2006 NTCA TeleChoice award winners.Winners of the eighth annual NTCA NTCA National Telecommunications Cooperative AssociationNTCA National Telephone Cooperative Association NTCA National Tile Contractors Association NTCA National Token Collectors Association NTCA Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association TeleChoice Awards--NTCA's recognition program for exceptional public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most and marketing materials--were honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. during NTCA's Spring PR & Marketing Conference, April 30-May 2, in Coral Gables Coral Gables, city (1990 pop. 40,091), Miami-Dade co., SE Fla., SW of Miami; inc. 1925. Founded at the height of the Florida land boom, Coral Gables is a noted planned city, with tree-lined boulevards and Mediterranean-style buildings. , Fla. To reflect the evolving role of marketing in the telecom industry, the NTCA Marketing Committee, which oversees the awards, instituted a number of changes to the program during the past two years. This year marked the first-ever TeleChoice EXPO, featuring a peer-judging format that enabled conference attendees to examine entries and vote for the winners. The peer-judging process utilizes the combined industry knowledge and understanding of the marketplace possessed by NTCA PR and marketing professionals. The EXPO provided a forum that encouraged the exchange of ideas, and elevated visibility for the PR and marketing endeavors of NTCA members. The awards consist of four main categories: annual reports, complete marketing campaign, customer newsletters and single-target print publications. Additionally, there are two production categories. "In-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. " refers to entries for which the creative aspect originated within the member company, while "outsourced" refers to those entries for which the creative aspect was implemented with assistance from a consultant or outside firm. Entries were judged on design, writing, creativity, cost effectiveness and other elements specific to each category; for instance, effectiveness of presentation of financial information in the annual reports category. The Call for Entries for the 2007 NTCA TeleChoice Awards competition will be mailed to NTCA members in December December: see month. 2006. 1st Place Single-Target Print Publications 1-5,000 Access Lines In-house production: Rainbow Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. (Everest, Kan.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1-5,000 Access Lines Outsourced production: West Central Telephone Association (Sebeka, Minn.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 5,001-10,000 Access Lines In-house production: Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative (Union, Iowa Union is a city in Hardin County, Iowa, United States. The population was 427 at the 2000 census. Geography Union is located at (42.244715, -93.064240)GR1. ) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 5,001-10,000 Access Lines Outsourced production: Ponderosa Telephone Co. (O'Neals, Calif.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 10,001 + Access Lines In-house production: Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative (McMinnville, Tenn.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 10,001 + Access Lines Outsourced production: Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (Kingfisher kingfisher, common name for members of the family Alcedinidae, essentially tropical and subtropical land birds, with affinities to trogons and swifts and related to the hornbill. , Okla.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1st Place Customer Newsletters 1-5,000 Access Lines In-house production: Penasco Valley Telecommunications (Artesia, N.M.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 5,001-10,000 Access Lines In-house production: Chariton Valley Telephone Corporation (Macon, Mo.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1st Place Customer Newsletters 5,001-10,000 Access Lines Outsourced production: Consolidated Telecommunications Co. (CTC CTC - Cornell Theory Center ) (Baxter, Minn.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 10,001 + Access Lines In-house production: Golden West Telecommunications (Wall, S.D.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 10,001 + Access Lines Outsourced production: Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative (Rainsville, Ala ALA aminolevulinic acid. Ala alanine. ala (a´lah) pl. a´lae [L.] a winglike process. .) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1st Place Annual Reports 1-5,000 Access Lines In-house production: KanOkla Telephone Association (Caldwell, Kan.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 5,001-10,000 Access Lines In-house production: Molalla Communications Co. (Molalla, Ore.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 5,001-10,000 Access Lines Outsourced production: Consolidated Telecommunications Co. (CTC) (Baxter, Minn.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 10,001 + Access Lines In-house production: Golden West Telecommunications (Wall, S.D.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 10,001 + Access Lines Outsourced production: Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative (McMinnville, Tenn.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1st Place Complete Marketing Campaign 1-5,000 Access Lines In-house production: Penasco Valley Telecommunications (Artesia, N.M.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1-5,000 Access Lines Outsourced production: Adams Telephone Co-Operative (Golden, Ill.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 5,001-10,000 Access Lines In-house production: Heart of Iowa Communications Cooperative (Union, Iowa) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 5,001-10,000 Access Lines Outsourced production: Hancock Telecom (Maxwell, Ind IND Investigational new drug Therapeutics A status assigned by the FDA to a drug before allowing its use in humans, exempting it from premarketing approval requirements so that experimental clinical trials may be conducted. See Phase 1.2, 3 studies, Sponsorship. .) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 10,001 + Access Lines In-house production: Canby Telcom (Canby, Ore.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 10,001 + Access Lines Outsourced production: Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (Kingfisher, Okla.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By Caitlin Colligan, NTCA Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. Manager |
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