Excel Awards

February 2010

2009 EXCEL Awards:
The Best and the Brightest

Congratulations to the 2009 EXCEL Award Recipients

SNAP is honored to announce the winners fo the 29th Annual EXCEL Awards, which recognize the best and brightest in association media and publishing.

181 winners, representing 108 associations, were selected from nearly 1,000 entries. Winners were chosen for taking bold chances in editorial, design, advertising and marketing, online publishing and electronic newsletter categories. The complete listing of award recipients is available here. View the press release .

29th Annual EXCEL Awards Gala

The award recipients and association industry were honored and celebrated at the 29^th EXCEL Awards Gala, from 5:45 – 8:30 p.m. at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. on June 4, 2009. Download the EXCEL Gala PowerPoint. (the file will take awhile to download because it is 22MB)

About the EXCEL Awards
The EXCEL Awards honor and represent the best publishing products of the association industry. The coveted EXCEL Award is the pinnacle of peer recognition and the seal of excellence in association publishing.

The program judges nearly 1,000 association publications, including magazines, newsletters, scholarly journals, electronic publications and websites in the areas of editorial quality, design, general excellence, most improved and many more. Seize the opportunity to recognize and reward the exemplary work of association publishing colleagues!

Award Categories
Gold (first place), Silver (second place) and Bronze (third place) awards are presented in most categories as well as the EXTRA! Awards for pioneering, cutting edge, publishing excellence. EXTRA! award winners are chosen from among the EXCEL winners for pushing the edge of the envelope further and taking bold chances to innovate in an ever-changing publishing environment.

Judging Criteria
A panel of publication and communication experts familiar with the general goals and objectives of association publishing will judge the entries. Judges are organized in teams for each category. They score entries individually to ensure the most objective evaluation of the intended audience, mission of the organization, and the significance of the piece in the field.

2010 EXCEL Awards
The Call for Entries brochure will mail in early Winter and the deadline will be mid-late February 2010.

Receive the recognition you and your staff deserve by entering your publications in any number of categories for which they qualify.

Past EXCEL Award Winners