Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Employee Communications Awards!

Internal Communications excellence.

Excellence was a recurring theme as the judges narrowed the list of finalists down to the very best - The 2014 Employee Communications winners.

The work we saw in this year’s program was better than ever. The entries demonstrated the many extraordinary ways that internal communicators are informing and engaging employees.

Our judges have carefully reviewed the hundreds of entries coming from around the world. They have chosen the best internal communicators, the winners of the 2014 Employee Communications Awards!

Please join us in congratulating the winners of Ragan’s 2014 Employee Communications Awards!

Employee Communications

Best Benefits Communication

WINNER
Ford Motor Company Annual Enrollment Employee Communications
Ford Motor Company and Xerox Business Services

Honorable Mentions

  • AT&T with FleishmanHillard, AT&T Annual Enrollment 2015
  • Kaiser Permanente Benefits & Compensation Communications, Kaiser Permanente 2015 Employee Open Enrollment Campaign
  • MasterCard, Priceless Pets
  • MEG Energy, MEG-A-FITS! Your Ultimate Benefits
  • North Shore-LIJ Health System, 2015 Benefits Open Enrollment - Simplified
  • Trion, A Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC Company, Private Exchange Toolkit
  • Westpac New Zealand, Our Bank Winter Games

Best Blog

WINNER
On the Road with Stu
Bridgestone and PadillaCRT

Honorable Mentions

  • Klick Health, Digital Rx Blog
  • Lehigh Valley Health Network
  • Providence Health & Services, Inspiring our People: ProvidenceTogether.org

Best Corporate Social Responsibility Program

WINNER
Healthy Mouth Movement
Aspen Dental

Honorable Mentions

  • Covidien, Take 2…Tell 2 for Stroke
  • Klick Health, Klick it Forward
  • KPMG LLP, KPMG's Family For Literacy Campaign: Reading Relay to Fight Childhood Illiteracy
  • Nippon Paint China for Rui Qiu, Society Care
  • Waldinger Creative for FMC Corporation, Shaping Solutions for the Future - 2013 FMC Sustainability Report

Best Employee Engagement

WINNER
Engaging Employees through the Front Page
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

Honorable Mentions

  • Aspen Dental Management, Inc., Aspen Dental Internal Transformation
  • Baystate Health, Shout it Out: Creating Baystate Health's Identity Statement
  • FactSet Research Systems, Inc., Employee Annual Report
  • Lehigh Valley Health Network
  • North Strategic for Canadian Tire Corporation, Canadian Tire Corporation's Olympic Journey: Employee Engagement NurseWise, My Personal Purpose

Best Executive Communication

WINNER
CEO Earnings Messages
JLL

Honorable Mentions

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, Customer and Business Support Executive Communication
  • ConocoPhillips Indonesia, Coffee with the Leadership Team
  • ICMA-RC, ICMA-RC's Telephony Enhancement Project
  • ITG
  • Lehigh Valley Health Network

Best Health/Fitness Program

WINNER
Global Step Challenge
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions

Honorable Mentions

  • Con Edison, 10,000 Steps-a-Day Challenge
  • Freddie Mac, Wellness Works
  • Marathon Health, Healthy Like Me
  • Peak Communicators, Peak Fitness 2014
  • State Street Corporation

Best Re-branding Campaign

WINNER
Setting the Stage Campaign
Metrie

Honorable Mentions

  • Bendure Communications, Inc. for Volunteers of America
  • Hotwire PR, Hotwire PR's Brand Refresh
  • PRA Health Sciences, Operation Rebrand
  • Raytheon Company/Space and Airborne Systems, Simplify to Amplify

Best Use of Social Media

WINNER
Uniting the World of Aon: Top Down Engagement Prompts Explosive Growth of Aon Social Network
Aon/Rightpoint/Enterprise Strategies

Honorable Mention

  • Osborn Barr, Core Values Internal Launch

Intranet

Best Design

WINNER
:MYWORKSPACE
Interact for MSC UK

Honorable Mentions

  • Cardinal Health, Customize and Personalize: myCardinalHealth Redesign
  • Inarea for Salini Impregilo, @work, Group Global Intranet
  • The SPI Group for Bayer, Bayer Essentials
  • Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates , WJE Intranet Portal

