Digital & Technology

2012 Platinum PR Awards: Online Communications

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Winner: Cohn & Wolfe with Valvoline – Guaranteeing a New Era in Polling: Valvoline & SportingNews.com Team to Empower Fans  Faced with the challenge of reinvigorating the Valvoline Engine Guarantee program, Cohn & Wolfe decided to go… Continued

2012 Platinum PR Awards: Speeches

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Winner: U.S. Postal Service – Purple Heart with Ribbon Forever Stamp Dedication In 2011, the USPS issued its Purple Heart postage stamp in a new Forever Stamp design. As one of the largest civilian employers of… Continued

2012 Platinum PR Awards: Marketing Communications

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Winner: AICPA – ThisWaytoCPA How do you make a 124-year-old organization of certified public accountants sexy to college kids? You create a recruiting Web site that appeals to budding accountants and market the heck out of it—and… Continued

2012 Platinum PR Awards: Twitter Campaign

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Co-Winner: American Airlines with Weber Shandwick – #AAGalaxy: American Airlines Socializes New In-Flight Entertainment Offering with Twitter Hashtag Promotion  To increase awareness of the news that the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 was being added to in-flight entertainment,… Continued

2012 Platinum PR Awards: Marketing Communications

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Winner: AICPA – ThisWaytoCPA How do you make a 124-year-old organization of certified public accountants sexy to college kids? You create a recruiting Web site that appeals to budding accountants and market the heck out of it—and… Continued

2012 Platinum PR Awards: Social Media 

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 Co-Winner: The Clorox Company – Check-in for Check Ups When Clorox wanted to create a program rewarding consumers for practicing healthy habits, it teamed up with the Children’s Health Fund to create Check-In for Checkups, a… Continued

2012 Platinum PR Awards: Satellite Media Tour

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Winner: RF|Binder and McGraw-Hill Education – Tablets and Devices: An Educational Frontier To support McGraw-Hill Education’s commitment to developing innovative digital education tools and take advantage of new tablets coming to market, R|F Binder used… Continued

2012 Platinum PR Awards: Research and Measurement

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Winner: PRIME Research: Changing Behavior Through PR: Earned Media Boosts Campaign Effectiveness During Medicare Open Enrollment   The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) were having a hard time quantifying the ROI on their communications efforts… Continued

2012 Platinum PR Awards: Small PR Firm of the Year

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Co-Winner: Henson Consulting If you ever needed proof that bigger isn’t always better, Chicago’s Henson Consulting’s 16-person team delivered imaginative, entertaining and, best of all, revenue boosting campaigns for an A-list of clients. Clients include… Continued

2012 Platinum PR Awards: Re-Branding/Re-Positioning

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Co-Winner: Ogilvy Public Relations – Taking Ford Further After successfully creating a comeback story after the economic downturn, Ford needed another kind of story—one that put consumers at the heart of its brand. To bring… Continued