Now accepting entries for the #OVATION23 Awards!
The #OVATION23 Awards entry season is now open and will close on January 24, 2023. Enter your best work early and save!
For more than 37 years, IABC/Toronto has celebrated professionals for their talent, creativity and dedication to excellence through this prestigious program.
Here is your opportunity to present your best work for industry recognition and feedback, and have it evaluated against IABC’s Seven-Point Global Scale of Excellence!
You can choose from four divisions and more than 25 categories to submit your project. Whether you’ve managed a full strategy, conducted formative research, performed communication training or produced an outstanding tactic – there’s a category for you!
The 2023 IABC/Toronto OVATION Awards program is aligned with IABC’s global and national awards programs, making it easy for you to submit one entry for multiple awards.
Entry Deadlines
- Early Bird Deadline: December 14, 2022 (discounted rate)
- Final Deadline: January 17, 2023
- Extended Deadline: January 24, 2023
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 Help us celebrate Toronto's top talent!
Join the planning committee
Our team has been hard at work behind the scenes planning for #OVATION23 as we return to the stunning Arcadian Court on May 4!
We’re cooking up something great, but could use some extra hands to make it come to life.
Here are some of the positions we’re looking to fill:
- Event Director
- Marketing & Communication Director
- Finance & Budget Director
- Stage Manager
- Social Media Coordinator
- Content Coordinator
- Awards Coordinator
- AV Coordinator
- Speech Writer
- Networking Coordinator
- Events Coordinator
- Award Entry Platform Coordinator
Interested?
Contact toronto-volunteers@iabc.to for more information.
Become a Judge
Calling all senior professional communicators and PR pros
Get a front-row seat to the Greater Toronto Area’s top talent! Join the 2023 IABC/Toronto OVATION Award’s esteemed panel of judges.
Why judge?
- Expand your professional network
- Reward your industry peers’ outstanding work
- Spot new trends across multiple industries
- Incorporate the new and innovative approaches you evaluate into your own strategies
- Shape the future of our industry by giving valuable feedback to fellow professionals
- Gain points towards your CMPⓇ or SCMPⓇ re-certification (if applicable)
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Student Communicators Circle (SCC): The Agency Edition featuring the PR Department
Monday, November 28, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom
Are you a public relations or communications student? Do you have questions about upcoming internships? Are you looking to network with professionals in the field? Join us for our next virtual event.
Internship season is just around the corner and this month we’ve invited the award-winning public relations agency The PR Department to come and speak with us.
This is your chance to hear these experts share their tips and tricks!
Featured Guests:
- Briggite Foisy (she/her), president of The PR Department
- Debora Marques (she/her), partner/director of communications of The PR Department
Hosts:
Haysi Vale (she/her) and Aaliyah Tate (she/her)
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 Recording Now Available: Putting the “A” in IDEA: Accessible Communications for PR and Comms Pros
Did you miss our last recent PD event? Fear not! Watch it at a time that’s convenient for you.
Featuring: Matisse Hamel-Nelis, ADS, CPACC, international award winner, VP of Communications for AbleDocs and VP of Communications, Marketing & Digital Media for IABC/Toronto.
As professional communicators, we must incorporate accessibility into every element of what we do to ensure we’re not missing out on the 15 per cent of the population who identify as having a disability.
This educational webinar gets you up to speed on best practices so that you can understand, engage and make your content more accessible.
Viewers will learn to:
- Describe what accessible content is
- Create basic accessible content
- Describe the difference between inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility, as well as how they work together to make a genuinely cohesive and inclusive communication strategy
Fees:
- $15: IABC member rate ($16.95 with HST)
- $25: Non-member rate ($28.25 with HST)
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Master change management with PIC’s November Buzz
As you try to make changes in the workplace, are you dealing with Helpers or Skeptics, Wind Watchers or Foot Draggers? The November issue of PIC’s newsletter, The Buzz, takes a look at what these and other Six Change Personas™ mean to you.
This perspective on how people deal with change is the work of Edmond Mellina of ORCHANGO, who spoke to PIC members and friends earlier this month. New member Sarah L. Manley Robertson, ABC, recaps his talk, sharing insights on how to be more effective as change makers.
The session also inspired PIC Chair Jacqui DeBique, who talks about the value she sees in looking for the personas in our personal lives.
A 2x3 sums up the real life experiences in change management in answers to two questions by three people: Brent Artemchuk, Michael Blackburn and Dennie Theodore.
And learn more about our latest PIC Personality, Phil Sach. He tells Yvan Marston about the major changes that led to the launch of PFS Communications during the pandemic.
All this and more in November Buzz. We’d love to hear what you think; email toronto-sig@iabc.to.
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Member Spotlight: Sylvia Link, MC, ABC, APR, CAE
 Sylvia Link is an award-winning, accredited senior communicator with experience in association, government, education, childcare and health care and non-profit organizations. Diversity, equity, and inclusion have always been an important part of her career and, for the past decade, as a sideline, she has been conducting communication audits for organizations in the education and non-profit sectors.
As an early careerist, Sylvia joined IABC/Toronto for professional development and to be part of a community of communications professionals. She has not been disappointed. Over her 30 plus year career, IABC has provided Sylvia with the chance to connect with amazing colleagues, participate in comprehensive professional development and undertake volunteer opportunities.
Read more about Sylvia...
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CareerLine – Start planning for a new career in the New Year
Join companies large and small, non-profits, members and non-members, and give your job posting visibility to IABC/Toronto’s nearly 700 communication, marketing and PR professionals.
- $230 + HST — Junior, intermediate or senior positions
- $230 + HST — Request for Proposal (RFP)
- $100 + HST — Freelance positions
- $30 + HST — Internships (must note internship in job title)
To post a job online, visit toronto.iabc.com/post-careerline-job/
Recently posted jobs:
- Senior Issues Advisor
- Director, Corporate Communications
- Senior Media Relations Consultant
- Experienced writer and internal communications consultant
- Communications Specialist - Full-time permanent
- Communications Manager
- Corporate Communications Advisor
- Manager, Media Relations-Communications Lead
- Communications Lead
- Communications Coordinator
- Communications & Marketing Specialist
- Digital Marketing Coordinator
Members can access these and more job postings!
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Are you looking to increase your organization’s visibility? Partner with IABC/Toronto, the largest IABC chapter in the world
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Connect with us to see how we can help you amplify your message!
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