{"id":2099,"date":"2010-06-09T13:03:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T13:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2011-09-13T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T10:19:05","slug":"edc-update-magazine-wins-beacon-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/edc-update-magazine-wins-beacon-award\/","title":{"rendered":"EDC Update Magazine Wins Beacon Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congratulations to Daphne Northrop and here communications team!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EDC Update, the quarterly print magazine of Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), one of my oldest and largest NGO clients, has received the prestigious Beacon Award for Excellence in Education Marketing. This top prize is bestowed annually by the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP), a national association whose members include publishers, schools, universities, researchers, and both for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edcupdate1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2100\" title=\"edcupdate1\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edcupdate1.jpg\" alt=\"EDC Update Magazine Fall 2009\" width=\"461\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edcupdate1.jpg 373w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edcupdate1-92x120.jpg 92w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edcupdate1-143x187.jpg 143w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Fall 2009 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edc.org\/sites\/edc.org\/files\/pdfs\/EDC-Update-Fall-2009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">EDC Update entitled \u201cWhat a Catch\u201d <\/a>was selected in the Magazine\/Newsletter category. The cover story, \u201cBuilding Opportunity Around the World\u201d describes EDC\u2019s work to develop job skills and employment opportunities for youth in Timor-Leste, Bangladesh, and the West Bank.<br \/>\nThe award was announced and presented to EDC Director of Communications Daphne Northrop at a luncheon ceremony June 8 at AEP\u2019s Annual Summit in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the AEP website, awards honor outstanding resources for teaching and learning \u201cand aim to identify products that exemplify the highest standards of professional, quality educational content, and set benchmarks to which the rest of the industry can aspire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edcupdate21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2102 aligncenter\" title=\"edcupdate2\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edcupdate21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edcupdate21.jpg 376w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edcupdate21-94x120.jpg 94w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edcupdate21-147x187.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Beacon Awards recognize marketing products in 13 categories, including annual reports, brochures, catalogs, and e-mail marketing. Beacon winners, which have included The Wall Street Journal, Scholastic Inc., and Pearson Education, are judged on design and editorial quality, efficacy in reaching intended audience, and overall cohesiveness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to its international cover story, EDC\u2019s winning entry also featured examples of domestic work, including programs focused on elementary science teaching and suicide prevention.<br \/>\nFor more than four decades the AEP Awards have honored outstanding resources for teaching and learning. The EDC annual reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edc.org\/newsroom\/annual_report\/2007\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTangible Results\u201d (2007)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edc.org\/sites\/edc.org\/files\/pdfs\/EDC_annual_report_2004.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cPortraits of Learning in Action\u201d (2004)<\/a> were previous Beacon Award winners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Personally, I&#8217;m delighted to have shot the images for the cover story for EDC, it&#8217;s nice to know that one&#8217;s photos are making an impact.\u00a0 EDC has been one of my most loyal NGO clients, we&#8217;ve been working together for almost a decade!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below are a few shots from the 2007 and 2004 winning publications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edc20041.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2108 aligncenter\" title=\"edc20041\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edc20041-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edc20071b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"edc20071b\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edc20071b-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edc20072b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"edc20072b\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edc20072b-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edc20073b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"edc20073b\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edc20073b-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Daphne Northrop and here communications team! EDC Update, the quarterly print magazine of Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), one of my oldest and largest NGO clients, has received the prestigious Beacon Award for Excellence in Education Marketing. This top prize is bestowed annually by the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP), a national association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[77,78,16,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}