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COMMUNICATION AWARDS

2005 Communication Award Winners

Details for submitting entries
Each year SIGUCCS sponsors Communication Awards to recognize outstanding web sites, publications and promotional materials produced by university and college computing centers. These awards recognize excellence in developing useful and appealing materials to enhance user services and offer attendees an opportunity to garner ideas to enhance their own efforts. A list of past winners can be seen on the ACM SIGUCCS website.

Examples of Past Winners:

Computing Services Website Category
University of Colorado, Boulder - 2004 Overall Winner - Computing Services Website

Printed Computing Newsletter Category
University of California, Davis - 2004 Third Place Winner - Printed Computing Newsletter

These awards are presented at the SIGUCCS Fall 2005 conference, November 6-9, 2005, in Monterey, California. Winning entries will be displayed and available for perusal during the conference. Participants are also encouraged to display their own materials in the Documentation Room at the conference.

First-place award winners will be asked to present their materials at the conference Poster session. All award winners will be invited to a special recognition breakfast, held during the conference.First place in each category will be awarded to the overall top entry winner. However, in recognition of the differences in resources available to small schools versus large institutions, there will be two award levels in each category for second and third place winners. Schools with less than 4000 full-time undergrads will compete in Level 1 and those with 4000 or more, in Level 2.

CATEGORIES FOR AWARDS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Category 1: Web Sites1a: Computing Services
1b: Student Employee Web Sites

Category 2: Computing Newsletter

2a: Printed Computing Newsletter
2b: Electronic Computing Newsletter

Category 3: How-to Guides and Instructional Material

3a: Electronic How-to Guides 3b: Printed How-to Guides
3c: Printed Instructional Classroom Material
3d: Electronic Instructional Classroom Material

Category 4: Quick Reference Guides

Category 5: Promotional Materials

5a: General Service Promotional Materials
5b: Promotional Video/Audio 5c: Student-Created Promotional Materials

Category 6: Software CDs

 

GUIDELINES AND DEADLINE

Qualifications

  • Your entry must be developed by staff affiliated with your institution.
  • Institutions may present up to three entries for each category.
  • An institution may not enter a category judged by one of its own staff or faculty members.
  • All awardees will be invited to the Awards Breakfast during the conference, where the official presentation of the awards will take place.

Note: The award winners in each category will judge the communication awards next year. Details:

All Entries must be received by August 08, 2005. Check out the detailed information about the categories and the criteria required for submitting entries.

Spruce up you web pages, how-to-guides, training materials and newsletters! We want to see yours submitted! These materials provide a wonderful way to show others what you are doing and to allow others to gain insights into how to develop or enhance materials of their own.

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