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In 2011, I teamed up with Tom Pick (@TomPick) and his Webbiquity blog to unveil the first annual #Nifty50 Awards. Our goal in designing these awards was to honor the top 50 women and top 50 men in social media. In that first year, we cast a wide net, honoring those whom we felt actively engaged as brand ambassadors on Twitter day in day out, exchanging valuable information, and just generally being good, helpful people. Last year, we narrowed our focus to honor the top 50 men and top 50 women engaging on Twitter on behalf of the tech sector.

This year, we wanted to target a specific group once again, and so we agreed to honor the top bloggers, authors, PR specialists, and journalists on Twitter. After reviewing all of your wonderful nominations over the summer, it’s now time to unveil the winners!

Now that Tom and I have compiled our lists, the word that keeps popping into my head is “community.” This isn’t just a list of 50 men who work in isolation; these are people who share strong social bonds with each other, who would be just as happy to celebrate the success of one of their colleagues as they would be for themselves. These thought leaders understand that the greatest product of a good idea is more good ideas, and it’s great to see that their generosity and thought leadership in online communities is being recognized.

I’m happy to say that I have had the privilege of experiencing this generosity firsthand. As we were writing our book The Social Employee: How Great Companies Make Social Media Work – Success Lessons from IBM, AT&T, Dell, Cisco, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, and Domo on building a Social Culture (McGraw-Hill, August 2013) (@SocialEmployeelate last year and early this year, we were honored to receive excellent contributions from people like Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar), David Armano, (@Armano) David C. Edelman (@DavidEdelman), and Kevin Randall (@kevinbrandall) —just to name a few. These wonderful wordsmiths truly enlivened our own content, and we couldn’t be happier to see them make this list.

So without further ado, here are the 2013 #Nifty50 Men! Feel free to celebrate their achievement by dropping them a line on Twitter, and don’t forget to check out the Webbiquity blog for the 2013 #Nifty50 Women!

Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar

David Armano @armano

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Jonathan Becher @jbecher

Sander Biehn @sanderbiehn

Michael Brenner @BrennerMichael

David Brier @davidbrier

Michael Brito @Britopian

Terry Brock @TerryBrock

Terry Brock @TerryBrock

Mark Burgess @mnburgess

Chris Carragher @cjcarragher

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Dan Cristo @dancristo

Dino Dogan @dinodogan

Mike Edelhart @MikeEdelhart

David Edelman @davidedelman

Mark Fidelman @markfidelman

Sam Fiorella @samfiorella

Jez Frampton @jezframpton

Nis Frome @nisfrome

Sean Gardner @2morrowknight

Glen Gilmore @GlenGilmore

Andrew Grill @AndrewGrill

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John Hagel @jhagel

Arik Hanson @arikhanson

Kent Huffman @KentHuffman

John L. Kennedy @johnlkennedy

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Jure Klepic @jkcallas

Bryan Kramer @bryankramer

Simon Mainwaring @simonmainwaring

TJ McCue @TJMcCue

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Billy Mitchell @billymitchell1

Jacob Morgan @jacobm

Tom Peters @tom_peters

Howard Pyle @howardpyle

 Erik Qualman @equalman

Ajay Ramachandran @ajay

Andreas Ramos @Andreas_Ramos

Kevin Randall @KevinBrandall

Ron Ricci @RonRicciCisco

Tony Riches @tonyriches

Alex Romanovich @alexromanovich

Ted Rubin @TedRubin

Neal Schaffer @NealSchaffer

Dan Schawbel @DanSchawbel

Gary Schirr @ProfessorGary

Brian Slattery @BrianSlatts

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Andy Smith @kabbenbock

Brian Solis @briansolis

Bill Strawderman @marketingbard

 Todd Wilms @toddmwilms

Tony Zambito @TonyZambito

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