Helping Nonprofit Technology Blog author, Jocelyn Harmon, spread the word about her org's upcoming award deadline . . .

"Is Your Nonprofit Using Technology to Fundraise, Communicate, Advocate, Collaborate – Change the World? Then we want to hear from you!

We have a winner for the Yahoo! Green Award - Live Climate!

Last year, FamilyFarmed.org received the Yahoo! Green Award for its potential to use Web 2.0 tools to benefit the environment by connecting everyday consumers with their local farmers.

This year Yahoo! looked for an innovative “green mashup” that would inspire people to use social technology to help the environment. The winner was chosen from the project submissions included in the “Environment” Cause Area of the Project Gallery on the NetSquared web site.

Here's a statement from the folks at Yahoo! about why they chose Live Climate

"We chose Live Climate because they are using the internet in an incredibly innovative way - connecting people through investments in carbon offsets to relieve poverty AND improve the environment. We are excited to award them $5,000 in Yahoo! Search Marketing keywords to help them inspire people to take action on climate change in a very personal and empowering way. Yahoo! is looking forward to future mashups on this site that will allow carbon offset buyers to connect more directly with project owners in developing countries."

You can learn more about Live Climate on their web site, www.liveclimate.org, and get involved with their work by signing up for their newsletter, or making a donation of time or money.

Last year, NetSquared Featured Project, FamilyFarmed.org received the Yahoo! Green Award for its potential to use Web 2.0 tools to benefit the environment by connecting everyday consumers with their local farmers.

This year, Yahoo! is looking for innovative “green mashups” that will inspire people to use social technology to help the environment.

Yahoo! will review the project submissions included in the “Environment” Cause Area of the NetSquared Project Gallery. Using Yahoo! APIs is a plus, but not necessary. The most innovative green mashup will receive a $5,000 Yahoo! Search Marketing award.

Big congratulations to Marnie Webb, TechSoup's Co-CEO, who was awarded The 2008 NTEN Award today at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans. You can leave her a congratulatory message in the comments of this post, or on her blog, ext337.

See3 Communications and NTEN are co-sponsoring the 2nd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards again this year. The theme of this year's contest is, "From the Ground Up: Using Technology to Engage Constituents and Make the World a Better Place." You can submit a video, animation, or mash-up from a nonprofit organization, or in support of a nonprofit organization used to engage constituents and make the world a better place. Your entry must have been released in 2007.

For more information, rules, and guidelines go to DoGooderTV.

Check out last year's winning video, Stop the Clash of Civilizations from the Avaaz Foundation, above.

If you are a Washington DC based nonprofit that is using technology in an innovative way to greater impact your community, Friday, September 7th, is the last day for you to apply for the NPower Greater DC Region and Accenture's  Technology Innovation Award.

The winning nonprofit receives:

Last week the Sunlight Foundation announced the three recipients of its 3rd round of "transparency grants" in 2007. The grants were given to projects that, "use the Internet to connect the public to information about the workings of Congress."

A $200,000 grant went to MAPLight.org to support its federal search engine that reveals the connections between money and votes within Congress.

First, a big thank you to Susan Tenby, Britt and Aaron and Gina and Beth and Ben and Bennett for helping us spread the word about ManorMeta! You have been tremendously helpful supporters in our work and we are grateful for every bit of support for the Amoration community.

OK, I’ve checked them all out and here are my favorite NetSquared Innovation Award proposals. Britt asked us to choose just five, but I saw a good twenty to thirty that had potential:

1. Throngz: The Online Discussion Space That Comes And Gets You*

• Throngz can be used by everybody, not just by people working on hunger, say, or homelessness, or the environment, or whatever issue it might be.
• Throngz is a tool that can add value to every social networking site and to every community of people who long to make deeper, more substantive connections on the Internet.
• The challenges that motivated the creation of Throngz resonate with other Internet users.
• Throngz doesn’t depend on others being present at a particular site for you to interact with them. It helps cure us of “portal-itis.”
• Throngz counters the “diffusion of attention” that occurs each time we go on the Internet.

"Ask your friends and colleagues to share feedback about how you can improve your project proposal.