Organizers' Choice Awards
- Overview
- Entering the Awards Competition
- Benefits Available to Award Nominees
- Awards Voting: Who? How? When?
- Awards Ceremony
- Award Recipient Benefits
Overview
Beginning at NAPO2013 and to recognize the significant growth of products, services and resources available in the global organizing and productivity industry, the award categories will be expanded to the following 10 awards:
2013 Organizers’ Choice Awards |
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| Category | Award |
| Information Management | Best Solution for Organizing Information at Home |
| Information Management | Best Solution for Organizing Information at Work |
| Moving/Storage | Best Solution for a Well-Managed Move |
| Organizing Solution Physical Stuff | Best Solution for Organizing at Work |
| Organizing Solution Physical Stuff | Best Solution for Organizing at Home |
| Organizing Solution Physical Stuff | Best Solution for Organizing Storage Space |
| Personal Organizing | Best Solution for Everyday Organizing |
| Repurposing of Stuff | Best Resource to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle or Remove |
| Time Management | Best Productivity Solution for Mobile Workers |
| Time Management | Best Solution for Personal Productivity |
All organizing and productivity specialists who attend the conference have the opportunity to visit with exhibitors, learn about their latest product/service offerings and vote for best products/services in the above award categories. The award recipients in each category are announced at the Annual Conference and presented by the Awards & Recognition Committee Chair at the end of that year’s Expo.
Entering the Awards Competition
NAPO Corporate Associate Member Conference Exhibitors enter the Organizers’ Choice Awards competition by completing the nominations form, nominating one product, service or resource in one of the 10 award categories. Each awards submission will be promoted through NAPO social media and NAPO member e-mail blast.
Nominating exhibitors must submit to NAPO:
- One high-resolution photo of the product with a one-page PDF factsheet
- A high-resolution product logo, preferably in eps format
- Social Media Manager point-of-contact information
- Nominating exhibitors may submit to NAPO a promotional video (up to one minute in length) for viewing on NAPO’s YouTube page through April 19, 2013.
Benefits Available to Award Nominees
- NAPO announcement of each award nominee through social media channels.
- Inclusion of award nominees with hyperlinks to a factsheet and photograph from the NAPO2013 website and from the NAPO2013 mobile app (a free download available to NAPO2013 attendees).
- Permission from NAPO to place one promotional video (up to one minute in length) on NAPO’s YouTube Channel from March 15 - April 18, 2013.
Awards Voting: Who? How? When?
- Conference attendees who are NAPO member organizers and productivity specialists are eligible to vote to select the recipients of the 2013 Organizers’ Choice Awards in each of the 10 categories. Votes can be cast either through NAPO2013’s mobile app or by paper ballot.
- Awards voting will be promoted prior to and throughout the conference, via mobile app messaging, signage, announcements from the General Session and Expo Hall stages, and more.
- All votes must be cast by 7 p.m. C.S.T. on April 18. (NAPO verifies that votes counted are cast by eligible members.)
- The 2013 Organizers’ Choice Awards Ceremony will be held in the Expo Hall on April 19 at 11:00 a.m.
- NAPO’s Awards & Recognition Committee Chair will announce each of the recipient products, services and resources for each of the 10 categories.
- Professional photos will be taken of award recipient representatives.
- NAPO’s approval and encouragement to promote the winning product, service or resource using the NAPO 2013 Organizers’ Choice Award in accordance with NAPO promotional guidelines.
- NAPO-provided artwork for the specific 2013 category award. By incorporating the use of this award artwork in the marketing and promotion of the winning product, service or resource, the recipient benefits not only from NAPO’s name recognition among consumers, but also from the industry prestige associated with NAPO’s Organizers’ Choice Awards. (NAPO encourages the use of the 2013 category award artwork on packaging, website and promotional materials and in advertising in accordance with NAPO guidelines.)
- Inclusion in NAPO’s official awards announcement press release sent from NAPO2013 in New Orleans, and a category-specific Organizers’ Choice Awards press release template for customization and use in the award recipient’s public relations and communications activities.
- Recognition and a link to recipient product information:
- on NAPO’s Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook pages
- on NAPO.net with a dedicated Web page that features a photo and one-page PDF factsheet from each award-winning product/service/resource in each of the 10 categories
- in the May issue of NAPO NOW, our members-only e-mail blast
- in the next issue of NAPO News, our members-only electronic newsletter
- on NAPO Productivity & Organizing Interactive Networking Tool (POINT), our member Web community
- NAPO will upload one promotional video (up to two minutes in length) of each award winner on NAPO’s YouTube Channel from May 1, 2013 through March 30, 2014.Voting ballots (electronic and hard copies) are available on-site to all conference attendees.
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