Twitter username: @GemmaWent

Why do you deserve an award?: Because I give damn good tweets (and people tell me I’m pretty good at this stuff)

What were the objectives?: Establish credibility, raise brand awareness, create business opportunities, learn, share quality information and engage with my community

What have you achieved?: A great community of followers that engage regularly, increase in blog subscriptions, strong relationships and 5 new business opportunities

Twitter username: @adventurebaby

Why do you deserve an award?: @adventurebaby is the perfect blend of valuable insight, interactive connectivity and personal drivel #goldentwits

What were the objectives?: To immerse myself in a voyage of social media discovery as part of IAS b2b’s Total Immersion 2009 strategy to become a digital agency

What have you achieved?: 0 to 220+ followers (no bots) on Twitter. Developed social media strategy for ABB Instrumentation, won IAS’ quarterly SM progression award

Twitter username: @scarpadog

Why do you deserve an award?: cover all aspects of what I do and what influences or effects me on a day to day basis from music to art to film the internet and the news

What were the objectives?: to share experiences and discuss with like minded people throughout the world and promote my architecture+photography

What have you achieved?: interview with online magazine archimag, discovered previously unpublished architecture and art, requests for use of my pics, self promotion

Twitter username: @VolumeGroup

Suggest a category: Social Media Developments

Why do you deserve an award?: Always @ the forefront providing insight in2 social media (SM) & digital dev. PLUS we R the SM gurus – we’re a SM guestblogger dontcha know

What were the objectives?: to increase the volume profile, increase web traffic, become social media know-it-alls

What have you achieved?: Twitter has become one of the top 3 referral sites for not only our site but client campaigns. We are officially social media gurus now!

Twitter username: @johnlyle

Why do you deserve an award?: Because I gained a worldwide presence that drives big traffic to my blog and as such, work, very quickly. And I love it!

What were the objectives?: to raise our profile, have fun and gain a rep in branding around the world. That way I get more paid and unpaid speaking engagements

What have you achieved?: worldwide domination. multiple orgasms by some (that was a slight exaggeration) and us being able to sell Twitter advisory services NOW!

Twitter username: @G__R__R

Why do you deserve an award?: We started off like most users – SHOUTING ABOUT OURSELVES! But now we actually talk to people, find new suppliers, news and customers.

What were the objectives?: To gather lots of insight and to better understand digital design and social media. Ultimately to forge new relationships.

What have you achieved?: We know everything relevant to our industry the moment it happens! Plus we’ve employed the services of followers and invoiced followers too

Twitter username: @purityale

Suggest a category: Drinks Industry

Why do you deserve an award?: @dancave says it better than us: I must say you are embracing online marketing exceptionally well(I should know it’s my day job)Good Job

What were the objectives?: Raise Purity’s profile, engage with beer writers, connect with real ale fans across the UK, share company news and join in the conversation!

What have you achieved?: Sales are up. New followers every day. Beer bloggers, real ale fans and interested consumers RT our posts and actively engage with the brand

Twitter username: @TAMBA_Internet

Why do you deserve an award?: Twitter religiously to give agency insight not just as to our work but also our family (ahhhh…)

What were the objectives?: To give our followers a real insight into who we are, what motivates us and our general activities.

What have you achieved?: New followers, stronger relationships with the press, a more personal insight for our customers, agency partners and friends.

Twitter username: @Brindleyplace

Why do you deserve an award?: Informative, interesting and entertaining updates on the latest happenings at Birmingham’s Brindleyplace estate.

What were the objectives?: To keep those who work and visit Brindleyplace up to date on the latest events and news from the estate.

What have you achieved?: Excellent click through rates to the Brindleyplace website and a growing band of happy followers!

