Announcing the Winner of the first #Boston Shorty Award!
This year, we partnered with our friends at Boston.com and The Boston Globe to find the best short-form content producer in #Boston. Well, their editors have chosen a winner from the outstanding nominees, and we are happy to announce that Adam Gaffin, aka @universalhub, is the recipient of the very first Local Shorty Award!
Adam is the proprietor and ringmaster of UniversalHub.com, a fabulous website for Boston news. On Twitter, he shares information, forwards interesting queries, and lets people know the big and small things that are happening around town. He is truly a hub for the Hub on Twitter.
The judging panel for the #Boston Shorty Award was:
@BostonAbrams - Joel Abrams, Senior Product Manager for Social Media at Boston.com
@RonAgrella - Ron Agrella, editor of Boston.com
@Eric_Andersen - Eric Andersen, Technology consultant/architect at IBM in Cambridge and social media maven
@Joe_Allen_Black - Joe Allen-Black, producer for hyperlocal news coverage at Boston.com/yourtown
@JoselinMane - Joselin Mane, the force behind @BostonTweetUp
@EmilySweeney - Reporter for the Boston Globe and president of the New England chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
@AdrienneLB - Feature producer for Boston.com
Adam will be invited to attend the Shorty Awards Ceremony and VIP party on Monday March 28th at The TimesCenter in New York City.
Don’t forget, tickets for the Shorty Awards are on sale now!
