Here Are Kenya’s Kings & Queen of Social Media
The 2013 OLX Social Media Awards 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.
Here are the winners;
Most Influential Facebook Personality
Crazy Nairobian
CEO of the year
Bob Collymore
Tweep of the year
Chief Kariuki
Most influential blogger
Crazy Nairobian
Overall corporate award of the year
Safaricom Ltd
Overall Social Media Personality of the year
Churchill
Special Award
President Uhuru Kenyatta
Best Social media News Channel of the year
Churchill
Best use of Social media on a Radio Show Home Run
Easy Fm
Best use of Social Media by Print Magazines
Pulse Magazine-Standard Group
Digital Channels award
NTV
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.
Here are some photos of the event;