Your company: PA Photocall

Twitter username: @PAPhotocall

Suggest a category: Media

Why do you deserve an award?: No 1 tweet is ever the same, our Pictures stem from the wierd and wonderful to the press exclusives plus Prizes for our dedicated followers

What were the objectives?: To be able to share our work with everyone on the twitter network, reward dedicated fans and create fun conversation… To make people smile

What have you achieved?: We have gained a very strong network of followers, our work is is now recognised even when not credited & we have generated more work!!!

Twitter username: @KayPringle

Why do you deserve an award?: tweettastically talented!

What were the objectives?: To keep in contact with clients on daily basis with useful info.

What have you achieved?: More links, more business, low carbon, low cost. The perfect client writing service.

Twitter username: @chrish10

Suggest a category: position within relevant communityy

Why do you deserve an award?: no hard sell approach with support & info 2 all & well received! Always based on collaboration & engagement-blog:http://tinyurl.com/yhqj3cq

What were the objectives?: inform,engage,& collaborate with relevant communities & find new markets, partners and knowledge share.

What have you achieved?: I’m(& company)well respected, trusted & followed member.Called upon 4 support & able 2 give solutions/answers. new clients & friends found

Twitter username: @RalliSolicitors

Why do you deserve an award?: Ralli have embraced the world of Twitter with open arms, whilst other organisations saw it simply as the ruler of the lunchtime playground.

What were the objectives?: To interact with clients and potential clients all over the world, increase brand visibility, comment on key legal articles and to enjoy it.

What have you achieved?: Followers who really wanted us to see their special ‘pics’, an extra arm to our web 2.0 strategy and further traffic to our key web pages.

Twitter username: @ocommunications

Suggest a category: Corporate Individuals

Why do you deserve an award?: We type like fiends to get out the latest news, even coercing the office dog to pose with computer keyboard for the TwitPics. No minor feat.

What were the objectives?: To inform, entertain and communicate with clients, businesses and friends. We keep informal, but still get across the company message.

What have you achieved?: New business, stronger journalist relations, 40% website hits from Twitter & being able to show we’re not just a brand, but a few faces too.

Twitter username: @colingilchrist

Why do you deserve an award?: For actually knowing 80% of my friends; for using it to create conversation or communicate, not to self promote, punt services or products.

What were the objectives?: To build profile, and be a valuable asset to my community.

What have you achieved?: Key speaker for seminars (x 6 to date), including local Government. Designed a Twitter tool for business: Tweetabits and do client strategy.

Twitter username: @t47lor

Why do you deserve an award?: Leading web designer on top of the latest trends and movements with a real focus to share and improve the design community

What were the objectives?: To improve the design community, increase awareness, network and learn new stuff

What have you achieved?: Great networking tool, fantastic results for real-time searching and keeping up with the latest going-ons in the sector

Twitter username: @emilycagle

Why do you deserve an award?: Emily Cagle (director) has established an expert presence on Twitter and her tweets are respected and recommended among industry peers.

What were the objectives?: To raise awareness of Emily Cagle Communications in PR industry & target sectors and position director as likeable, knowledgeable & capable.

What have you achieved?: A strong network of industry contacts has been established. In addition, several key clients have been won through Twitter.

Twitter username: @EthosPR

Why do you deserve an award?: Because our posts make sense in 140 characters without relying on truncating words or losing the sense or good English usage or punctuation.

What were the objectives?: We aim to provide followers with timely news from our clients. We also provide insight and thought on a wide variety of subjects dear to us.

What have you achieved?: We have a loyal band of followers who RT our messages to the wider world. We believe we tweet stuff that is interesting and relevant to all.

Twitter username: @extravision

Why do you deserve an award?: We share email marketing news and tips both B2B and B2C. We show character, humour…oh and occasionally promote our products and services with shortened links!

What were the objectives?: To spread the email marketing gospel according to us. Tender a herd of email marketing sheep. Follow any potential clients. Show character

What have you achieved?: Brand visibility. Competitor awareness. email marketing community member. 426 followers. RT’s, Follow Fridays. Click thrus. Good contacts. Reciprical follows

Twitter username: @FeatherBrooksba

Why do you deserve an award?: We’re becoming twitter addicts in our office! Really, we just want to show the unbelievers in our office that twitter
re(a)wards us!

