Twitter username: @nsdesign

Why do you deserve an award?: Because we not only Tweet the Tweet, we also Twaddle the Twaddle. We use Twitter for business engagement, and promote others to do the same

What were the objectives?: To engage with our clients in the online spaces they already frequent. To raise company profile, and to support our support and sales.

What have you achieved?: over 400 followers (and growing) in a relatively short space of time. An open dialogue btween us and client base – and increased trust.

Twitter username: @the_nose

Suggest a category: Food/Drink

Why do you deserve an award?: Most interactive of the whisky companies

What were the objectives?: Provide information on whisky, to engage with whisky consumers & prospective consumers and to meet new people/enjoy the conversation online

What have you achieved?: Considerable online following, SEO boost, correcting myths about whisky (and Whyte and Mackay), enjoyment and enlightenment

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: @glasgowfilm

Why do you deserve an award?: Because we love twitter at GFT, we’re all tweeting and chatting to our audiences every day and they’re influencing the cinema programme.

What were the objectives?: Getting closer to our audiences, opening up programming to suggestions, immediate communication with our core attenders.

What have you achieved?: Great suggestions, friendly chat, larger audiences for special events and a marriage proposal…

Twitter username: @ukphonebook

Why do you deserve an award?: We’ve given our consumers the opportunity to interact with us on a personal and “friendly” level allowing them to provide helpful feedback.

What were the objectives?: Build awareness of our brand and update customers by tweeting Twitter-exclusive offers and interesting or amusing stories about our industry

What have you achieved?: We are slowly building up a loyal following, interacting with others in the industry and making our brand more fun and accessible.

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: @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!

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: @YoungEuroRSCG

Suggest a category: Personality building

Why do you deserve an award?: Cos I’m single handedly dragging my agency into the 21stC, they underestimate the potential of Twitter& this’d show em! *cough* *bonus*

What were the objectives?: To portray our agency a company with a fun- yet surprisingly & intriguingly knowledgeable- personality

What have you achieved?: Lots of followers, new friends, business leads – and my particular fav, people toasting vodka to us in Kiev!

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: @draytonmanor

Suggest a category: Leisure

Why do you deserve an award?: We’re ahead of the curve in our industry – we use Twitter as part of our integrated comms activity and we’re actively engaging with our fans

What were the objectives?: Share our news, have two-way conversations with fans, monitor for online complaints, get customer feedback and swap stories of park visits

What have you achieved?: We’ve quickly built a good follower base with high positive interaction. Monitoring means we deal with complaints quickly to protect brand

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: @Cybercom

Why do you deserve an award?: For successfully using social collaboration to create a successful twitter based campaign which made the highest tweet in the world

What were the objectives?: To drive online buzz around the Adventure Alternatives charity and help raise as much money as possible for them

What have you achieved?: An international audience was engaged and ultimately €100,000 was raised for a very worthy charity

Twitter username: @enchantforest

Suggest a category: Events

Why do you deserve an award?: 2 months on Twitter, 639 followers, whipping up excitement about Enchanted Forest and breaking new boundaries for the event.

What were the objectives?: Reach new audiences, engage with people, interactive conversation with customers, spreading the word.

What have you achieved?: Driven increase in Facebook Fans, 26th biggest referrer to main website, sold tickets, and built a strong fan base.

Your company: Manchester City Football Club

Twitter username: @mcfc

Suggest a category: Sport and leisure

Why do you deserve an award?: Because the supporters of Manchester City FC have never felt more part of the club as they do now, thanks to our Twitter feed.

What were the objectives?: To be an open channel to all of our supporters locally and around the world and to increase online interaction between the club and its fans

What have you achieved?: Impressive follower growth and a never before seen increase in social interaction between the club and its supporters.

