Showing posts with label awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awards. Show all posts

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Hocking Stuart Win Big at the Annual Real Estate Awards

Hocking Stuart won 3 awards from 6 nominations at the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) Awards, including the Corporate Promotion accolade for the additional year in a row.

-- Hocking Stuart, a arch Melbourne based absolute estate company, were awarded 3 celebrated awards at the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) Awards in backward October. Winning these awards re-affirms Hocking Stuarts abode as a baton and innovator of the industry.

October 18 at Crown's Palladium Ballroom, area for such beneficial contest as the Logies and the Brownlow Medal count, the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) captivated its anniversary awards presentation evening: REIV -- The Age Awards for Excellence.

Every bit as glamourous as either of the ahead mentioned events, the all-embracing allowance was active with the assemblage of aflame real acreage agents, all acquisitive to airing abroad with one of the abundant trophies on offer. It absolutely was a arrant affair; acreage agents apperceive how to dress up.

Whenever compere Andrew O'Keefe appear an agency as a finalist one of the abounding tables bushing the allowance would appear with cheers. There were abounding winners, both individuals and companies, but the loudest access was adored for the Residential Property Manager of the Year award.

When the words 'Hayley Mitchell from Hocking Stuart South Yarra' were appear at atomic 4 tables went berserk. It was anarchy at the Palladium.

Only moments before, Hocking Stuart had won the awful celebrated Corporate Promotion accolade for arete in advertising, business and the advance of their brand. This is a bit like the Best Picture accolade at the Oscars; it's coveted and hotly contested. Hocking Stuart aswell won in 2006, authoritative this the aboriginal time an agency has calm back-to-back awards in the category.

As accepted the acclamation was absolutely absonant if Hocking Stuart were appear the winners of the Corporate Promotion award, about that was balmy compared to the activation accession Hayley received.

Jackie Hall, Operations & Marketing Manager for Hocking Stuart appropriate a accessible acumen why: "The accumulated awards are acceptance from the industry that we're a allotment of the best absolute acreage agency networks in Victoria, which is important for us as a business. But the alone awards are personal; they're accolade for an individual's efforts, and Hayley is assuredly the
best Property Manager in Victoria."

To cap off an abnormally acknowledged night for Hocking Stuart, they aswell calm one of the endure awards for the evening: the REIV Award For Service, won by Sadhana Smiles in acceptance of her outstanding plan with Hocking Stuart and aural the broader absolute acreage community.

Not abounding absolute acreage agencies get to airing abroad from these evenings accustomed three trophies. Hayley and Sadhana -- and absolutely all at Hocking Stuart -- will be animated for a continued time yet, and their abundant perspex trophies will be a connected admonition that in 2007, they were the best in the business.

American Inventor has the Buzz, Mosquito Awards accept the Bite

The American Inventor appearance may accept humans buzzing, but the top account adventure of the day is the Mosquito Awards™, your adventitious to advance problems that American inventors can break by nominating your better gripes about little annoyances that chaw you in the abaft for this year’s Mosquito's Top Frustrations awards.

San Francisco CA -- The American Inventor appearance may accept humans buzzing, but the top account adventure of the day is the Mosquito Awards™, your adventitious to advance problems that American inventors can break by nominating your better gripes about little annoyances that chaw you in the abaft for this year’s Mosquito's Top Frustrations awards.

“Because necessity, affliction and annoyance are generally the mother of invention, we accept absitively to accumulate consumers’ a lot of annoying issues and rank them in the Mosquito Awards™,” says Larry MacDonald, admiral of Edison Innovations LLC and architect of the Mosquito Awards™. “We ambition to allotment with American inventors the better opportunities for new articles and new solutions that humans would buy, if they could.” This is an befalling to berry American inventors with needs that advance to new products.

In the aboriginal anytime of its kind, Edison Innovations announces an accessible antecedent befalling for all of us to activate the conception of avant-garde solutions to our actual own claimed problems by nominating their stinger and zingers.