What were the objectives?: To give Feather Brooksbank an online personality, showcase some things we like/work on & the things that keep our offices in constant debate

What have you achieved?: We’re building followers with opinions of media stories&local happenings! We love the casual tone&communicating with peers&clients together!

Twitter username: @fluidcreativity

Why do you deserve an award?: We’ve got an excellent signal to noise ratio. That means we tweet links and content rather than “My cheerios were soggy this morning” Swoosh

What were the objectives?: To draw attention to our blog and share knowledge whilst showing we know what we’re talking about in Design, SEO, and Digital.

What have you achieved?: We grew our followers significantly and now people actually care about our blog, they RT our links and leave comments and EVERYTHING! Swoosh

Twitter username: @onebestway

Why do you deserve an award?: Tweets are irreverent, irrelevant, indulgent, surprising & (occasionally) useful. Not trying too hard, from eye-rollingly naff to observant.

What were the objectives?: Make people smile, build the business’s personality, be clever, work as a series that people will follow. Appear professional but relaxed.

What have you achieved?: People see onebestway as fun and adventurous, self efacing but capable. Always on duty, obsessively, quirky and blurty. We ‘get’ what we are

Twitter username: @visitshow

Suggest a category: Exhibition

Why do you deserve an award?: Thought provoking use of Twitter to ensure possible exhibitors picked up on who has already decided to exhibit at ‘Visit 2010′

What were the objectives?: To generate interest from exhibitors

What have you achieved?: More exhibitors booked, more interest raised with prospects

Twitter username: @theleith

Suggest a category: Agency

Why do you deserve an award?: Because we put out good stuff, and retweet the good stuff of others (esp locally)

What were the objectives?: To put out good stuff, and support the good stuff of others

What have you achieved?: Good stuff

Twitter username: @wearenation1

Why do you deserve an award?: check out www.nation1.co.uk/twitter – i think we’ve got a good grasp of twitter and by winning we could help convince our clients to adopt.

What were the objectives?: experiment, get news out below the radar, stimulate interest in events, re-inforce our social media creds, follow leaders in this sector

What have you achieved?: we filled our twitter event, got 30 responses to our halloween ball, got a few articles in scotsman and good feedback on live projects

Twitter username: @darrenbristow

Why do you deserve an award?: Because I have been very brave!!

What were the objectives?: To raise awareness of call for submissions to innovative new economy inQubator within QUBA http://bit.ly/3toCR

What have you achieved?: Over 20 ideas were received during the two week campaign which was retweeted by influential individuals from NESTA and CITIN

Twitter username: @bunnyfootsays

Why do you deserve an award?: We regularly send round free tips & advice into the design community about making websites more usable, including our own Usability Toolkit

What were the objectives?: The objective is to bring a basic level of usability into all websites, bringing users a better experience and increasing ROI on the web.

What have you achieved?: Our links are regularly retweeted in the community and we have been thanked personally many times for their usefulness.

Twitter username: @iwantaquote

Why do you deserve an award?: We are new and trying make a real difference to consumers and businesses in what is a very tough time. Plus our tweets make people smile.

What were the objectives?: To get our brand to a wider audience and to keep us front of mind. We don’t want to bombard people with spam so we try and make them smile.

What have you achieved?: We have only recently started but already have 300 followers and web visits are up. People have started saying they really enjoy our tweets

Twitter username: @Adnams

Why do you deserve an award?: One of the first brewers on Twitter. As a small company we know it’s important to be as open & approachable as possible via all channels.

What were the objectives?: Open communication with customers & beer fans. Building relationships by engaging with our community, providing solutions to their queries.

What have you achieved?: We’re now part of the Twitter community. It’s like chatting with your mates in the local, only the guy who made the beer is there too.

