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If you want to win the <keyword id="6357247" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Internet">Internet</keyword>, there's only one award that matters.
Hailed by The New York Times as "the Internet's highest honor," The Webby Awards recognizes outstanding digital work across all platforms: Websites, Online Film &amp; Video, Interactive Advertising &amp; Media, Social, and Mobile &amp; Apps.
Do you make great digital work? Join those already in contention and enter the 18th Annual Webby Awards for your chance to join last year's winners, who included Kevin Spacey, Jerry Seinfeld, The Onion, Tumblr, and Humans of New York.
If you're looking to become a household name, last year's winners received over 2.2 billion media impressions across broadcast, print, online, and social.
Whether you want to show your team that you value their efforts or get recognition for your awesome side project, there's a place for your work in The Webby Awards.
Enter the 18th Annual Webby Awards before the final entry deadline of December 20th. You can't win if you don't enter. <a href="http://www.webbyawards.com/" target="_blank">Submit your work for a Webby Award now</a>.

Think You're Winning The Internet? Prove It - Submit Your Work For A Webby Award

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The movie industry has the Academy Awards. Music has the Grammy Awards. And the Internet has The Webby Awards, the leading international award that honors the best of the Web every year.
Are you proud of your organization's digital work? Enter it into the <a href="http://www.webbyawards.com/" target="_blank">18th Annual Webby Awards</a> and it'll be judged by the prestigious International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, whose members include David Karp, founder of Tumblr; Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of AOL Huffington Post Media Group; Richard Branson; David Bowie; Rachel Haot, chief digital officer for the City of New York; Kevin Spacey; and "Burning Love" producers Ken Marino and Erica Oyama.
Last year, more than 11,000 entrants competed to win a Webby. But think of all the great work that couldn't win because it didn't get submitted. There's a place for almost any project, with categories across Websites, Online Film &amp; Video, Interactive Advertising &amp; Media, Social, and Mobile &amp; Apps.
This year, the Webbys has introduced a number of new categories - including Online Film &amp; Video: First Person, Mobile &amp; Apps: City &amp; Urban Innovation, and Social: Fashion &amp; Beauty - so there are even more opportunities to win.
Think you've got what it takes to win the Internet this year? Make sure your team gets the recognition it deserves. Enter the 18th Annual Webby Awards before the early entry deadline of November 1st for early-bird pricing and bragging rights.
<a href="http://www.webbyawards.com/" target="_blank">Enter The Webby Awards now</a>.
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Think Your Site's Awesome? Submit It For A Webby Award To Win The Internet

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Digital media leaders ranging from the curiously bizarre Tumblr "Kim Jong Il Looking at Things" to the ever-hilarious The Onion and Internet powerhouses Google and The New York Times agree that being honored by <a href="http://www.webbyawards.com/" target="_blank">The Webby Awards</a> is a defining feat reserved for truly outstanding web properties.
Selected by an esteemed body of industry leaders and digital luminaries including Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter; media mogul Arianna Huffington; actor Adrian Grenier; David Bowie; and Do Something CEO Nancy Lublin, Webby Award Winners make an indelible impression in Internet history.
Submit your work and go toe-to-toe with the best in the industry. Enter in:
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Don't Miss The Last Chance To Enter The Webby Awards

