ThinkSocial Awards: Public voting is live

By Toby Daniels on October 28, 2009 | 7971 Commenthttp://think-social.org/thinksocial-awards-public-voting-is-live.htmThinkSocial+Awards%3A++Public+voting+is+live2009-10-28+13%3A28%3A29Toby+Daniels

We are excited to move to the next phase of the ThinkSocial Awards.

With your help we have selected over thirty nominations representing a cross section of people, organizations, and collaborations using social media to address problems around the world.

Now we would like to ask for your help again.� The final selection process includes three elements:

• the votes and comments of our panel of expert jurors;
• feedback from the staff of the Paley Center for Media;
• votes and comments from the public through the ThinkSocial site.

It is time to open up our voting process, so here�s what we�d like you to do.

Please use the voting buttons found connected to the nominations to enter into our voting system and then follow the instructions.

Each login receives three votes which you may use for any three of the nominations.� You may use all three votes on one single nomination if you wish.

If you have the time we would love your thoughts about the nominees.� Feel free to be as detailed as you�d like.� We really want to dig into the social media strategies and tactics that make these nominees successful.

Public voting ends at midnight on Monday November 2nd.

To help guide your selection and comments here is a criteria that we are using to judge the nominees:

Criteria:

I.� Value of Information & Storytelling

• Relevance & importance of information
• Uniqueness of storytelling
• Effectiveness of the written, graphic, video and audio presentation to convey information
• Deftness in eliciting emotions, inspiration & action
• Courageousness & success in overcoming obstacles in sharing the information/telling the story

II. Success at Enabling People to Take Action

• Agility in creating substantial impact
• Deftness in eliciting emotions, inspiration & action
• Design that accomplishes clear, well-constructed, easy to share, measurable, memorable, & transparent initiative
• Marked evolution & improvement over time

III. Influence of the Initiative

• Reach of the information & storytelling directly and through the mediascape
• Scale of the actions & impact enabled by the calls to action
• Promptness & timeliness in engaging with audience in quick and deft manner
• Relevance of the model for awareness and action used by the initiative � influential and replicable by other efforts

After you have voted please do encourage others in your network to do the same.� We want as much engagement in this process as possible.

Thanks again for helping us get this far and check back to this site and use our social media tools for more updates!

FULL LIST OF NOMINATIONS.