Confidentiality
All members of LinkedIn Europe may make nominations. Any confidential information regarding company accounts and forecasts will not be accessible to members unless entrants state otherwise. This information can be entered in a separate confidential box within the nominations form which at no time will be visible to the public, only to the judges. Please note that as these are online awards, all entry submissions will be open for public viewing on LinkedIn and members will be voting on their choices as part of the selection process.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can enter?
The LinkedIn Business Awards 2010 in association with Cisco WebEx Online Collaboration are open to any member of LinkedIn across Europe. Only members residing in a European country are eligible to take part. Note that they can work for a company owned outside of Europe, so long as they are based within Europe. Entrants must be aged eighteen (18) and over, excluding employees and immediate relatives of employees of LinkedIn, Cisco and WebEx or of affiliated companies or any other person connected with this competition.
The Awards are to recognise exceptional business success both on a personal and company level. Companies of any size may enter.
How do I enter?
All entries must be via the online nomination form which must be completed in full and can be found here.
Entries must be written in English only.
The entry deadline is midnight (GMT) Friday 22nd January 2010.
The Awards Ceremony will be held online on Wednesday 24 March 2010.
By participating in the competition, you agree to be bound by these rules (which may be amended or varied at any time by us with or without notice) and by our decisions, which are final in all matters relating to the competition. All rule changes will be posted in revised terms and conditions on this site.
Where do I send my entry?
Once you have completed the online nomination form, click SUBMIT and your entry will be automatically sent to us.
When a nomination is proposed by someone other than the person submitting the entry, the named person/business contact will be notified and will need to approve the entry before it is entered in to the Awards. It will not be visible to LinkedIn members until this process is complete.
What do I need to include in my entry?
All entries must be in the form of a 500 word or less submission. Entries can be supported by photographic or video material, although this is not mandatory. Photographs and videos can be uploaded with the online form.
Is there a fee to enter the awards?
No. Entering the LinkedIn Business Awards in association with Cisco WebEx online collaboration is free of charge.
Prizes
Each winner will receive a free years’ subscription to WebEx along with an hour WebEx mentor session with one of the judges to discuss their entry and business approach.
In addition, there will be one Grand Prix winner, decided by the judges who will have a face to face meeting with a judge, to include travel.
An Award will be sent out to each of the winners.
Each category winner has the option of participating in future promotion with LinkedIn and Cisco WebEx online collaboration. This is optional.
In order to be eligible for the competition, you agree to:
- (i) release us from any and all liability, claims and demands for personal injury and/or damage, theft, or loss suffered in connection with the competition, save where personal injury occurs due to our negligence; and
- (ii) grant us the right to use your name and/or likenesses without further consent, payment or compensation for the purposes of advertising and publicity.
Entry into the competition constitutes your agreement to these releases. You must complete any legal documents and return them to us within five (5) working days of receipt from us. Non-compliance will result in disqualification of the winner(s) and an alternative winner will be selected.
By entering the competition, you grant us an exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, fully paid, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, publicly perform, copy, distribute, adapt, display, prepare derivative works, publish and communicate to the public via our website and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your submission worldwide and/or to incorporate your submission in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your submission.
By submitting your submission, you agree that your submission:
- is your own original work, that you are the sole creator, author and owner of the submission and that you have the right to make it available to us for all purposes of the competition and that you have obtained necessary consents and permissions from any persons appearing in any video or photograph forming part of the submission;
- is not defamatory or offensive; and
- does not infringe any law or any third party rights, for example: any trade mark or copyright or otherwise violates anyone’s right of privacy or publicity;
You shall be solely responsible for the content of your submission and you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any liability, claims and demands arising in connection with the content of your submission. No responsibility can be accepted for entries lost, delayed, misdirected, damaged, or undelivered. Incomplete entries will be disqualified.
Name and country of winners will be available on website for eight weeks after the Awards Presentation
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. You agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, which may be amended or varied at any time by us.
What are the rules?
Each category has specific entry criteria which are outlined above.
LinkedIn members may nominate themselves (or, where appropriate, their companies) for any of the awards with the exception of the Rising Star of the Year Award. LinkedIn members may nominate others (or, where appropriate, other companies) for any of the awards.
You may nominate yourself (or, where appropriate, your company) for more than one category, but you may only submit one entry for each category.
All entries will be acknowledged on receipt.
Entries arriving after the deadline will not be accepted unless previously agreed in writing with the organisers.
While the Awards are open for entries, up until 22nd January 2010, members are able to support entries via the ‘Support’ button. This does directly effect the shortlist selection. Once the shortlist for each category has been made, selected by the judging panel, voting will be open to all members of LinkedIn Europe to select the three finalists in each category. Each Linkedln member is entitled to a single vote for each entry. You may not vote for your own submission and any attempt to register a vote for your own submission or multiple votes for any submission, including through the use of aliases or varied email addresses will not be tolerated and may result in disqualification. The three nominations with the most votes will form the shortlist which will be considered by the judges who will decide the final winner.
The short lists will be judged by a panel of eminent and impartial adjudicators.
The judges` decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
The short-listed entries will receive written confirmation via email with full details of the Awards Presentation within [fifteen (15)] days of the closing date. We reserve the right to select alternative short-listed finalists in the event that we have reasonable grounds for believing that a short-listed finalist has contravened any of these terms and conditions of entry.
The determination of any winner is conditional upon their compliance with any and all relevant laws, rules and regulations.
The winners will be announced via an online Awards Presentation powered by WebEx.
This ceremony will be open to all LinkedIn members to attend. All short listed finalists must attend the Awards Presentation or have a representative on their behalf.
Award winners may publicise the fact that they are a winner, but must include the category and the year in which the award was won.
Cisco WebEx online collaboration and LinkedIn reserve the right to use the names of winners in future marketing initiatives although winners may opt out of this if they wish by notifying the Awards organisers. No external promotional material using the winners’ details will be used without the winners’ prior consent.