The Corporate Pen
Professional Writing & Editing Services
Professional Writing & Editing Services
Professional Writing and Editing Services
Awards
Your writer at Corporate Pen has received the international awards shown below. These awards would never have been possible without the subject-matter knowledge, product excellence and business expertise of the clients featured.
2012 #1 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: How-to Writing
Talent selection and employee development firm Assess Systems produces a regular newsletter for clients and prospects. The newsletter article "Selling and Telling: How Your Candidates Can Preview Their Future" helps organizations by explaining best practices for reducing costly voluntary turnover on the part of new hires.
2012 #2 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Technology & Science Writing
Increasing Efficiencies and Driving Value in the Insurance Producer Onboarding Process is a
VUE Software® white paper. This award-winner describes how the VUE Producer Onboarding™ solution streamlines and automates the licensing, contracting and appointing phases of insurance producer onboarding. (The entry was submitted to the APEX Awards by VUE Software, a division of Computer Solutions and Software International, Inc.)
2011 #1 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Blogs, Forums & Wikis
Corporate Pen received this award for ghostwriting a series of three financial services blogs. The three blogs focus on the nature of financial advice available today and offer a strategy for good money management. Using hyperlinks, keywords, solid financial principles and humor, the blogs help increase visibility for the startup organization publishing them. (Because of Corporate Pen's ghostwriting role, no sample or company name is available.)
2011 #2 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Technology & Science Writing
Written for VUE Software®, Scalability and Other Supporting Factors for Large-Scale or Expanding Implementations of VUE Compensation Management is a technical white paper. It provides critical, detailed decision-making information about VUE Compensation Management™ for qualified prospects. (This entry was submitted by VUE Software. This is a proprietary document, so no sample is available.)
2011 #3 2011 STC International Summit Awards Competition, Distinguished Winner
How Compensation Management Drives Value and Transforms Business for Insurance is a white paper written for VUE Software. This paper describes how insurance marketing organizations benefit from selecting the right compensation management solution. The paper received an Award of Excellence in the competition held by the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). That award qualified the paper as an entry in the 2011 STC International Summit Awards, where it received an Award of Merit. This same paper was also a 2010 APEX Award winner.
2010 #1 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Special Purpose Writing
Optimizing the Sales Gene: Selecting and Developing Top-Performing Salespeople is an Assess Systems white paper. How can a company identify sales talent in a job candidate and develop it once an applicant is hired? This paper provides valuable thought leadership about the sales personality and how assessments boost sales success.Talent selection and employee development firm Assess Systems produces a regular newsletter for clients and prospects. The newsletter article "Selling and Telling: How Your Candidates Can Preview Their Future" helps organizations by explaining best practices for reducing costly voluntary turnover on the part of new hires.
2012 #2 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Technology & Science Writing
Increasing Efficiencies and Driving Value in the Insurance Producer Onboarding Process is a
VUE Software® white paper. This award-winner describes how the VUE Producer Onboarding™ solution streamlines and automates the licensing, contracting and appointing phases of insurance producer onboarding. (The entry was submitted to the APEX Awards by VUE Software, a division of Computer Solutions and Software International, Inc.)
2011 #1 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Blogs, Forums & Wikis
Corporate Pen received this award for ghostwriting a series of three financial services blogs. The three blogs focus on the nature of financial advice available today and offer a strategy for good money management. Using hyperlinks, keywords, solid financial principles and humor, the blogs help increase visibility for the startup organization publishing them. (Because of Corporate Pen's ghostwriting role, no sample or company name is available.)
2011 #2 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Technology & Science Writing
Written for VUE Software®, Scalability and Other Supporting Factors for Large-Scale or Expanding Implementations of VUE Compensation Management is a technical white paper. It provides critical, detailed decision-making information about VUE Compensation Management™ for qualified prospects. (This entry was submitted by VUE Software. This is a proprietary document, so no sample is available.)
2011 #3 2011 STC International Summit Awards Competition, Distinguished Winner
How Compensation Management Drives Value and Transforms Business for Insurance is a white paper written for VUE Software. This paper describes how insurance marketing organizations benefit from selecting the right compensation management solution. The paper received an Award of Excellence in the competition held by the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). That award qualified the paper as an entry in the 2011 STC International Summit Awards, where it received an Award of Merit. This same paper was also a 2010 APEX Award winner.
2010 #1 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Special Purpose Writing
2010 #2 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Technology & Science Writing
2009 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Special Purpose Writing
2008 Survey Results: Sales Compensation Administration Methods, Challenges, Technologies and Plans is a white paper written for Callidus Software® Inc. This paper analyzes the results of a comprehensive survey evaluating the compensation administration practices of a diverse group of mid- to large-sized organizations.
2008 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Special Purpose WritingNew-Millennium Web Strategies is a white paper written for Patterson & Associates to help organizations gain a critical competitive edge by leveraging their Web presence as a multipurpose promotional tool. Patterson & Associates specializes in embedded-to-Enterprise media relations.
2007 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Special Purpose WritingCallidus On-Demand Solutions: The Best of Privacy and High Performance is a white paper written for Callidus Software Inc. to educate readers about the benefits of using Enterprise Incentive Management (EIM) within the unique environment provided by Callidus On-Demand Solutions.
2006 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Special Purpose WritingMaximizing the Benefits of TrueComp® Enterprise: Your Guide to the Migration Process is a
white paper written for Callidus Software targeting a specific portion of the company's
customer base.
2005 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Special Purpose WritingFrom Strategy to Profitability: How EIM Drives Business Performance is a white paper written
for Callidus Software providing advanced thought-leadership on EIM along with usage examples
for practical application.
2004 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Feature Writing"Technology-Savvy HR: Unbroken Continuity Across Critical Business Processes" is a feature-length article written for Jason Averbook while he was director of Global Product Marketing for PeopleSoft HCM. (PeopleSoft is now part of Oracle® Corporation.)
2003 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Feature Writing"HR in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities" is a human-resources (HR) journal article written for Row Henson of Oracle Corporation (then with PeopleSoft) and published in the November 2002 issue of IHRIM Journal.
2002 APEX Award for Publication Excellence: Feature Writing"Portals: The Intelligent Gateway to B2E Synergy" is a feature-length cover story written for Bob Geib (then director of PeopleSoft Portal Solutions) and published in the December 2001/January 2002 issue of IHRIM.link.
International Awards
The APEX Awards and sponsoring organization Communications Concepts have been recognizing professional communicators worldwide for 24 years. This is an annual competition that had nearly 3,400 entries in 2012.
STC competitions evaluate and recognize contributions to the technical communications profession. To
qualify for the STC International Competition, an entry must begin at the local or regional level and win
a Distinguished Technical Communication award or Award of Excellence. Entries are evaluated for the
communication of business, scientific and technical information with respect to content, purpose,
execution, creativity and more.