Well as everyone on twitter is aware at this stage @mcawilliams made the shorty award finals for the best producers of short content in 2008, so many many thanks to all who nominated me! I am chuffed.
Many people have written blog posts asking for votes for me for the final round and again thank you to all of you aswell. But I do feel its about time I explained myself a bit more.
All through the process I have been telling people that this is a scientific experiment, ok maybe not scientific but it is an experiment in networking. When I first heard of the shorty awards from one of @problogger’s informative tweets I decided that I would give it a shot, (if you aint in you aint gonna win) but in the back of my mind I wondered if I could actually do well in it when I saw other people nominate me!
So the experiment began.
On twitter I bring nothing to the table, I rant, make noise, annoy, attempt to make people smile, am not famous, know damn all about social networking, am a guru in nothing and was up against the big boys such as @stephenfry, @guykawasaki, @breakingnews and loads of others. I pitched myself in the personal category because as I said above thats me on twitter, I would not put myself as a food/business/tech specialist unlike some of the other finalists who aimed at categories they should not have been near, mine included. I ended up out of everyone nominated, I mean EVERYONE as the 28th most nominated person, WTF!
It was you guys! you all responded to my calling better then I imagined!
Due to this I have made a lot of new friends on twitter since my followers have gone from 245 at the start of the process to 745 at the time of writing this!!! So I think I have proved even if it aint important to you, that a lot of these elitists who are in the finals, the sorts with 20,000 followers and 1000 following that respond to no one but their elite buddies, can actually feel the pressure come from a no one with fuck all followers, who will take time to reply to people, chat and make them feel as important as I feel on a daily basis when I see people still follow me, which surely is what twitter is about!
Over the process I have lost a few people too I would say 20 max, many of them who had just followed due to the shorty awards, but some were long time followers who may not have communicated much with me but them leaving me made me wonder if this was worth it! I decided whats the worst that could happen I loose everyone, it means I can finally leave this twitterland that has me so addicted, maybe it would be a blessing in disguise!
That in a nutshell was what I was at! putting forward someone who offers nothing for an award against big players and really putting it up to them thanks to you guys! Oh and to those that think I am doing this as an ego thing, I think you should unfollow from me now!!! because if you know me as you should from my twittering you would know this is not what I am about!
I have plenty more to write about the past few weeks doing this but will wait until the awards end to publish that post it will discuss all the other things I have learnt along my journey.
One last thing I would like to say is I have plans for after this all ends for all who voted for me which I shall reveal when I can! and if you have not voted but would like to please click this link which will open up twitter for you,all you need to do is login and the update box will be filled in just leave a short reason as to why I should win the personal category.
Thanks for bearing with me through this guys and thanks for all your help!
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Chuffed? Really?!?
Congrats on being 28th, quite an accomplishment.
Hopefully by the end of this, we will see how well it was worth it. However, I also wonder whether we should have had a “control” user who tried to get nominations but didn’t make the final - how would they compare, in terms of popularity, to the person who made it through to the final and maybe even won in their category?
Very true Chris there were a lot of folk who attempted to make the cut some of them I was suprised with, which made it even more interesting!
Shadow yes believe it or not well chuffed I have big plans for the 11th! as a way of saying thank you!
John, I don’t agree with you at all. You offer a lot to people everyday. So, you don’t give photo or video tips. You don’t do recipes, or offer contests. However, you do offer honest friendship to people which is more important to me. You ROCK John. Tweet on my friend, tweet on!
Amen to that x
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