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Mobile Industry Review Show – Awards Special

Monday, October 13th, 2008

It’s time for the Mobile Industry Review 2008 Awards (formerly known as the SMS Text News Awards — before we changed our name).

It took us a long time. Months, in fact. Regular meetings, arguments, distractions, testing, pondering… but it’s here.

Yesterday the MIR Show team headed down to a swanky hotel in London to film the results… only to be rather impressed with the beautiful summer day. So we took to the Gardens at Temple, overlooking the Thames and delivered the results in glorious sunshine. (It’s rare to get a day like this in London — especially in October. It’s normally soggy rain, rain followed by rain.)

There’s a few contentious results. Even during filming, there were still discussions and rumenations. However I’m pleased to publish them.

We’ll have a full list up online shortly including links to all the nominees and winners.

CATEGORIES, NOMINEES AND WINNERS:
(winners are indicated in red)

Best Marketing Campaign ( 01:33 )
Strongbow (Flirtomatic)
CityAM & Mippin
Cassidy

Best Mobile Instant Messenger ( 02:19 )
Palringo
IM+
Agile Messenger
Goggle Talk on Blackberry
Trutap

Best Mobile Related Corporate Social Responsibility Story ( 03:04 )
Orange Rock Corps
Nokia for environmental friendly mobile charges
Stand By What You Say – Spinvox

Best Public Relations Campaign ( 04:33 )
LG Blog
WOMWorld
Texperts
3MobileBuzz

Best Gadget ( 05:21 )
Loc8r (from glasto): GPS thing
Proporta mobile charger
Flip camera

Mobile Industry Hero ( 06:29 )
Steve Jobs of Apple
Google Founders
Jyri Armstrong
Jay Fenton

Mobile Industry Villain ( 07:43 )
Ofcom
The phrase ‘unlimited’
Vodafone porting
PhonePayPlus
Carphone Warehouse (for iPhone 3G launch)

Best Mobile Blogger ( 09:20 )
All About Symbian (AAS)
S60 Nokia Blog
Boy Genius
Stephen Fry
The Outsider

Most Innovative UK Operator ( 10:20 )
Vodafone
3 UK
Blyk

Best Mobile Application ( 11:23 )
Shozu
Shazam
Yap
Google Maps
Qik
NewsGator
JoikuSpot
Handy Taskman

Best Mobile Handset ( 12:37 )
iPhone 3G
Nokia N95 8GB
Blackberry Pearl
Nokia N71
Nokia N82

Best Use of SMS ( 14:22 )
Paypal
Crimestoppers
Virgin Vie
Texamundo
AddisonLee
Clickatell FNB

Best Public Use of Mobile ( 15:25 )
Mediaburst SOS Response
Vodafone and UN
Orange RockCore

Best Value Product ( 16:58 )
Google Maps
3 PAYG Broadband
Clickatell
Spinvox Memo (it’s FREE)
Mippin – it’s FREE
Goosync

Best Use of Mobile ( 18:00 )
ShopQwik
Lastminute Fonefood
Halifax Brooding Society

Best Mobile Service ( 19:08 )
Momail
Spinvox
DeviceAnywhere
Shazam
Text answer services combined with Textperts and AQA
Skyfire

Best Mobile Industry Review Reader ( 20:32 )
Kip Hakes
Mike42
Terence Eden
Dan’s Stalker
Stefan

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The Mobile Industry Review Awards: Monday

Friday, October 10th, 2008

We’re recording the Mobile Industry Review Awards — both the nominations and the winners — tonight.

I’ve just overseen the creation of our fancy envelopes with the results inside.

SHHHH. Can’t tell you who’s won.

Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley will be presenting alternate categories, listing out the nominations — and then ripping open the envelope, announcing the winner — and then explaining our reasoning.

It’s been a bit of a while coming. The final deliberations took us something like 4 hours. But we’re done and we’re live on Monday.

I think it will probably have to be a separate video from the usual Monday show — so expect two on Monday.

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Choosing a trophy for the MIR Awards 2008

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Besides nominations for the Mobile Industry Review 2008 Awards, the other thing I’ve been looking at are trophies.

There’s a world of choice out there, especially if you’d like a cricket ball in a grasping hand, or a football (“soccer”) boot in motion. Or a medal.

I did for a moment drift off in a dream state thinking it would be rather cool to issue medals to winners. I gave that a good five minutes of joy before coming back to Earth. Our awards need to look good in the trophy cabinets of the winners.

11cm, 15cm or 20cm? Well, if in doubt, I’ve been picking the biggest. That’s how entrepreneurs do it, right? Buy the biggest.

And, er, get a discount.

I’ve ordered a few samples with the MOBILE INDUSTRY REVIEW logo engraved.

I was thinking silver. Then I moved to a bit of funky mahogany with silver. I looked at commissioning some sort of Motorola RAZR set into steel or the like — that would have been fun. And prohibitively expensive at 500 quid a pop. We’ve not been able to reach agreement with any potential sponsors ergo since it’s all being funded by yours truly, I’m taking a bit of a more direct approach.

I said to the chap it might be quicker — and definitely cheaper — BUYING 20 RAZRs and supergluing them a fancy stand. The chap was silent and didn’t ‘get me’.

I finally settled on glass. Then I’ve been sat pondering what kind of shape. A star? A weird half circular block?

Or, perhaps, does-what-it-says-on-the-tin (“simple”) rectangular shape?

I’d welcome your viewpoints.

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Awards update: Nominations due this week

Monday, September 1st, 2008

I’ve been going through the nominations for the Mobile Industry Review Awards. There’s a ton. An absolute ton.

