Most Votes Recognition
Posted on Wed, Feb 09, 2011 @ 06:44 AM
The initial buzz from announcing the 2010 B2BTOTY winners is subsiding, but we want to take this opportunity to recognize some high energy B2B Twitterers who got the most votes in their respective categories.
As we've stated, getting the most votes is not the determining factor of who wins; it's meant to be a way to spread the word and show the support of your audience. But these folks proved themselves to be winners too. We decided to add special “Most Votes” awards for those that successfully campaigned for votes via twitter and officially accepted their nominations via answers to our questionnaire. They did a tremendous job getting the word out about B2BTOTY.
Yes, we realize our system of nominating is not perfect; several people commented that the system could be gamed by someone and their friends using our app every day for the duration of the nomination phase to be in the lead.
Additionally, while we emphasized the initial importance of nominations we still looked at those nominees who were not as "popular" to see if any merited semi-final status and each of the leading nominees were scrutinized by our Judging panel of B2B professionals, and we stand behind the Winners and Runner Ups.
At this point, we are happy to give a w00t! to these B2Bers because their efforts helped virally spread the word about the B2BTOTY Program, and that helps us make this community more inclusive. It was clear that they had enthusiasm and so did the other Twitterers that kept on nominating them or retweeting them. Because of folks like them, we can count on the Program being remembered and looked forward to by more B2Bers in the future:
@CR4_News
@sarasocialmedia
@Joani_BNI
@PositivelyMN
Thank You!