{"id":3888,"date":"2012-01-20T04:55:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T09:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2014-09-02T06:21:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T10:21:43","slug":"2011-gold-award-state-of-the-industry-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/2012\/01\/20\/2011-gold-award-state-of-the-industry-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Silver Award: State of the Industry 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Report<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge\u2019s Comments: <\/strong>Even though the PCA told us up-front that this was more a \u201cstate of the industry\u201d report than an annual report in the traditional sense, the incorporation of both aspects was totally seamless throughout the document.\u00c2\u00a0 While not necessarily the \u201csexiest\u201d document in terms of paper choice and inspirational layout (see the 1st Place winner), this report received top marks for overall effectiveness, had a very pleasing layout, was exceptionally easy to read \u2014 and was informative!\u00c2\u00a0 There was a lot of information, both about the cement\/concrete industry and the Association itself, yet it was interesting even to a lay person and never overwhelming.\u00c2\u00a0 This report also received extra points for its use of several QR codes throughout, which added to the overall experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Entrant Details<\/strong><br \/>\nPortland Cement Association<br \/>\nState of the Industry 2011<br \/>\nContact: Mr. Bruce McIntosh<\/p>\n<p><strong>Credited Vendors &amp; Partners<\/strong><br \/>\nNew Reality Media, Communications Firm<br \/>\nAl Perlman, al@newreality.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Report Judge\u2019s Comments: Even though the PCA told us up-front that this was more a \u201cstate of the industry\u201d report than an annual report in the traditional sense, the incorporation of both aspects was totally seamless throughout the document.\u00c2\u00a0 While not necessarily the \u201csexiest\u201d document in terms of paper choice and inspirational layout (see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[920,205,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-920","category-annual-report","category-2-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6315,"href":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions\/6315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.associationtrends.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}