Nominating your admired “love to abhorrence it” annoyance is a adventitious for bodies to get aback at all those annoying and aggravating quirks that humans appear above alternating the aisle of their accustomed existence, things they commonly ignore, and at the aforementioned time, activate solutions. Who knows? Your annoyance may activate a new gadget, duke tool, ability tool, allowance item, or even a approaching TV. Examples of frustrations cover coffee that gets algid as you drive, pets that don't appear if you alarm them, and articles that crave an IQ over 200 to accumulate them so they function.

The borderline for the 2006 awards is May 15, so there is still time to abide your nominations. By application the official access anatomy on the Mosquito Awards™ web website (http://www.mosquitoawards.com), participants can account up to ten frustrations and annoyances that absolutely accomplish them mad, including pains about articles they use, what’s missing, or just broken things they apprehension that could be added functional.

Submissions will be evaluated by a console of board who are experts in new artefact development, technical, and accomplishment alternative the a lot of popular, the a lot of affected and the a lot of arresting frustrations nominated by the accessible from the tens of bags of entries. The after-effects will be appear to the accessible in June.

Edison Innovations LLC, the sponsor of the Mosquito Awards, is a aggregation in Kenwood, CA developing a new adjustment for developing artefact concepts that bigger serve consumers. Their ambition is to access society's accommodation for conception and accomplish use the all-encompassing acquaintance individuals possess, yet are clumsy to accompany to blade to account the civic economy.

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Finalists Selected for the 2009 Edison Best New Product Awards

Prestigious Awards Recognize Excellence in New Product Development, Marketing and Innovation

Chicago -- On this day in 1847, Thomas Edison was born. In account and anniversary of America's greatest artist and innovator, the finalists for the celebrated 2009 Edison Best New Product Awards™ are accepting apparent today. The awards are a allotment of the a lot of aristocratic accolades anniversary arete in new artefact development, marketing, and innovation. Strategic accomplishing ally for the 2009 awards affairs cover the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University, the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) and The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB).    

The Edison Best New Product Awards, sponsored this year by Google, The Nielsen Company and Steelcase, focus on new articles and casework that excel in exchange innovation, exchange success, abstruse innovation, bazaar anatomy innovation, and civic impact. These belief adjust with Edison's own addition best practices, alleged the Five Competencies of Innovation. MENG associates civic casting their ballots for entries they accounted aces of accepting affiliated to the Edison name.

I can't anticipate of a bigger way to admit Thomas Edison's altogether than to advertise the finalists for the 2009 Edison Best New Product Awards I'm aflame to see such top ability entries this year. The Edison Awards Steering Committee had some acute debates in selecting which nominations would accomplish the ballot. "I can't anticipate of a bigger way to admit Thomas Edison's altogether than to advertise the finalists for the 2009 Edison Best New Product Awards," declared Sarah Miller Caldicott, abundant grandniece of Thomas Edison and co-author of Innovate Like Edison. "I'm aflame to see such top ability entries this year. The Edison Awards Steering Committee had some acute debates in selecting which nominations would accomplish the ballot." Caldicott is aswell Chairperson of the Edison Awards Steering Committee.

Awards will be appear in 10 categories, including: Consumer Packaged Goods, Science & Medical, Lifestyle & Social Impact, Energy & Sustainability, Technology, Industrial Design, Living & Working Environments, Media & Visual Communications, Transportation, and Electronics & Computers. Finalists include:

Science and Medical
 

    Insight High Throughput Experimentation Platform, from a accessory of Nuvo Research, Inc. Omnipod Insulin Management System, from Insulet Corp. 23AndMe Personal Genome Service, from 23AndMe i-LIMB Hand, from Touch Bionics
    Electronics and Computers
     
      Google G1 Android Phone, from T-Mobile and Google Apple iPhone, from Apple
      Energy and Sustainability
       
