Technology Association of Georgia in collaboration with TAG Social announced the winners of its 2^nd TAG Social Savvy Awards this week at a special ceremony held at the Junior Achievement’s Chick-fil-A Foundation Discovery Center in Downtown Atlanta. The event celebrates Georgia’s best and brightest in social media.

Turner Sports was honored with the 2014 TAG Social Savvy People’s Choice Award

 This year’s event also recognized innovators in 6 other award categories:

• UPS

Innovating through Tapping Employee Wisdom

• The Weather Company

Supporting Employees Using Social Media in their Daily Job

• Sideqik

Next Evolution of Partnership Marketing

• KontrolFreek

Growing a Social Following by Being Authentic

• Turner Sports

Using Social Analytics to inform Business Decisions

• SnowedOut Atlanta

Demonstrating that One Person Can Make a Difference

In addition to the awards presentations, this year’s event featured a panel discussion with industry leaders Laurens Eckelboom, Global Business Development Executive at Parkmobile; Claire Flanagan, Director of Business Software Strategy at Jive Software; Kim Krebs, Manager, Employee Communications at UPS; and Blakely Thomas-Aguilar, Content Strategist at PGi.Atlanta TV and Radio Host, Conn Jackson served as emcee for the event and Ryan Oliver, Brand Strategist at Twitter gave the Keynote address.

Founded in 2013 by TAG Social, a society of Technology Association of Georgia, the Social Savvy Awards celebrates strides made by Georgia based companies and organizations in social media and enterprise over the past year. Last year, the event featured Luke Davies, Social Selling Thought Leader at LinkedIn who spoke before a sell-out crowd of industry leaders.