Held last night at the Laico Regency, SOMA Awards fittingly raised a storm in the online KE fraternity. As live tweets and Facebook status updates flooded our timelines with the winners, it really showcased how truly social media has taken a large integral part of our day to day activities.
ICTBoard Assistant Director gives a shout out to EatOut in her keynote speech!
And it’s not only about talking about our personal lives, social media in kenya has evolved into a platform for saving lives, fighting for civil rights, campaigning for worthy causes, highlighting the plights of the weak in society and even a form of taking care of customer relations. A whooping 2.5 million+ tweets are sent out by Kenyans per day according to the ICT Board.
Our GM Elaine Dang with the fibre optic cable team of jamii telecom hanging out before the #SOMAwards 2013
Although EatOut was nominated in 2 categories and didn’t carry home an award, we are still happy we made it that far and hopefully next year will be our time.
We would like to thank all of you who took the time to vote for us as well as congratulate those who emerged the winners. It was a great honor witnessing how far the industry has come as a whole.
Here is a list of the winners that triumphed at the event. Congratulations to all of them.
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
Social media Innovation of the year
iVolunteer
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
Digital Channels award
NTV
Social Media Agency of the year
Squad Digital
Media Personality of the year
Julie Gichuru
Artist of the year of Social media
Sauti Sol
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
