Its a special year for everyone who literally lives their lives on the internet. Social Media awards is was come up with these awards to reward the all users of social media, from bloggers like us to writers, corporate companies, websites facebook and twitter pages and more. Special thanks to Blu Flamingo who were able to plan this idea and sponsors & partners like Airtel, NTV, Ugo who have funded this venture. After the nominations a team of judges selected the top 5 nominees for each category.
What do these awards mean to Us? I actually mean you!
It shows that social and digital trends in Uganda have grown tremendously, i mean why would their be awards if their were few people using twitter, facebook? But these awards make so much sense because the number f Ugandans using social Media has grown really fast, Today companies boost of pages with over 100k likes on Facebook. The blogosphere has grown and the amount of quality content on the web has tremendously increased. A few years ago i could almost count all blogs but today i can’t finish counting the number of blogs per category. Even our competition keeps growing. But as numbers grow more content is shared, both good and poor content is shared at faster speeds.
Its such awards that seive out the best and next year competition is likely to increase as participant will probably spend the whole year innovating and creating content so as to take home an award. The power is in the hands of the fans to vote nominees socialmediaawards.ug The readers and fans have a chance to choose from the folowing who will gain bragging rights to whichever catergory they are nominated in.
BEST BLOG/BLOGGERS
Guru8 – (Yes we got nominated, now we kindly ask for your votes)
Beewol
Ernest Bazanye
Ruth Aine
Actor Odongo
ENTERTAINMENT WEBSITES
Mushroom Inc
Urban Legend
Kampala Sun
CORPORATE AWARD
NSSF
Pepsi
Umeme
ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS
Moses Serugo
Ernest Bazanye
Mr Dj
Ssegawa Salim
Ken Kimuli Pablo
NEWS AND INFORMATION – COMPANIES
Chimp Reports
Radio City
New Vision
NEWS AND INFORMATION – INDIVIDUALS
Maurice Mugisha
Songa Stone Samuel
Joy Doreen Biira
Raymond Qatahar
David Muwonge
CIVIL SERVICE AWARD
Uganda Police Force
KCCA Uganda
Barefoot Lawyers Uganda
Uganda Revenue authority
NSSF Uganda
BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
Echwalu Photography
Pearl Guide Uganda
Darlyne Komukama
BEST CAMPAIGN
I am (Airtel Uganda)
We Believe (MTN Uganda)
40 days 40 smiles
Malaria Free Uganda
Cocacola
BEST INNOVATION
Team UOT
FAVOURITE CELEBRITY
Navio
Ann Kansiime
Bebe Cool
Tuff B
Maurice kirya
Dj Shiru
BEST MEDIA OUTLET – TV
NTV
Urban Tv
WBS
Bukedde Tv
NBS
BEST MEDIA OUTLET – PRINT
New Vision
Daily Mornitor
Observer
Bukedde
Red Pepper
BEST MEDIA OUTLET – RADIO
Radiocity
Power fm
X fm
Galaxy Fm
BEST CUSTOMER CARE
MTN Uganda
Umeme
Uganda Revenue Authority
Airtel Uganda
NSSF
BEST CRISIS MANAGEMENT
Umeme
Uganda Media Center
National Water
Transparacy International Uganda
SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARD
40 days 40 smiles
Barefoot Lawyers
Ghetto Field Project
Transparacy International Uganda
There you have now visit www.socialmediaawards.co.ug and Vote and please dont forget to vote for us #GURU8