        Bixi - Montreal's Public Bike System Essentials Cleaner from Arm & Hammer Paradigm Earth Study 360, from Paradigm Digital Subsurface Asset Management
        Technology
         
          EssenceWise casting tracking system, from Wise Window, Inc. Realsight Quantitative Anthropology video tracking system, from Realsight Speedo LZR Racer, from Speedo WiiFit, from Nintendo
          Transportation
           
            Trek Madone 5.2, from Trek Bicycle Corporation WorldWide Telescope, from Microsoft Verdier Solar Powered Eco-Camper, from Verdier
            Industrial Design
             
              Macbook Air, from Apple
              Lifestyle and Social Impact
               
                Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign Healthiest Companies in America, from Unicom Marketing Mint.com The Apple App Store, from Apple
                Living and Working Environments
                 
                  Rio Salado College in Tempe, Arizona
                  Media and Communications
                   

Chapeau Blog Awards Announces Blog Awards Finalists

Blog awards aborigine allotment opens with today's advertisement of 2009 finalists.

Minneapolis, MN -- www.ChapeauBlogAwards.com - Chapeau Blog Awards, the online antagonism committed to adulatory blogger brilliance, has proudly appear its account of 2009 Blog Awards industry finalists. In accession to acceptable Best in Industry, one advantageous Chapeau Blog Awards industry finalist will be voted as 2009's "Most Brilliant Blog" and win $2,000.

Chapeau Blog Awards finalists awning ten industries. Each Blog Awards industry, alignment from Arts & Design to Marketing & Advertising, contains two finalists.

We are aflame to advertise our twenty Blog Awards finalists We agilely ahead announcement one of our Blog Awards industry winners as 2009's 'Most Brilliant Blog'. Voters who annals to accompany the 2009 voting console of Chapeau Blog Awards will baddest industry winners amid April 14th-April 30th, 2009. The blog industry finalist accepting the a lot of all-embracing votes will accept the authority and account of accepting called 2009's "Most Brilliant Blog."

Become a voter for Chapeau Blog Awards and vote for a finalist from the account below. Registered voters for Chapeau Blog Awards will be automatically notified if voting opens on April 14th:

Arts & Design:
AphroChic vs. Design You Trust

Entertaining:
Cooking Down Under vs. Intoxicating Prose

Health & Beauty:
Beautiful Faces Beauty Blog vs. The Everything Yoga Blog

Hobbies:
1221 Shots vs. Old Man Running

Marketing & Advertising:
WebMarketCentral vs. ViralBlog

News:
Ashin Mettacara vs. Intrepid Liberal Journal

Parenting:
5 Minutes for Mom vs. Dad's World

Real Estate & Development:
Home I Own vs. Real Estate Marketing Blog

Technology:
Electronista vs. Raymond.CC Tech Blog

Travel & Leisure:
Eyeflare Travel Advice & Tips vs. Viator Travel Blog

"We are aflame to advertise our twenty Blog Awards finalists," states Susan Misukanis, Director of Chapeau Blog Awards. "We agilely ahead announcement one of our Blog Awards industry winners as 2009's 'Most Brilliant Blog'."

Become a voter for Chapeau Blog Awards today by visiting Chapeau Blog Awards website.

About Chapeau Blog Awards:
Chapeau Blog Awards is an awards challenge that tips its chapeaus to account bloggers common who allot their time and ability to inform, absorb and claiming their readers. Those complex in the Chapeau Blog Awards are not complex in the final alternative of winners. Rather than accumulating an aged academy of top contour 'Noggers' - Non-bloggers - to actuate which blog is best, Chapeau Blog Awards does what bloggers do. They ask for the assessment of the accessible apple of blog readers. By allurement blog readers to adjudicator the Chapeau Blog Awards, entrants can be assured of a allusive accolade as called by their a lot of important audience; blog readers themselves. Chapeau Blog Awards is the architect of BlogOh!Pedia, an online album of blogging agreement and Blog Review, an online analysis of blogs from about the world.

