The Shorty Awards honor the best of social
media, recognizing people and organizations on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr,
YouTube and other social media sites.
Millions of people visit the Shorty Awards
site every year to support their favorite social media content creators by
tweeting nominations.
Help me achieve this honor: 6th
Annual Shorty Awards’ Winner. The winners are chosen by leaders in technology,
journalism, business and culture, ‘Real-Time Academy Members’, which
will be revealed on April 7th, 2014 at the ceremony at the New York
Times building in New York City. The Academy recognizes the best and most
innovative uses of real-time media.
I am honored and thrilled to
be nominated in these two categories:
[other] for #BestTwitterParty and [author] for #BestMotivation.
I am enthusiastic and excited to share, to
motivate and connect people on Twitter. I would love your encouragement
and support. In gratitude and appreciation for your help, here is what you can
do me, nominate me before 2/18/14.
NOMINATIONS CLOSE February 18, 2014
Voting Ends in 18 days! PLEASE VOTE!!!
Real-Time Academy Consider These
Factors:
- Quality
and originality of content on social media
- Innovation
in using social media in new ways
- Impact
on the world
- Engagement
with followers, fans, friends and critics
Please note: Voting for the same person in the same
category more than once just replaces the text of your original vote; it does
not count as an additional vote. [Since Gary was nominated in two categories,
you can vote in each category].
TO MAKE A NOMINATION:
- First
log in with your Twitter Account, top / right hand corner.
- In
the ‘MAKE
A NOMINATION!’ box, under ‘Choose a category’,
select ‘Other’
[for #BestTwitterParty] or 'Author' [for #BestMotivation].
- Next,
under ‘Twitter
@username of person’, type ‘username’.
- Then in the box ‘I nominate
@GaryLoper for a Shorty Award in [either #BestTwitterParty or #BestMotivation] because…’.
- See sample tweets below. Please create your own tweets.
Identical tweets automatically generated in mass will not be counted for
the rankings.
- Be
creative with a reason. A
tweet without a reason will not count.
- Be
sure to click on the box ‘TWEET YOUR NOMINATION’.
Samples:
I nominate @GaryLoper 4 Shorty Award in #BestTwitterParty because: increase audience, lists, discover
relationships
I nominate @GaryLoper 4 Shorty Award in #BestMotivation because will shift yr thinking, overcome limiting
belief & programming
Please share & recommend to your
friends.
Thank you for your on-going support!
Happy Tweeting!