PBN Pushes Social Media Contest
“How social media savvy is Hawaii, anyway?” asks Janis Magin, Managing Editor of Digital Content for Pacific Business News. She was lamenting the fact that only 20 companies had entered its “Social Madness” corporate challenge since it was launched on March 22. She notes that Austin has received 30 entries so far, and that response was described as “paltry.”
“I follow a number of local businesses on Twitter and Facebook, and I know there are a lot of you out there who are plugged in to social networking,” she notes. “So it’s puzzling that so few of you have entered PBN’s ‘Social Madness’ social media challenge.”
“Social Madness” is part of a national campaign involving PBN’s parent publisher, American Cities Business Journals. It’s described as “a one-of-a-kind competition that measures the growth of a company’s social presence” that “will spotlight the best social media programs of companies in 43 cities.”
The deadline to submit nominations is May 15. Then, beginning, June 1, “social votes” will be tallied via tracking activity for each nominee on bizjournals.com, LinkedIn connections, Facebook activity and Twitter followers.
It will be a “bracket-style” competition, and local winners will move on to compete in a national challenge. And the three top winners overall will get to designate the charity recipient of a $7,500 donation.
Among the nominees so far, according to Magin, are  Aloha Air Cargo, Blue Planet Surf, Da Kitchen, the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, Kona Ice Aloha, Mid Pac Petroleum, Oceanit, Social Wahines, Tetris Online, The Box Jelly, and Hawaii Aloha Travel. But she wants to see many more.
“Come on, Hawaii, let’s show the Mainland we’re as savvy as the next city,” Magin says. “Even more so!”
