About the APEX Awards:
An annual competition for publishers, editors, writers and designers who create print, Web, electronic and social media
Business, nonprofit, agency and freelance communicators can enter APEX to win awards for their best writing, publications, campaigns, programs, design and media.
Communications Concepts, Inc. sponsors the APEX Awards, and advises professionals who write, edit and manage business communications, on best strategies and practices.
Get ideas from top APEX Award winners:
See judges' comments about—and links to—many of the APEX 2012 Grand Award Winners (and the previous year's as well). The links will let you view many of the Grand Award Winners' works.
See APEX website winners:
Take a look at some of the interesting website winners from recent competitions.
Have you won APEX Awards in previous APEX competitions? Then order additional APEX Award Certificates for deserving staff, freelancers and vendors.
Need a receipt for your entries? Simply use the Generate Receipt link. You can print it immediately on your office printer.
New site!
Welcome to the new APEX Awards site! We're still finishing a few sections, but most key links work, and we should have the rest up soon.
Favorite Sites
We hope you'll find some of these sites—among our favorites for writers, editors and communicators—useful. If you can recommend a favorite site of your own, please let us know what you like about it.
TIPS FOR WRITERS --
Useful writing tips, a select list of reference books for writers, and a pro's notes on the writing craft are all here. http://carolynmulford.com/writing-tips-resources.
Founded by a former Hill staffer, http://www.yourcongress.com gives daily political headlines and allows visitors to sign up to receive alerts whenever their representatives or senators have something in the Congressional Record. That includes what they've said on the floor and what they've inserted into the record. If you like, you can read the insertion online.
You can also pay to receive updates on any special issues you're following.
The site's overall approach is light. The line under the site's name says, "Learn. Track. Laugh." One of the three elements for communicating directly with your rep is called Quick Bitch. The other two are Quick Thanks and Quick Free.
The site also offers such information as how to get an appointment to see your rep when you're visiting Washington.
http://carolynmulford.com/writing-tips-resources/
