winning at the unawards
The inaugural comms2point0 UnAwards were a brilliant opportunity to showcase and celebrate the outstanding comms and digital work which takes place up and down the UK. And whilst you are all winners to us, here is the official winners roll of honour...
Following an inbox-busting 202 entries from 150 organisations, our team of external, independent judges and comms industry experts had a fight on their hands to select the winners, But select they did.
And of course you played your part too in the public vote, which saw us receive almost 2,000 votes.
Social media was simply buzzing with UnAwards chat - in just seven days on Twitter the UnAwards reached 489k accounts with over 2.5m opportunities to see. Just statistcial outputs, of course, but impressive nonetheless.
Here's an UnAwards Storify courtesy of Emma Rodgers.
Huge thanks to everyone who played a part and supported the Unawards. We're keen to get your views on whether we should run them again in 2015 so do get in touch.
Here's the full list of winners:
1. Best communications team award
WINNERS - DVLA
Shortlisted
Coventry City Council
Bucks County Council
2. Best communications officer award public vote
sponsored by Alive - The Ideas Agency
WINNER - Jo Goodwin
shortlisted
Christine Howles
Carolyne Mitchell
3. Best small team award public vote
sponsored by David Banks Media Law
WINNERS - Stafford Borough Council
shortlisted
Internal Communications Team at London Borough of Hillingdon
Gateshead NHS Trust
4. Dan Harris lifetime achievement to comms award public vote
sponsored by Touch Design
WINNER - Fran Collingham, Assistant Director, Communications, Coventry City Council
Shortlisted
Eddie Coates-Madden, Head of Communications, Sheffield City Council
David Holdstock, Director of Communications, Local Government Association
5. Best guest post on comms2point0 in 2014 public vote
sponsored by Alive - The Ideas Agency
WINNER
Why Jamie from The Thick of It is my PR hero
by Gurdip Thandi
Shortlisted
The comms team credit matrix... or the damned in you do, damned if you don’t theorem
by Eddie Coates-Madden
Scratching the seven year itch
by Will Mapplebeck
6. Best internal communications campaign award
sponsored by All Things IC
WINNERS - Bournemouth Council for Heard it on the Grapevine?
Shortlisted
Wolverhampton Homes for Rent arrears: It literally is eveyone's business
London Borough of Hillingdon for A New Horizon
7. Best communications for change activity award
sponsored by Public Sector Customer Services Forum
WINNERS - Leeds City Council for Truly Social
Shortlisted
South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue for Good manners save lives
Helena Partnerships for Transformation from the inside out
8. Best piece of creative comms award
sponsored by Capacity Grid
WINNERS - Sandwell Council for No Sh1t Sherlock
Shortlisted
DVLA for Hackathon
Wirral University Teaching Hospital for 'Proud' flashmob video
9. Best freebie or low cost communications campaign award
sponsored by Improvement & Efficiency West Midlands
WINNERS - Food Standards Agency for Food Safety Week
Dhortlisted
Manchester Fire and Rescue for the Treacle campaign
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue for Sheffield's biggest fire
10. Best email marketing award
sponsored by GovDeliveryUK
WINNERS - Dudley Council
Shortlisted
Dorset for You
Department of Energy & Climate Change
11. Best social media campaign award
sponsored by Digital Action Plan
WINNERS - Essex County Council and Essex Police for Stand together for domestic violence
Shortlisted
Warwick University for #warwick2014
Sandwell Council for Snow Champions
12. Best private sector/agency comms campaign or initiative award
sponsored by Lesniak Swann
WINNERS - Shadow Giants for the 'Come Back' to nursing campaign
Shortlisted
Self Communications for Self Communications
Carlsberg for Probably the best internal comms team in the world
13. Best ‘Worst comms’ award
sponsored by Alive - The Ideas Agency
WINNERS - Wrexham Council and their excellent response when predictive text saw them tweet: 'Pathetic executive' - nominated by Helen Reynolds
Shortlisted
Aston Villa's hapless Twitter chat involving a ‘star’ player few fans had heard of - nominated anonymously
A genuine request: “Hi Louise, can we please have some branded fish?” - Alex Kellett of Futures Housing Group
American Airlines tweets pornographic picture by accident - nominated anonymously
Social media marketing's 'Lets Get Social' video
14. Best collaboration award
Sponsored by Knowledge Hub
JOINT WINNERS - LocalGovDigital for LocalGovDigital and Government Communications Service (inc. DVLA) for The IC Space
Shortlisted
Yorkshire & Humber Commissioning Support for Tour de France
Thanks again to all who supported. Let's do it all again in 2015.
Thanks to Mike Kelly for photography
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