C4F Awards 2012
C4F = COMMUNICATION FOR FUTURE
Annual Excellence Award for Communication Professionals with creative innovative visions of the future development of communications!
The award is to be given to individuals with major influence on the improvement of communications and effective contribution to the new trends in the development of the communication industry.
There are two stages of nominees' selection:
1st stage: Long-listed candidates can apply via email with an attached comlpeted entry form (please request the entry form at forum@forumdavos.com), or they can be filed upon recommendation by partners, regional representatives, and social network members of World Forum “Communication on Top”.
2nd stage: Short-listed candidates are selected via monitoring of the received applications and further research on adjacent documentation.
Final stage: Voting procedure within the Committee of World Forum "Communication on Top".
The winners receive a trophy of excellence and the right to a permanent free participation with a Special Guest status in each of the main annual editions of World Forum “Communication on Top”!
C4F is positioned within 4 nomination categories: "Titan web 2.0", "Image of the future", "Media of the future", "Relations of the future".
C4F Awards Ceremony & Gala Dinner 2012 took place on 9 February in Garden Hall 3 at Morosani Schweizerhof Hotel, Davos, Switzerland, and the Winners are:
Titan web 2.0 - due to be given to the blogger who uses best efforts in promoting transparency, authenticity, and humanitarian values, while tackling the future of communications
Paul Holmes
Winner for 2012
Paul Holmes received the C4F "Titan web 2.0" award 2012 for his remarkable professional project - the Holmes Report, providing ratings and breaking news from the communications industry worldwide.
He has been conducting this extremely informative website with sophisticated analysis on public relations trends since the year 2000 - Paul acts as the Editor-in-Chief and CEO, with over two decades of experience in news commentaries and evaluation of the public relations business, also consulting both public relations firms and their clients.
Paul runs the annual SABRE awards, with over 45 categories and several editions in large geographical regions. The global SABRE 2012 is taking place at the First Global PR Summit that is being launched (again by Paul) on October 30-31 at the St. Regis Bal Harbour Hotel in Miami Beach.
Image of the Future - due to be given to the manager or designer who has created the best innovative brand and/or image
Juan Carlos Belloso
Winner for 2012
Juan Carlos received the C4F "Image of the future" award for his outstanding professional contribution in promoting the image of Barcelona around the world.
Advisor to the Barcelona Brand project, the Barcelona Strategic Metropolitan Plan, the Catalonia Brand Committee and founding member of the 'Barcelona Global' Association, a private organization formed by a group of business people, professionals and entrepreneurs with the aim of creating and developing projects to improve the positioning and influence of Barcelona in the world system of cities, Juan Carlos is also currently advising different countries, regions and cities in Spain, Europe, Russia and Latin America in the areas of place branding, image & reputation management, and competitiveness.
Media of the Future - due to be given to the most efficient media manager working in the area of new media, internet, and TV
David Lee
Winner for 2012
David Lee received the C4F "Media of the future" award for his recent project Shakr Media. Shakr Media transforms written content and photographs into beautiful motion graphics sequences, powered by the latest in-browser 3D technology.
David was one of the selected few Asian entrepreneurs from Seoul, South Korea, to present as a speaker at Techcrunch Disrupt Beijing.
Relations of the Future - due to be given to the corporate manager who has developed the most effective corporate communications trends aiming at partnerships, transparency, openness, and a genuine ecologically-friendly environment
Larisa Rudakova
Winner for 2012
Larisa Rudakova received the C4F "Relations of the future" award for her career as General Manager of Medialine Publishing House, influential of truly positive changes towards transparency and major human resource improvements in the Russian media & communications relations.