So if you're not on Twitter and maybe even if you are, the Shorty Awards may mean you are scratching your head. Last night the Second Annual Shorty Awards were held at the Times Center in New York City. To help you out, here is the blog I originally posted about the awards.
Our Shorty experience began with this nomination. In the interest of full disclosure, Mike works for me, but I had no idea he was going to nominate us and really didn't know much about the Shorty Awards until after he got the ball rolling.
Whether we were ever in the running for a Shorty, it was great to read all of the "because" reasons our followers submitted.
Midnight PST on January 29th was the deadline for the nomination process. At that point, the top six highest vote getters became the finalists and voting began. The voting was the same - a tweet that included the reason you were voting. While you could vote multiple times, only one of your votes were counted. Voting closed at noon EST on February 5.
In addition to the popular vote, a committee called the Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences made a final decision which considered the votes and the body of your tweets. Thanks to all of the support we got from the Richmond, Virginia Twitter community (there were 5, count 'em 5 Shorty finalists from #RVA), great support from the anipal community on Twitter (my dog @yoda_the_dog has a lot of wonderful furiends), and our great @VaStateParks followers, we were second to @NASA after the popular vote.
I really wanted to go to New York for the awards but with the state budget as it is, I knew if I went it would be on my nickel. Thanks to the opportunity to share a room with another finalist (@BZTAT finalist in #art) and because I could drive, it was possible.
The Shorty Awards were a neat experience even though we didn't win. @CoryBooker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey took the Shorty in the #government category and got to shake CNN's @RickSanchezCNN's hand. I had an opportunity to congratulate him and received two nice hugs (not those polite half-hugs). I decided it was not too bad to lose to him. Winner or not, being a finalist was a great honor and a testament to our social media efforts. Most of the rest of my friends that were finalists - @BZTAT (#art) @FrugalDougal (#nonprofit), @AustinPrime (#brand) @MadMain (#advertising) @Flack4RIC (#travel) - are also in the "happy to be a finalist" category. However, Jonah Holland who tweets @LewisGinter took home a Shorty in the #culturalinstitution category!
The best part of the trip was to meet some of the friends I have made on Twitter. This is probably the first time I have visited New York where I did no site-seeing - it was all people seeing and it was great.
Our Shorty experience began with this nomination. In the interest of full disclosure, Mike works for me, but I had no idea he was going to nominate us and really didn't know much about the Shorty Awards until after he got the ball rolling.
Whether we were ever in the running for a Shorty, it was great to read all of the "because" reasons our followers submitted.
Midnight PST on January 29th was the deadline for the nomination process. At that point, the top six highest vote getters became the finalists and voting began. The voting was the same - a tweet that included the reason you were voting. While you could vote multiple times, only one of your votes were counted. Voting closed at noon EST on February 5.
In addition to the popular vote, a committee called the Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences made a final decision which considered the votes and the body of your tweets. Thanks to all of the support we got from the Richmond, Virginia Twitter community (there were 5, count 'em 5 Shorty finalists from #RVA), great support from the anipal community on Twitter (my dog @yoda_the_dog has a lot of wonderful furiends), and our great @VaStateParks followers, we were second to @NASA after the popular vote.
I really wanted to go to New York for the awards but with the state budget as it is, I knew if I went it would be on my nickel. Thanks to the opportunity to share a room with another finalist (@BZTAT finalist in #art) and because I could drive, it was possible.
The Shorty Awards were a neat experience even though we didn't win. @CoryBooker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey took the Shorty in the #government category and got to shake CNN's @RickSanchezCNN's hand. I had an opportunity to congratulate him and received two nice hugs (not those polite half-hugs). I decided it was not too bad to lose to him. Winner or not, being a finalist was a great honor and a testament to our social media efforts. Most of the rest of my friends that were finalists - @BZTAT (#art) @FrugalDougal (#nonprofit), @AustinPrime (#brand) @MadMain (#advertising) @Flack4RIC (#travel) - are also in the "happy to be a finalist" category. However, Jonah Holland who tweets @LewisGinter took home a Shorty in the #culturalinstitution category!
The best part of the trip was to meet some of the friends I have made on Twitter. This is probably the first time I have visited New York where I did no site-seeing - it was all people seeing and it was great.
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