Tech Tips for Catholics

You have until January 16th, 2009 to nominate your favorite Catholic new-media or innovation for the New Media and Innovation Awards, hosted by Evangelization2.0.

Here are the Rules and Guidelines:

“Who is the best in Catholic New Media? Where are the innovators in Catholic evangelization? I want the world to know. So this year I am rolling out the first annual Catholic New Media and Innovation Awards. The purpose is to find and highlight the best in Catholic New Media and acknowledge those using innovative ways to evangelize the faith.

This is something I have wanted to do for some time now. It is my hope that this informal award will bring attention to those working tirelessly and unselfishly to promote the good works of the Catholic Church and share the gifts of our faith.

Rules:

1) Open Nominations
2) There are no specific categories. I prefer to keep the nomination field broad and defined only to new media and innovation. It will be fun to see what suggestions people send to us.
3) Jury Panel = Me. The awards are subjective but based on my experience, expertise and input from those who are kind enough to send me their thoughts.
4) Winning entries will be posted on this blog and will receive a glowing email with congratulations from yours truly. Wow!

OK, so there’s no red carpet, banquet, or celebrities fawning over the winners. Just me and my platform to share the good works of generous people. I’ll probably announce the winners on a Catholic radio program or perhaps EWTN or Catholic TV if they’ll have me. First things first. Send me your nominations. I promise to thoroughly review them and announce the winners in early January.

It will help tremendously if nominations include a short and compelling pitch on why the particular nominee is innovative and/or represents the best in new media. Also, while I plan to highlight new media, I am very interested in those outside of the medium who are innovative in their approach to evangelizing the faith.

I set up a special email account for nominations and related correspondence. Please send your suggestions and comments to: awards [at] lovetobecatholic [dot] com.”