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After a long, thrilling, and competitive season - marked by 12,000 entries and millions of votes in The Webby People's Voice Awards - the winners of The 18th Annual Webby Awards have officially been revealed.
It's been a huge year for those vying for what The New York Times calls "the Internet's highest honor," and now it's time to celebrate the winners for representing the best of the Web.
In addition to recognizing outstanding work across Websites, Online Film &amp; Video, Interactive Advertising &amp; Media, Social, and Mobile &amp; Apps, The Webbys will be recognizing Special Achievement Winners. Here are the individuals being recognized for their amazing work this year:
<ul><li>The groundbreaking crowdfunding platform <a href="http://webbyawards.com/winners/2014/special-achievement/webby-breakout-of-the-year/kickstarter" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a> is Breakout of the Year.</li>
<li>Innovative hip-hop trio <a href="http://webbyawards.com/winners/2014/special-achievement/webby-artist-of-the-year/de-la-soul" target="_blank">De La Soul</a> is being honored as Artist of the Year.</li>
<li>Webby Special Achievement Award goes to the brilliant <a href="http://webbyawards.com/winners/2014/special-achievement/special-achievement/freddie-wong" target="_blank">Freddie Wong</a>.</li>
<li>The inspiring <a href="http://webbyawards.com/winners/2014/special-achievement/webby-athlete-of-the-year/jamaican-bobsled-team" target="_blank">Jamaican Bobsled Team</a> is Athlete of the Year.</li>
<li>And cofounder of Creative Commons, <a href="http://webbyawards.com/winners/2014/special-achievement/webby-lifetime-achievement/lawrence-lessig" target="_blank">Dr. Lawrence Lessig</a>, is being honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.</li>
</ul><a href="http://www.webbyawards.com/winners" target="_blank">Check out the winners in all their glory here.</a>
With 2014 marking the 25th anniversary of the Web, the 18th Annual Webby Awards show, which is taking place in New York City on May 19, promises to be exceptional.
And thanks to the miracle of the Internet, you can catch it all online.
The show highlights and full ceremony - with its 5-Word Speeches, special appearances, performances, and of course the hilarity of host Patton Oswalt - will be available on demand starting Tuesday, May 20, at <a href="http://www.webbyawards.com/winners" target="_blank">WebbyAwards.com</a>.
View the <a href="http://webbyawards.com/winners/2014/special-achievement">Winners Gallery now</a>, and send a "congrats" tweet to your favorites with <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Webbys&amp;src=hash" target="_blank">#Webbys</a>.</body></html>

Announcing The 18th Annual Webby Awards Winners

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A scotch-swigging Patton Oswalt set the tone for the 18th Annual Webby Awards with an opening monologue that pulled no punches when it came to the sometimes bizarre world of the web.
"Webby Award winners are some of the most popular people on the internet ... in clothing," he quipped to the delight of the tech insiders and winners in the crowd at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, May 19.
Oswalt used his opening monologue (which you can watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-PRDEiRf_Q" target="_blank">here</a>) to call out the FCC for its latest go at killing net neutrality - and to issue his battle cry for the internet's future. "Keep it free, keep it dangerous," he said.
Among the night's many Webby recipients were Special Achievement winners such as hip-hop trio De La Soul, who accepted the Artist of the Year Award from Questlove; Lawrence Lessig, cofounder of Creative Commons, who received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Alexis Ohanian (and got a rousing standing ovation); and the Jamaican bobsled team, which accepted the award for Webby Athlete of the Year from NBA star Jason Collins.
It was also a fantastic night for the Webby Awards' hallmark 5-Word Speeches, about which Kevin Spacey once said, "The Oscars should do this." As always, speeches ran the gamut from inspiring to outlandish. The crowd erupted when George Takei delivered his ("<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq8eYKoUGhY&amp;list=PLWeKJ75kFs5Rj2IFEHpoAPDK9P2hcJDun" target="_blank">Shatner, eat your heart out</a>") and when NASA astronaut Mike Massimino cried, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVPfIGNENYw" target="_blank">We're taking this to Mars!</a>"
Banksy, the Webby Person of the Year, was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grI61qRP0A4" target="_blank">introduced by the legendary Patti Smith</a> and delivered his 5-Word Speech through Oswalt, who pulled a paint-smeared piece of paper from an envelope and said, "Oh, somebody painted over it."
In an especially moving moment, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet, stood up to defend the web he invented 25 years ago - and to rally everyone around the need to fight for it.
"In this particular country, where we happen to be right now, the battle must rage again," he said to resounding cheers. Watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXC0FS5kXzk&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">video here</a>.
All highlights from the show are available at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TheWebbyAwards" target="_blank">youtube.com/TheWebbyAwards</a>, and you can be notified about future video highlights by subscribing to the Webby Awards' YouTube channel. After all, the 19th Annual Webby Awards are only a year away.
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Watch Highlights From The 18th Annual Webby Awards