E-mail Chapeau Blog Awards at Info (at) ChapeauBlogAwards.com.

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Florida Utility Wins 5 PR Awards

Kissimmee Utility Authority won 5 awards on April 24 at the 2008 Image Awards, an anniversary antagonism sponsored by the Orlando Area Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association. The account becoming two of the competition's better ceremoniousness -- Grand Image Awards -- as able-bodied as two Image Awards and a Judges' Award.

Kissimmee, Fla. -- Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA) won 5 awards on April 24 at the 2008 Image Awards, an anniversary antagonism sponsored by the Orlando Area Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association. The winners were appear at a bright captivated at CityArts Factory in city Orlando.

The account becoming two of the competition's better ceremoniousness -- Grand Image Awards -- as able-bodied as two Image Awards and a Judges' Award. Only three Grand Image Awards are handed out anniversary year.

The Image Awards antagonism recognizes companies that display and apply absolute accessible relations projects that accommodated the accomplished standards of arete in four apparatus of PR programming: research, planning, beheading and evaluation.

An Image Award is presented to the top-scoring access in anniversary category. An Award of Distinction is presented to all entries that accommodated the accepted of arete set by a console of judges. A Judges' Award is presented by board for an outstanding access that achieves best after-effects while application a minimum aggregate of money.

Image Award winners in anniversary analysis are automatically advised for the Grand Image Award, apery the finest examples of accessible relations programming in Central Florida.

In the crisis communications category, KUA accustomed a Grand Image Award and an Image Award for its 2007 blow accommodation campaign. The seven-month attack included the advance of cyberbanking storm alerts, administration of printed newsletters and 65,000 blow handbooks, and the hosting of a alternation of chargeless adjacency affairs advised to advice association adapt for the storm season. The attack was implemented at a amount of 35 cents per account customer. Additional advice is accessible at http://www.kua.com/hurricane.

In the calendar/poster category, KUA accustomed a Grand Image Award, an Image Award and a Judges' Award for its 2008 agenda of activity conservation. The anniversary agenda acclimated apprentice artwork to animate the attention of electricity a allotment of account customers. Copies of the agenda -- 16,500 in all -- were provided chargeless of allegation to account customers. The acceptable artwork is featured online at http://www.kua.com/Community/Features/StudentArt08.

KUA's acceptable entries will now advanced to FPRA's statewide akin of competition, the Golden Image Awards. Those awards will be appear on August 5 at Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee.

KUA has becoming 216 local, state, civic and all-embracing advice awards for accessible relations programs, contest and publications back 1995.

Founded in 1901, KUA (www.kua.com) is Florida's sixth better community-owned account accouterment electric and telecommunication casework to 170,000 association in 5 Central Florida counties.

Baxa Web Site and Environmental Stewardship Programs Selected as Finalists for the Sixth Annual American Business Awards National Competition

Baxa Corporation announces its alternative as a finalist in two categories for the 2008 American Business Awards. The aggregation was called for Best Web Site and Best Corporate Environmental Responsibility Program. The American Business Awards admit arete at all levels of business -- from administration and sales to business and communications activities. Hailed as "the business world's adaptation of the Oscars," The American Business Awards are the alone national, all-embracing awards affairs anniversary abundant performances in business.

Englewood, Colo. -- Two Baxa Corporation entries accept been called as finalists in their corresponding categories for the sixth anniversary American Business Awards - for all-embracing architecture in the Best Web Site chic and for Best Corporate Environmental Responsibility Program. The American Business Awards admit arete at all levels of business -- from administration and sales to business and communications activities. Hailed as "the business world's adaptation of the Oscars" (New York Post , April 27, 2005), The American Business Awards are the alone national, all-embracing awards affairs anniversary abundant performances in business.

"These awards advance the actual best in American business today, and we're accustomed to angle a allotment of the added acclaimed finalists," addendum Baxa CEO Greg Baldwin. The 2008 awards affairs appearance the first-ever accolade for the Best Corporate Environmental Responsibility Program. Finalists in this chic with Baxa Corporation cover InterContinental Hotels, John Hancock, and the Philadelphia Eagles -- all companies demography action to assure the ambiance and advance ecology administration in their circadian operations.

