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After 12,000 votes in just over a week were received, the top 3 most voted airlines made their presentations to the panel of judges before the winners were decided, for the inaugural SimpliFlying Awards in Social Media Excellence for airlines.
These presentations were made at the SimpliFlying-Airline Business ‘Social media for the aviation industry‘ conference held in London on Oct 1, 2010. You can view all the Live activity from the conference here.
Categories and winners
- Best Social Media Campaign – Lufthansa’s “innovative” MySkyStatus
- Best Use of Social Media for Crisis Management – SAS Scandinavian Airlines – for communication during the #ashcloud chaos
- Best Use of Social Media to drive Revenue – Malaysia Airlines’ 72 Hours Merdeka promotion
- Simplyflying Hero of the Year – Aurelie Valtat, Eurocontrol’s online communications manager for her social media management of the ashcloud chaos to the aviation industry
View more presentations from Shashank Nigam
Moments from the conference
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Congratulations once again to all the winners, and thanks to the attendees and organizers for their participation. If you weren’t able to join us this year, there’s surely the next time!
Special thanks to John Norris for contributing some of the photos above