On November 19th 2009, at The Paley Center for Media’s International Council Event, ThinkSocial will be recognizing three outstanding examples of innovation, featuring – an individual, an initiative and a collaboration between institutions, which together represent powerful models for how social media can be used to address global problems.
The final selection process includes three elements:
- the votes and comments of our panel of expert jurors;
- feedback from the staff of the Paley Center for Media;
- votes and comments from the public through the ThinkSocial site.
You can view the full list of 33 nominations here: http://think-social.org/awards/final-nominees
I was honored to be included on the panel of expert jurors with corporate co-chairs Facebook, PepsiCo, Meebo and Loreen Arbus Foundation. The judges include:
- Randi Zuckerberg – Facebook
- William Paley, Paley Center Board Member
- Uzodinma Iweala, Author Beasts of No Nation; Columbia Medical School
- Beth Kanter – Beth’s Blog
- Kenny Miller – EVP Creative, MTV
- Rob Kramer – Founder and CEO of PopRule
- Tom Watson – CEO of Causewired
- Catherine Genaracous, General Manager, Live Earth
- Mahyad Tousi, Co-Founder at BoomGen Studios
- Scott Kurnit – Paley Center Board Member; Founder About.com
- Ami Dar – Founder and CEO, Idealist
- Ian Schafer – CEO, Deep Focus
- Reza Aslan, Professor, Author No God But God, How to Win a Cosmic War
- Stephanie Agresta – Executive Vice President, Global Director of Digital Strategy and Social Media, Porter Novelli
- Colin Nagy – Partner, Attention
- Jamie Kantrowitz, former MySpace & MySpace Music executive
- Paul Meyer, Co-founder Voxiva
- Raquel Recuero, associate professor and researcher at Universidade Católica de Pelotas (UCPel)
Good luck to everyone who has nominated!
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