This special edition honors the most creative and forward-thinking campaigns created by this year’s applicants. We’re excited to recognize the recipients of Ragan’s 2017 Employee Communications Awards. The Ragan Communications staff congratulates all our winners.

Communications

Benefits Communications

WINNER
MHealthy Rewards 2017
University of Michigan

Honorable Mentions

  • 2018 Open Enrollment Campaign, Kforce
  • #BHBenefits2018 (Open Enrollment), Bright Horizons
  • Know Your Numbers—ERG conference, FleishmanHillard with AT&T Your Health Matters and Your Money Matters
  • Go Hilton, Hilton
  • Open Enrollment 2017, UL LLC

Blog

WINNER
The Lounge
Travelex with Interact

Honorable Mentions

  • VA Careers Blog, JWT INSIDE with Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
  • Pension Solution Blog, California State Teachers' Retirement System

Executive Communications

WINNER
two4MK
Baystate Health

Honorable Mentions

  • GoDaddy Story Slams, GoDaddy
  • March Cisco Beat with Allianz, Cisco Systems
  • Inside Sales, Microsoft
  • Defining Principles, PPD
  • Rapid Fire Interviews, CGI

Mobile App

WINNER
T-Nation Mobile App
T-Mobile

Honorable Mentions

  • Virgin Media Digital Transformation Project, Ocasta with Virgin Media
  • Avaya CX Mobile App: Employee and Partner Communities, Avaya
  • Arrow Brand Am, Arrow Electronics with a Vital Few
  • @BlueOvalNow,Ford Motor Company

Podcast

WINNER
InfoHub Audio Network: StaffCast and At the Table with Laura
British Columbia Pension Corporation

Re-branding Campaign

WINNER
Hitachi Vantara Company Launch Campaign
Hitachi Vantara

Honorable Mentions

  • Visual-Communication Facility Enhancements, Honda R&D Americas, Inc.
  • Expanding and Sustaining Arrow’s Brand Internally, Arrow Electronics
  • Made for More Brand & Activation, JWT INSIDE with General Motors
  • Welcome to Oath, Oath
  • Igniting a Workforce: Internal Communication and Launching a Brand, Alight

Use of Social Media

WINNER
Social Media at T-Mobile
T-Mobile

Honorable Mentions

  • #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork and #MayThe4th Be With You, Cisco
  • Taco Bell Internal Snapchat, Taco Bell

Employee Experience

Corporate Social Responsibility

WINNER
United Shore CSR Program
United Shore

Honorable Mention

  • Spread the Cheer, AT&T

Employee Advocacy

WINNER
Hilton Suggests: Delighting Travelers with Local Recommendations
Hilton

Employee Education

WINNER
Trojan Knowledge Expedition
University of Southern California

Honorable Mention

  • Miami Office Move Campaign, MasterCard

Employee Engagement

WINNER
Joint Membership Drive
CBRE

Honorable Mentions

  • Our Future is Bright, Brighton Health Plan Solutions
  • Yammer Launch, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
  • Bayer in 6: Building on Bayer Employee Pride: Real Stories. Real People, Bayer
  • Roving Reporter Contest, Honeywell
  • Year End Exhibition, Honda R&D Americas, Inc.

Wellness Program

WINNER
MHealthy Rewards 2017
University of Michigan

Honorable Mention

  • FGL Sports Ltd., FGL Sports Ltd.

Intranet

Intranet Design

WINNER
MyTacoBell
Taco Bell

Social Intranet

WINNER
The Lounge
Travelex with Interact

Honorable Mentions

  • Yammer Time, Epicor Software Corp.
  • Get Connected * Get Informed * Get Inspired, BlueScope

Value to Employees (Intranet)

WINNER
Pocket Book
Avon and Somerset Constabulary and Interact

Honorable Mentions

  • Yammer Launch, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
  • A New Look for Liberty Mutual Finance, Liberty Mutual
  • Enabling Colleagues to Connect, NBS

