Top 10 Ideas for Awareness for Hearing Loss Competition

By Timothy Cooke

The top 10 ideas from the Action and Awareness for Hearing Loss competition have been finalized!

More than 1300 users signed up for the competition and we received a total of 432 ideas from all over the world. It was more than double than expected.

All ideas were categorized into 15 themes and went through 4 selection rounds before a final screening of 45. In the selection process, we ensured that all varieties of themes and channels were represented and you may notice that the top ten ideas reflect this, as we have ideas ranging from multi-faceted campaigns to single events.

The top 10 ideas, that were selected anonymously, are now being developed and supported by implementation plans.

Since we had so many excellent ideas in the competition, we will develop an idea catalogue, which will highlight the best ideas from the competition that are easy-to-implement and replicate. The online catalogue will enable people from around the world to take action and start raising awareness for hearing loss in their community.

An international jury will meet in late January to find the three overall winners selected from the top 10.

The three lucky winners will be notified shortly after and will be invited to California for the awards ceremony on the 3rd April, 2013 in Anaheim, at the annual conference of the American Academy of Audiologists.

Check out the top ten that were selected from over 432 ideas here.

Please post comments on the ideas that appeal to you.