As we swing into December’s holiday season, the list of things to do is going to grow exponentially. From workday seminars to afternoon holiday get together’s, and evening soirées, including our favourite event of the season, HoHoTO. We’ll focus on highlighting a few of these events throughout the month that are worth juggling your schedule around.

This week, one of the most important annual Canadian events for the new media industry is being held in Toronto. Wednesday night presents the Canadian New Media Awards show. I talked about this earlier leading up to my participation as a judge in the social media category, and I’m looking forward to seeing all the great projects from across the country.

Over the weekend, Random Hacks of Kindness presents an opportunity for devs to sink their teeth into global issues, and work together to help solve real-world problems.

Lots more on the go
As always, you can find all the great weekly events on Yeah Social’s TO Events Calendar. And feel free to add your favourite events to the TO Events Calendar or reach out to us with some suggestions so we can keep everyone up to date.

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The CNMA’s are an important event for Canadian new media companies and worth following. Dig into the finalists when you have a chance and see who’s making waves across Canada.

As Ali de Bold, winner with ChickAdvisor, shared with me:

These awards are fantastic for companies looking to get exposure and recognition for their company. Not only did it give us a platform to speak in front of future clients and collaborators, winning our category gave us an extra measure of credibility that continues to open doors.

As far as this year’s finalists are concerned, I can say from the judging process there were some interesting battles, with each of the judges bringing different insights to the table.

Some things we all agreed on, including that as good as the finalists in our category are, they can do better. That’s not an indictment of the quality of the entrants, rather to say, in the evolving social media space, the great work is only going to get better.

Check out this year’s finalists and snag your tickets to the Dec 1 show.

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The Canadian New Media Awards show is being held this Dec 1 at the Design Exchange in Toronto. Run by the folks who bring you the always fantastic NextMedia Banff, the awards show follows NextMedia Toronto. Most importantly, the awards are an opportunity to showcase your excellence in online and mobile content.

Awards categories consist of both company and individual categories, including:

Company of the Year
Promising New Company of the Year
Best Branded Entertainment
Best in Canadian Culture
Community Campaign of the Year
Best Cross-Platform Project
Digital Media Technology of the Year
Best Kids Interactive
Best Mobile Application
Best Online Advertising
Best Online Portal
Best Online Program, Series, Or Film
Best Use of Social Media
Best Web-Based Game

For individuals, you have the opportunity to be named Producer of the Year, Interactive Designer of the Year, Executive of the Year, Developer of the Year, and Digital Media Woman of the Year (though men are excluded from this last category unless they’re comfortable in drag).

All fantastic honours when a jury of your peers, including yours truly, acknowledge your excellence.

The deadline for submissions is this Friday, September 17, and we want to ensure we have a body of submissions representative of the great creative and talent from across Canada.

Please consider one of the categories that best suits you or your company and share with us your success stories from throughout the year.

I’m looking forward to seeing your great work.

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