Welcome to NIVA

25 years

NIVA has over 25 years experience delivering a broad range of communications services. Our goal is to help our clients communicate effectively. We specialize in

corporate, scientific and technical writing services,
proofreading, quality assurance and editing services,
documentation standards development and documentation services,
website design and web content development,
communications planning and project management,
document template development and graphic design.

NIVA has produced thousands of communications vehicles, including communications strategies and plans, communications needs analyses, annual reports, research reports, policies and procedures, standards and guidelines, technical manuals and scientific reports, websites and online reference tools, marketing collateral and success stories.

NIVA’s team of specialists plan, research, write and edit content targeted to a wide range of audiences. We have experience in a broad array of disciplines and can work directly with subject-matter specialists.

Contact Client Services with your questions or requests. Current clients can view ongoing projects by visiting the Client Area.

NIVA News

John Nihmey, NIVA’s President, presents 2 June 2009, “HR Building Better Client Relationships” at the International Personnel Management Association—Canada, National Training Conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

NIVA wins the Society for Technical Communication's Award of Excellence for the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRNE) Research and Technologies Initiative (CRTI) Website.

NIVA wins the Society for Technical Communication's Award of Merit for the Canada's Access to Medicines Regime Web Repository.

Anton Holland, NIVA Senior Vice-President and Director, Science Communications, presents "Targeting the Message—Maximizing the Public Impact of Science Communication" at the Public Science in Canada Symposium, 6 September 2007 at the Hilton Lac-Leamy, Gatineau, Québec.
http://www.hyper-media.ca/pipsc/index.html

NIVA now an approved vendor of communications services with Professional Services Online, a Government of Canada electronic procurement tool.
http://www.pwgsc.gc.ca/acquisitions/text/prof_svcs-e.html

NIVA sponsors and presents and MARCOM 2007 Marketing Communications Conference, June 7 to 8, 2007, Ottawa.
http://www.marcom.ca/schedule.html

NIVA sponsors Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (DRIE) annual conference, June 1, 2007, Ottawa.
http://www.drieottawa.org/events.php

NIVA staff join Executive Committee of DRIE Ottawa.
http://www.drieottawa.org/contacts.php

NIVA moves to larger premises in Ottawa's ByWard Market, June 2006.

NIVA's president, John Nihmey, delivers presentation on how to make communications an asset when growing a business at Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) Executive Conference, Florida, March 2006.
http://www.chpa-info.org/Web/index.aspx

NIVA participates in 10th Annual Ottawa Disaster Planning Conference, October 28, 2005, Ottawa City Hall.
NIVA sponsors Ottawa Life Sciences Council (OLSC) Bioentrepreneurs Luncheon.
http://www.ocri.ca/lifesciences/

NIVA participates in Consumer Healthcare Products Association annual market exchange in East Brunswick, New Jersey, September, 2005.
NIVA supports Electronic Commerce Council of Canada as it transitions to GS1 Canada and joins 120 member countries in GS1, the largest e-commerce standards organization in the world.
http://www.gs1ca.org/home.asp

NIVA wins Award of Excellence in Society of Technical Communication competition, for online repository featuring Swissair Flight 111 Investigation Report.
http://www.stc.org/