The Female Social Media Guru UK Awards 2009 came about when Jamie was asked by Lisa Devany on the P2P Community he admins on Ning if he could suggest some top notch female speakers in social media for an upcoming conference. He couldn’t. Within 24 hours the award was created.

The award serves to celebrate the wealth of female speakers and practitioners of social media living in 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.

In the running is Suw Charman-Anderson who is currently in talks with Brando Social to join the Consult team. More on that from David Cushman at a later date.

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

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.

Additional prizes for the winner will be subject to event sponsors.