ThinkSocial is a new non-profit initiative dedicated to advancing the use of social media in the public interest. They recently announced the three winners of the new ThinkSocial awards, “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.” –ThinkSocial
The winners are:
- Kiva.org: a peer-to-peer micro-lending web site, enabling entrepreneurs in developing countries to receive loans from lenders around the world.
- SocialVibe: helping brands direct a portion of their advertising budget into branded activities on social media platforms.
- The March 18th Movement: Mideast Youth seeks to expand the world’s understanding of bloggers as de facto journalists, and extend the protections normally accorded to journalists to all those who share information and stories of repression and corruption online.
A special commendation award is also being presented to:
Amanda Rose: the founder of Twestival Global and Local, which is a concurrent series of offline events for charity, organized by volunteers in cities around the world via Twitter.
