This week, I was one of the 24 recipients of the IBM Corporate Technology Social Business Impact awards!
The list of recipients spans 14 countries (in alphabetical order):
| Country | Award recipient |
|---|---|
| Australia | Darryl Miles |
| Brazil | Sergio Varga |
| Egypt | Ahmed Abbass |
| France | Jean Francois Puget |
| Germany | Turgut Aslan |
| Detlef Helmbrecht | |
| Sebastian Thaele | |
| India | Prashanta Chandramohan |
| Vinod A Valecha1 | |
| Italy | Massimo Chiriatti |
| Bruno Portaluri | |
| Korea | JungWoon Lee |
| HyungKeun Park | |
| Netherlands | Edwin Schouten |
| Poland | Renata Anna Bilecka |
| Spain | Maria Borbones |
| Switzerland | Alessandro Sorniotti1 |
| United Kingdom | Richard G Brown |
| Jon McNamara | |
| Rick Robinson | |
| United States | Paul DiMarzio |
| Tony Pearson | |
| Christopher Pepin | |
| Elisabeth Stahl |
The award was based on engagements and conversations resulting from blogs, tweets, Facebook and Linkedin posts, Slideshare, Flickr, and other social venues, over the 2013 calendar year.
I would like to congratulate the other 23 winners! I am glad to recognize several of the people that I had helped get their blog started, and mentored along the way, have made it to the list!

