About the Awards

Recognizing excellence in social media practitioners and practices throughout the state of Utah

Award Criteria

Who are the rock stars of social media in Utah? Do you know someone who has a must-read blog, is all over Twitter, or digs Digg? Members of the Social Media Club of Salt Lake City and the Social Media Club of Utah Valley may nominate anyone they feel deserves recognition for excellence in how they use social media tools. Any person living or working in Utah, or any company based in Utah and actively using some form of social media may be nominated.

  • To be considered an SMC of SLC member you must sign-up on the SMCSLC member directory or on the SMCUV member directory.
  • Please note that in order to preserve the integrity of the awards, members of the SMC of SLC leadership team and USMA Planning Committee are not eligible to receive a Utah Social Media Award.
  • A panel of out-of-market judges will select from SMC of SLC member nominations the top social media user in each category.
  • An overall, best of show winner will be selected by the judges and a people’s choice recipient will also be announced.
  • Each award recipient will be recognized by the Social Media Club of Salt Lake City with an award, receive a digital banner for their Web site and a featured profile on the SMC of SLC blog and UtahPulse.com.

Award Categories

Best use of, or simply the best (you’ll have to tell us why you think so) . . .

Bebo
Best Blog
Best Podcast
Best Video Blog
Delicious
Digg
Facebook
Flickr
FriendFeed
LinkedIn
Mixx
MySpace
Newsvine
Ning
Plaxo
Plurk
Pownce
Reddit
Revver
SmugMug
Squidoo
StumbleUpon
Technorati
Twitter
Vimeo
Wiki
Wikipedia
YouTube
Zoomr

And any other platforms SMC of SLC members choose. The sky’s the limit. As long as there are a handful of nominations for any social media tool, we’ll present an award to Utah’s master of that tool.

Nomination Process

Nominations will be accepted online beginning July 1 and end on Sept. 17, 2009. Nominations will only be accepted on UtahSocialMediaAwards.info using our online nomination form.

Just tell us where we can find your nominee and how they’re employing social media in a new, successful or positive way.

Explain why they are being nominated. What makes them stand out? How are they advancing social media usage? What are they doing differently than others in their space?

Perhaps they are reaching an entirely new audience through social media, providing an outstanding service, breaking new ground in social media usage within their industry, or accomplishing something unexpected.

You can nominate any resident of the state of Utah (including yourself) to be considered for a Utah Social Media Award. You may also nominate any company doing business in Utah.

Nominating more than person or company in any given category or in multiple categories is perfectly acceptable. However, nominating the same person more than once will not increase that person’s chances of winning a Utah Social Media Award.

There is no guarantee that individuals or companies you nominate will be recognized in any way.

The people’s choice award winner will be selected after general nominations, during the first weeks of Sept., based on all nominations received and a voting process to be announced at that time.

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