The third annual Shorty Awards are under way and as has happened in the first two years of the awards there is some confusion about how you nominate someone (or support an existing nomination). More on that in a moment …
The Shorty Awards honor the best people and organizations on Twitter and social media and are presented in early March by the Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences – made up of such luminaries as Alyssa Milano, actress and philanthropist (@Alyssa_Milano), David Pogue (@Pogue), New York Times columnist and author of The World According to Twitter and Alberto Ibargüen (@ibarguen), President and CEO of the Knight Foundation (@knightfdn), one of the awards’ sponsors.
Nominations are now being taken in dozens of official categories may be made through Twitter or the official Shorty Awards website. There are also thousands of crowd-sourced categories. For the first time this year, the Shorty Awards will also honor the industry's best agencies and social media professionals
And, although the awards site insists you can nominate someone simply by tweeting out a nomination, it seems some or many of these do not get caught by the awards site. Therefore to be sure you successfully nominate your favorites on Twitter and in social media, you should follow these steps:
1.Go to the official Shorty Awards website and locate the turquoise “Shorty Voting” bar mid-page.
2.Enter your nominee’s Twitter name and pick the appropriate category.
3. Complete the sentence “I nominate @TwitterUser for a Shorty Award in #category because....”
4. Click the “Tweet Your Vote” button (where you will be asked go through a Twitter authorization page).
If you don’t follow the protocol for the tweet your vote will not be recorded.
And you need to do this soon because in February, the nominees will be narrowed down to six finalists in each category. Winners will then be determined by a round of public voting and by the members of the Real-Time Academy.
So, what are you waiting for? Get nominating and contribute tom this great social media event.
How the Twitter awards show online voting redeemed its image The voting is over and my faith in the fairness of the The Shorty Awards and Social Media has been restored.
This meant that the category I was in, customerservice, had the two Brazilian singers among its Top 5.
But when the voting ended two days ago – miracle of miracle – I was a finalist.
Am I so shallow that the mere exclusion of the two attractive Brazilian singers from Shorty’s list of favorites can win me over? Yes!
Is Fourth Place the biggest honor on the planet? Maybe not, but I am honored and flattered because it represents the opinion of dozens of people who took the time to vote. And for that I am honored, flattered and humbled. So …
To the Shorty Awards – thank you
To the category winners – congratulations
To the people who took the time to nominate me – thank you, thank you, thank you. You made my day and reinforced my belief that Social Media is an extremely positive force for good.
How a brief flirtation with fame ruined my Twitter world forever
I have a confession to make: The Shorty Awards and I have had a brief (10-day) flirtation. Now it looks as though I was dumped for a couple of Brazilian singers.
I can’t say I blame Shorty. They’re both pretty … and can sing. How can I compete with the likes of them? But there will always be my brief, sweet dethroning of American Idol’s David Archuletta. Ah, the sweet smell of victory. But I get ahead of myself.
It all began about 10 days ago when Twitter users @ProROC and AnaRC were kind enough to nominate me for a Shorty Award in the category of customerservice.
I didn’t know what the Shortys were but I learned that they “honor the best people and organizations on Twitter. These unique awards are for the Twitter community, by the Twitter community.”
I was flattered, honored and, well, surprised.
It was time to check this thing out. After a bit of poking around I found that Archuletta, the 2008 American Idol runner-up, was in the same category as me! It turns out he had nominations across many of the Shorty’s 26 official categories.
Two days later I was in sixth place and David was in fourth. I could catch him!
I discreetly asked a couple of close Twitter friends if they would consider nominating me. They did and others spontaneously followed. Others were kind enough to retweet a nomination and cast their vote that way.
Within four days I was in third! David was behind me and we all know what the view from behind looks like.
Shorty and I were really getting along. But I somehow knew that I was destined to always play third fiddle to the two top dogs in my category at the time Neil Gaman and Team McLaren. But then along come Ivete Sangalo and Claudia Leitte - two Brazilian singers who, as of this writing are holding down positions 2 and 4 respectively. I was on my way down.
Just like Archuletta they are nominated across multiple categories. Leaving me to draw an obvious conclusion about you Shorty: You are easily swayed by a singer – especially an attractive female one.
I wish you well Shorty whoever you end up with, but we’ll always have 10 days in January. And … if you ever want me back you know where to find me and nominate me!
The third annual Shorty Awards are under way and as has happened in the first two years of the awards there is some confusion about how you nominate someone (or support an existing nomination). More on that in a moment …
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