The 2022 Community Industry Awards are the second annual celebration of the best in the community industry. These awards shine a well-deserved spotlight on the people and the communities who are making waves in this industry, making a difference, and building incredible spaces for their members.2021 was another challenging year for many of us, and the the CMX team is ready to celebrate our community. Every single nomination for this year's awards was incredibly impressive—the challenges, the resilience, the successes. You nominated over 400 people and companies for this year's awards season, proving that YOU are also ready to celebrate the incredible work being done in this industry.After all nominations were submitted and counted, we opened the vote up to the entire industry. We received over 20,000 votes! Thanks to everyone who participated and made their voices heard.Next, our panel of expert judges had a chance to read the nominations and cast their votes. We took into consideration the popular votes and, combined with the scores from our judges, determined the top 3 finalists in each category of the Community Industry Awards.On Community Manager Advancement Day on January 24, 2022, we awarded 14 incredible community builders and community-focused organizations with the recognition they deserve. These communities and community managers have been recognized for their excellence in community building and collaboration at the 2022 Community Industry Awards.Here are the Top Community Professionals and Communities of 2022!
Think of these as essentially the Best Actor/Actress and Best Picture for the Community Industry Awards.
This year, we changed things up. The Best of the Year categories were chosen directly from the pool of nominees, and voted on by our expert judges!
Sponsored by Bevy
Awarded to the best overall Community Professional. This is like the Best Actor and Actress categories.
UiPath
Sponsored by Bevy
Awarded to the best overall Community team. This is like the Best Picture category.
Awarded to the CMX Connect chapter that showed exemplary growth, engagement, and success of their own chapter, as well as helping their community of fellow CMX Connect Hosts.
Alex Parrales Arango and Juan Diego Castano
Awarded to the a member of the CMX Community who stood out as helpful to other members, contributing to the discussion spaces, and engaging with the community throughout the year.
ASCE
Awarded to the a member of the CMX Community who stood out as helpful to other members, contributing to the discussion spaces, and engaging with the community throughout the year.
Clari
The Community Awards are given to outstanding communities that are raising the bar for the industry. These include:
Sponsored by InSided
Awarded to a team building a customer success/support community
Sponsored by Grazitti Interactive
Awarded to a team building an acquisition community, and using a community-driven marketing strategy.
Sponsored by Bevy
Awarded to a team building a distributed events, user group, chapter program
Sponsored by Common Room
Awarded to a community that has shown significant growth and success since launching in 2021
The Community Professional of the Year Awards are given to outstanding individuals working in community.
Sponsored by Higher Logic
Awarded to a Community Professional. This is like the Best Director category
Peloton Interactive
Sponsored by Discourse
Awarded to a Community Professional building a community for Developer Relations
SAWO Labs
Sponsored by Mobilize
Awarded to a Community Professional building a community for a nonprofit organization
Ingressive For Good
Sponsored by Bramble
Awarded to a Community Professional building a community for a gaming organization
Manticore Games
Sponsored by Influitive
Awarded to a Community Professional of an education organization, building a community
Udacity
Sponsored by Kissflow
Awarded to a Community Professional building a community in the B2B space.
Qualtrics
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