Bad press release nominee
Perhaps I should initiate a contest for bad news releases similar to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which annually honors the worst fiction writing. Amazingly, someone got paid to produce the following copy, which was emailed to me and other reporters in hopes that we would write a news story based on this information.
Isilon Systems (NASDAQ:ISLN) is the proven leader in scale-out NAS. Isilon’s clustered storage and data management solutions drive unique business value for customers by maximizing the performance of their mission-critical applications, workflows, and processes. Isilon enables enterprises and research organizations worldwide to manage large and rapidly growing amounts of file-based data in a highly scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective way. Information about Isilon can be found at http://www.isilon.com/.
Can’t we just run stuff up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it?
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
NewsOK … Innovator of the Year
A week ago, at about this very time (11 a.m. or so), NewsOK was being honored with a national award by The Associated Press Managing Editors (APME).
Kelly Fry, vice president of news and information at OPUBCO Communications Group, presents NewsOK's video operation at the APME convention in St. Louis on Oct. 30. See more photos on Flickr: APME 2009
We were a finalist in the prestigious category of “Innovator of the Year.”
As our awards czar (unofficial title) Joe Hight pointed out before and after the award was given – the APME innovator award is one of the most prestigious awards in journalism and probably the most difficult to win. As he says, the hardest part is convincing a room full of top-notch journalists that you deserve the award.
Joe should know. We’ve won quite a few awards in the past year. I’ve blogged about them before. It’s fun to win. It validates the hard work.
I was lucky enough to attend the APME conference in St. Louis last week. The key person from our operation that wasn’t able to attend is our video superhero (unofficial title) David Morris.
The Innovator award goes back almost three years. It began with a vision from OPUBCO Communications Group leadership. It went through phases of implementation, training, construction and trial and error. It culminated with the execution of a plan to change the culture of our news and information operation and grow our audience.
It was good for the newsroom to win the Innovator.
Now – back to work.
Kelly Fry, vice president of news and information at OPUBCO Communications Group, accepts the award. That's me (Alan Herzberger) in the background.
