Social Media- Sowanbe Awards 2011

Think you are social media savvy? Then the Sowanbe Awards might just be for you. Sowambe, the pan-African social media lifestyle brand will recognize and celebrate the best social media adopters, talents, celebs, brands, professionals as well as social web platforms in Nigeria. The Awards has about 25 categories and will allow participants to nominate and vote online for a period of one month for their favourites, based on a clear understanding and good judgment on activities in the social web.

Categories

Best Social Media Personality

Best Social Media Celebrity

Best Social Media Blogger

Best Social Media Politician

Best Social Media Site

Best Social Media Activist

Best Social Media Designer

Best Social Media Thinker

Best Use of Twitter

Best Use of Facebook

Best Use of YouTube

Best Social Media Community

Best Social Media On-Air Personality (TV/Radio)

Best Social Media Newspaper

Best Social Media Startup

Best Social Media Jobs Platform

Best Social Networking Site

Best Social Media TV/Radio Station

Best Micro-Blogging Platform

Best Social Aggregation Tool

Best Ad Campaign on YouTube

Best Ad Campaign on Facebook

Timelines: Nomination Period: February 1 to February 10.

Voting Period: February 15 to February 28.

Winners will be announced on March 1.

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Contact:

Loy Okezie

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The Social Media Revolution

The fall of the Tunisian government is the first in a long list of tyrannical regimes waiting to be toppled by frustrated citizens and social media-inspired activists.

It took the death of an unemployed 26 year-old graduate in Tunisia for the country’s repressed population to stand up to evict old tyrant Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali from the country. The frustrated youth of Tunisia were, however, helped in their anger by social media tools as they organised and massed while evading the watchful eye of the regime’s secret police. In those hot times, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube came in handy. The #Sidibouzid hashtag was all that one needed to follow the revolution in Tunis when all the king’s cookies came crumbling down. And like a dog beaten in a fight, Ben Ali took flight. The first successful revolution by social media to topple an Arab regime was solidified.

Apparently taking note, Egyptians, Algerians, Yemenis and other sit tight Arab leaders have begun to receive a bashing from their own citizens who have taken to the streets in protest. In Cairo last week, Egyptians massed on the streets protesting against the three decades old government of President Hosni Mubarak. Protesters chanted and marched as police fired tear gas into their midst. Even as the Egyptian authorities tried in vain to stifle the use of social media tools like the Tunisians did, demonstrators were able to find a way round it to organise groups to meet. The world as we know it is changing and the impact of social media more than ever before will be felt in countries around the world, for good or for bad. 

Dwindling fortunes for Goodluck Jonathan on Facebook

At a time President Goodluck Jonathan's Facebook posts used to gross an average 100,000 comments and likes. That was then. Perhaps it signified his popularity at the height of the clamour for sanity in the nation's topsy turvy political waters.

These days the once popular Facebook president averages less than 200 comments and likes per status update.

Is the President losing friends? Or are the people just tired of reading vague exposition while government gets richer by the day?

Like a friend sarcastically said, perhaps the President's followers are now learning to face their jobs, the ones he has created?

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