Twitter username: @rileycom

Why do you deserve an award?: Our tweets have been varied, interesting and focused. We have been successful in raising our profile in Plymouth and the surrounding area

What were the objectives?: To inform, entertain and intrigue our potential audience while raising the profile of Riley Chartered Accountants and our brand design

What have you achieved?: We have launched our new branding through Twitter and generated recognition for our involvement in the local business scheme in Plymouth

Twitter username: @BordersGlasgow

Why do you deserve an award?: We started to use social networking to interact with customers and industry.

What were the objectives?: To communicate with customers about events and promotions and encourage informal conversation.

What have you achieved?: Talking to customers about events, promos, stock queries & to get targetted feedback. Also with publishers to talk shop and arange events.

Your company: BHP Information Solutions

Twitter username: @MarketingDonut

Why do you deserve an award?: Our Twitter account has made small business advice accessible, engaging and an enjoyable daily resource to help small firms to thrive

What were the objectives?: Use Twitter as a means of sharing the best ideas & using our following to get involved to share experiences with a wider connected audience

What have you achieved?: #mydonut trending topic online conference for smallbiz. UGC from our followers to create a Marketing Manifesto. Fun, laughter & conversation

Twitter username: @iknow_uk

Why do you deserve an award?: Started Twitter May 2009 & quickly got a following of people looking to us for travel inspiration. We feel we are ahead of our competitors.

What were the objectives?: We wanted people to enagage with the brand. Customer insight through interaction and consumer understanding. Informative travel news source.

What have you achieved?: Generated 200 sales leads resulting in £60,000 worth of business and we have 1521 happy and informed followers!

Twitter username: @Glossagency

Why do you deserve an award?: For promoting creative jobs and info in a time of high unemployment and building fantastic relationships with clients and temp/perm staff.

What were the objectives?: To highlight vacancies we have available and the ways and means to improve chances of work through interviews, cvs and general appearance.

What have you achieved?: Great response to our tweets from people registered with us, especially about the links regarding top tips. We have also filled vacancies.

Twitter username: @HandsOnGlasgow

Why do you deserve an award?: “Axes, scotch mist & half a dozen sheep skulls?” No problem! We do love our customer’s requests. It’s just another day at Hands On.

What were the objectives?: Keep it real, current, and alive. Breath in, breath out.

What have you achieved?: A smile and a bird in the hand.

Twitter username: @Paris_Panda

Why do you deserve an award?: We Signpost important stuff to inform and entertain – just like the BBC! ha ha : c )

What were the objectives?: To have a Paris Panda presence and create more noise – it sounds something like arumbabumba…

What have you achieved?: Almost one follower for every tweet.

Twitter username: @neoco

Suggest a category: fun business

Why do you deserve an award?: Strong advocates of Twitter to UK businesses in early stages (pre-Fry). We do not focus on follower volume.

What were the objectives?: provide an informal, immediate and fun alternative to more serious B2B comms from our agency (and others) & get our staff involved

What have you achieved?: 100% staff involvement (all 10 staff have tweeted several times). Clients often reference our tweets in meetings.

Twitter username: @gradyorks

Suggest a category: education, recruitment

Why do you deserve an award?: a recruitment service with a personality spreading grad jobs, careers advice and info in a difficult climate in our region

What were the objectives?: To raise awareness of our service to graduates and interest groups, engage with users and show that we’re a company with personality.

What have you achieved?: We have exactly 1,000 follows have made some great connections leading to national press coverage and a invite to parliment!

Twitter username: @dc_news

Why do you deserve an award?: We use our Twitter page to keep clients and associates informed about what we are up to and about new developments in the world of the web

What were the objectives?: Spread the word and works of Digital Consortium and share best practice and new ideas amongst industry professionals and interested parties

What have you achieved?: We’ve established a real time, two way dialogue with our target audiences and a way of communicating our brilliant achievements to the world

Twitter username: @6DegreesNet

Why do you deserve an award?: As well as news and titbits, we promote members, guests and associates who are SME’s, restaurants and bars – they need a plug in these times

What were the objectives?: To promote 6 Degrees Networking and everyone connected to us: members, guests, speakers, services, suppliers, businesses, venues, charities

What have you achieved?: More online exposoure for 6 Degrees and businesses connected to us. Jonathan Ross follows us. Co-founder ‘chris6dn’ has good following too.

