John L. Scott receives Microsoft Innovation Award
Excerpted from press release:
Pat Giles, Vice President of John L. Scott Real Estate’s marketing, interactive marketing, and IS departments recently received the “Microsoft Innovation Award” for her leadership in driving John L. Scott’s internet strategies and award-winning website.
According to Microsoft, the Innovation Award is given to customers who leverage new and innovative technologies from Microsoft to advance their business in creative, emergent, and innovative ways. The description goes on to say that while this process is a ‘group’ effort the award is meant to recognize one’s strategic thought, decision making, and execution of specific ideas and initiatives.
John L. Scott Real Estate began partnering with Microsoft in 2006 when it became the first residential real estate company in the nation to feature Virtual Earth interactive mapping (now Bing Maps). This was followed by John L. Scott’s Neighborhood Wizard which uses Microsoft’s polygon drawing technology. The most recent product of John L. Scott’s relationship with Microsoft saw the launch of JLSconnect which utilizes Microsoft’s emerging technology Silverlight and Live Services as a gateway to the growing ecosystem of social networking services. Read the Case Study that Microsoft conducted about the development and launch of JLSconnect.
