{"id":143,"date":"2007-07-25T10:52:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T10:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/25\/mysociety-win-new-statesman-awards-again\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T10:52:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T10:52:30","slug":"mysociety-win-new-statesman-awards-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2007\/07\/25\/mysociety-win-new-statesman-awards-again\/","title":{"rendered":"MySociety win New Statesman awards (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More congrat&#8217;s to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysociety.org\/2007\/07\/25\/new-media-awards-2007\/\">MySociety<\/a> on their continuous setting of the bar on social engagement &#8211; this is the 3rd year they&#8217;ve won the Civic Society award. They&#8217;re a tough bunch to beat, what with their great ideas and obsessive dedication &#8211; now, who&#8217;s going to start competing with them?<\/p>\n<p>At the ceremony last night we were discussing that everyone attending drives projects forward without even realising how motiviated they are &#8211; especially hard when you are trying to pass on the running of projects to others&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How can the awards end up with some funding for both the winners and the nominees to help incentivise and nurture more projects?<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.pm.gov.uk\/\">Number 10 petitions site<\/a>&#8221; won the Modernising Government award, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixmystreet.com\/\">FixMyStreet<\/a> won the Contribution to Civic Society award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The judges were impressed at the open source nature of the petitions site, and the \u201cdeceptive simplicity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More congrat&#8217;s to MySociety on their continuous setting of the bar on social engagement &#8211; this is the 3rd year they&#8217;ve won the Civic Society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-2j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}