Voting is now openย for the Ninth Annual Sprudgie Awards, a very special awards honorific procedure meant to provide distinction, recognition, cachet and kudos to coffee professionals across a dozen categories. Voting ends December 31st, 2017 at 11:59 PM.ย In the run-up to the awards we’ll be highlighting nominees from select categories, kicking things off yesterday with a feature onย Best New Cafe.ย Today’s feature highlights our noms for the Best Coffee Instagram or Twitter account.

What’s in a Tweet? And if a ‘Gram is geotagged in a forest, will there be anyone around to fave? This year’s nominees for Best Coffee Instagram or Twitter made usย ๐Ÿ˜‚ย andย ๐Ÿค”ย in equal measure, delighting and astounding us with their dazzling array of artful photography, memetic chicanery, and evocative use of hashtags. In this, our first year of awarding a Sprudgie for Best Coffee Instagram or Twitter, we celebrate those who make social media at least marginally less awful on a daily basis. [Please note there is no award for Best Coffee Facebook, because nothing good happens there.]

Letโ€™s meet this yearโ€™s nominees!

3000 Thieves [Twitter & Instagram]

As far as iconic duo's go.. water and coffee is up there ๐Ÿ˜โ˜•๏ธ ๐Ÿ“ธ @bench_melbourne

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Micro lots and sustainable cups โ™ป๏ธ @zest_coffee vibes ๐Ÿ“ธ

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LetsBrew.Coffee [Twitter & Instagram]

Michelle Johnson [Twitter & Instagram]

Matt Perger [Twitter & Instagram]

#judgementday #robotstookyourjobnotimmigrants

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Can't stop won't stop.

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Baristas be like

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Jenn Chen [Twitter & Instagram]

Hi @specialtycoffeeassociation board, Of all the decisions to make regarding Dubai, your announcement yesterday was probably the worst. You might as well have said, โ€œOh, we sort of hear you about issues, but weโ€™ve put so much money into the venue, our values of membership inclusivity and safety donโ€™t really matter, and also you should out yourselves to us if youโ€™re a competitor.โ€ . Based on what was written in the announcement, it is obvious to me that you did not do what you said you did (listen to the membership). We werenโ€™t asking for competitors to be considered, we were asking for anyone who would potentially attend the event. . I donโ€™t know who was at the vote. The board is 20 people. Of that, 5 are women. This unequal board is so out of touch with the membership that I can not believe itโ€™s capable of listening to members or making decisions in line with the organizationsโ€™ values. . I am still mulling over which would be a better form of protest for me- 1) Working from the โ€œinsideโ€ and enacting change within a structure. i.e. slowly flipping the board. Or 2) Throwing hands up in the air and focusing efforts on fostering the local coffee community.

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Earlier this year, after @thecoffeewoman panel at Expo, someone emailed me about the hiring bias tools I had mentioned. I googled & compiled some links for them (on my fb page /jennchen3). They emailed me back with the below. . "To give you some feedback, I recently concluded a job search for an new field service technician. Traditionally, the applicants we get for this position have been 95% male. To help remedy this, I used the tools you forwarded me, and integrated some of the commentary from the panel at Coffee Expo. This time around, the posting yielded a 60/40 male/female split. While not perfect, it is a vast improvement." . This post is not meant for you to request additional emotional labor from me or anyone else on panel. Itโ€™s meant to show how a few tools can change a business.

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@ColdBrew420 [Twitter & Instagram]

GO VOTE!

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