Well, that’s that then.  The judging for the 2012 CIPR Excellence Awards is now over. The final category interviews were held this morning for Outstanding PR Consultancy.  The three judges ran over time as there was lots of deliberation due to the high level of those shortlisted – this is one of the most hotly-contested [...]

The campaign judging ended yesterday so today and tomorrow are the hotly contested team awards. Six agencies battled it out for Outstanding Small Consultancy this morning – all very different to one another.  The shortlist included businesses born between 2007 and 2011, specialisms from tech to agriculture, an all-female consultancy and one team who turned [...]

Two very different categories were judged today – the morning was spent finding the Outstanding Young Communicator and the afternoon was all about public policy and influencing legislation with the Public Affairs category. In yesterday’s blog I talked about how far afield the interviewees had come to sit in front of the panel and that [...]

It was day 11 of judging today so Integrated & Marketing Communications and External Publication can now be ticked off the list of the 28 categories to be judged. The great thing about today was the realisation of how wide a pool of talent the shortlisted entries come from, in terms of geography.  We nearly [...]

Today was different to the norm as there were no campaigns judged with Internal Publication in the morning followed by Best Freelance Practitioner in the afternoon. As ever, the judges made it really difficult for themselves as all of those interviewed were so different. As with all of the categories, the judges ask those interviewed [...]

Phew!  Day 9 was jam-packed with three categories being judged rather than the usual two. The value that PR professionals put on these awards was very evident today with the distances that some interviewees had travelled.  The Global PR and Low Budget campaigns were judged this morning, but it was the low budget interviewees who [...]

It was day 8 of judging today so that is Crisis Communications and Automotive all done now. In the last few years it has been pretty easy to predict the subjects entered into the Crisis Communications category … 2010 was flooding and 2011 was flooding and the ash cloud … so I got to thinking [...]

Today was yet another great day of judging.  I would love to tell you funny skits of mishaps but because the award scheme is so well organised (thanks to the efforts of the lovely Catherine Morgan and the rest of the Events team) there isn’t anything like that to report :0(. However, two things happened [...]