Shorty Awards Voting

As mentioned at the end of my inaugural post, this site launched today in conjunction with @UnofficialME having become a finalist in this year’s Shorty Awards in the Entertainment Leaders category, along with two Castles, a True Blood, a Twilight, and the MythBusters. Here’s a bit about what to do if you want to support Unofficial M.E. for a Shorty Award.

First of all, my thanks to the most than 160 of you who submitted nominations for @UnofficialME (mostly under Brand, until the Awards moved us and our competition into Entertainment). The support is gratifying, and I appreciate all of it. In the end, I mainly wanted to see if all of us could get a nomination, and that experiment certainly resulted in a wholly satisfying conclusion. Anything else would be gravy. Delicious, unlikely gravy.

Second of all, if you nominated @UnofficialME in January, that counts as a vote in this final voting round. So, technically, you need to do nothing more to support that account for the award. However, the benefit of submitting a fresh vote (which would simply replace your nomination, not become an additional vote) is that it would send out a fresh tweet to your followers, which might prompt some new votes from people who didn’t submit a nomination. You can submit a vote either from @UnofficialMe’s Shorty Awards profile or from the above Entertainment category page.

Third, if you do cast a vote in this round, remember that the most important thing is to include a reason for your vote after the “because” in the provided copy. Votes without a reason, while apparently they don’t get discounted altogether, count for much less in the final consideration.

Fourth, finally, and however, I’m not particularly concerned or stressed about winning the final vote. Which is a good thing, because there’s a rather insurmountable lead being held by most of competition, and while the MythBusters started this round behind us I would certainly not in any way count them out. I mean, they’re the MythBusters.

So, go forth and put your support behind either one of two Castles, a True Blood, a Twilight, the MythBusters, or Unofficial M.E. The voting period ends Friday at 12:00 PM EST (9:00 AM PST).