Alamo
Community Colleges News & Events
Northwest
Vista College Wins Two Gold Medallion Awards
Media Contact: Renata
Serafin, Director of Community and Public Relations
348-2082
San Antonio, TX (November
1, 2007) – On October 23 rd, Northwest Vista
College received two Gold Medallion Awards from
the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations
(NCMPR). The awards were given for Northwest Vista
College’s 2006 Annual Report and for the
2007-08 Catalog on a CD-ROM. The award-winning
entries were a collaboration of Public Relations
and many faculty, staff and students from across
the College.
“We are thrilled to receive this recognition
on behalf of the college,” says Renata Serafin,
Director of Community and Public Relations. “Both
the annual report and the CD-ROM Catalog are the
most comprehensive marketing pieces we produce
annually. It’s a testimony to the synergy
of our Public Relations staff and many others across
the college. Such collaboration leads to performance
excellence.”
Sr. Multimedia Specialist, Shawn Harward, and
College Desktop Publishing and Design Specialist,
Yuri Martinez Ramos, accepted the awards on behalf
of the College during the NCMPR District 4 Conference
in Galveston, Texas on Oct. 22-24, 2007. Shawn
and Yuri attended various workshops on the latest
trends in marketing and public relations, including
Web design and image campaigns. Some of the workshops
covered topics such as: creating publications with
pizzazz, establishing a brand, creating a publications
tracking system, winning a bond election, and usability
testing for Web sites and class schedules.
“At this conference, we learned much about
creating a brand and image, which is consistent
to what our Alamo Community Colleges are already
doing,” says Yuri Martinez Ramos. “This
was truly a great opportunity to network with other
community colleges and share best practices in
public relations, marketing, and Web design,” concludes
Shawn Harward.
The
National Council for Marketing & Public
Relations is the only organization of its kind
that exclusively represents marketing and Public
Relations professionals at community, technical
and junior colleges. The organization has more
than 1,500 members from nearly 600 colleges. For
more information about NCMPR or the Medallion Awards
Competition, please visit:
http://www.ncmpr.org/html/home.asp
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