Best Interview or Profile

WINNER
Q & A with Alexandria McCuien
AT&T

Honorable Mentions

  • Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
  • Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Front Page
  • Baystate Health, Two Baystate Health Nurses Discuss Marathon Bombing Experience
  • Freddie Mac, I AM Freddie Mac
  • NYU Langone Medical Center

Best Social Intranet

WINNER
MC Central
MasterCard

Honorable Mentions

  • BC Hydro, HydroWeb
  • Genzyme
  • Hulu, Huluverse
  • Klick Health, Chatter
  • Westpac New Zealand Limited, Bringing our people together

Best Value to Employees

WINNER
Global Colleagues Take A Ride Down "Aon Avenue"
Aon/Rightpoint

Honorable Mentions

  • Cox Communications, Inc., People Leader Toolkit Redesign / myHR
  • First Niagara Financial Group, My FNFG
  • Hulu, Huluverse
  • Klick Health, Genome
  • Logical Design Solutions for Marsh & McLennan Companies, Colleague Connect Enterprise Intranet
  • Ontario Ministry of Transportation, MTO Online News: Building Our Audience

Publications

Best Article Series

WINNER
"It's Personal to Us"
PPD

Honorable Mentions

  • AT&T, Women Pioneers in Technology
  • Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., The Front Page
  • Genzyme, Country Profiles
  • MasterCard, The Rumor Mill
  • Pace Communications for Walmart, Walmart World
  • Schneider Electric

Best Electronic Annual Report

WINNER
We're Greatest Together: 2013 Report to the Community
Calgary Stampede

Honorable Mentions

  • Con Edison, Con Edison 2013 Sustainability Report
  • Con Edison, Inc. , Diversity Annual Report
  • Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Centennial Commemorative Book ("100 Years of Service") Annual Report

Best Electronic Feature Article

WINNER
A Day at Harrisburg
Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Honorable Mentions

  • AT&T, Employee gives deceased veterans the dignity they deserve
  • Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., SAM on the Front Page
  • JLL, Eating = Communicating: How a story about food trucks jump started our content marketing approach to communications about an office renovation
  • Lehigh Valley Health Network

Best Electronic Magazine

WINNER
Electronic Systems Pulse
BAE Systems Electronic Systems sector

Honorable Mention

  • Schneider Electric, Open & Open Up - the magazines for the people who are the Schneider Electric story

Best Electronic Newsletter

WINNER
The Group Update
Summit Medical Group

Honorable Mentions

  • Altera Corporation, Employee Publication Transforms to Engage Employees from Many Cultures
  • CheapCaribbean.com, Beach Bulletin
  • IBM Interactive Experience, Inside IBM Interactive
  • SHIFT Communications, The Mullet: Communicating Agency-Wide Culture
  • Story Partners for AdvaMed, Life Changing Innovation (LCI) Campaign Newsletter
  • West Cary Group for Union, Union Uses Teammate E-Newsletter to Spearhead Acquisition Communications

Best Long Feature Article

WINNER
What's Your Health Worth?
Duke University

Honorable Mentions

  • FM Global, Globalink Employee Magazine
  • Georgia Power, Branch family says good-bye to its namesake plant
  • NYU Langone Medical Center, NYULMC² internal newsletter

Best Print Annual Report

WINNER
A World of Discovery - Enterprise Report
Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health System

Honorable Mentions

  • Con Edison, Inc. , Diversity Annual Report
  • Ethos for Carlson, 2013 Carlson Annual Report
  • Western Area Power Administration, Annual Report

Best Print Feature Article

WINNER
"Easing a Community's Headache"
Fluor Corporation

Honorable Mention

  • Georgia Power, Storm duty, kidney donation - all in a day's work for Stan Denney

Best Print Magazine

WINNER
Messenger
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Honorable Mentions

  • Coca-Cola de Mexico, KOnexion internal magazine
  • Ethos for Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, Hotline Magazine
  • FM Global, Globalink employee magazine
  • Pace Communications for Walmart, Walmart World

