The “Vitrue Community Manager of the Year Award” is now open for submissions.
WOMMA is partnering with Vitrue for the “Vitrue Community Manager of the Year Award” and will be featuring the finalists during the WOMMA Summit this November.
Eligible participants can begin submitting nominations now through October 1, 2012 at
http://www.vitrue.com/community-manager-of-the-year. To view the official video visit:http://youtu.be/d_qx6CHLY5w.
Timeline: Submissions will be accepted Jan. 23-Oct. 1, 2012. Three finalists will be chosen on October 7, 2012 and the winner named on Jan. 23, 2013.
Eligible Participants: Community managers can nominate themselves or be nominated by someone else by going to vitrue.com/community-manager-of-the-year. For the purposes of this award, a community manager is defined as someone who spends at least 50 percent of their average workday managing, creating content for, moderating, posting, and/or analyzing social streams for brands, companies, or organizations.
Methodology: Qualified entrants will download a Q&A to be filled out and returned by October 1, 2012. Questions will consist of strategy, best practices, theories, opinions, real-world scenarios, professional information and social marketing philosophy questions. All qualified entrants will immediately receive the Vitrue Social Marketing Strategy Kit 2012.
Judging/Selection: The nominations will be judged by responses to a Q&A. The finalists will be judged 50 percent by fan and follower support via a Vitrue Tabs voting module, and 50 percent by a distinguished panel of judges, including: Vitrue Founder/CEO Reggie Bradford; The Altimeter Group’s and “Community Manager Appreciation Day” Founder Jeremiah Owyang; Famed “Social Explorer” CEO Jason Falls;Stephanie Agresta, Weber Shandwick, EVP, Managing Director of Social Media; and a WOMMA representative to be named later.
Prizes/Awards: The three finalists will be awarded a trip to Las Vegas for November’s “Vitrue School for the Socially Gifted.” This award includes hotel, airfare and all event meals and activities. Finalists will hear from social marketing’s most renowned industry experts as well as many of the world’s largest, most recognizable brands on thought leadership insights, strategies and best practices. Each finalist will also be recognized at the event with their own video feature. The “Vitrue Community Manager of the Year Award” winner will receive, in addition to notoriety within the industry, their choice of the latest version of an iPad or iPhone, a three-month trial to the Vitrue SRM 3.0 platform and a community manager survival kit filled with additional awards and surprises.