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There's more than one prominent award show creating buzz around town these days.
Hailed by The New York Times as "the Internet's highest honor," <a href="http://wbby.co/r0KW" target="_blank">The Webby Awards</a> has an important message for potential entrants: Your time's almost up. Jan. 31, 2014 is the extended entry deadline for the 18th annual show being held in New York City this May.
The Webby Awards recognizes outstanding digital work across all platforms: Websites, Online Film &amp; Video, Interactive Advertising &amp; Media, Social, and Mobile &amp; Apps.
All work under consideration is judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a group made up of superstars ranging from David Karp and Biz Stone to Arianna Huffington and David Bowie.
If you think your work deserves a space in that most pixilated of pantheons, enter the 18th Annual Webby Awards for your chance to join last year's winners, which included SoundCloud, Google, Songza, Tumblr, Waze, and Wieden + Kennedy.
And with new categories in Mobile and Websites including City &amp; Urban Innovation, Travel, Health &amp; Fitness, and Productivity, there's even more room at the top.
But hurry - the extended entry deadline is Jan. 31st, 2014. Don't miss your chance.
<a href="http://wbby.co/r0KW" target="_blank">Enter The Webby Awards now.</a>
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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="13795528" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="imani-ellis" source="Orion">Imani Ellis</keyword> began her career as an NBC page and became a vice president at the company within 10 years.</li><li>She created <keyword id="13795529" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="culturecon" source="Orion">CultureCon</keyword> after noticing a lack of diversity at the conferences she attended as a publicist.</li></ul>Many learn about the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/this-job-more-selective-than-navy-seals-2016-6">competitive NBC page program</a> — a paid fellowship for aspiring media professionals — through the comedy series, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfRi7V2bs3o">30 Rock</a>." Imani Ellis, however, first learned about the program through networking.The founder of the <a href="https://www.theccnyc.com/culturecon">CultureCon</a> conference began her career as a page in the NBC program in the summer of 2012. She built her career from there, becoming the Vice President of Unscripted <keyword id="11896019" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="entertainment" source="Orion">Entertainment</keyword> Publicity at NBCUniversal within 10 years.CultureCon, which was first ideated in Ellis's bedroom, brings thousands of young creative professionals together to share information and create opportunities. It's attracted the likes of <keyword id="12165926" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="spike-lee" source="Orion">Spike Lee</keyword>, Billy Porter, <a href="https://www.insider.com/abbott-elementary-quinta-brunson-interview-2022-2">Quinta Brunson</a>, Michael B. Jordan, Lena Waithe, Keke Palmer, and <keyword id="12759620" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tracee-ellis-ross" source="Orion">Tracee Ellis Ross</keyword>.The conference's pop-ups, panels, and fireside chats have led to job offers, successful raise negotiations, and contracted opportunities for attendees. This year, it's stopping by three cities: Atlanta (May 2–7), Los Angeles (June 16–18) and New York (Oct. 3–8). Insider caught up with Ellis to talk about the conference's mission and the motivations that drive her.The following is an edited transcript from our interview with Ellis.You went from an NBC page to vice president in 10 years. How important was networking to that professional journey for you?I think if you put less pressure on networking, and instead just stay curious about what the next level looks like, curious about what it would mean to be performing at the next level, I think it's a little bit more authentic. I always encourage people to approach it with authentic curiosity and hard work.Sometimes I feel like there's been this stigma that you go to a networking event, and if you don't leave with three contacts, it wasn't a success. It's got to be more intentional than that. I have a lot of mentors who have poured into me, and I think genuinely being curious about people has really helped my career so far.Who were some of those people that you were connecting with, and how were you meeting them?As a publicist, we are working so much with journalists, and I think one of the things that was really important to me was bringing my whole self to work. When I came to work in Atlanta, I wanted to make sure that we were working with a diverse group of reporters. That includes working with <a href="https://www.lovebscott.com/">Love B. Scott</a>, or working with Eric Jones, who, of course, is [now] a booker at "Good Morning America." It was about genuine friendships, but also making sure that I was using my platform as a publicist to do inclusive storytelling.<div type="image" title="Regina King and Eric Jones at CultureCon" height="2838" width="3785" msid="91273515" hostid="261"></div>Where were you meeting, internally, these people? Were you going to meetings for other departments? Were there interdepartmental meetups? I work with these people every day, so I think it's taking the extra time to set up coffees, to set up conversations. A lot of times, you're moving so quickly throughout your day, you probably aren't even counting how many people you're interacting with. What would it look like to take it a step further?When someone comes in from the IT department and fixes your computer, I would ask, "What does that coding mean?" I'm not asking every single step, but I think having a genuine curiosity about other people's worlds is the key to networking. I think it makes you a sharper performer, because you're understanding the big picture and not just your siloed approach to your role.