SCEMD wins National Public Information Award

The National Association of Government Communicators awarded the South Carolina Emergency Management Division its prestigious 2013 Blue Pencil and Gold Screen Award.  The Division received this national recognition for the South Carolina Earthquake Guide, a brochure that contains information on what to do before, during and after one of the Palmetto State’s greatest natural vulnerabilities. The National Association of Government Communicators’s Blue Pencil and Gold Screen Awards are presented annually to agencies from around the country for excellence in government communications.  Judges selected the Earthquake Guide out of hundreds of nominations in the “Special Purpose Publication” category.  The Earthquake Guide was the first, official publication to detail the state’s seismic threat and how best to prepare for a major earthquake.  The S.C. Earthquake Guide was the first publication to fully incorporate SCEMD’s social media and was made available for download online at scemd.org.  Since its publication the Guide has been used as a model for other earthquake prone states to develop their own brochures, specifically member states of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium.