OLX Social Media Awards 2013 that seeks to reward organizations and individuals who have showcased strategic and creative use of social media on Friday evening announced the winners at a beautiful black tie ceremony held at the Laico Regency Hotel.
The
winners were drawn from Kenya’s social media landscape were each
selected by Kenya’s vibrant online community and represents
organizations and individuals who have showcased an outstanding command
of social media. The awards were open to business enterprises,
associations and private and government bodies through an online
nomination and voting process.
Official title sponsors for the event OLX one
of the leading online markets in the region provided a cash prize of
Kshs 250,000 for the Social Media Agency of the Year and Kshs. 100,000/=
for the Most Influential Facebook personality of the Year. Social Media
of the year CEO of the year also got a business class ticket to any
local destination and one year free subscription to Africa Forbes
magazine from Trinc Media while Valentine Cake House gave out a Kshs.
50,000/=voucher for the winner of the Best use of social media by an
event. Other sponsors included Public Relations Society of Kenya,
Deloitte, Niaje and Bloggers Association of Kenya.
read the list of winners;
Social Media Agency of the year
Squad Digital
Media Personality of the year
Julie Gichuru
Facebook campaign of the year
Bring Zack Back Home
Twitter Campaign of Year
Occupy Parliament – Boniface Mwangi
Excellent Customer Service Twitter
Safaricom Ltd
Most Influential Facebook Personality
Churchill
Corporate Twitter Account of the Year
Safaricom Ltd
Video Campaign of the Year
Faiba
Best use of Social Media in Events
Safaricom 7s
Best Government bodies on Social media
Kenya Vision 2030
Advocacy award
Occupy Parliament-Boniface Mwangi
Social media Innovation of the year
iVolunteer - Redcross
Artist of the year of Social media
Sauti Sol
Facebook Fan Page of The Year
Daniel Churchill Ndambuki.
Overall Social Media Personality of The Year winner
Daniel Churchill Ndambuki.