Playnormous pride.

I am thrilled to announce that Playnormous is a 2009 Web Health Award Merit Winner for the Health Promotion, Disease and Injury Prevention Information category.  We came in right behind our friends at Kognito (who have created a mental health game that I blogged about over the summer) and Healthy Dining Finder (who provide nutrition info for dietitian-approved menu choices from popular restaurants).  Other merit winners in this category include Aetna, MD Anderson, National Cancer Institute, About.com health, and many more.  What an honor!

What does this mean for you?

I know you’re thinking “Yeah, yeah, you have a pretty new logo on your homepage.  What’s the big deal?”  For Playnormous and our audience this IS a big deal.  The Web Health Awards is a program that recognizes the best Web-based health-related content for consumers and professionals.  It is organized by the Health Information Resource Center (HIRC), a national clearinghouse for consumer health information programs and materials, whose goal is to give worthy sites a “seal of quality” for electronic health information. Our entry was judged by a panel of international health information and Internet experts which looked at accuracy, success in reaching the targeted audience and overall quality. The result?  An unbiased, third-party two thumbs up that Playnormous health games provide helpful, accurate information for 0-12 year olds.  And you know how hard it is to find good health information on the internet.

Play our games and browse our content with confidence knowing that it’s accurate and helpful to kids and kids at heart!