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Social Media Responder of the Year Nominations Now Open

PIOSocialMediaTraining.com
December 1, 2009

PLOVER, Wis. — PIOSocialMediaTraining.com co-founders David Konig and Greg Friese have announced the first Social Media Responder of the Year contest.

One of the missions at PIOSocialMediaTraining.com is to highlight emergency response agencies already effectively using social media to reach their goals and provide information for other agencies as to how they can to start using social media to connect with their communities.

The contest nomination period starts on December 1 and continues until midnight on December 10, 2009. Nominations can be made using the contact form at PIOSocialMediaTraining.com or by writing a Twitter message that includes the Twitter hashtag #SMR2009.

Five finalists for Social Media Responder of 2009 will be selected by a panel of judges based on the criteria of social media presence, use of social media to connect to their communities, quality of nomination tweets, quality of online postings and social media conversations, and quality of design elements. The contest is open to nominations from any type of emergency response agency.

After the finalists are selected voting will be conducted at PIOSocialMediaTraining.com from December 16 until December 29, 2009. Profiles of the nominees and their social media content will be featured at PIOSocialMediaTraining.com throughout the voting period. A winner will be announced on Thursday, December 31, 2009.