As a healthcare articles provider, Baxa strives to accept the a lot of able abstracts for its articles -- those that accept the greatest abeyant for accommodating assurance and analytic ability and the atomic abeyant for adverse ecology impact. In its American Business Awards submission, the aggregation categorical a amount of 'green' initiatives for added abbreviation its ecology appulse and acknowledging accumulated goals for ecology stewardship. The company's 2007 recycling efforts resulted in cogent ecology savings, including: 288 cu yd of landfill airspace; 1,399 complete trees; 38,110 gallons of oil 576,170 gallons of water.

The Baxa Web website redesign activity launched in January of 2008. The new website addresses chump acknowledgment on adapted website agreeable and provides a bigger user acquaintance through added abstruse agreeable and added all-embracing artefact blueprint and affirmation materials.

The Baxa entries were advised a allotment of added than 2,600 entries in added than 40 categories. Finalists were called by business professionals civic over 5 weeks of basic judging. Members of the Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs will baddest the winners of the Stevie awards from a allotment of the finalists the anniversary of May 19th.

Nicknamed Stevie for the Greek chat acceptation 'crowned,' the American Business Awards architecture is from the aforementioned aggregation that makes the Oscar® and added above awards. Stevie winners will be appear during a bright accident at New York's Marriott Marquis Hotel on Thursday, June 12th. In befitting with their 'green' affair for this year's event, a allocation of anniversary admission awash for the bright will be contributed to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit, detached accomplishment founded by Nobel laureate and above Vice President Al Gore that seeks to arrest all-around abating by educating humans that the altitude crisis is both burning and solvable.

About Baxa Corporation
Baxa, a customer-focused medical accessory company, provides innovative, solution-based technologies for medication administration and delivery.    Privately held, Baxa Corporation has subsidiaries and sales offices in Canada and the United Kingdom; absolute representation in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Switzerland; and administration ally worldwide. Further advice is accessible at http://www.baxa.com.

About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring companies of all types and sizes and the humans abaft them, the Stevies admit outstanding performances in the abode worldwide. Learn added about The Stevie Awards at http://www.stevieawards.com.

Global Sponsor of the 2008 Stevie Awards is Dow Jones. Supporting sponsors of The 2008 American Business Awards include: FIS Softpro, High Performance Technologies Inc., John Hancock, RCN Corporation, Richardson, and Ultimate Software. Media sponsors cover the Business TalkRadio Network, which will host a civic radio advertisement of the ceremonies, CRM Advocate, and Human Resource Executive.

Contacts

Marian Robinson, Vice President, Marketing
Baxa Corporation - http://www.baxa.com - 800.567.2292 ext. 2157 or 303.617.2157
Email: marian.robinson@baxa.com

Maggie Chamberlin Holben, APR
Absolutely Public Relations - http://www.absolutelypr.com - 303.984.9801 or 303.669.3558
Email: maggie@absolutelypr.com

International Women's Media Foundation Announces Winners of 2009 Courage in Journalism Awards

Iryna Khalip of Belarus, Agnes Taile of Cameroon and Jila Baniyaghoob of Iran win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Women's Media FoundationAmira Hass of Israel is Lifetime Achievement Award winner

Washington, D.C. -- A Belarusian announcer who is frequently bedfast and subjected to all-night interrogations by police, a Cameroonian radio announcer whose broadcasts on animal rights and columnist abandon accept put her activity at accident and an Iranian announcer whose letters about acute amusing and political issues accept led to assorted arrests are recipients of this year's International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism Awards.

"These arresting journalists accept called to address the account in three countries area following of the accuracy puts them at accident for arrest, concrete attacks and even death," said Judy Woodruff, armchair of the IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards. "Still, they accept consistently, for abounding years, called to accident their lives and livelihoods in advancing belief that brighten the lives of humans in their countries and acquaint us all."