The casting vote on nomination is with me. I am, for example, weeding out the dross. For example, whilst I respect and appreciate one reader’s nomination of a screwdriver as the best mobile gadget, on the grounds that it’s ‘a varied, reliable and multifaceted tool,’ that’s not quite what we had in mind. ;-)

I’d like to see how far a screwdriver or a stapler would get against some of the other gadgets nominated.

It’s difficult enough deciding the final line-up for each category. Initially I wanted to have 3 nominations in each category, with one winner. But in some cases, I simply can’t decide. I reckon we might end up with 5 in some categories.

I’ve given myself a few more days of deliberating.

Then we’ll be going live with the shortlist of nominations.

After that, I defer to the Mobile Industry Review team.

In alphabetical order:

Ricky Chotai
Dan Ilett
Jonathan Jensen
Samantha Kidd
Dan Lane
Krystal London
Ewan MacLeod
Ben Smith
James Whatley

Everyone will have an equal vote. There’s 9 of us so it’ll be uneven and, I hope, straightforward. But if it’s anything like the amount of time I — and in particular, Dan Ilett — have spent on the nominations, it’s going to be a challenging process.

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Mobile Industry Review awards – update

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Just another update.  We’ve been doing a ton of work on the Mobile Industry Review awards. It’s been taking up a lot of time.  Dan and his assistants have been pouring through the nominations (300+ in all) and next week we’ll be in a position to:

* Announce the nomination shortlist for each category
* Announce the judging panel
* Announce the key date

All very exciting stuff.

I’m looking forward to being able to formally congratulate the winners!

Curiously, one of the most popular categories has been the ‘villain’ category.  If you recall, we asked for your nominations for a mobile industry villain and… heh, you weren’t shy.  I think I better present that one.

If you’d like your company to be associated with the awards — drop me a note.

More soon!

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Everything you wanted to know about the SMS Text News Awards

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Hello!

‘Tis I. Ewan. Your friendly mobile blogger from SMS Text News.

Ah hah!

You’ll have noticed that we’ve posted quite regularly about the upcoming SMS Text News Awards.

We’ve had hundreds of entries so far so thank you very much indeed to all who have taken the time to do so.

1. Entry. You need to be quick. We need a description and a note on the category(s) that you are entering for. The deadline is tomorrow. Quick! Email us a holding email if you like as we won’t begin the judging. The email is awards@smstextnews.com.

Don’t be shy. A few enterprising companies have entered for almost every category.

2. Prizes. We were looking at a 6ft bronze statue of SMS Text News contributor, James Whatley, posing with an N95 and an N82 in his hands, for all winners. Whilst we liked this concept and it could look rather fetching in the reception areas of the winners, we eventually decided on some kind of plaque/shield.

3. Award ceremony. Yeah, none of that. We won’t be doing sit-down dinners or black tie arrangements. Not yet. The overhead for this is a bit high. We’ll be announcing the winners on the site during a live chat event.

4. Profiles. We’ll be doing a piece on each winner and we’ll also be doing smaller pieces on the runner-ups. Everyone’s a winner!

5. Judging panel. The panel is being composed as we speak. Image rights are being negotiated. I’m on it, but other participants will be announced momentarily.

Any questions? Mail!

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SMS Text News Awards – submission deadline approaching fast

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Just a polite reminder. The deadline is looming for submissions to the SMS Text Awards. We’ve had hundreds of entries for the 20 categories and the deadline in next week- the 25th July.

Somehow I have a foreboding feeling a handful of us will be going blind with reading over the next couple of weeks.

So just as a reminder, we are giving out 19 awards for mobile industry excellence and one award for being dreadful.

The categories are:

  1. Best handset
  2. Best application in mobile
  3. Best marketing campaign
  4. Best public social use of mobile
  5. Best business person in the mobile industry
  6. Best user
  7. Best mobile marketing manager
  8. Best CSR story
  9. Best instant messaging tool
  10. Most innovative operator
  11. Best blogger
  12. Industry hero
  13. Industry villain
  14. Best service
  15. Best gadget
  16. Best reader
  17. Best use of SMS text message
  18. Best value product
  19. Best business use of mobile
  20. Best PR campaign
If you’d like to submit an entry (awards@smstextnews.com). Results will be announced in August, so stand by for details on that…
Entries can tell us anything you think will win you a prize but can be a maximum of only 500 words.

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SMS Text News Awards – get your entries in

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

We’ve had more than 300 entries for the SMS Text News Awards ‘08 already. It’s pretty shocking, and I wasn’t quite aware I was letting myself in for so much reading, but we’re now electing a board of judges…

It’s a fantastic response and I don’t think we’ve seen the end of the entries by any means.

So just as a reminder, we are giving out 19 awards for mobile industry excellence and one award for being dreadful.

The categories are:

  1. Best handset
  2. Best application in mobile
  3. Best marketing campaign
  4. Best public social use of mobile
  5. Best business person in the mobile industry
  6. Best user
  7. Best mobile marketing manager
  8. Best CSR story
  9. Best instant messaging tool
  10. Most innovative operator
  11. Best blogger
  12. Industry hero
  13. Industry villain
  14. Best service
  15. Best gadget
  16. Best reader
  17. Best use of SMS text message
  18. Best value product
  19. Best business use of mobile
  20. Best PR campaign
If you’d like to submit an entry (awards@smstextnews.com), the deadline is July 25th. Results will be announced in August, so stand by for details on that…
Entries can tell us anything you think will win you a prize but can be a maximum of only 500 words.

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