Twitter username: @skinnipopcorn

Suggest a category: Movies

Why do you deserve an award?: @skinnipopcorn brings the latest movie information to your twitter feed and encourages discussion about movies

What were the objectives?: Designed to help build a community around Twitter movie buzz site, www.skinnipopcorn.com

What have you achieved?: Over 900 followers, engagement with Twitter, press coverage. tweeted about by Twitter’s co founder Biz Stone. RT’s

Twitter username: @glasgowshopping

Suggest a category: fashion

Why do you deserve an award?: Engaging content reinforcing Glasgow City Centre’s reputation for shopping. Advising on what’s hot, new and in store on the highstreet.

What were the objectives?: Drive traffic to buchanangalleries.co.uk and it’s stores sites. Position the shopping centre as a leading advisor in high street fashion.

What have you achieved?: Increase in traffic. 2-way communication with target audience. Followers ask for fashion advice, retweet info and recommend through #FF.

Twitter username: @SchuhHQ

Why do you deserve an award?: We deserve this award as we are dedicated retail twittereres. We keep our customers updated with that is happening in the world of schuh.

What were the objectives?: The objective was to get to know twitter and to see if we could use it on a day-to-day basis and help customers.

What have you achieved?: We have customers asking customer service based emails, asking questions, adding us as follow fridays and celebrities showing more interest.

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: @collectiveldn

Why do you deserve an award?: Albert Honeysuckle, the Honda gardener, was a specially-developed persona that engaged the audience with campaign news and ways to do good.

What were the objectives?: Promote a 3-month live webcam competition – think bingo with plants in a greenhouse – to support the launch of the Honda Insight.

What have you achieved?: Over 1,200 follwers in 3 months and 1,878 click-throughs to the Good to Grow site – plus many one-to-one conversations with followers.

Twitter username: @jet2com

Suggest a category: Budget Travel

Why do you deserve an award?: We’ve tried to have fun with Twitter and engage Jet2 customers with offers, travel tips and competitions.

What were the objectives?: Increase brand awareness, generate followers, promote sale offers & new routes, answer questions, run fun competitions, brand monitor tool.

What have you achieved?: 1875 followers, free flight giveaways (+40), received great customer feedback both good and bad but always useful, drive traffic to site

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: @brand_nu

Suggest a category: freelance creative thinking, doing and making

Why do you deserve an award?: Because the world of twitter is a better place with my awful jokes, better links and showcasing of my work.

What were the objectives?: to cheer up, to anger, to upset, to make up, to win and lose, to admire and envy, to colour the black&white world

What have you achieved?: Cheers, anger, upsets, victories and losses, admiration = all in brigthly coloured world of Brand Nu

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: /walkers_crisps

Why do you deserve an award?: RT @Rosielaine: For [our] generosity, cheekiness and general fun.

What were the objectives?: Create buzz around key campaigns. Engage with consumers to build WOM & increase advocacy. Have fun: Create more smiles per hour

What have you achieved?: By giving back – through exclusive news, prizes & acts of kindness – or simply just chatting, we’ve built a crack team of super-advocates!

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.

Twitter username: @duncanbannatyne

Why do you deserve an award?: I am the best (and most modest) of all the Dragons

What were the objectives?: To reach an audience

What have you achieved?: The audience was reached

Suggest a category: Fun

Why do you deserve an award?: We give away prizes

What were the objectives?: To engage with our audience

What have you achieved?: We engaged with our audience

Twitter username: RockRadioEditor

Suggest a category: Music news

Why do you deserve an award?: We’ve connected at a brilliant and deep level with a massively passionate audience. We really got it right!

What were the objectives?: Announce rock news headlines and express the brand character. We exist to rock and we prove it every day!

What have you achieved?: We’ve more than tripled our web hits in 3 months and even sourced news from Twitter. Plus, we’re having a great time doing it!

Twitter username: @cremeeggtwisted

Why do you deserve an award?: We got the country obsessed with finding Twisted bars and Mashable said we rock http://bit.ly/rqQ2x so it must be true.

What were the objectives?: Twisted’s missives were intended to goad and torment the Cadbury Intelligence Agents trying to hunt down the gooey trouble maker.

