Award-winning clients – I’m basking in their reflective glory
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Tips for entering Tech Awards
Last week, BJSS, a Comms Crowd client, won the TechWorld Award for Best Public Sector project. It’s a genuinely cool project, re-engineering a very big data warehouse, bringing it in-house, fully automating it and helping the NHS to save on human resources and money – both scarce commodities in the public sector these days.
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The awards themselves were also impressive, in a transparently objective kind of way. Projects were free to enter, the award ceremony free to attend, and they even gave an award to a company that couldn’t make it. In all my days, I’ve never seen that before. Fair play.
So I am very pleased for my client. It’s a huge validation of their great work, and I’m pretty pleased for us too. I didn’t write the award-winning software, but I did have a hand in writing the award-winning entry.
Here are some tips for drafting those perfect 1,000 words:
- Get buy in – you can’t do these on your own, work as close as you can with the client ping pong the entry back and forth until it’s perfect.
- Allow enough time – we think it takes about a day and a half on average to draft and edit a standard 1,000-word award entry, assuming you already know the story.
- Start early – at least three weeks before – get information from a source, i.e. the people who worked on the project.
- Answer the question – every award has a bias, so be sure to answer the questions exactly as they are asked.
- Word count – keep it tight, and don’t waffle.
- Before and after stats demonstrate ROI, without these, don’t bother to enter.
- Have a heart – think of the poor judges and how many submission they have to read, do make an effort to tell a darn good yarn, keep the narrative sparkly and fluid.
Post Script: other award-winning entries include:
- 15/04/2013 Caplin wins Best Web Implementation at the Sell Side Technology Awards
- 02/12/2013 BJSS wins Best Big Data Project at the Tech Success Awards.
- 15/04/2014 Caplin wins Best Web Development Platform at the Sell Side Technology Awards.
- 14/06/2014 BJSS wins Best Information Technology at the Best Business Awards
- 14/07/2014 BJSS ranked fourth for International Growth in Sunday Times Tech Track 200
- 15/07/2014 Caplin wins Best Trading Technology Vendor at the FX Week Awards
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