The Official Shorty Awards Blog

Have you hugged your Social Media Manager lately?

Social Media Managers from NASA, The Ramey Agency, Oxygen, Viking Range Corporation, Rogers Communications, dadzclub ltd, Bitchin’ Kitchen and Glamour Magazine have all been nominated for the Shorty Industry Award for Best Social Media Manager. Have you?

Social media managers wrangle zillions of bits of content from the social web every day, connecting their brand with billions of users in a completely unprecedented fashion.

Blazing a new paradigm is tough business—so that’s why we’ve created the Shorty Industry Award for the Best Social Media Manager in partnership with Spredfast, a social media management platform provider that helps organizations unlock social business potential.

Head over here to vote now!

Brands and agencies: Entering the Shorty Awards has never been easier

Submit now!

The submission process for the Shorty Industry Awards has been completely redesigned to make the process simpler, cleaner and shorter. Now you can enter in multiple categories at once, save your entry and complete it over time, and add a few tidbits of information along with a picture to your new public company profile.

And the golden nugget - you now have more time to try it out! The Industry Awards submissions deadline for brands and agencies has been extended to February 17th, 2012. 

So go ahead, submit for a Shorty.

Nominate your favorite #billionare for a Shorty Award!

Have you nominated your favorite #billionaire yet?

This is a category for the 1% of the 1%. These billionaires are philanthropists, celebrities, and entrepreneurs. Using social media, they save lives, make products, and at the very least make our lives a little bit more entertaining. These billionaires are awesome—and we’re betting you know some more. After all, you can’t buy followers.

So click here to nominate the billionaires.

Fill out your Shorty Interview, we want to get to know you!

Click here to fill out your Shorty interview!

The nomination period for the Shorty Awards are well underway and already clever, strategic, funny, ridiculous and overall fantastic Shorty interviews are being filled out.

Check out a few examples from the #FakeAccount category (click on the answers to see who said them):

Fill out your Shorty interview now! 

Make a nomination for a real #LifeSavingHero!

Nominate someone now for being a real #LifeSavingHero! We’re introducing this new category in addition to the #hero category so you can nominate, firefighters, police officers, Coast Guard members and more individuals actually saving lives. 

The social web has allowed real, life-saving heroes, who may have otherwise gone unnoticed to become recognized for the life-saving work they’re doing. Twitter and social media help give an inside look at how heroes handle the dangerous conditions and situations they face on a daily basis.

The #LifeSavingHero Shorty Award, presented in partnership with The Weather Channel’s Coast Guard Alaska, a show about an elite team that risks their lives in search and rescue missions in harsh weather conditions, will be awarded to a real life hero using Twitter and the social web to save lives. Coast Guard members, firefighters, police officers, or anyone else who’s helped to save a life using social media are eligible. If a celebrity is clearly using social media to actively save lives through supporting a major cause they will be eligible. They must have an indication of this in their bio, tweets and the nominations they receive.