<div type="image" title="Culture Con" height="1680" width="2240" msid="91273517" hostid="261"></div>You started CultureCon in your apartment. Why was the mission so urgent for you?I was going to conferences, and I was really feeling an out-of-body experience because I wasn't seeing the diversity on the stage that represented all the talent that I was seeing right beside me. It really was one of those, "If you don't see it, build it." I had no idea that it would grow so quickly and so big, but the team and I, all of my close friends, we really believed in it.I think for us, it became our north star, to build something that we did not see in the world, a place where you could be your full self. You weren't code switching, you weren't making yourself smaller. You were showing up, and you could talk about all the nuances that come with being a diverse creative living today.When did you first realize the impact that CultureCon was having?The first time I realized the impact that CultureCon was having was in 2017, at the first CultureCon. It was very small, but Spike Lee was our keynote speaker. We had put our blood, sweat, and tears in this conference. We stayed up until midnight spray-painting Spike Lee letters for his room. It was very DIY, and I loved that it was because it makes the growth even more meaningful.Right after the conference was over, a young lady came up to me, and she said, "Imani, I've never felt like this. This feels like I just left church, plus homecoming, plus my friend's cookout all in one." That was the intention, that you could come to a place that felt like it was built for you. The fact that she felt all those things was mind-blowing. Fast forward four years later, the conference is now going to three different cities.How do you curate talent for CultureCon? What do you think makes the perfect speaker for your organization's audience?We have an amazing talent team. It's led by Emmy award-winning Eric Jones, and his amazing talent team. At the beginning, in the brainstorming period, we really think about, holistically, the pulse of culture. It's not just, who's making waves right now, it's who is leaving legacy before us? Who's the next generation coming up after us? We want to make sure that we're hitting all the touch points of culture.Atlanta, for example, it's the perfect example for the first city, because we're touching politics with Stacey Abrams. We've got music with Omeretta the Great. We have so many specific nuances.Why is it important to you to have an organization that focuses on entrepreneurship, freelancing, and "corporapreneurship" from the internal standpoint? Is that something that you guys are intentionally building into your ethos?Absolutely. Our three pillars are: hustle smarter, building a life, and driving culture. They're very intentional that those are our three pillars, because we don't want to just focus on hustle culture. We want you to hustle smarter, not harder. We also want you to build a life. Outside of work, who are you? How are you? Are you sleeping? Are you well?Finally, it's about driving culture, and acknowledging all the contributions that we have given to culture. For us, it really is about the holistic story. I don't think everyone should be an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-i-organize-5-hour-workday-entrepreneur-small-business-2022-4?_ga=2.113214724.1460109289.1650888701-1996747788.1647018266">entrepreneur</a>. I also think that you can be an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/5-essential-traits-of-the-successful-intrapreneur-2013-10">intrapreneur</a>. You can make an incredible impact inside existing companies, and you need both to survive.<div type="image" title="Dave East Tracee Ellis Ross Pyer Moss" height="2880" width="3840" msid="91273519" hostid="261"></div>CultureCon New York educates young creatives about professional development, and even explains to them how they can get their organization to pay for their ticket to CultureCon. Why was spreading that message important to the organization?That was so important to us ... We won a Webby for this campaign led by Skylar Kearney, who does our social media curation called, "You Deserve Juneteenth Off." I think a lot of people didn't realize that they could request Juneteenth off, that just because their company, maybe at the time, didn't acknowledge it, that it was their right to say, "This is a really important day to me. I really am going to take it off to celebrate my heritage."You should also feel empowered to ask your supervisor or your company to send you to conferences that celebrate diversity, that celebrate all the special, unique nuances that you bring to the table. We've seen so many guests who are sponsored by their boss, they're coming with their boss, which I love to see.What about students? Why do you want students at CultureCon, and what do you want them to get from the experience?It's so important to have students at CultureCon because it is important to see all the possibilities. I think that so much starts by knowing what's available. I did not know that you could be a publicist until I was in college. I didn't even know that job existed.Imagine being a college student, coming to CultureCon, meeting a head of talent, or the head of marketing, and understanding that all of these roles are pathways and career opportunities for you.Students get to attend CultureCon for free, and that's literally one of my favorite things about CultureCon. We want to make sure that the next generation is getting access to all of this information, and all of these resources.Tickets for CultureCon are <a href="https://www.theccnyc.com/culturecon#culturecon-2022/what-is-culturecon">available now</a>.

