Our social media activity is now award winning!

After a rather speedy taxi ride to the Oxford Belfry on Friday night the UoB digital team attended the CIPR PRide Awards (yes, the uppercase R is on purpose)! The evening was fantastic and we walked away with a Silver Award for 'Best use of Social Media'. A fantastic endorsement of the work that the digital team have put in over the last 12 months and hopefully enough of a reward to spur us all on to win again next year!

Congratulations to the team, we'll now need to find more space on the wall alongside our other awards!

We've won a Gold CIPR PRide award!

Kris Collins & Pete Simpson,
CIPR PRide awards 2010

So, the CIPR PRide awards have come and gone for another year and we did rather well! The external website (beds.ac.uk) picked up a Gold award for Best Website, a real sign that the improvements, tweaks and new developments we've been putting in over the last 12 months have really paid off! The site was highlighted to have met the expectations of its audience as a well navigated and precise source of information.

Our internal staff publication 'Life' picked up a Silver award for best publication and our staff website (in.beds.ac.uk) was shortlisted for Best Internal Communications.

All in all a very successful night for the MARC team and it's always great to receive recognition for all the hard work! Congratulations to everyone that won an award on the night and we'll probably see you all next year!

It's awards time again!

So, the time of year is here again and the first round of awards and nominations are out. So, the first award...

The University of Bedfordshire has been awarded the Web Marketing Association's 'Standard of Excellence' award for beds.ac.uk. The Web Marketing Association was founded in 1997 to help set a high standard for Internet marketing and development of the best websites on the World Wide Web. The University received a score of 56 out of 70 (80%) putting us at a level higher than the industry standard.

...and that's not all! The University has picked up three shortlist nominations for the CIPR PRide awards 2010. The two digital awards are for beds.ac.uk and our staff site in.beds.ac.uk with the third nomination being for our internal publication 'Life'.

The CIPR award ceremony is at the end of November so i'll post up the results should we win!

Awards, awards, awards!

It's the time of year for the awards submissions to be written and submitted and I always forget how long it all takes! So far this month i've written six and it's not even the end of January yet! We have:

• HEIST Awards 2010
• Communicators in Business Awards 2010 (2 entries)
  
• CIPR Excellence awards 2010 (2 entries)
  
• Good Communication Awards 2010
  

So, is it really worth the effort?

Of course it is! Not only do they give you a much deserved nod from your peers but you also usually pick up a nice trophy to display in the office. Fingers crossed for UoB!