Crain’s BtoB Announces Its Social Media Marketing Award Winners

Cisco Systems Wins Two awards; People’s Choice Online Voting Open Now

NEW YORK & FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BtoB editors have selected 20 companies as winners or runners-up among 118 entries in BtoB’s fourth annual Social Media Marketing Awards program.

“We congratulate the winners and runners up who excelled in their use of social media marketing.”

First-place honors go to the following nine companies:

Integrated (technology): Adobe Systems; Integrated (non-technology): Aon; Facebook: Emerson Climate Technologies; Twitter: GE Intelligent Platforms; LinkedIn: Dell Inc; Best Use of Pinterest: Constant Contact; Viral Video: Dun & Bradstreet; Mobile: Cisco Systems; Corporate Blog: Intel Corp.; and, Closed Community: Cisco Systems.

Submissions were accepted last November into January 2013. All the editors’ selections are online at http://bit.ly/13bx6vv, and will be reported on in the March 2013 BtoB print issue. John Obrecht, editor of BtoB, said: "We’ve entered a new era of social marketing, The sophistication of programs has reached a new level as exemplified by our People’s Choice nominees.”

For the fourth consecutive year, IDG Communications is the Premier sponsor of the BtoB Social Media Marketing Awards. “Marketers have come a long way since the first awards program where social might have been a small part of a campaign. Now, marketers must include earned media exposure if they want to reach prospects who rely on social networks for information and purchase decisions,” said Matthew Yorke, president, IDG Global Solutions. “We congratulate the winners and runners up who excelled in their use of social media marketing.”

Online Voting for People’s Choice Awards Continues Through March 1

BtoB editors selected three entries from tech and non-tech categories for the People’s Choice awards. Online voters can choose between tech entries: Adobe Systems: “Metrics, Not Myths;” Deltek: “Connect More;” or, Dell: “LinkedIn Page.” On the non-tech side the nominees are Aon: “Global Service Day;” New Cities Foundation: “DeusM Social Media Campaign;” or, Emerson Climate Technologies: “Painted Copeland Scroll Compressor Program.”

Online voting for the People’s Choice nominees is open until Friday, March 1 at 4 pm eastern. Vote at http://bit.ly/URZPGs.

Awards Lunch at Digital Edge Live Conference

The People’s Choice awards, selected by online voters for tech and non-tech entries, will be announced on Wednesday, March 20 at the Nikko Hotel in San Francisco. The category award honorees and runners-up will also be recognized at the lunch.

Speakers at the all day conference include executives from IBM, SAP, Intuit, Intel, Cisco Systems, USG, and IDC.

To register for the conference and awards lunch, please go to http://bit.ly/YU0Qe6

About BtoB

BtoB, a Crain Communications publication, is the magazine for marketing strategists. It is the only publication dedicated to all disciplines of business-to-business marketing. In print and electronically, BtoB delivers the latest trends, best practice case studies, research, and analysis that senior marketers need to develop a winning integrated marketing strategy.

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