Name that award.

March 21, 2012, 11:28 am

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Please help me name our new "employee of the month" award. My company is launching an employee of the month award, and are having a contest to name it. It has already been decided that the trophy each month will be a crystal/clear globe, and it is specified that "the word 'globe' must be in the title."

Things already ruled out include "The globetrotter" (too cutesy) or "The golden globe" (because the globe is clear).

If anybody can come up with a clever idea for this, it's someone on AskMe. My first inclination is to go with the literal "globe must be in the title" and come up with something containing the letters G-L-O-B-E, but perhaps not together or even in that order.

So ... what should it be?

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How do I deal with someone who may have helped me, to good end, against my will?

June 12, 2012, 12:08 am

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I applied to speak at a conference based on a paper I wrote, and was invited to further write a paper for another journal. I had told one of my co-workers I was applying for that conference. She's well-connected and high-up, and knew the conference organizer. Upon hearing of my submission, she said, "Oh, let me talk to the organizer. I'm sure we can get you in." I told her it wasn't necessary, but she's earnest and probably did it anyway. I don't know if I was accepted my own merit, or because she influenced someone, or a mixture. Should I give her a gift? I'm naive and would rather not be an ingrate.

Book Award Recommendations?

June 4, 2013, 7:09 am

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My wife and I are starting a "book club" for the two of us. The plan is to read an award winning book each month. The first month we'll read a book that won an award in 2012, the second month an award-winner from 2011 and so on. There are many, many book awards to pick from so here's the question: What book awards do we use to determine the "nominees" for each month? We'd like to have, say, 6-10 book awards that we use to create the short-list each month. We're interested in reading books from a large variety of categories - fiction, non-fiction, mystery, young adult, science fiction, etc.

Here's some possibilities we've considered so far:

- Booker Prize
- Pulitzer Prize (but which version?)
- National Book Award (but again which one?)
- Newberry Medal Winner (children's lit)
- Hugo Award for Best Novel (sci-fi/fantasy)
- James Beard Award for Writing and Literature (food)
- Printz Award (young adult lit)
- Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel (mysteries)

Other recommendations? Obscure and or unique awards are encouraged. Thanks.

What's under Emmy's skirt?

September 23, 2013, 8:17 am

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While opening up the morning news sites I see this picture of Jeff Daniels holding his newly-won Emmy statuette. (Congrats, Jeff). The picture shows a lengthy text affixed to the underside of the statuette. What is it? It sure looks like more than just "(C) 2013 ATAS/NATAS: Don't Sell Me". Cleaning instructions? A secret message from the Illuminati? Anyone know?

Need recommendations to make/buy custom military-style campaign ribbons

October 22, 2013, 3:55 pm

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I help run an annual game convention in DC and I am looking for advice on acquiring some awards for people who participate in one of our tournaments. The event has a wargamming theme and I would like to give people a custom, military-style campaign ribbon for participating. I see lots of websites for ordering actual U.S. service ribbons, but does anyone know of a place that might make custom ribbons? Or suggestions for making about 30-60 of them by hand? Something like this or this (just the small one):

Preferably with a pin on the back so people could pin it on a shirt or jacket.

What is a meaningful "years of service" award for a programmer?

February 12, 2016, 9:47 am

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I'm in a big company that just sends me PDFs to print and give to people when they get to various years of service. I want to give them something a bit more fun. They are web developers and QA. Some sort of geeky trophy maybe? I'd be paying out of my own pocket so the focus is on meaningfulness, not cash value.

Name my 'Most Improved' Award

April 26, 2016, 5:13 am

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My company is handing out an award to 3 plants that have improved this year. It seems weird to hand out a 'Most Improved - Third Place' award. What's a good substitute for 'Most Improved?'

Office Superlative Award Ideas

May 3, 2017, 10:31 am

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I have recently been tasked with coming up with fun, different superlative awards for my fellow nurse coworkers to be distributed during Nurse's week (next week). I've got some ideas of different categories, but I'm trying to come up with more creative ideas, and different, more fun creative names for them. I figured the hive mind would be the place to go for help! I have to come up with 21 of these at least.
(I.e - "Betty Crocker" Award for best office treats etc? ...Clearly I struggle with this)

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Best Hugo short story anthology?

