Creating An Amazing Mercury Award Submission

SCPRSA’s annual Mercury Awards event is just around the corner! This is my favorite event of the year because it’s a time when PR pros from across the state gather together to honor and recognize the best of our profession. (It’s also a super fun event, whether you win an award or not!) This year’s event will take place Thursday, April 30, in Columbia. The theme is “PR in the Palmetto State: A Tradition of Excellence.” More event details will be shared soon.

Our Mercury Awards committee has worked hard to put together a streamlined awards entry process. Information on award categories and how to submit an award can be found here. There is a fee associated with each entry, but you’ll see it’s so worth it when you take home your first plaque and proudly display it on your desk or wall. Note that the deadline to enter is Monday, February 16 at 5 p.m.

If you’re looking for tips on how to submit the best entry, check out this presentation by SCPRSA member Alice Grey Harrison. Alice Grey has won numerous Mercury and Silver Wing awards and recently shared her tips during an upstate regional luncheon. She also won last year’s PR Practitioner of the Year award! Below is the video along with her slides on SlideShare so you can look at the slides while she is talking.





There are numerous individual award opportunities like this one, so be sure to take the time to nominate a valued peer or colleague. There is no fee associated with the individual awards, and the deadline to submit an individual award entry is a week later on Monday, February 23 at 5 p.m.

I encourage all of the PR professionals in the state to submit an entry and to attend the event regardless of if you’re a winner. This event is the perfect time to engage with your colleagues, have fun and celebrate a profession we all know and love. See you April 30 in Columbia!

Remember...please submit your awards by going to this link: http://scprsa.org/awards.html

Blog author Karen Potter, APR, is president of SCPRSA and works in the public relations department at Greenville Health System.

THANK YOU!

A special thanks to our ROCK STAR sponsors of the 2010 Mercury Awards | A Night with PR Stars...Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Davis Public Relations and Marketing, Professional Printers and Riley Communications!

Thank you for your support of SCPRSA and this special event!

TIME TO CELEBRATE!

SCPRSA's signature event is just around the corner! Come celebrate with us on Thursday, April 22nd, as we honor the outstanding work and individual accomplishments of our public relations colleagues from across the state at the Mercury Awards!

Tickets are on sale now.

Don't miss this chance to hob nob with the state's brightest PR Stars and special guests: HGTV's Gary McCormick, who is also President of PRSA, and WIS's own Joe Pinner, who will be serving as the night's Master of Ceremonies.

The banquet will take place on Thursday, April 22ndfrom 6:30 - 9 p.m. at Riverbanks Zoo & Garden's Ndoki Lodge, which will be transformed with an "old Hollywood" theme. Dust off your cocktail dresses and suits and let's celebrate!