Pitch It Finalists – Two More!

I made a mistake.

In putting together the announcement of the finalists for WeMedia Pitch It, I left two people/ideas off the list.

It is my honor and pleasure to let you know that Brooks Lindsay from Debateapedia (http://wiki.idebate.org) and David Stern from MixedInk (http://www.mixedink.com) are finalists for Pitch It.

That means there are eighteen finalists in all (not sixteen as I had said in my earlier post) — nine in the commercial category, and nine in the nonprofit/social category.  With the addition of these two additional finalists, it is an even more diverse group of ideas and applicants that reaches around the world, across various platforms and technologies, and addresses a variety of important issues.

So again, here is the list of finalists (updated):

Nonprofit/Social
Wendy Brawer – Open Green Map (http://www.opengreenmap.org/)
Jacob Colker – The Extraordinaries (http://www.theextraordinaries.org/)
Cor Dietvorst – Reporting 2.0 (http://www.irc.nl)
David Veldkamp – Pay Others First (http://payothersfirst.blogspot.com)
Kurt Kohlstedt – Donateer
Frank Scruggs – Fund Your Idea
Josephine Dorado – Fractor (http://fractor.org)
Josh Wilson – Newsdesk  (http://www.newsdesk.org/news)
Brooks Lindsay – Debateapedia (http://wiki.idebate.org)

Commercial
Michael Cayley – Social Capital Value Add (http://socialcapitalvalueadd.com)
Paul Evans – Policy Brief (http://www.policybrief.org)
Miles Lasater – See Click Fix (http://seeclickfix.com)
Allen Gagle – Venturi Wind Ventures
Cody Brown – Locccal (http://www.locccal.com)
Jessica Stuart – MediaStorm (http://mediastorm.org)
Lloyd Nimetz – Wagglerz
Dominik Von Jan – Groopies (http://www.groopi.es/)
David Stern – Mixed Ink (http://www.mixedink.com)

Congratulations again to all the finalists — and I hope you will join us in Miami (February 24-26, 2009) to watch their final presentations and help to identify which of these incredible venntures should win the $25,000 in funding to help make their idea a reality.

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Brian Reich

Brian is Managing Director of little m media which provides strategic guidance and support to organizations around the use of the internet and technology to facilitate communications, engagement, education, and mobilization. He is well known for his expertise in new media, web 2.0, social networks, mobile, community, ecommerce, brand marketing, cause branding, and more. Reich, the author of Media Rules!: Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect With and Keep Your Audience (Wiley 2007). He blogs at Thinking About Media and contributes as a Fast Company Expert. Previously, Reich was a principal of EchoDitto, one of the most successful online communications agencies in the nation, Director of New Media for Cone Inc, a brand strategy and communications agency in Boston and a Senior Strategic Consultant and Director of Boston Operations for Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, an interactive public affairs agency. From 2000 – 2004, Brian ran how own strategic communications firm, Mouse Communications. Reich has worked in and around politics, including helping to direct dozens of campaigns across the country. He spent two years as Vice President Gore’s Briefing Director in the White House, handling both official activities and activities during his 2000 presidential campaign. Brian serves on the board of Investigate West, independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the art and craft of investigative and narrative journalism. Brian served as an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University in Washington, DC and is currently teaching a course on consumer behavior and marketing at Columbia University in New York. Brian attended the University of Michigan and is a graduate of Columbia University. He and his wife, Karen Dahl, live in New York City with their son, Henry.

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