Golden Twits

Your company: Waste Aware Scotland

Twitter username: @WasteAwareScot

Suggest a category: Environmental

Why do you deserve an award?: Our fun, informative & useful tweets are making Scotland a much better place! We are a leading waste reduction communications organisation.

What were the objectives?: Develop dynamic campaigning strategies to promote waste reduction, reuse and recycling behaviours in Scotland. Our tweets help nicely.

What have you achieved?: A better understand of consumers through listening to their waste issues and then engaging with these people to make waste reduction easier.

Your company: Al Jazeera

Twitter username: @AlanFisher

Suggest a category: News and Journalism

Why do you deserve an award?: For providing regular and insightful updates on some of the world’s top stories, the big players and what it all means for real people.

What were the objectives?: To give people an idea of what is being done in their name and to give them the vital information to allow them to hold power to account.

What have you achieved?: People plugged in to my Twitter feed become more aware of the world around them. They are smarter, better informed and question authority.

Your company: SuperFly (art exhibition)

Twitter username: @onthesuperfly

Suggest a category: Event marketing

Why do you deserve an award?: SuperFly is a mini phenomenon. Twtr became th perfect tool 2 communicate loud & fast Th differnce ‘tween shouting & discovering th magaphone

What were the objectives?: Spread the SFword as far & quickly as possible. w/ only 5 weeks 4 submissions time was tight but twtr blew R expectations oot the water:)

What have you achieved?: SuperFly is now 50% street, 50% Tweet.SuperFlyGuy, SFartists & viewers all spread the SFword & kept in touch via twtr – now the wrld watches

Your company: SedonaCyberLink

Twitter username: @SedonaCyberLink

Suggest a category: International business/global trade

Why do you deserve an award?: I’m bringing attention to the role of the private sector in reducing global poverty. Also tracking humanitarian issues & relevance to biz.

What were the objectives?: Identify other serious thinkers around the world that are interested in working as part of network to enhance global financial recovery.

What have you achieved?: Increasing awareness about the link between globalization, poverty, climate change stresses, political instability, & fair trade.

Your company: Coggles

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.

Your company: The Carphone Warehouse

Twitter username: @guyatcarphone

Suggest a category: Customer service

Why do you deserve an award?: For simply trying to resolve people’s complaints and queries when faced with what can sometimes be a big corporate black hole.

What were the objectives?: To explore how the real time nature of Twitter can be used alongside traditional channels to deliver an enhanced customer service experience

What have you achieved?: Turning detractors into advocates, having Twitter formally recognised as a valid cs channel, recognising our mistakes & saying ‘I’m sorry’

Your company: think hard

Twitter username: @markagorman

Suggest a category: anti twitter

Why do you deserve an award?: I have put forward a staunch and rigorous campaign to position Twitter as pure pish and a waste of life on other social media platforms

What were the objectives?: To waken the initiated up to the fact that their life was washing away on their screens, mobile or static, makes no difference

What have you achieved?: Top rate badinage, rage and 65 comments on my blog from luminaries of Scottish Marketing…http://thinkhard.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/twitter

Twitter username: @chads_eye_view

Suggest a category: Advertising Blogger

Why do you deserve an award?: From starting tweeting less than 2 months ago I have risen to within the top 45 most influential Twitterers in Glasgow

What were the objectives?: To learn more about my industry and drive traffic to my blog and portfolio, in turn building my brand as an Art Director/Designer.

What have you achieved?: Closing in on 200 followers from within my industry(with not too many spamers)

Your company: Johanna Basford

Twitter username: @JohannaBasford

Suggest a category: Creative

Why do you deserve an award?: #TwitterPicture: 238 Tweets, 48 Hours, 14 Fineliners, 3 Dinosaurs, 1 #TwitterPicture, 100 Limited Edition Silk Screen Prints.

What were the objectives?: A live, interactive artistic project which harnesses the power of Twitter to capture imaginations, encourage participation & co-creation

What have you achieved?: An eclectic, inky snapshot of Twitter imaginations over a 48 hour period and the first Twitter-inspired interactive illustration.

Your company: University of Abertay Dundee

Twitter username: @AbertayUni

Suggest a category: Education/University

Why do you deserve an award?: For being one of the most followed UK universities, despite being one of the smallest, and for not relying on Twitterfeed to repost PRs!

What were the objectives?: To engage directly with our students, staff, and anyone interested in Abertay and our expertise in computer games degrees.

What have you achieved?: Rapid growth in followers through Twitter-friendly posts about every aspect of Abertay life. A genuinely interesting uni news source.