Client named national leader in green design
The hits just keep on coming for my client EYP Architecture & Engineering! A few weeks ago, the company was named one of the top architecture firms in the world, and now Engineering News-Record magazine has named it a national leader in green design in three categories:
- No. 2 in the education sector
- No. 3 in the government sector
- No. 11 overall
I’m a freelance component of EYP’s internal communications team, and have been working with the company since 2001. Congrats to EYP yet again!
Client ranked number 39 in list of 300 best architecture firms
Architectural Record recently unveiled its annual list of the world’s top 300 architecture firms, and I’m proud to report that EYP Architecture & Engineering, one of my long-term clients, earned the number 39 spot. That’s up from 43rd place last year.
The magazine ranks the companies by their architectural revenue, and according to its numbers, EYP earned $51 million last year. I’m a freelance component of EYP’s internal communications team, and have been working with the company since 2001. Congrats to EYP!
Client’s memoir named 2013 Indie Book Awards finalist
Well… this is huge news: A memoir by one of my longtime clients has been named a 2013 Indie Book Awards finalist!
I have worked with Jay Lefevers, the founder and president of the Phoenix-based appraisal company Viewpoint Group, since all the way back in 1998, and a couple years ago I became involved with his autobiography, Cancer on the Brain. I helped edit the book, I manage Jay’s website and I’ve been handling P.R. for the memoir for the past year.
In the book, Lefevers takes readers through the bewildering world of surgeries, treatments and endless rounds of doctor visits and hospital stays with humor, irreverence and a no-nonsense, no-self-pity attitude. A large part of the memoir is dedicated to telling the story of the young Phoenix-area Little League players whom Lefevers coached throughout 2005 and 2007. Lefevers writes movingly of the bonds he and his family established with the players, all while he struggled with surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
I love the book, and apparently so does the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, which named it a 2013 general nonfiction finalist. The Indie Book Awards is the nation’s largest independent book awards organization, and it recognizes and honors the most exceptional independently published books in 60 different categories each year. Congratulations, Jay!
The power of video
I’m sharing this Easter worship video I developed as part of my P.R. and marketing work for my client, the Church of the Redeemer. I project-managed and provided editorial oversight, and was lucky to work with a fantastic local production team. I particularly enjoyed the final editing process.
Whether video has a more formal feel, like this one, or a quicker, more casual, guerrilla style — the medium is one of the most compelling ways for organizations to share their message, especially on social media.
Check it out:
Longtime client merges with national energy consulting firm
EYP Energy — a division of EYP, Inc., my longest-term client (based in New York) — has announced a strategic merger with The Weidt Group, one of the nation’s premier building energy consulting firms, currently headquartered in Minnesota, with additional offices in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin.
Woo-hoo! Looking forward to helping my client communicate via their Intranet with all these new EYP team members across the country!
EYP client sweeps Zweig Letter marketing awards
EYP Architecture & Engineering (my longest-term client) just swept a series of marketing awards handed out by The Zweig Letter, a weekly publication dedicated to the architecture/engineering industry. Very cool!
EYP placed first in three different categories: External Newsletter, Integrated Market Campaign and Target Marketing. One of the publication’s judges called EYP’s marketing program “very creative” and praised its “eye-opening execution.”
I’m a freelance component of the company’s marketing team, and have been working with EYP since 2004. In 2010, I was part of the design and content development team that won first place in that year’s National Communications Awards program of the Society for Marketing Professional Services, helping create a dynamic news and resource-sharing Intranet to help the firm’s 350-plus staffers stay connected across seven nationwide offices.
I’m super proud of EYP and its marketing staff for their recent Zweig awards — they deserve every accolade!
Path Financial Facebook blog dedicated to good economic news
We’re so inundated with economic news each day — good news, bad news, who’s up, who’s down — my tendency is to sometimes just ignore the whole shebang, but one of my clients is trying to help folks zero in on the important positive news out there.
Path Financial (whom I’m very proud to call a client) just launched a new Facebook page called the Better News Blog, where the company is plucking out and highlighting important positive stories from around the web. Here’s how Better News defines its mission:
The purpose of the Better News Blog is to share smart, well-sourced, and solidly-researched news articles and stories that stress the positive side of things. While we mostly focus on economic and market issues, we also provide links to general interest stories that we find inspiring or noteworthy.
News outfits, talking heads and high-drama pundits are dedicated to selling “bad” news. The Better News Blog wants to share with you good news you can use instead.
If you’re as in to sharing good news and focusing our energies in positive ways as much as I am (or at least as much as possible!), help me spread the word for my client’s new page by “liking” it on Facebook: Click here and “Like” — and read the positive news coming your way!
Kudos to EYP on ‘Globie’
An EYP design (Image via eypaedesign.com)
The Tech Valley Global Business Network, a prominent organization that addresses the interest of the international business community, earlier this year named EYP Architecture & Engineering (which I’m very proud to call a client) as a prestigious “Globie” Award winner, honoring the firm with the International Trade Award for Exporter of Services.
Firms honored with Globies are selected based on key accomplishments in international trade, business conducted overseas and/or support for international trade in Tech Valley in upstate New York.
Longtime client named to top architects list
An EYP project at American University
My longest-term client — EYP Architecture & Engineering — has been named to Architect Magazine‘s annual “Architect 50” list, coming in at No. 21. The practices analyzed for inclusion include business savvy, of course, innovative technology, design and giving back to the community. Congrats to EYP!
Need a Video of your Business or Organization?
Working with a fabulous Sarasota video videography team (if you would like their name, just let me know!), I managed a video development project for one of my Sarasota clients — the Church of the Redeemer. Click on the blue hyperlink above or here to watch the video — and if you’d like to talk about making one for your business or organization … just let me know!