Nature.org Nominated for Best Non-Profit Charitable Site in the 13th Annual Webby Awards

Fans Can Vote Online to Help The Nature Conservancy Win the Internet's Top Honor Internet's highest honor Nominees like The Nature Conservancy are setting the standard for addition and adroitness on the Internet It is an absurd accomplishment to be called a allotment of the best from the about 10,000 entries we accustomed this year. Our focus is to make nature.org agreeable and inspirational--to use the actual ability of the Web to appoint added and more individuals in the ecology movement This choice is an honor and a validation that the Conservancy's plan is alarming individuals around the apple to act. Please don't blab this  vote. Can anyone fix my computer? Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Internet's  highest honor

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 16, 2009 -- The Nature Conservancy appear today that its website--www.nature.org--is a finalist for Best Charitable Non-Profit Organization website in the 13th Annual Webby Awards.

Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by the New York Times, the Webby Awards is the arch all-embracing accolade anniversary arete on the Internet.

The Nature Conservancy's website has continued been at the acid bend of presenting immersive features and assurance opportunities for those absorbed in protecting nature.

"Nominees like The Nature Conservancy are setting the standard for addition and adroitness on the Internet," said David-Michel Davies, controlling administrator of the Webby Awards. "It is an absurd accomplishment to be called a allotment of the best from the about 10,000 entries we accustomed this year."

"Our focus is to make nature.org agreeable and inspirational--to use the actual ability of the Web to appoint added and more individuals in the ecology movement," said Elizabeth Ward, the Conservancy's administrator of business communications. "This choice is an honor and a validation that the Conservancy's plan is alarming individuals around the apple to act."

As a nominee, The Nature Conservancy is also eligible to win a Webby People's Voice Award, which is voted for online by the global Web community. From now until April 30, Conservancy admirers can casting their votes in The Webby People's Voice Awards at http://pv.webbyawards.com.

Winners will be appear on May 5, 2009 and accustomed at a star-studded ceremony in New York City on June 8 hosted by Seth Meyers. Winners will be able to allotment one of the Webby's acclaimed five-word speeches with the world. Past Webby Award winners-- and their speeches-- cover Al Gore ("Please don't blab this  vote."), Beastie Boys  ("Can anyone fix my computer?"), and Stephen Colbert  ("Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.").

The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 650-person anticipation academy whose associates cover Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, R/GA's Chief Bob Greenberg, "The Simpsons" architect Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington and Harvey Weinstein.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people.  To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at http://www.nature.org.

Hailed as the "Internet's  highest honor" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international accolade anniversary arete on the Internet, including Websites,  interactive advertising, online blur and video, and adaptable web sites.  Established in 1996, the 13th Annual Webby Awards accustomed over 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. The Webby Awards is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: Microsoft Silverlight; The Creative Group; .ORG; Getty Images; The Barbarian Group; Digital Kitchen; Wired; IDG; PricewaterhouseCoopers; 2advanced.Net; KobeMail and Museum of the Moving Image.

Contact:
Nicole Levins
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CitizenSpeak E-Advocacy Service Received Webby Award Official Honoree Distinction

Free e-Advocacy account - declared as MoveOn for the blow of us - acclaimed by arch awards anatomy for website design.

Providence, RI -- The Webby Awards, the arch all-embracing account for web sites, today accustomed CitizenSpeak (http://www.citizenspeak.org) as an Official Honoree, a acumen awarded to sites for their excellence, eyes and above quality. Described as MoveOn.org for the blow of us, CitizenSpeak provides a chargeless and easy-to-use email advancement account for grassroots organizations.

Using CitizenSpeak, borough organizations and alone activists – which may be just a brace humans acclimation about a kitchen table - can barrage able email advancement campaigns to brainwash assembly and targeted decision-makers about their causes. Activists above the country accept created accounts on CitizenSpeak adopting acquaintance and architecture constituencies in their communities about issues such as education, discrimination, bread-and-butter injustices and the environment.

Recent CitizenSpeak campaigns launched by bounded organizations include: "Say No To HR4437: Enforcement First agency Immigrant Families Last," and "East Side Public Education Coalition" launched in acknowledgment to the closing of a bounded average academy in Providence, RI. To apprentice about these and added CitizenSpeak campaigns, amuse appointment http://citizenspeak.org/citizenspeak.

Called the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, the Webby is the arch all-embracing accolade anniversary arete in Web design, creativity, account and functionality. “The Webby Awards ceremoniousness the outstanding web sites that are ambience the standards for the internet,” said Tiffany Shlain, architect and agent of The Webby Awards. “CitizenSpeak’s Official Honoree alternative is a attestation to the skill, ingenuity, and eyes of its creators.”

“We’re captivated to accept been called as an Official Honoree by The Webby Awards,” said Jo Lee, co-founder and administrator of CitizenSpeak. “At the affection of CitizenSpeak is a abstruse acceptance in capitalism adequate and maintained by a able noncombatant society. Our ambition is to advice grassroots activists get their choir heard by accouterment able online accoutrement at the association level.”

CitizenSpeak was created by Jo Lee and Pablo Calamera, advised by Development Seed, complete by George Hotelling and fabricated accessible by the abutment of the CivicSpace community.

The cipher that runs CitizenSpeak is accessible as a chargeless and accessible antecedent Drupal bore at http://drupal.org/node/32189. The bore has been acclimated by calm and all-embracing organizations including Planned Parenthood and Public Campaign to brainwash communities about important causes.

About CitizenSpeak (http://www.citizenspeak.org):
CitizenSpeak is a non-profit that provides grassroots organizations and bounded activists with an easy-to-use, able e-advocacy service. Since its inception, CitizenSpeak has accurate organizations from all above the country, including academic organizations with continued appellation goals, as able-bodied as individuals application CitizenSpeak for ancient issue-oriented actions. The cipher that runs CitizenSpeak is accessible as a chargeless and accessible antecedent Drupal module. CitizenSpeak is based in Providence, RI.

About The Webby Awards (http://www.webbyawards.com):
Called the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, the Webby is the arch all-embracing accolade anniversary arete in Web design, creativity, account and functionality. Established in 1996, the 10th Annual Webby Awards accustomed over 5,500 entries from all 50 states and over 40 countries worldwide.

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