CultureCon founder Imani Ellis climbed company ranks to become a vice president within 10 years. Now, she's helping young professionals of color do the same.

The CEO of About.com has a crazy plan to save the beloved 1990's website from extinction - he's shutting it down completely

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/537374eb69beddb10311f700-800-644/screen shot 2014-05-14 at 9.38.06 am.png" border="0" alt="kristi culpepper" />Twitter</div></div></div>The fate of "Bond Girl," a lauded Twitter voice in the world of municipal debt commentary, remains in limbo after the woman behind the account says she felt pressured to reveal her identity.
Kristi Culpepper, the head of Kentucky's School Facilities Construction Commission, had been Tweeting from the <a href="https://twitter.com/munilass">@munilass</a> handle as "Bond Girl" since April 2011, and was a frequent source for reporters covering muni markets. S<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/author/bond-girl"></a>he also published her own work under the "Bond Girl" handle on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/author/bond-girl">Business Insider</a>, FT.com, and <a href="https://twitter.com/munilass/status/468502454137806848">Calculated Risk</a>, among other outlets. 
"As an anonymous tweeter, Bond Girl is probably a top-five contributor to the severely lacking universe" of municipal credit markets, one Chicago-based muni analyst told BI. 
Last week, after years of pseudonymity, Culpepper abruptly revealed her identity, deleted almost all of her past Tweets, and <a href="https://twitter.com/munilass/status/466373126499336193">accused</a> the Bond Buyer newspaper of attempting to out her. Bloomberg's Michelle Kaske and Brian Chappetta subsequently <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-13/twitter-s-bond-girl-identifies-herself-as-kentucky-official.html">filed a story</a> in which they discussed more publicly available details about Culpepper's life. 
Bond Buyer subsequently <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBondBuyer/status/466661330154315776">Tweeted</a> they weren't planning a story to out her.
But according to two people familiar with the matter, a former Bond Buyer employee was able to determine Culpepper's identity through Culpepper's occasional references to Kentucky, and her announcements about attending Bond Buyer-sponsored conferences. The attendee lists for the conferences are accessible to anyone within the company - there is no Chinese wall separating Bond Buyer's conference side with its editorial. "The pool of people she could have been kept getting narrower and narrower," one of the sources said. 
Bond Buyer may not have been planning on writing a specific article, but there was a natural journalistic inquisitiveness about who in this small world she could have been. A recent Culpepper Tweet about attending Bond Buyer's conference at Brandeis University in Boston appears to have been the final piece of the puzzle for those who were looking. A Bond Buyer employee subsequently sent her a Facebook friend request, and a fund manager called Culpepper saying Bond Buyer had been asking around. That appeared to be the last straw, as Culpepper outed herself in a preemptive strike. 
Twitter was outraged that she'd apparently been forced to do so, fearing a prominent commentator would be lost.
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Let's hope that the latest twitter-essay from <a href="https://twitter.com/munilass">@munilass</a> really is the last word on this whole tale. She deserved much better.
- Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) <a href="https://twitter.com/felixsalmon/statuses/468503943899668480">May 19, 2014</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/munilass">@munilass</a> outing is a 'orrible news. Best sources ALWAYS have possessive employers. Public finance needs better and informed scrutiny.
- Tom Nelthorpe (@nelthorpe) <a href="https://twitter.com/nelthorpe/statuses/466867283860934656">May 15, 2014</a></blockquote>
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ugh why why why did they doxx <a href="https://twitter.com/munilass">@munilass</a>? such a smart, sharp, great writer, why ruin it for the rest of us by not honoring her privacy?
- parva (@parva_x) <a href="https://twitter.com/parva_x/statuses/466360071799463936">May 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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They also rallied to Culpepper's cause. 
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Is it too late to nominate <a href="https://twitter.com/munilass">@munilass</a> for webby or Pulitzer or medal of honor or something?
- Jordan S. Terry (@The_Analyst) <a href="https://twitter.com/The_Analyst/statuses/468502593723826177">May 19, 2014</a></blockquote>
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FWIW I respect, trust and appreciate <a href="https://twitter.com/munilass">@munilass</a>. I learned from her- that is saying something, especially here on Twitter.
- Mike Jackson (@bondscoop) <a href="https://twitter.com/bondscoop/statuses/467498268562186240">May 17, 2014</a></blockquote>
The issue raises questions about the role of online anonymity, and whether prominent Twitter personalities rise to the level of a journalistic "public figure," making them fair game for news. Culpepper declined to comment, though she for now has begun Tweeting again, this time as herself. She does not appear to be facing any disciplinary action from the commonwealth of Kentucky.
Bond Buyer could not be reached for comment early Tuesday.

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