12/07/10
This year, Gellis’ DG ECFIN Educational project on the euro made it to the final round of judging in the Communication Research category for the flagship IPRA event – the Golden World Awards. Gellis has been short-listed once previously for a Golden World, and earlier in the year, the DG ECFIN project succeeded in winning the IABC Gold Quill Award.
The IPRA judges recognised Gellis’ expansive research, which looked to uncover how educational products on the euro could be created and disseminated, based on the perspectives and practises of teachers across Europe.
The eventual winner...
03/05/10
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06/05/10
Well we might as well start with the punchline: Gellis has just won an IABC Gold Quill award. Naturally we want to tell everyone – it’s a great opportunity to talk about what we’ve been doing and raise our profile in general. But how does one select the right channels for such obvious self promotion and how can we talk about it in a way that makes people actually want to read it?
Well besides writing a blog on the dilemma of self-promotion, I think it probably helps if you have an interesting project to talk about. Fortunately our particular project touches upon debates of current interest....
07/05/10
On the morning of this general election, with the increasingly likely prospect of an incoming not-even-pretending-not-to-be-eurosceptic Conservative government, it is a good time to reflect on what Europe means to us Brits who have developed a certain fondness for the continent. Here are my top three reasons to keep tight with the folks over the channel.
Firstly, and can someone please get hold of a satellite broadcast and say this very loudly: “Earth to Britain – the empire is over! Please get over your fantastical Special Relationship and obsolete China outreach and deal with the reality –...
03/05/10
Gellis Communications has won a 2010 Gold Quill Award from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) for work carried out on behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). This is the first time that a Gold Quill, often cited as the communication industry’s oldest and most prestigious award, has been won for work on behalf of the European Commission or indeed any of the European institutions.
“It is a rare honour to receive a Gold Quill, known as the ‘Oscars’ by many business communicators. That this was a...