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"Open Web Awards Nominations will remain open until 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, November 15th. Submit your nominations here.\nSocial media has not only transformed how we communicate with each other, but it has even changed how we, as consumers, interact with brands, companies, and agencies.  The old forms of customer service and customer relationships have been challenged by the direct and open access that Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and other social media services have sparked.\nThat's why the #OpenWebAwards for Brands, Startups, Companies, and Agencies are so intriguing.  It provides us a chance to recognize the companies that are leveraging social media in extraordinary ways.    This year's honors in the Brand category are diverse, including Best Brand use of Facebook, Best Corporate Blog, Best Brand Use of Twitter, and Favorite Social media Gadget.\nLuckily for you, there are a ton of choices.  Over the years we've covered some of the best brands on Twitter, the top performing brands on Facebook, some of the smartest brands in social media, and leaders in YouTube marketing.  And this only scratches the surface of how brands have utilized social media as a positive force.\nThere is no shortage of brands, startups, companies, or agencies to nominate for this years awards.  It's up to you to figure out who deserves them the most.\nVote for your favorites\n\n\n\n\nWe'd like to know your choices for Best Brand Use of Facebook, Best Brand Use of YouTube, Best Brand Use of Twitter, Best Corporate Blog, Social Media Ad Campaign, Social Media Gadget, Social Media Agency, and Best Non-Profit Use of Social Media in this year's Open Web Awards.\nThe nominating process is simple, just visit the Open Web Awards site, sign in with Twitter or Facebook, and tell us your favorites. Nominations will remain open until 11:59 PM, ET on Sunday, November 15th.\nSome of the leaders in the Brand/Startup/Company/Agency categories so far are (in no particular order):\nBest Brand Use of Facebook\n- The Children's Place- Newegg.com- Comcast4College- Dogs Trust- Zynga- Playfish- Pet Society- Bigzig Connect- Facebuko- Mousehunt\nBest Brand Use of YouTube\n- TotallyTrucked- Coldwell Banker- Shane Dawson- Internet Killed Television- Smosh- YTwatchdog- The Hardy Show- SHAYTARDS- BooneOakley- Open University\nBest Brand Use of Twitter\n- @TrueBloodHBO- Crayola Creativitycast- @NHLBlackhawks- @LiveLifeSolid- @Philips_vs- @140hours- #socialmedia- @Smartcares- @Digsby- @KiWeets\nBest Corporate Blog\n- Playstation Blog- Grown Up Thinking by Mr Youth- uTest- OkTrends- SoGoPro- ArcelorMittal: The Inside Story- Precision Time- Picnik Blog- Kikikannibal- Milford Equity Living NYC\nBest Non-Profit Use of Social Media\n- Spirit Jump- Alex's Lemonade- A Billion for A Billion- Frougal Dougal- Lupus Foundation of America- PETA- Voices of Survivors- Sports Grants Foundation- Space Tweep Society- Thank A Soldier\nSocial Media Ad Campaign\n- Grasshopper 5,000- Comcast4College- MadMenYourself- People's Choice Awards on MySpace- Sarah Ezekiel- Hallow-Dega- Fiesta Movement- Exploiting Chaos- Flowersophy- #BeatCancer\nSocial Media Agency\n- Mr Youth- Pixel Farm- Jam- TheKBuzz- Rocket XL- SocialMedia8- Synhergy Entertainment- 360i- Room 214- Rockfish Interactive\nSocial Media Gadget\n- Digsby- AddThis- ShareThis- AddToAny- Property-Bee- Wetoku- Tigerbow- SocialGo- Yoono- WiseStamp\nContinue to nominate your favorites at Mashable.com/OWA\nThanks to our Partner: MOTOBLUR\nMOTOBLUR from Motorola was built expressly for the way people communicate today. It's the only service that automatically delivers and organizes your conversations, contacts and content from all your favorite sites and sources in easy-to-manage streams. Whether it's Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, text messages, Gmail or work e-mail, MOTOBLUR keeps track of it all and serves it up on a customizable home screen and integrates it through the phone. Plus, with MOTOBLUR you have peace of mind, because all of your info is backed up and secure. Discover MOTOBLUR on Motorola CLIQ available at T-Mobile. It's time to spend less time managing life and more time living it.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, JPA1999"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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