About the SIGUCCS 2011 Communication Awards
The deadline for submitting entries for this year's Communication Awards was August 18, 2011.
Each year ACM SIGUCCS sponsors a competition to honor the best publications, websites and promotional material produced by university and college centers. A list of past winners can be seen on the ACM SIGUCCS Website.
The competition recognizes excellence in developing useful and attractive publications and provides SIGUCCS conference participants with an opportunity to review publications that may help them develop or enhance their own work.
Awards for this year's competition will be presented at the ACM SIGUCCS 2011 Fall Conference, November 12-17, in San Diego, California.
The winning entries will be displayed during the conference for perusal by the conference participants.
Please send any questions you may have about this year's competition via this 2011 SIGUCCS Communication Awards information request form.
Categories for the Communication Awards
In each category, the top entry will receive a "Best of Category" award, while other winners will receive an "Award of Excellence." In recognition of the differences in resources available to institutions of varying size, there may be two groups of competitors in a category. Schools with fewer than 4000 students will compete in Group 1 and those with 4000 or more in Group 2.
Category 1: Web-based Services
1a: Computing Services Public Website
A computing organization's website provides users access to a wealth of information and services. In this category, judges will consider a computing organization's entire website, including the information design, standards compliance, and overall presentation.
Criteria
1b: Computing Services Mobile Website 
This category considers how an institution's IT services have been integrated into their mobile website.
Criteria
Category 2: Computing Newsletter
2a: Printed Computing Newsletter
A printed newsletter should be eye-catching, useful and compelling enough to make people want to read it.
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2b: Electronic Computing Newsletter
An electronic newsletter, whether presented as a web page, weblog, email or complete online magazine, should provide pertinent and accessible content in an eye-catching format.
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Category 3: How-to Guides and Instructional Materials
3a: Printed How-to Guides
This category includes printed documents that are primarily procedural and provide systematic instructions for accomplishing specific computing tasks.
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3b: Electronic How-to Guides (individual)
This category is for single Web-delivered documents that are primarily procedural and provide systematic instructions for accomplishing specific computing tasks.
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3b: Electronic How-to Guides (collection)
This category is for entering a collection of Web-delivered documents that are primarily procedural and provide systematic instructions for accomplishing specific computing tasks.
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3d: Instructional Classroom Materials
Included in this category are documents that are primarily used to supplement classroom instruction in using a particular software application, suite or network service.
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Category 4: Quick Reference Guides
4a: Printed Quick Reference Guides
Universities are employing a variety of printed formats to provide quick reference guides to the services and resources for their computing customers. These guides provide a brief format for the audience to learn "the basics" of a service, or to raise awareness of the service's presence. Quick reference guides are brief, usually only a few pages or shorter, and include formats such as pamphlets, flyers, postcards, bookmarks, and more.
Criteria
Category 5: Promotional Materials
5a: General Service Promotional Materials
Many institutions are publishing information about special projects or services. One function of these publications is to increase the visibility of computing projects and services in their home institution. Example services might include: Training offerings or catalog, departmental support lab, consulting services, support center, and so on.
Criteria
5b: General Service Campaign Materials
Many institutions are creating entire campaigns to promote special events, projects and services, such as security awareness, various IT services for an institution, new student orientation, and so on. Entries in this category will consist of multiple items, and some items may involve the use of different media.
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5c: Student Created Promotional Materials
Included in this category are promotional materials designed by students.
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5d: Short Promotional Video/Audio
Included in this category are promotional videos, audio clips, streaming media, podcasts, and so on, that are 5:00 minutes or less in length.
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5e: Long Promotional Video/Audio
Included in this category are promotional videos, audio clips, streaming media, podcasts, and so on, that are greater than 5:00 minutes in length.
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Category 6: Software Distribution
6a: Software Distribution Physical Media
This category is for CDs, DVDs, or flash media that contain software and/or instructions distributed by schools to their students, faculty, staff and alumni.
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6b: Software Distribution Electronic Media
This category is for web applications or websites that contain software and instructions distributed by institutions to their students, faculty, staff and alumni.
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Guidelines and Deadline
Qualifications
Your entry must be developed by staff affiliated with your institution.
Institutions may enter up to three entries in each category. An institution may not enter a category judged by one of its staff or faculty members.
Prize winners
The "Best of Category" award winners will be asked to present their materials at the conference Poster session.
The "Best of Category" winners in each category will be asked to judge the Communication Awards next year.
All awardees will be invited to the Awards Breakfast during the conference, where the official presentation of the awards will take place.
Entry Deadline
All entries must be received by August 18, 2011. This is the extended deadline date, and will not change.
