Astrologer, artist, photographer, and journalist Anne Nordhaus-Bike has won an Award of Excellence from Communications Concepts in the Newsletters-Email category in the organization's Apex 2013 competition. She was honored for the September-October 2012 edition of her electronic newsletter
Living in Harmony, which covered the Libra time of year.
Communications Concepts is a journalism and communications think tank based outside Washington, DC, in Springfield, VA. This year's Apex competition was the 25th annual.
"Apex Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence," said John De Lellis, one of the Apex judges. "With some 2,400 entries, competition was exceptionally intense."
Nordhaus-Bike combines her original art with astrology insights, photography, and journalism skills in publishing her
Living in Harmony newsletter. This online publication presents articles on astrology and a variety of other themes; the newsletter archives feature special issues devoted to every sign of the zodiac. Besides reviewing each sign from a spiritual and mystical perspective, archived issues present Nordhaus-Bike's paintings and photography chosen specifically to harmonize with the astrological sign or season as well as an inspiring guided meditation.
"Being a Libra myself, it's particularly gratifying that our Libra 2012 edition of
Living in Harmony received a prestigious Award of Excellence in this international competition," Nordhaus-Bike said.
Nordhaus-Bike is president of ANB Communications, which offers a variety of products to help one live in harmony physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. For more information about ANB Communications, log on to
www.anbcommunications.com.
The recipient of eight journalism awards since 1996, Nordhaus-Bike won an Apex Award in 2008 for her astrological column in the
Gazette newspaper of Chicago and won another Apex Award in 2012 for her ANB Communications website.
The international Apex 2013 awards competition featured winners from Canada, India, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Awardees came from well known companies and institutions such as American Airlines, the American Bar Association, American University, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Dow Jones, Ernst & Young LLP, Ford Motor Co., and the Walt Disney Co. For more information on Apex and Communications Concepts, log on to
www.apexawards.com.
About Anne Nordhaus-Bike
Anne Nordhaus-Bike is president of ANB Communications, http://www.anbcommunications.com, a Chicago, IL-based art and communications company offering writing, astrology, art, mystical music videos, and short films “to help you live in harmony,” Nordhaus-Bike said.
The author of the award-winning Living in Harmony astrology column for the Gazette newspaper in Chicago (www.gazettechicago.com), Nordhaus-Bike's book, Follow the Sun: A Simple Way to Use Astrology for Living in Harmony, was published in 2011 to offer a timeless, annual guide to using astrology for living in harmony with yourself, others, and nature. Follow the Sun reviews each astrological sign, shares simple yet powerful ideas for making the most of that sign’s energies and opportunities, and shows how a public figure born under that Sun sign expressed its energies. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23NmwfL3GYc&feature=plcp.
Nordhaus-Bike also is the editor-in-chief of an online astrology and art newsletter, Living In Harmony.
Nordhaus-Bike is a frequent public speaker and radio guest, covering topics such as using spirituality to live in harmony and employing astrology for time management and better home decor.
Through her spiritual fusion consultations, she provides uplifting information and guidance to help clients harmonize and balance life on the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual levels.
An accomplished musician and theatrical performer, in the past few years Nordhaus-Bike has focused her work in the performing arts on spiritual and mystical subjects and themes inspired by nature. Most recently, she has begun arranging and composing music and combining it with spoken word, photography, and visual art.
Her work has been recognized with six Apex awards from Communications Concepts Inc., a Washington, DC-area communication and journalism think tank, and one award from the Illinois Woman’s Press Association. In 1997, she was added to the “Wall of Fame” of the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY.
Nordhaus-Bike is an alumna of the University of Chicago and lives in the Clearing/Garfield Ridge community of Chicago.
For more information, call (312) 622-6029 or e-mail media@anbcommunications.com or info@anbcommunications.com.