What have you achieved?: Over 10,000 agents signed-up including 8 who created their own Twitter streams generating a further 4,097 followers in addition to our own.

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: @creativeprotege

Why do you deserve an award?: Through the use of social media we champion graduate talent, provide support and guarantee work experience to those who register with us.

What were the objectives?: To provide links and vital information to help aspiring designers secure work by improving their current portfolios and cvs.

What have you achieved?: Many people have commented on how useful our tweets/links are. As a result the number of graduates registering with has increased.

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: @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: @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: @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!

Your company: Scottish Ballet

Twitter username: @scottishballet

Suggest a category: arts

Why do you deserve an award?: We offer a behind-the-scenes look at a company people are used to only seeing on stage, a real insight into working at a dance company.

What were the objectives?: To give people an insight into what happens from day-to-day at a dance company, and to open a dialogue with fans of SB and dance in general.

What have you achieved?: We have over 1,300 followers. People chat to us every day, and people have said they’ve come to our shows as a result of our tweets.

Twitter username: @MillerHomesUK

Why do you deserve an award?: First in our industry to become part of the Twitterati. We are reactionary, opinionated & informative Tweeple contributing to the debate.

What were the objectives?: To provide comment, be opinionated, respond quickly, immediately engage, be heard, make connections, count & influence. Embrace technology.

What have you achieved?: New relationships with key influencers. Increased two-way dialogue. Valuable connections. Useful feedback to help inform our business.

Twitter username: @coggles_com

Suggest a category: Fashion

Why do you deserve an award?: Tweeting about Coggles designer clothes helps us keep customers up to speed about current stock plus it massively helps create a buz

What were the objectives?: To share a love of great clothes with Coggles customers. To better understand what people want/don’t want. To share great offers.

What have you achieved?: +1600 followers, increased brand awarness, customer feedback, sales, and buzz.

Twitter username: @4320LA @4320LA_Kelvin – @4320LA_Nathan – @4320LA_Matt

Suggest a category: Travel Marketing

Why do you deserve an award?: We pushed the boundaries of our travellers and our team’s creativity to bring something a little bit different to Twitter for 72 hours.

What were the objectives?: We challenged 3 friends to take on LA non-stop, for 72 hours. Their challenge: to send a tweet every minute (all 4320 of them).

What have you achieved?: A live tweet feed of 4320 tweets showcasing the best adventures in LA in a short time frame now hosted on a website for future travellers

Twitter username: @m_eye

Why do you deserve an award?: I try to share great content with like minded people, whether that is insightful articles or something to laugh at and pass 5 minutes.

What were the objectives?: Initially I started using Twitter with the aim of driving traffic to my blog. Instead I become a microblogger rather than a blogger.

What have you achieved?: A feed of interesting discussion from like minded Planners, strategists and web lovers that helped me get a job in advertising at MZ.

Twitter username: @4320SYD_Rob – @4320SYD_Jade @4320_Bobby

Suggest a category: Travel Marketing

Why do you deserve an award?: We gave the Americans a go at the challenge Down Under!

What were the objectives?: We challenged 3 friends to take on Sydney non-stop, for 72 hours. Their challenge: to send a tweet every minute (all 4320 of them).

What have you achieved?: A live tweet feed and TwitPics of 4320 tweets showcasing Sydney in a short time frame, now hosted on a website for future travellers from LA

Twitter username: @KarooBroadband

Why do you deserve an award?: We’re adding real customer value by engaging with customers directly and looking for feedback good & bad and acting on it.

What were the objectives?: Offering additional value, engage with our customers through a different channel, source out a problem before it escalates, help answer Qs

What have you achieved?: Converted negative perceptions to positive, customers feel listened too, engage with digital community in their an environment & upgrades

Twitter username: @raulthemule

Why do you deserve an award?: It’s the first time a South American Mule has tweeted for 1334 hours straight.