August 17, 2017, 7:53 pm

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What's the best anthology of Hugo Award-winning short stories? I'm less interested in Hugo-winning novelletes and novellas, and the collections I'm seeing from a short Amazon search seem to include these rather than just short stories. ('There is no such thing - you're stuck with a mixture of all three' is a totally fine answer.)

Ethics re: asking to be nominated for an award?

January 23, 2020, 3:48 pm

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Tell me what you think about the ethics of asking a former student to nominate me for a teaching award? I teach at a major university, and I pour my heart and soul into teaching. There is a call for nomination for university-wide teaching awards. I am early in my career and something like this would make a big difference, and I would like a shot at it.

I know (from unsolicited emails, teach evaluation comments, conversations) that many of my former students loved my classes, and would be willing to nominate me. I also know that they don't pay attention to calls like this. Would it be unethical of me to draw their attention to the call for nomination? and to gently welcome nominations? Or perhaps suggesting that they could nominate anyone they wish?

The former students I'd contact are no longer in my course and are not my advisee (i.e. I do not have any power over them), but I still worry that this would be coercive in subtle ways.

Please share your thoughts!

All I got was this lousy t-shirt

March 9, 2020, 6:48 am

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Tell me about minor feats I could accomplish and receive some sort of award or recognition for doing it. I just learned (thanks, QI!) that if I drive across Highway 50 in Nevada and get a passport stamped at all the necessary locations, I can get a certificate signed by the governor. I want to learn about more of these "publicity stunt personal challenges." I think the criteria I'm looking for would include:

-"Officially" sanctioned (there has to be some governing body handing out awards)
-Relatively easy for an average person to accomplish (I'm not climbing El Capitan even if they do give me a cheap paper certificate for it)
-Must result in some sort of tangible form of recognition (signed certificate at a minimum!)

So tell me about some dumb things I can be recognized for!

Service recognition plaque or award with logo?

March 15, 2022, 8:54 am

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A few of my fellow board members are rotating off our nonprofit board this summer and we want to give them plaques or awards with the nonprofit's logo on it. A Google search shows umpteen"fill in the text" awards. But I can't find one that says "add your logo here". Any suggestions?

It's time for the awards!

June 1, 2023, 11:29 pm

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Have you/your organisation ever run an awards program? What strategies have you found that help or hinder the management of your awards program? I just got a role to run the awards program for a small arts industry-specific organisation - both the actual awards itself and the ceremony. These awards have been around for some time, and are pretty beloved, but they were previously managed by a volunteer board member; my paid role is new, and specifically crafted to allow me to adapt the structure, form, and processes of this program as I see fit. I've actually worked at one of these awards ceremonies before (in a previous role) and have produced tons of events, so I feel relatively confident about the ceremony itself. I've also been a grant assessor on panels, done some casting & curation work, and worked admin for a different grants org - so I have adjacent transferable skills, but not in managing an awards program specifically.

I'll be getting direct mentoring & support from the previous board member organiser, so I'm not totally starting from scratch. But I'd also like to know how other people run their awards programs, to learn more about the format and to see if there's any ideas I can borrow.

What are your timelines like, from deciding award categories to submissions and panels to final ceremony (and all in between)?
How do you select judging panels?
Do you do any pre-filtering of submissions before they go to the panels?
How do you rank winners - majority votes? Complex math?
How do your panels assess the submissions? On their own, in a group, both?
How do you manage notifications? Do you notify winners ahead of time or is it a surprise to them at the ceremony itself? (We have at least one award that's international so I'm thinking about how to manage things like acceptance speeches if people can't join live)
How long does it take to get award sculptures made?
What are some things in the awards process & ceremony that you've found helpful or annoying?

Any insight is welcome!

What’s up with the Otherwise Awards, formerly Tiptree Awards?

January 26, 2024, 9:50 am

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Does anyone have any idea what the situation is with the Otherwise Award, formerly known as the Tiptree Award? The blog on the website had 2 entries in 2023, but no awards have been announced since 2021.

Wall Award

February 1, 2024, 9:06 am

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We want to get a wall stand like this. We would specify dimensions. Is there anywhere online to order this?

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