Nominations

Nominations for 2014 are closed.

Please provide your name, email address and business or organisation name. You must enter a valid email address as we’ll send you a verification email in order to confirm your nominations. Thank you.

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You can jump to the categories you're interested in:

Facebook Page for a Business (Agency Run) Facebook Page for Non profit/organisation Facebook Page for a Business (owner managed) Integrated Facebook Campaign: Page, App & Ads Best Business Twitter account - marketing, sales Best Business Twitter account - Support, CRM Best Blog of an SME Video/Video Campaign (non broadcast) Online PR Campaign Use of Social Media by State Body Best Mobile App Customer Care using Social Media (Integrated) Best use of SM for a sponsorship campaign Innovative Use of Social Media Social Media Effectiveness - conversions, metrics etc Integrated Social Media Campaign Best Business/Org Twitter Campaign Social Media Only Campaign Best Mobile App (For an event) Mobile Campaign Using Social Media Experimental Format Campaign Use of Social Media by an SME

Facebook Page for a Business (Agency Run)

If you own and run your Facebook Page, see the category below. For your this category nomination we need the following:

Facebook Page address and number of likes at time of submission:

Describe the purpose of your page: How do you run it, do you have a marketing plan and weekly objectives.

Engagement: please include stats of weekly interactions on your page - you will be required to submit an Excel file exported from your FB page on the past month of engagements or make one of us Insights Analyst.

Attention: Have you run ads to get traffic, how have you marketed the page any additional metrics you use such as traffic to your website. Clickthru on Bit.y links etc.

Facebook Page for Non profit/organisation

This is for NGOs/Non Profit entities. Not for limited companies! For this category nomination we need the following:

Facebook Page address and number of likes at time of submission:

Describe the purpose of this page: How do you run it, do you have a marketing plan and weekly objectives.

Engagement: please include stats of weekly interactions on your page - you will be required to submit an Excel file exported from your FB page on the past month of engagements.

Attention: Have you run ads to get traffic, how have you marketed the page any additional metrics you use such as traffic to your website. Clickthru on Bit.y links etc.

Facebook Page for a Business (owner managed)

This is the category for those that run their own Facebook Page and it is not for NGOs/Organisations, see the NGO category for that.

Facebook Page address and number of likes at time of submission:

What is the purpose of your page: How do you run it, do you have a marketing plan and weekly objectives.

Engagement: please include stats of weekly interactions on your page - you will be required to submit an Excel file exported from your FB page on the past month of engagements.

Attention: Have you run ads to get traffic, how have you marketed the page any additional metrics you use such as traffic to your website. Clickthru on Bit.y links etc.

Integrated Facebook Campaign: Page, App & Ads

You must have 2 out of 3 to enter this category: Created an app, have a page, run an ad campaign for the page.

For your Facebook Nomination we need the following:

Facebook Page address and number of likes at time of submission:

What is the purpose of your page: How do you run it, do you have a marketing plan and weekly objectives.

Engagement: please include stats of weekly interactions on your page - you will be required to submit an Excel file exported from your FB page on the past month of engagements.

Attention: Have you run ads to get traffic, how have you marketed the page any additional metrics you use such as traffic to your website. Clickthru on Bit.y links etc.

Ads: Please include the copy (as in text) for your ads that you have run, how many ads have you run and stats such as views, click thrus etc. Please include if you have run engagement ads (Ad that runs on News Wall)

App: Include link to app, usage of it. What does the app do?

Best Business Twitter account – marketing, sales

This is use of a Twitter account for Marketing and Sales purposes. There is another category for CRM/Support. Choose categories wisely.

Please provide the userame of the Twitter account and any other supporting Twitter accounts, numbers of followers, numbers of following and weekly interaction numbers.

What is the purpose of your Twitter account: How do you run it, do you have a marketing plan and weekly objectives.

You will be asked to provide specific examples of how you used your account for this category.

Best Business Twitter account – Support, CRM

Sponsored by SENSORPRO

This is use of a Twitter account for Support/CRM purposes. There is another category for Sales and Marketing. Choose your categories wisely.

Please provide the userame of the Twitter account and any other supporting Twitter accounts, numbers of followers, numbers of following and weekly interaction numbers.

What is the purpose of your Twitter account: How do you run it, do you have a marketing plan and weekly objectives.

You will be asked to provide specific examples of how you used your account for this category.

Best Blog of an SME

Sponsored by .ME Registry

Please note this must be the blog of a registered fulltime SME

Business Blog web address and contact information for the blog

If you are the owner, why does your blog rock? If you're a fan, why do you like it?

Video/Video Campaign (non broadcast)

This category is for a video or video campaign for a business or organisation and is a video that is not made for or has been broadcast on TV or in the cinema.

Link to video (it must be online and public and not have been a broadcast ad) and number of views

Describe if this has been Search Optimised and what marketing including ad buying has been done for this video to get attention for it. What social media elements did you use for this video?

What is the purpose of this video: What is the idea/story in this video. What are the objectives for the company/org in doing this?

Tell us why this campaign was successful

Online PR Campaign

This is for Online PR Campaigns. Campaigns specifically targeted for Online. An offline
campaign that gets mentioned online on newspaper websites is therefore not valid.

Describe the objectives of this Online PR Campaign:

What content was created for this campaign?