What were the objectives?: Attempt a world 1st in which twitter was just 1 of 8 social networking sites used 24/7 to promote the benefits of a new energy drink.

What have you achieved?: Record drink sales in two states, an internet world first and fans in over 40 countries including (Afghanistan).

Twitter username: @bakingweek

Why do you deserve an award?: We have successfully embraced Twitter and utilised it to spead the ‘Bake and Share’ message for National Baking Week

What were the objectives?: To encourage twitterer’s to spread the word and get people baking and sharing on Twitter during National Baking Week

What have you achieved?: People have been baking and sharing, posting pics, tweeting and retweeting our messages and celebrities have endorsed the week on twitter.

Twitter username: @Aleksandr_Orlov

Suggest a category: Meerkat Comparison

Why do you deserve an award?: Because I am workings night & day to clear up confusion between meerkat & market. Plus, award would be perfect for use as toilet doorstop.

What were the objectives?: To tell many peoples that I can only compare meerkats, not car insurance. Oh, and to keep people update on what I having for breakfast.

What have you achieved?: Unfortunate peanut-brains still ask me for car insurance, but I at least convince interwebs that millipede baguette is perfect lunch snack!

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: @nick_at_gorkana

Why do you deserve an award?: Launching GorkanaPR News on twitter & gathering a loyal following of over 300 readers & counting. Plus Dom Joly messaged me the other day!

What were the objectives?: Expanding the PR news audience, connecting with readers new and old, promoting Gorkana and PR news through social media

What have you achieved?: Increased followers, increased subscribers to our free news, valuable networking, story leads, sales leads and some great jokes.

Twitter username: @WhyteMackayHunt

Suggest a category: Event

Why do you deserve an award?: First UK treasure hunt taking place purely via twitter – searches for over £400 of whisky in Glasgow/London with hints provided via tweets.

What were the objectives?: Raise awareness of W&M, engage online while having fun in cross-city treasure hunts. Was also a toe-dipping exercise into online presence.

What have you achieved?: Considerable coverage for W&M and was followed by up W&M Master Blender engaging online via blog, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Twitter username: @snowleopard_man

Why do you deserve an award?: Raising awareness of the endangered plight of the Snow Leopard cat

What were the objectives?: Ongoing attempt to raise awareness and funds for the Snow Leopard Cat (and SL Vodka which is set up to raise funds too)

What have you achieved?: Ongoing awareness scheme. Awareness has been raised, looking to do more.

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: @statravelbuzz

Why do you deserve an award?: @statravelbuzz we have conversations that our followers want to have, linking consumers to the brand and each other #wemakethislookgood

What were the objectives?: For STA Travel to engage and help travellers share their adventures, creating an entirely inclusive travel community on and offline

What have you achieved?: A superbly social tribe of like-minded travel enthusiasts always tweeting and utilising new media to share knowledge for the greater good

Twitter username: @TheBelugaClub

Why do you deserve an award?: We are so good that @NuriaS424 has stolen our tweets. We offer great advice on love & romance and we make people smile.

What were the objectives?: The original objective was to raise awareness of our brand & show how unique The Beluga Club is in the dating sector.

What have you achieved?: Lots. 40% of traffic to our site comes from Twitter. We also help people with their love/dating questions and enjoy topical debates daily.

Twitter username: @craigmcgill

Why do you deserve an award?: For being one of the early advocates of Twitter in Scotland, helping to push Twitter as a communications channel in Scotland.

What were the objectives?: Purely to show the many uses of Twitter – for conversation, for raising awareness, for fun, for making new friends

What have you achieved?: I’ve generated business leads, made new friends, built up a support network as a tweeting dad and had some fantastic times from twitter

Twitter username: boudiche

Why do you deserve an award?: Boudiche have challenged the perception that luxury brands should not tweet.

What were the objectives?: To increase customer engagement by telling the world about the inner workings of Boudiche and to integrate our media communications.

What have you achieved?: Our customers and staff now have a more up to date understanding of what is going on at Boudiche on a daily basis.