2009 NTC: Awards Show Wrap Up
Although I hate the idea of talking over lunch, I'm glad that two years ago, under former ED Katrin Verclas, we added the awards ceremony to our closing lunch at the NTC. It's a great way to spend our last bit of time together while highlighting some of the individuals and organizations shaping our sector.
Of course, we wish we could recognize ALL the deserving folks out there, but here are the highlights from this year:
Flickr Photo: ann.a.lieseThe NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of
our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and
authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. Along
the way, we make it fun. NTEN Member John Merritt, from the YMCA of San Diego County, embodies all of these ideals. He not
only pushes his organization to integrate technology into its
strategy, he helps the entire sector do the same by sharing
relentlessly, and smiling while he does it. Past winners include Beth Kanter and Marnie Webb.
Flickr Photo: cambodia4kidsThe Lifetime Acheivement Award is given each year to a person who has pushed the nptech community forward. This push might be in the form of innovation, or thought leadership. In the case of Daniel Ben-Horin, the 2009 recipient and co-CEO of Techsoup Global, it's both. Everyone who works in our field owes him a debt of gratitude for revolutionizing how we get and share software and information. Past winners include Vince Stehle and Gavin Clabaugh.
The .ORG Amabassador Award, presented by PIR, recognizes upstanding .ORGs and promotes sharing, communication, and interaction across the community. The award showcases the innovative and trend-setting ways .ORGs are using technology and social media to advance their missions, grow their memberships, and broaden awareness and visibility for their work and members. The 2009 award was presented to the American Red Cross.
The DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards is a project of NTEN and See3 Communications. This year, we wanted to highlight all the ways video is being created and used in the nonprofit sector, so we honored videos in four categories: Short form, long form, Staff Made Short form and Staff Made Long form. Four great videos came out on top. You can see them all at DoGooder.tv.
The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest recognizes software developers who create open source applications and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good use. The 2009 award went to Darius Jazayeri, the 31-year-old developer behind OpenMRS, an open source application used by health clinics and hospitals on five continents to keep, share, and track medical record data.
Social Actions' Change the Web Challenge was a contest to create innovative web applications and widgets, using Social Action's API, that promote opportunities to take action all over the web -- with $10,000 in prizes! Thirty-five developers submitted web applications to the Challenge. The winners were:
- First Prize Winner ($5,000) -- Social Actions Interactive Map -- submitted by John Brennan
- Second Place winner ($3,000) -- Zemanta's Related Social Actions for Bloggers -- submitted by Jure Cuhalev of Zemanta
- Third place winner ($2,000) -- SquarePeg's iPhone Application -- submitted by Dieterich Lawson & Isaac Holeman
If you're looking to re-live the awards, we'll be getting video up shortly.
