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Nominate Top Innovators for the MediaShift20, EdShift20 and MetricShift20 Lists

Who are the people really making a difference in digital media this year? Who is flying under the radar but needs to be in the spotlight for innovation? Who is making a difference in their community, in the nation or the world? MediaShift wants to find out with your help. We are launching our first MediaShift20 list for 2017, and want to highlight people in the digital media world who are truly change-makers and who are leading the way.

We will have three lists: our overall MediaShift20 that will include everyone in digital media, from entrepreneurs to journalists to producers; the EducationShift20 that will focus on innovation by educators; and the MetricShift20 to highlight great work in media metrics. Our goal is to bring attention to those who have done great work in 2017 and deserve more notice.

How It Will Work

Anyone can nominate someone for one of our lists. We will collect nominations through Google Forms and via social media. Once we have all the nominations, we will then vote as a staff on the various lists, coming up with our Top 20 innovators as well as some honorable mentions. The goal will be to come up with a diverse mix of people on the lists. You can help us by nominating those you know and colleagues.

Once we have chosen the MediaShift20, EducationShift20 and MetricShift20 lists, we will publish those in our 2017 Year in Review Special Series over the holidays.

How to Nominate Someone

We want to make sure everyone knows about the lists and how to nominate people. You are welcome to nominate more than one person, but only nominate each person once. Be sure to explain clearly why the person should make the list, and link to their project or work. This should be for work they have done in the 2017 calendar year.

You can nominate people by using our special Google Forms:

MediaShift20 Nomination Form

EducationShift20 Nomination Form

MetricShift20 Nomination Form

You can also nominate people on Twitter using the special hashtags: #MediaShift20, #EdShift20 and #MetricShift20. If you do use social media hashtags, be sure to explain why they deserve to make the list and link to their work.

The last day for nominations will be Friday, December 15.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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