Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional materials and programs, and emerging technologies. Entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies, web based innovators and freelancers.

Hermes Creative Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The international organization consists of several thousand marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, media production, web and free-lance professionals. The Association oversees awards and recognition programs, provides judges and sets standards for excellence.

Quick thank you's:

• My wife. Always supportive and sweet tweeter. (She managed to get General Hospital star Nancy Lee Grahn to follow me.)
• The Marketing Store. Great to work at an agency that supports your social media endeavors – and gets it.
• The MGP Network and MAIP Alumni Matters. Sites that RSS feed me to their audiences.
• You, my readers. Glad to see I'm saying something you want to hear, because I have more to say.