OEC Publication Earns National Award

The Cooperative Communicators Association (CCA) in September awarded OEC's marketing and member relations team with the first place award for Best Employee Publication — the fourth year in a row the employee magazine has received this national honor.

"We are incredibly honored to receive this award," said Autumn McMahon, manager of marketing and member relations. "Our team works tirelessly to ensure the publications we send to our valued readers are of the highest quality, and to know the Quarterly Plug was awarded the best employee publication from hundreds of submissions confirms our efforts are making a difference."

The CCA contest included work from all types of co-ops, not just electric co-ops. OEC’s work competed against that of dairy co-ops, farm co-ops, credit unions and other electric co-ops.

“I am always humbled and proud when our work receives a national award,” said Editor and Creative Director Brianna Wall.

To be recognized as the best among hundreds was a huge honor and inspires me to continue ensuring the Quarterly Plug and all OEC publications are high quality products.

In addition, Oklahoma Living Magazine’s Hayley Leatherwood won a firstplace award for Personality Profile Featurette for the story she wrote featuring OEC linemen Jared Voegeli and Travis Jones. They volunteered time, expertise and resources in 2019 to revive ballfields in the Amber-Pocasset area. Their efforts paid off with fully-functioning t-ball, baseball and softball leagues.

OEC was one of over 200 cooperatives in the United States and Canada that submitted entries into CCA's annual communications contest.