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Awards

We are pleased to announce that the Fall 2008 edition of TechBeat, which was a special issue focusing on Communications Technology and Interoperability issues, has received an Award of Excellence for an External Magazine in the 2009 National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) Blue Pencil Awards competition.

NAGC is a national nonprofit professional network of federal, state, and local government employees who disseminate information within and outside government. NAGC is the only organization for, by, and about government communications and communicators. Its members are guided by a professional code of ethics that demands complete and timely communication between government and the people it serves.

TechBeat has received numerous awards, including the 1998 Best of Category, Excellence in Printing Award from the Printing & Graphic Communications Association; the first-place 1998 Blue Pencil Award for Most Improved Periodical from the National Association of Government Communicators; the 1999 Silver Inkwell Award of Merit from the International Association of Business Communicators; and the APEX 2001 and 2006 Award of Excellence.