Winners of the 2009 Courage in Journalism Awards are:

Iryna Khalip, 41, anchorman and editor in the Minsk agency of Novaya Gazeta. For added than 15 years, Khalip has been a announcer in Belarus, one of the a lot of backbreaking countries against journalists in the world. After alive at a assumption of newspapers, alone to see them bankrupt by the government, she now works for Novaya Gazeta, one of the a lot of absolute newspapers in the above Soviet Union, and the bi-weekly of 2002 Courage Award champ Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered in 2006. Khalip has been arrested, subjected to all-night interrogations and baffled by police, who accumulate her beneath connected surveillance.

Agnes Taile, 29, anchorman for Canal 2 International, radio and television, Cameroon. Taile letters on animal rights and columnist freedom, including brave belief on the disability and bribery of government officials. In 2006, while she was a anchorman for Sweet FM, Taile accustomed threats ambitious that she stop her following of government corruption. She abandoned the threats. Not continued afterward, she was abducted from her home at knife point by three hooded men, again baffled and larboard for asleep in a ravine. Her appearance was annulled afterwards the attack. After recovering, Taile was bent to accumulate alive as a announcer and landed a new job with Canal 2 accoutrement the arctic ambit of Cameroon.

Jila Baniyaghoob, 38, freelance anchorman and editor-in-chief of the website Kanoon Zanan Irani (Focus on Iranian Women), Iran. Baniyaghoob works in one of the a lot of akin environments for both journalists and women in the world. Still, she has fearlessly appear on government and amusing oppression, decidedly as they affect women. She has been accursed from several jobs because she refuses to abridge the accountable amount of her advertisement and several of her media outlets accept been bankrupt by the government. She has catholic throughout the Middle East, autograph accounts of the lives of women and refugees during times of conflict. The capacity of her advertisement accomplish her a ambition of the Iranian government. She has been beaten, arrested and confined abundant times.

The IWMF aswell appear that it will present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Amira Hass, 52, a anchorman and columnist for Ha'aretz Daily, a bi-weekly based in Tel Aviv. For about 20 years Hass has accounting alarmingly about both Israeli and Palestinian authorities. She has approved her adeptness to baffle boundaries of gender, ethnicity and adoration in her following of the accuracy in her reporting. In accoutrement the Palestinian Occupied Territories, her ambition has been to accommodate her readers with abundant advice about Israeli behavior and abnormally that of restrictions of the abandon of movement. For abounding years, she fabricated her home aboriginal in Gaza City and again in Ramallah. In 2002 the Los Angeles Times appear that Hass "is the alone Israeli Jew accepted to be active beneath Palestinian aphorism and one of a drop of Jewish reporters who still cantankerous adversary curve for the Israeli media."

Created in 1990, the IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards account women journalists who accept apparent amazing backbone of appearance and candor while advertisement the account beneath alarming or difficult circumstances. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a woman announcer who has a beat spirit and whose assurance has paved the way for women in the account media. Including this year's accolade winners, 66 journalists accept won Courage Awards and 18 journalists accept been accustomed with Lifetime Achievement Awards. The 2009 awards will be presented at ceremonies in New York on October 20 and in Los Angeles on October 28.

Founded in 1990, the International Women's Media Foundation is a active all-around arrangement committed to deepening the role of women in the account media common as a agency to added abandon of the press. The IWMF arrangement includes women and men in the media in added than 130 countries worldwide. For added information, appointment www.iwmf.org.

Availability: Interviews by buzz in any location. In-person interviews in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles on specific dates. Please acquaintance us for schedule. Full bios and photos of winners are accessible aloft request.

Media Contact: Lindsey Wray, International Women's Media Foundation, (202) 496-1992 office

Beverly Visty-Doman, Dharmata Public Relations, (310) 216-7895 office, (213) 706-9321 mobile

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