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It’s that time again…the best of the best from the Important Media Network, all wrapped up and presented to you for public participation in choosing the article (and author) that will receive the cash and prizes bonus known as the Pul-IM-zer Prize for journalistic excellence. Here are your nominees from the IM network’s many great [...]
Hi all, Figured rather than an email, I’d just send you a link and ask for comments in the field below–make this kind of a conversation about our policy for incentivizing writers to link within the IM network. You can read the full post there, but here’s the basics: 1. I ask a volunteer in [...]
Congratulations to Tanya Sitton, winning the November Pul-IM-zer Prize in a close vote over Tina Casey’s article about the military’s response to Hurricane Sandy (that climate change is, in fact, the next war that the U.S. must prepare for). Tanya’s brilliant article showed without question that the “tradition” of eating turkeys at Thanksgiving is, like [...]
Congrats to Jen Shockley for winning last month’s Pul-IM-zer prize for journalistic excellence in the Important Media Network. Now on to November’s nominees! Vote at the bottom (you may vote for your 2 favorites). Voting will go on for 1 week (closing Tuesday, December 11). In no particular order: A toast-worthy community vineyard grows in [...]
Sifting through 1074 articles published by the Important Media Network last month, we paired down some great journalistic efforts to our top six nominees. There were some great articles, but Jen Shockley’s article, Zero Waste Systems; A Cycle Following Nature’s Design, for Green Building Elements took the cake as the coolest, most insightful, educational, inspirational, [...]
After 1105 articles published by the IM network in September, the network followed with 1074 in October (but somehow made a whole lot more money! Of those 1074, I have scoured and searched (oh the drudgery of my job…reading great sustainability related articles, getting educated, having fun, and “meeting” our writers…whoa is me). This month, [...]
Our first ever monthly Pul-IM-zer prize was Becky’s article on the connection between BPA and childhood obesity. Well-written, thought provoking, clear, and captivating, it earned the most total votes, and the most first place votes among our editorial team. Congratulations Becky, you win $25 in cash plus a free copy of GBO Hawaii, the sustainability [...]
I’m incredibly proud to say that paring down a top 5-6 of well-written, inspirational, educational, and brilliant articles from across our network was an incredibly difficult task. This is due in part to our prolificity…Important Media published 1105 articles last month!! But it is also due to the fact that despite our medium, which encourages [...]
OBJECTIVE: TO INCREASE INBOUND LINKS WITHIN IMPORTANT MEDIA The contest is super simple. First, we’re going to choose 4 articles at random from across the network (with a random number generator). If the article has linked to another, related (that part is key) article within the same site, the author gets a $10 bonus. If [...]
Important Media would like to encourage writers to aspire to great heights of journalism! We also, of course, realize there are hindrances to this involved in the blog format. Regardless, we believe we have some terrific writers, and we’d like to give you an opportunity to shine! That’s why, as of today, we’re announcing the [...]
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