Social Media "Shorty" Award For Six Foot Mari?

Posted on December 31st, 2008.

UPDATE: The five finalists in 26 categories have been chosen and the final voting is now open! The finals will last from January 12-23.

IF you enjoy my tweets and feel I provide value to you in the world of social media, I’d love your vote. I’ve made it super easy with this 1-click tweet: http://snipurl.com/votemari (same one also at http://tinyurl.com/votemari). Do feel free to tweak the “because” part! And you’re welcome to retweet one or other of these links. Thanks a million!!

The awards ceremony will be held the evening of February 11, 2009 in New York City. The Shorty Awards’ 26 winners will be offered $1,000 grants to travel to New York and attend the awards ceremony, thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Winners must attend the event to claim the grant.

Thanks to YOU, I am deeply honored and grateful to have won both the “socialmedia” Shorty Awards category nomination with a landslide 466 nominations *and* the overall nominations for all categories. Wow. Whew knew? There were more than 32,000 nominations, for 6,760 peeps on Twitter in 1,599 categories.

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Have you heard about the Shorty Awards? It makes me smile just thinking about winning any kind of award with the word “shorty” in it… given I’m six feet tall. Heehee.

The Shorty Awards honors the best producers of short (140 characters or less, on Twitter) content in 2008. You can nominate as many people for as many categories as you’d like until midnight December 31st.

Here’s my special request of you - by MIDNIGHT on New Year’s Eve:

IF you enjoy my tweets and you feel I have provided you with valuable social media tips, resources and information, I would love it if you would use this 1-click nomination to submit a nomination to @ShortyAwards for the category of #socialmedia.

[If you're not familiar with my tweets just yet, see my stream here and also my #FBTips here].

This 1-click nomination has a pre-populated tweet for you! When you click the link, it will open up a new browser tab/window with Twitter.com and, assuming you’re logged in to Twitter, the tweet will look like this:

Then, all you have to do is click “update.” You’re certainly welcome and encouraged to insert your own “because” though I provided one for you to make it super easy.

Thank you SO much!

For more info, head over to ShortyAwards.com and also this write up on TechCrunch.com:

The Shorty Awards Honor Twitter’s Elite Tweets:

After the initial round of voting, which will last until midnight December 31, the five Tweeters with the most nominations in each category will take part in a final round between January 5th and 14th. An awards ceremony will be held in New York in late January, where the winners of the “most important categories” … will be able to deliver acceptance speeches in person or via video in 140 characters or less.

How about you? Which Shorty Awards category and reason would you love to be nominated for… and win?

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