool to vote for underdogs.
• We have only one and a half designers at Newton Software. They are both self-taught.
• We are bootstrapped. We use our own minds, our own ideas, and our own money to design great recruiting software.
• For us, great design is core to our philosophy. In fact, if you’ve ever read our blog posts about design, you may think we’re a little obsessed it.
• We are indeed obsessed with designing easy-to-use software.
• If you’ve used Newton, our kick-ass applicant tracking software, then you’ll know that we design software to make people’s jobs easier.

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