The Army National Guard’s Guard Your Health website proudly acknowledges receiving these awards of excellence.
PRSA-NCC THOTH AWARD
Staying Fit, Staying Ready Personal Story Video
September 2015
The Thoth Awards, presented by the National Capital Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), recognizes the most outstanding strategic public relations programs and components developed and produced in the Greater Washington, D.C. area. Achievements are recognized in 35 categories, including 16 program categories that celebrate the best PR campaigns and 19 component categories that highlight top accomplishments in PR tactics.
IABC SILVER QUILL AWARD OF MERIT
Award of Merit in the Audio/Visual category for the “Staying Fit, Staying Ready” video
August 2015
The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Silver Quill Awards hold entrants to high, time-tested thresholds of performance. Spanning 17 states and Washington, D.C., the program honors entries that meet specific objectives and exceed professional standards for effective strategic and creative work.
DIGITAL HEALTH MERIT AWARD
Guard Your Health Facebook Page
August 2015
The Guard Your Health Facebook page won a Merit Digital Health Award. The goal of the Digital Health Awards is to recognize high-quality digital health resources for consumers and health professionals. The awards program is organized by the Health Information Resource Center, a clearinghouse for professionals who work in consumer health fields.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATORS BLUE PENCIL & GOLD SCREEN AWARD
First Place for Guard Your Health Website
July 2015
The NAGC Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Awards Competition recognizes superior communications efforts of government agencies. Blue Pencil Award categories are designed for writing, editing, photography, and published products such as magazines, books, newsletters and other materials. Gold Screen Award categories recognize audio-visual and multimedia products, including broadcast and internet-based products.
PR NEWS DIGITAL PR AWARD
PR News Digital PR Award in the New Site category for Guard Your Health Website
December 2014
PR News’ Digital PR Awards is the industry’s top honor in the PR and communications digital space, recognizing outstanding digital initiatives among corporations, agencies, and nonprofits. The coveted awards set the industry benchmark for excellence across all areas of digital PR. The winners of the Digital PR Awards are those organizations that took risks, made tremendous strides and understand the power of digital communications in public relations. The New Site category recognizes a site launched in the past year that is marked by high-quality design and content that clearly conveys the organization’s brand and encourages engagement.
PR NEWS DIGITAL PR AWARD
PR News Digital PR Award in the Video category for “Staying Fit, Staying Ready” video
December 2014
PR News’ Digital PR Awards is the industry’s top honor in the PR and communications digital space, recognizing outstanding digital initiatives among corporations, agencies and nonprofits. The coveted awards set the industry benchmark for excellence across all areas of digital PR. The winners of the Digital PR Awards are those organizations that took risks, made tremendous strides and understand the power of digital communications in public relations. The Video category recognizes video content that promotes a product, organization, or individual or is used to respond to a quickly developing issue or crisis. Winning video content surpasses expectations of viewings and succeeds at enhancing a brand and building an audience.
WEBAWARD
Outstanding WebAward in the Government Website category for Guard Your Health Website
September 2014
The WebAward program is the longest running annual website award competition dedicated to naming the best Web sites in 96 industries while setting the standard of excellence for all website development.
VIDEOGRAPHER AWARDS
Award of Excellence for “Staying Fit, Staying Ready“ video
August 2014
The Videographer Awards is one of the oldest and most respected awards programs in the industry. In 2014, there were 1500 from companies and individuals that use or produce video for marketing, information and entertainment purposes. The highest level of achievement, Award of Excellence, was won by 12% of the entries; 14% won an Award of Distinction; and 5% received an Honorable Mention. Judging for was done by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals.
AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION’S 24TH ANNUAL PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION HEALTH PROMOTION PUBLIC HEALTH MATERIALS CONTEST
Print Materials
July 2014
Guard Your Health won the American Public Health Association’s 24th Annual Public Health Education Health Promotion Public Health Materials Contest for the print materials category. Winners were selected from a competitive pool of health education materials by a panel of expert health education and promotion professionals.
TELLY BRONZE AWARD FOR VIDEO
Guard Your Health Website Internet/online video in the Health & Fitness category for, “Staying Fit, Staying Ready“
June 2014
The Telly Awards honors the very best film & video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding local, regional, & cable TV commercials and programs. Judges evaluate entries to recognize distinction in creative work — entries do not compete against each other. Instead, entries are judged against a high standard of merit. Judges score entries on a performance scale and winning entries are recognized and awarded as Silver or Bronze Winners based on the combined scoring of the judges who evaluate each entry.
OMNI INTERMEDIA SILVER AWARD FOR VIDEO
Guard Your Health Website video/government for, “Staying Fit, Staying Ready“
May 2014
The Omni Awards recognize outstanding media productions in film, TV, video, interactive, animation, and web that engage, empower, and enlighten. Patterned after the Emmy Awards, the Omni Awards committee uses a panel of three peer professionals who independently judge each entry based on a standard set of criteria per media type. They award Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum honors, with Platinum being the highest scoring submission. Each entry is evaluated for overall excellence in the specific genre.
