Daniel Ndambuki alias Churchill carried the day after bagging three awards; Most Influential Facebook Personality, Best Social media News Channel of the year and Overall Social Media Personality of the year. President Uhuru Kenyatta was also given a standing ovation and awarded under a special category for supporting the awards.
Here is the full list of winners for Soma Awards 2013
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
Congratulations are in order for all the winners and we can only hope that this will make others realize that they too have a responsibility to post positive content on social media. The awards also recognized social Media for the great job it did in keeping Kenyans updated on the recent JKIA fire.