Best Print Newsletter

WINNER
Working@Duke
Duke University

Honorable Mentions

  • Employee recognition is at the heart of many of Working@Duke’s articles.Baystate Health, Connections, Baystate Health Employee Publication
  • Fluor Corporation, HSE Matters
  • Georgia Power
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Gas Matters Newsletter

Most Improved Electronic Design

WINNER
Spotlight on Accenture
Accenture

Honorable Mentions

  • AT&T with FleishmanHillard, AT&T Annual Enrollment 2015
  • CBRE, CBRE Today - Then and Now
  • CH2M HILL, New Employee Orientation Presentation Re-Design
  • National Instruments, Eye on NI
  • NYU Langone Medical Center, NYULMC² Redesign

Most Improved Print Design

WINNER
Ink
JP Morgan Chase

Honorable Mentions

  • Desert Diamond Casinos & Entertainment, The Coyote Call
  • PPL Corporation Corporate Communications, Dimensions Magazine Redesign

Video

Best Humorous Video

WINNER
Bring Your Pet to Work
Klick Health

Honorable Mentions

  • Aurora Health Care, The Edgar Chronicles
  • AXA, Get to Know Mango & Jetson
  • J.P. Morgan Asset Management, How to spell J.P. Morgan
  • Osborn Barr, Core Values Internal Launch Video
  • StarTech.com, BSME2015 Employee Video Challenge

Best Informational or Educational Video

WINNER
Health First Associates Go "Kung Flu Fighting"
Health First

Honorable Mentions

  • Baystate Health, Caregiver Identification Dance Video
  • Baystate Health, Communications & Creative Services departments, Baystate Attacks The Flu video
  • Southern California Edison - Business Customer Division, See Something, Say Something - Unsafe Driving
  • The MITRE Corporation, Security Minute
  • Town of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, The Mount Pleasant Fire Channel - CPR & AED Video
  • Virtua, On Location! Virtua Lippincott
  • Western University, At the Top of our Game - Performance Dialogue & Goal Setting

Best Interview VIdeo

WINNER
Innovation Campaign
ITG

Honorable Mentions

  • Advanced Technology Services, An Employee Says Thanks
  • CBRE, Inc., Faces in the Crowd
  • Con Edison, Inc. , Diversity
  • Time Warner Cable, All In A Day's Work

Best Marketing Video

WINNER
They Had a Mission
Snap! Event Productions for Bell Hellicopter

Honorable Mentions

  • ITG, Innovation Campaign
  • SNAP! Event Productions for Bell Helicopter, They Had A Mission

Best News Story Video

WINNER
Employee gives deceased veterans the dignity they deserve
AT&T

Honorable Mentions

  • Aurora Health Care, Family to Family Thanksgiving video
  • Honeywell Aerospace, Aero In Action
  • JLL, A drone's-eye view of preparing for the unexpected: How JLL used video footage from a drone to tell its story
  • Omaha Public Power District, Going Batty for Transmission Project
  • Time Warner Cable, Where in the World is Real Time?

Best News Story Video

WINNER
New Era of Wind Energy
Omaha Public Power District

Honorable Mentions

  • Aurora Health Care, Family to Family Thanksgiving video
  • Honeywell Aerospace, Aero In Action
  • JLL, A drone's-eye view of preparing for the unexpected: How JLL used video footage from a drone to tell its story
  • Omaha Public Power District, Going Batty for Transmission Project
  • Time Warner Cable, Where in the World is Real Time?

Best Recruitment Video

WINNER
Epic Holiday Remix
Klick Health

Honorable Mentions

  • Advanced Technology Services, Titans of Manufacturing
  • Home Instead Senior Care, A Day in the Life at Home Instead's Global Headquarters
  • ITG, Innovation Campaign
  • Vertafore, Experience the Design Team at Vertafore

Grand Prize

Grand Prize: Employee Communications Campaign of the Year

GRAND PRIZE
BRAVO Employee Recognition Program Launch
Northwestern Mutual

Honorable Mentions

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Nonprofit Mutual Transition Employee Awareness and Communications Campaign
  • BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Marketplace 101
  • Ericsson, Count me in!
  • Freddie Mac, Culture in Action
  • ITG
  • MGM Resorts International Corporate Internal Communications , HR Transformation
  • NextEra Energy, ZERO Today! Campaign