Publications

Annual Report

WINNER
2016 Annual Report for Employees
Gannett Fleming

Honorable Mentions

  • 2015-16 Corporate Annual Report, British Columbia Pension Corporation
  • Inspired by Progress. Powered by People, LMI

Article Series

WINNER
75,000+ Stories
CBRE

Honorable Mention

  • People of PYPL, PayPal

Feature Article

WINNER
Associates Completed their Epic Adventure Creating the New Odyssey with Many Stories to Tell
Honda R&A Americas

Honorable Mention

  • #LivingProtiviti: Protiviti Houston Rallies to Help UK Family Stranded by Hurricane Harvey, Protiviti

Interview or Profile

WINNER
Officer Bizzo: A Friendly Face on the Force for 44 Years
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Honorable Mentions

  • Inspired and Inspiring—The Story of an HRA Associate Who Had the Guts to Take on Sparta, Honda R&D Americas, Inc.

Magazine

WINNER
Spirit Magazine
ConocoPhillips

Honorable Mentions

  • TN Magazine, Texas Department of Transportation
  • Freight Quarterly, FedEx Freight
  • Novartis Live Employee Magazine, Novartis
  • Novartis Live Employee Magazine June 2017, Novartis

Most Improved Design

WINNER
(r)evolution Magazine
Northrop Grumman

Honorable Mentions

  • Total Compensation Journal, JWT INSIDE with General Motors
  • NFL Player Benefits Secure Site Redesign, Cloudberry Creative with NFL Player Benefits Office
  • The Scoop 2.0, ASPCA
  • Crossroads Redesign, MUFG

Newsletter

WINNER
East Bay Municipal Utility District
East Bay Municipal Utility District

Honorable Mentions

  • S3 Weekly Update, Sutter Health, Sutter Shared Services
  • The Pulse, Spacelabs
  • TOPLINE, NBCUniversal
  • Taco Bell Internal Newsletters, Taco Bell
  • Employee eNews, Renown Health

Visual Communications

WINNER
Total Rewards Statement Redesign
Atlantic Health System with Deloitte Consulting LLP and Current Graphics LLC

Honorable Mentions

  • Community Giving Infographic, Tri-State G&T
  • Mastercard Office Move Campaign, MasterCard
  • Safe T. Cat, ArcBest

Video

Humorous Video

WINNER
Global Leadership Meeting Carpool Karaoke
Sanofi Genzyme

Honorable Mentions

  • 2016 Operations Holiday Greeting, Rockwell Collins
  • Environmental, Safety & Health FY17—Refresher Training Video, Rockwell Collins
  • Check Out Check-Ins, Genentech

Informational Video

WINNER
BC Pension Corporation Excellence Canada Video
BC Pension Corporation

Honorable Mentions

  • Better Because of Bayer—Building on Bayer Employee Pride: Real Stories. Real People, Bayer
  • #innovATTion: Irwin Gerszberg—Project AirGig, AT&T
  • It’s Our Time Video, SAP Latin America and Caribbean
  • Reflections on the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Metropolitan State University of Denver
  • Defining Principles, PPD
  • Tunnel Tango, Con Edison

Recruitment Video

WINNER
Exceptional Emergency Department Nursing Care
Baystate Health

Honorable Mentions

  • Awilda Bregand Fulfills a Lifelong Dream, University of Southern California
  • Imagine a Job You Love, In a Place You Love, California State Teachers’ Retirement System
  • VA: Make the Difference, JWT INSIDE with Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Representing America in a Career that Matters, JWT INSIDE with U.S. Department of State

Grand Prize

Grand Prize: Employee Communications Campaign of the Year

WINNER
Expanding and Sustaining Arrow’s Brand Internally
Arrow Electronics

Honorable Mentions

  • Launching  Arconic,  Arconic
  • SAP: Super Awesome People. Our Journey to Becoming an Employer of Choice, SAP Asia Pte Ltd.
  • Breaking Ground: Communicating The New Hulu Experience, Hulu
  • The Network. Intuitive. Launch, Cisco Systems
  • A Vision and Mission for Growth: Frito-Lay Makes Delighting Consumers its Business, Frito-Lay
  • On-Time Performance, JetBlue