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Silver Quill Award Winners - 2019 Competition
Congratulations to the IABC Pacific Plains and Southern Region’s Silver Quill Award winners announced in 2019. You may also view the slide deck from the awards presentation as well as photos of winners with IABC Southern Region Chair Mark Evans and IABC Pacific Plains Region Chair Tracie Bettenhausen.
Division 1: Communication Management | Division 4: Communication Skills
Best of Division | Best of Show
DIVISION 1: COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT
CATEGORY 1: INTERNAL COMMUNICATION
Award of Merit
- The Buzz – CSG Mobile Employee Communications App
CSG – Kyla Shea, Karen Eckmann and Clara Gillihan
Award of Excellence
- Hitachi Vantara On the Move
Hitachi Vantara – Global Internal Communications
CATEGORY 2: EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Award of Excellence
- 2019 Avera Cares Employee Giving Campaign
Avera – Avera Marketing
CATEGORY 3: HUMAN RESOURCES AND BENEFITS COMMUNICATION
Award of Excellence
- Educating Schneider Electric Employees on CDHP + HSA Options
ROC Group – Gabrielle Loring
- Increasing U.S. Employee Share Ownership in Schneider Electric
ROC Group – Gabrielle Loring
CATEGORY 5: SAFETY COMMUNICATION
Award of Excellence
- Basin Electric Safety Focus Card
Basin Electric Power Cooperative – Basin Electric Headquarters Safety Committee, Angela Magstadt
CATEGORY 7: MARKETING, ADVERTISING AND BRAND COMMUNICATION
Award of Merit
- Write Wise Communications Marketing Refresh
Hardin-Francis Enterprises, LLC – Mary H. Francis
- Scoville Warming Hot Sauce Launch
Imagination Ink – Susan H. Burnell, APR
- Empowered: Women and Retirement
Sammons Financial Group (DBA Midland National and North American)
Award of Excellence
- The MVP Playbook
Sammons Financial Group (DBA Midland National)
CATEGORY 11: GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
Award of Excellence
- Summer Savings
Austin Energy – Corporate Communications
- “How Will You Say Goodbye?” Featuring StEVie, The EV-Loving T-Rex
Austin Energy – Corporate Communications
DIVISION 4: COMMUNICATION SKILLS
CATEGORY 22: SPECIAL AND EXPERIENTIAL EVENTS
Award of Merit
- Annual Service Awards Celebration
Harris Health System – Human Resources Department
- Hitachi: Party of One!
Hitachi Vantara – Global Internal Communication
- Nissan Versa Debut at Tortuga Music Festival
Nissan North America – Wendy Orthman, Jeff Wandell and Kevin Raftery
Award of Excellence
- 2018 Annual Meeting
Basin Electric Power Cooperative – Communications and Member Services
- 2018 Cerner Health Conference Solutions Gallery
Cerner Corporation – The Cerner Experiential Marketing Team
- HIMSS 2019
Cerner Corporation – The Cerner Experiential Marketing Team
- Christmas Goes Pink
GSH Media Group – Genma Holmes
- 17th Annual Scripps Night at the Ballpark
Scripps Health – Mike Godfrey
CATEGORY 23: COMMUNICATION FOR THE WEB
Award of Excellence
- Alabama NewsCenter
Alabama Power – Public Relations
- New Corporate Website
Kraton Corporation – Vaneese Bell, Brian Carr and Thao Pham
CATEGORY 24: AUDIO/VISUAL
Award of Merit
- Educating Schneider Electric Employees on CDHP + HSA Options
ROC Group – Gabrielle Loring
CATEGORY 25: SOCIAL MEDIA PROGRAMS
Award of Merit
- Enhanced Social Media Strategy Improves Engagement, Impressions and Following
Layton Construction – Marketing and Communications Team
CATEGORY 26: PUBLICATIONS
Award of Merit
- Cultivating Connections
Farm Bureau Insurance – Corporate Communications Staff
- The Eastern Area of The Links, Incorporated History of Programming and Service
GSH Media Group – Genma Stringer Holmes
- HR Annual Report - “Transformational HR Moving Our Family Forward”
Harris Health System – Stephanie Palmer
- Perspectives -- The Disaster Edition
Olsson – Corporate Communications
- 2018 CSR Report
ON Semiconductor – Keith Jackson, Bill Schromm and Keenan Evans
- Helping Texans: 2017-18 Real Estate Center Annual Report + 2019 Calendar
Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University – JP Beato III, Kammy Baumann and David Jones, ABC
Award of Excellence
- Powergrams Magazine March-April, May-June and July-August 2019
Alabama Power – Chuck Chandler, Jay Parker, Phil Free, Donna Cope, Carla Davis and Gilbert Nicholson
- The Parthenon Magazine
GSH Media Group – Genma Stringer Holmes
- Ewaves: Women In Radio Issue
GSH Media Group – Genma Stringer Holmes
- Tierra Grande Magazine from the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University
Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University – Real Estate Center Communications Staff
CATEGORY 27: WRITING
Award of Merit
- Going for the Gold: Southeast Kiwi Farming Cooperative Only Place in U.S. Growing Golden Kiwi
Alabama Power – Donna Sue Cope
- Vegetation Management - A Clear Path for Reliable Electricity
Basin Electric Power Cooperative – Tammy Langerud
Award of Excellence
- Lifetime Organizer: Cronier Becomes Big Bertha’s Best Crony
Alabama Power – Carla Davis
- Cooperative Effort Plants Thousands of Trees
Basin Electric Power Cooperative – Tracie Bettenhausen
- On-site Medical Staff Go Above and Beyond for Basin Electric Employee
Basin Electric Power Cooperative – Angela Magstadt
COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT
- “How Will You Say Goodbye?” Featuring StEVie, The EV-Loving T-Rex
Austin Energy – Corporate Communications
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- Powergrams Magazine March-April, May-June and July-August 2019
Alabama Power – Chuck Chandler, Jay Parker, Phil Free, Donna Cope, Carla Davis and Gilbert Nicholson
- Powergrams Magazine March-April, May-June and July-August 2019
Alabama Power – Chuck Chandler, Jay Parker, Phil Free, Donna Cope, Carla Davis and Gilbert Nicholson