HERMES CREATIVE PLATINUM AWARD FOR WEBSITE
Guard Your Health Website
May 2014
The Guard Your Health website won a Hermes Creative Platinum Award in the category of government website. The Hermes Creative Awards is a prestigious international competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional materials and programs, and emerging technologies. Entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, graphic design shops, production companies, web and digital creators and freelancers. They award both Gold and Platinum honors, with Platinum honors as the highest scoring submissions in each category.
HERMES CREATIVE GOLD AWARD FOR WEBSITE VIDEO
Guard Your Health Website Element/Video for the Web, “Staying Fit, Staying Ready“
May 2014
The Guard Your Health website won a Hermes Creative Gold Award in the category of website element/video for the web for the “Staying Fit, Staying Ready” personal story. The Hermes Creative Awards is a prestigious international competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional materials and programs, and emerging technologies. Entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, graphic design shops, production companies, web and digital creators and freelancers. They award both Gold and Platinum honors, with Platinum honors as the highest scoring submissions in each category.
COMMUNICATOR GOLD AWARD FOR GOVERNMENT WEBSITES
Guard Your Health Website
April 2014
The Guard Your Health website won a Gold Communicator Award in the category of government websites. The Communicator Awards is a leading international awards program recognizing big ideas in marketing and communications. The Communicator Awards receives over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. The Communicator Awards honors work that transcends innovation and craftwork that made a lasting impact and moved people. The Award of Excellence, the highest honor, is given to those entrants whose ability to communicate positions them as the best in the field.
COMMUNICATOR SILVER AWARD FOR ONLINE VIDEOS
Guard Your Health Video
April 2014
The Guard Your Health personal story video, “Staying Fit, Staying Ready,” won a Silver Communicator Award in the category of online videos. The Communicator Awards is a leading international awards program recognizing big ideas in marketing and communications. The Communicator Awards receives over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. The Communicator Awards honors work that transcends innovation and craftwork that made a lasting impact and moved people. The Award of Distinction is presented for projects that exceed industry standards in quality and achievement.
WEB HEALTH SILVER AWARD
Guard Your Health Mobile Website
December 2013
The Guard Your Health mobile website won a Silver Web Health Award. Web Health Awards honor the best in digital health resources. The goal of the Web Health Awards is to recognize high-quality digital health resources for consumers and health professionals. These awards honor the nation’s best digital health resources. The competition, which is held twice yearly, featured 47 entry categories, including blog, e-newsletter, mobile application, mobile website, social media, video, and website. A panel of 23 experts in digital health media served as judges and selected gold, silver, bronze, and merit winners from more than 300 entries.
WEB HEALTH BRONZE AWARD
Guard Your Health Website
December 2013
The Guard Your Health website won a Bronze Web Health Award. These awards honor the nation’s best digital health resources. The competition, which is held twice yearly, featured 47 entry categories, including blog, e-newsletter, mobile application, mobile website, social media, video, and website. A panel of 23 experts in digital health media served as judges and selected gold, silver, bronze, and merit winners from more than 300 entries.
MARCOM PLATINUM AWARD
Guard Your Health Website
November 2013
The Guard Your Health website won a Platinum MarCom Award under the category of Website/Government. The MarCom Awards are sponsored by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. It is one of the oldest, largest and most respected competitions in the creative industry that honors excellence and recognizes the creativity, hard work and generosity of marketing and communication professionals. The competition is so well thought of in the industry that national public relations organizations, local ad clubs, and local business communicator chapters are entrants. There were more than 6,000 entries from throughout the United States, Canada and several other countries in the 2013 competition.
MARCOM PLATINUM AWARD
Guard Your Health Mobile Site
November 2013
The Guard Your Health website won a Platinum MarCom Award under the category of Mobile & Web-Based Technology/Mobile Website. The MarCom Awards are sponsored by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. It is one of the oldest, largest and most respected competitions in the creative industry that honors excellence and recognizes the creativity, hard work and generosity of marketing and communication professionals. The competition is so well thought of in the industry that national public relations organizations, local ad clubs, and local business communicator chapters are entrants. There were more than 6,000 entries from throughout the United States, Canada and several other countries in the 2013 competition.
MARCOM GOLD AWARD
Guard Your Health Website Copy/Writing
November 2013
The Guard Your Health website won a Gold MarCom Award under the category of Writing/Web Copy. The MarCom Awards are sponsored by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. It is one of the oldest, largest and most respected competitions in the creative industry that honors excellence and recognizes the creativity, hard work and generosity of marketing and communication professionals. The competition is so well thought of in the industry that national public relations organizations, local ad clubs, and local business communicator chapters are entrants. There were more than 6,000 entries from throughout the United States, Canada and several other countries in the 2013 competition.