Today we've opened voting for the People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products, a feature of The American Business Awards in which the general public can vote for their favorite new products and services. 

Voting is now open at http://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com

Voting concludes on 11:59 pm on Friday, August 8. The winners of the crystal People's Choice Stevie Awards will be announced the week before the September 12 awards banquet in San Francisco, California and presented their awards at the event.

There are 42 categories in which the general public can vote for their favorite new products and services of the year. Some of the categories this year include:

Business-to-Business Products
Consumer Electronics
Health & Pharmaceutical Products
Software - Cloud Infrastructure
Software - Web Services
Business-to-Business Services
Consumer Products
Financial Services
Media & Entertainment
Software - Collaboration/Social
Software - Relationship Mgmt
Telecommunications Products
Transportation

Anyone can vote one time in any or all of the 42 categories.

Yesterday we announced the Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners in this year's (10th annual) International Business Awards, the world's top honors for achievements in the workplace.  See the full list of winners here.

Today we've opened voting for the People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Companies, a feature of the IBAs in which the general public worldwide can vote for their favorite companies and other organizations in 17 categories.  Voting is now open at http://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com. 

Voting concludes on September 13, and the top vote-getter in each category will receive a special crystal People's Choice Stevie Award at the IBA's 10th annual awards gala on October 14 at the W Hotel in Barcelona.

The 17 industry-specific categories in this year's voting are

Advertising, Marketing & PR
Automotive & Transportation
Business Services
Computer Hardware & Electronics
Computer Services
Computer Software
Conglomerates
Consumer Products, Food & Beverage
Energy & Utilities
Financial Services
Health & Pharmaceutical
Industrial
Internet & New Media
Media & Entertainment
Non-Profit & Government
Services
Telecommunications

Anyone can vote one time in any or all of the 17 categories.

Make your voice heard, vote now at http://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com