PIOSocialMediaTraining.com has just announced a contest to highlight emergency response agencies effectively using Social Media to reach their goals to connect with their communities using the best practices possible. With that in mind, PIOSocialMediaTraining.com is now accepting nominations for who you would consider to be the Social Media Responder of 2009. Learn how the nomination e-mail or Twitter (follow using the Twitter hashtag #SMR2009) will work at PIOSocialMediaTraining.com.
Five Finalists will be selected by a Panel of Judges from the list of eligible Nominees, based on the following criteria:
* Social Media Presence
* Use of Social Media to connect to their communities
* Quality of Nomination Tweets
* Quality of Online Postings and Social Media Conversations
* Quality of Design Elements