UK's Female Social Media Guru 2009

The award serves to celebrate the wealth of female speakers and practitioners of social media living in the UK. In doing so its objective is to challenge the current under-representation of females on event panels by offering a high profile platform for women.

Anyone can nominate a person to be one of the five speakers at the final event, to be held in April 2009.

The five will be selected through a poll of industry members, hosted on the Social Glue blog. By asking some of the UK's best connected social media users to utilise their medium of expertise in order to promote themselves across Twitter, their blogs and respective communities, we are ensuring maximum exposure for the competition, nominee pool as a whole and associated sponsors.

Each speaker will choose a subject they want to present about (subject to liaison with the event guardians to avoid any cross-over on the day).

Speeches from the event will be video recorded (courtesy of Wordia.com) and hosted on a dedicated competition site built by Brando Social. The site will then host a further round of voting by the industry at large (open to those outside of the UK) to choose a winner. All profits from ticket sales for the event will be donated to the Macmillan's Cancer charity. The event winner gets to choose which specific sector of the wide-ranging care offered by Macmillans will benefit.