Reference some online mentions of this as a result of the campaign:

What was the result of this campaign?

What were the resources used for this campaign? (Staff, online media spend, time spent on this campaign)

Use of Social Media by State Body

You must be an Irish Government/State body to be nominated in this category

Describe the objectives of your use of social media:

What content/online presence was created for this campaign?

Reference some online mentions of this as a result of the campaign:

What was the result/metrics of this campaign? (If Facebook we will follow up asking for a copy of the exported Excel document of your past month's metrics)

Best Mobile App

(If this is a premium app we will require a code to install and test the app)
A mobile app used to market/promote a product, service, event. The app needs to have been created after March 2013 or updated since March 2014.

Name of app, App store/Android store/Website link, and Sales/Ranking for the app:

Describe the mobile app and what it does:

Describe how the mobile app was marketed:

Number of installs since March 2012:

Customer Care using Social Media (Integrated)

How do you as a business/org deal with customer support/customer care issues with social media? This is for companies/orgs that have a defined customer care plan/policy in place for Social Media.

Describe the objectives of your use of social media for customer care:

Tell us (succinctly) what your customer care plan is/does:

What online presences do you use for customer care/support?

Describe your customer care process to deal with issues

What was the result/metrics of this campaign? (If Facebook we will follow up asking for a copy of the exported Excel document of your past month's metrics)

Want to include additional details, do so here:

Best use of SM for a sponsorship campaign

For your sponsorship campaign, how are you using social media to enhance it or bring it to a new audience?

Describe the objectives of your use of social media for a sponsorship campaign

What online presences were used for the campaign?

Describe your objectives for the online campaign

What was the result/metrics of this campaign?

What did you learn from this campaign?

What would you change next time?

Want to include additional details, do so here:

Innovative Use of Social Media

Sure we all have a blog and a Facebook and Twitter. What makes your use of Social
Media innovative? How does it pop out from an endless stream of “viral” videos and selfies?

Describe the objectives of your use of social media

So what makes it innovative in 2014?

What were the result/metrics of this campaign?

What were your resources?

What did you learn from this?

Want to include additional details, do so here:

Social Media Effectiveness – conversions, metrics etc

Sponsored by Cloud90

This is the one where ALL the numbers count. Here we want you to directly tell us the metrics of your social media and why you think this is worthy of being named the best in the category.

Describe the objectives of your use of social media

Here come the numbers. We need you to detail with some depth on how you believe your social media campaign was effective. What and how did you measure before, during and after your campaign.

What were the most important metrics in your view?

What were your resources?

What have you learned, what would you change, what did you change?

Want to include additional details, do so here:

Integrated Social Media Campaign

We hope we don’t need to explain to you what an integrated social media campaign is.

Describe the objectives of this campaign:

What social media channels were used. Please give two line summary of each channel and the objectives:

How is this campaign integrated? Explain what the campaign is comprised of.

How was this planned?

Reference the mentions of this as a result of the campaign:

What was the result/metrics of this campaign individually or as a whole?

What was learned from the campaign? Anything you'd change the next time?

Want to include additional details, do so here:

Best Business/Org Twitter Campaign

Use of Twitter for a specific campaign for a business or organisation run anytime between March 2013 and March 2014

Please provide the username of the Twitter account(s) used for this campaign and any other supporting Twitter accounts, numbers of followers, numbers of following and weekly interaction numbers.

What is the purpose of this campaign? What were the objectives, how were they carried out, what were your measures of success?

You will be asked to provide specific examples of how you used your account for this category.

Social Media Only Campaign

For those that have run a Social Media Only campaign. No backup from radio, print, TV, not attached to another campaign

Name of Campaign

Purpose of Campaign

Metrics in Campaign

What was achieved?

What other details should the judged be aware of?

Best Mobile App (For an event)

(If this is a premium app we will require a code to install and test the app)
A mobile app used to market/promote an event. The app needs to have been created after March 2013 or significantly updated since March 2013.

Name of app, App store/Android store/Website link, and Sales/Ranking for the app:

What event was this for?

Describe the mobile app and what it does:

Describe how the mobile app was marketed:

Number of installs since March 2013:

Mobile Campaign Using Social Media

Mobile Campaign Using Social Media.
This category is for campaigns that are mobile first in nature. A campaign that uses social but your audience in social are those on mobile devices. This campaign needs to have happened anytime from May 2013 to March 2014

(This is not the category to talk about your app)

Explain the objectives to this mobile campaign

What were you metrics going into this?

What goals were reached?

Share some numbers with us, the judges:

What lessons did you learn from this campaign? (Apart from you're awesome, obv)

Experimental Format Campaign

This is the category that could end up being the most fun to show stuff off or an absolute disaster with every hare-brained scheme and Hail-Mary pass dumped in here. Actually that’s fine. Do it.

This is the space where you can show off your Instagram/Instagram video campaign, Vine campaign, Snapchat campaign or Google+ campaign (sorry guys)

What were the objectives of your campaign?

What media did you use?

Why is it experimental?

What were you measuring going into this campaign?

What were the results?

What lessons did you learn?

Use of Social Media by an SME

Use of Social Media by an SME. SME’s only. This category is for overall use of social media by Irish SMEs.

Outline how you are using social media for your SME.

What are your metrics for your use of Social Media?

What goals have been reached so far?

What lessons have you learned from using Social Media?