Signature
Earns Award of Excellence
by Lana
Walker-Helmuth, Managing Editor
See the June
meeting review for a complete list of team members.
"A magnificent performance!"
Forty-six chapters and special interest groups competed in the 2001-2002 STC Newsletter Competition. For the second year in a row the San Diego Signature, headed up by Rick Bradshaw, earned an award of Excellence. The newsletter was only 3.5 points away from earning Distinguished.
"I want to congratulate all those people who participated this year in making the newsletter what it has become," said Rick. "The awards and the comments could not have been received without each and every one of you. Those awards and comments are not just for me and how I did my job, they are for everyone that contributed in any way at any time." (See Rick’s full comments in Journey to an Award-Winning Newsletter.)
Judges looked at items
from four categories: Essential Elements, Recommended Topics, Editorial
Quality, and Design and Delivery. The newsletter received perfect scores
in the first two categories, which is no small feat.
Here are some of the judges’ comments:
- "The best
publication of the four I judged."
- "Text is edited
and proofed well and style is very inviting; lots of humor. No dry technology-heavy
language."
- "Great depth.
Many features plus employment information, reviews, and managers’
columns. What a great chapter of contributors!"
- "Superb attention
to detail! You didn’t miss any required elements. Not only did
you include, consistently, the vast majority of possible topics, you
also included tasteful and appropriate humor. I thoroughly enjoyed your
newsletter."
- "A
magnificent performance!"
Congratulations, Rick and team!