Your company: NESTA

Twitter username: @nesta_uk

Why do you deserve an award?: We began as an unknown & now have an impressive following of amazing peeps. And we’re growing. We broadcast, but also share the Twitter-love

What were the objectives?: Increase our visibility online; promote our activities; engage with our audience; attract new audiences; dabble with new tech; and have fun!

What have you achieved?: It’s opened our eyes to the power of the people. Our ‘fans’ have provided guidance; feedback; inspiration; loyalty & thought-provoking info.

Twitter username: @GoughPR

Why do you deserve an award?: Our tweets are a unique balance of industry news & best practice, company & client updates and regional focus, generating organic followers

What were the objectives?: To learn & share within our industry, raise our profile & those of our clients, and become more involved in regional events and developments

What have you achieved?: We have raised our company profile, further promoted our clients, became more regionally involved & developed key industry contacts for life

Twitter username: @e3_media

Suggest a category: Agency ramblings

Why do you deserve an award?: We want to share the great and not so great, fun, relevant & cutting-edge stuff we see, plus what we’re up to (if you’re interested!)

What were the objectives?: We’ve got so much love to give! To provide an insight into the inner-workings of e3, the minds of e3ers and insider knowledge, in real-time.

What have you achieved?: 500+ followers & counting, live feed from private Banksy viewing, occasional Twitpics & love officially shared. Plus good chat in the pub.

Twitter username: @@ogilvy

Why do you deserve an award?: i harnessed ogilvy employees blogs to deliver a credible & representative voice to a large corporate & spread great marketing ideas globally

What were the objectives?: 1. to experiment, learn & walk the walk. 2. to spread & harvest great marketing examples, thoughts & opinions across geography & discipline

What have you achieved?: 16,500+ followers, #1 ad agency, 5%> unfollow rate, 1:1.5 RT ratio, positive anecdotal feedback & some good banter

Twitter username: @TomHusseyphoto

Why do you deserve an award?: Because we have now learned to say what we need to say concisely.

What were the objectives?: To keep in touch, make new friends, show new work and keep a finger on the pulse.

What have you achieved?: Kept in touch with old friends,made new friends & have been inspired to make new images to tweet. We now know things before anyone else.

Twitter username: @outoftheswamp

Why do you deserve an award?: We believe our tweeting spreads information, excitement, pride and sometimes nonsense. Most of all we hope it spreads internet love.

What were the objectives?: To enlighten our followers with fascinating, informative & funny stuff about the internet. We want to help grow their digital minds.

What have you achieved?: Tweeting is like the Tango. We’ve given a lot, we’ve also received a lot. We love the wisdom we get from listening to other peoples tweets.

Twitter username: @Sageuk

Why do you deserve an award?: For demonstrating the role that twitter can play for businesses who wish to find new ways to connect with their customers.

What were the objectives?: To find new and innovative ways of building relationships with our customers.

What have you achieved?: 1 example is when our CEO Paul Stobart held an hour Q & A session on @sageuk where our customers could ask him anything http://bit.ly/30qpc1

Twitter username: @Hallmeister

Suggest a category: Regional ambassador

Why do you deserve an award?: I represent my business, the industry, NE & clients by sharing key issues/stories in realtime & show leadership by practising what I preach

What were the objectives?: Launch SHC; raise my/client profiles; demonstrate knowledge, generate leads; client/industry research; NE/key campaign support; new contacts

What have you achieved?: All the above. Industry expertise&reputation strengthened. Have host of new contacts. Successfully use Twitter as a search/response facility