{"id":1365,"date":"2016-09-04T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T08:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2018-07-17T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T08:33:57","slug":"i-won-the-social-media-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/i-won-the-social-media-award\/","title":{"rendered":"I won a social media award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very proud and pleased to say that on Friday I won the &#8220;Best use of Twitter&#8221; award at the #THAwards, which were held at the Redcliffe Hotel in Paignton, Devon. It was sponsored and presented to me by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevin_j_foster\">Torbay MP Kevin Foster<\/a>. I&#8217;d like to say a big thank to him for being there and a big thank to all the team behind organising the event (More pics inside)!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1404\" src=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/award-main-small.jpg\" alt=\"Picking up Social Media Award.\" width=\"700\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/award-main-small.jpg 700w, https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/award-main-small-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/award-main-small-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The setting for the award was beautiful and the views from the hotel were stunning!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1371\" src=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/setting.jpg\" alt=\"Redcliffe Hotel view.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/setting.jpg 600w, https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/setting-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With 124 people attending the event I wasn&#8217;t nervous at all! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1372\" src=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nervous.jpg\" alt=\"Really was nervous :)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nervous.jpg 600w, https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nervous-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was placed at a great table, next to some great people from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivieramascots.com\" target=\"_blank\">Riviera Mascots and Bounce Torbay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1373\" src=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/table4.jpg\" alt=\"Awards table.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/table4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/table4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who nominated me, everyone who attended, all the winners and everyone who made it happen. A fantastic night!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1406\" src=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/awards-all.jpg\" alt=\"All award winners.\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/awards-all.jpg 960w, https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/awards-all-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/awards-all-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very proud and pleased to say that on Friday I won the &#8220;Best use of Twitter&#8221; award at the #THAwards, which were held at the Redcliffe Hotel in Paignton, Devon. It was sponsored and presented to me by the Torbay MP Kevin Foster. I&#8217;d like to say a big thank to him for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","tag-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}