Crystal

This week, I had the opportunity to attend PR News’s Nonprofit PR Awards as a winner in the Marketing category for .ORG’s DNSSEC Rollout for promotion, education and awareness around DNS Security Extensions.  We beat out some very good campaigns/organizations for this award, including BackBay Communications, Bloomington Hospital, First 5 LA/Hershey Causes, Foundation for Chiropractic, and Goodwill Industries!   We were excited to be nominated and chosen for this award as it is a challenge

 NPR’s recently launched iPhone app is being hailed as the most robust news app currently out there, beating out the others, such as AP Mobile, particularly because of its ability to link the user to over 1000 live NPR stations (even allowing you to search for your closest regional affiliate by GPS!) and offering the ability to listen to live streams, anywhere, anytime.

This month, we’re recognizing a fantastic organization based in Canada as our current Extraordinary .ORG, DreamBank.org. With a tagline that reads “Give Dreams. Not Stuff,” DreamBank is the “new model for gift-giving” and has a very innovative and community-based approach to their cause that we at .ORG love to see in our larger community.

Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.

I attended the Internet Outlook breakfast hosted by The Potomac Tech Wire at the Tyson’s Ritz Carlton in Vienna, VA yesterday and was excited with the great topics and dynamic ideas flowing from the panel members on trends and business models working now that will most likely change or already have changed to go into the future with the evolution of the Internet, particularly through social media, and online advertising.