Working his way through the first draft of a school assignment, the young son of my friend Paul apparently began to realize his ideas were too pithy for the page requirement.

And he began to pad, at one point writing, "As I said near the end of my last paragraph …."

I never quite trust these hit counts, and as old Seth and I always say, it's who visits rather than how many. So I won't give you the raw numbers. But the tiny bars represent several hundreds of daily hits and the big bar represents … more.

What if you could enter a communication awards program simply by explaining to the guru judges—consultants like Roger D'Aprix, Gary Grates and Steve Crescenzo, top pros like Terry McKenzie and Erik Battenberg—why you thought your program or vehicle is cool and letting them decide how your work stacks up?

I'm the program chairman of just such an awards program. It's the E2E Communication Awards, for excellence in employee communication.

Co-sponsored by McMurry and Communitelligence, E2E will name winners during an intense educational keynote session led by Crescenzo, at the Innovating Employee Engagement conference in Chicago June 16.

Seriously. That's exactly how the program works, and it's that simple.

But the deadline is nearly upon us. It's May 22.

Enter your best work here—and now!