Berkman seeks nomination for $50K+ awards for net-significant people

Emily Sweeney of the New England Society of Professional Journalists chapter emails these updates on activities and opportunities:

WANTED: BERKMAN AWARD NOMINATIONS -- Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is accepting nominations for their first-ever Berkman Awards, which will honor people and institutions that have made significant contributions to the Net over the past decade. The grand prize is $50,000 and smaller awards will be given to five specific categories, one of them being news/journalism. Nominations will be accepted until April 11, 2008:  http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/berkmanat10/awards  

GIVING PROPS TO E.J. GRAFF -- The Council on Contemporary Families recently honored E.J. Graff for her article "The Opt-Out Myth" (Columbia Journalism Review, April/May 2007), which pointed out distortions in media reports about working mothers and argued that the recent spate of "moms-go-home" stories misrepresented actual trends. Graff is a senior researcher at Brandeis University~Rs Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. Here's the link to her CJR story:  http://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/gender/optoutmyth.html

ATTENTION FREELANCERS -- Looking for work? You should check out SPJ's new freelancer directory. If you're a member of SPJ, you can add yourself to this searchable database for free, and create your own profile page with links to work samples. To make your own mini-portfolio, visit: http://www.spj.org/freelance.asp

SOCIAL NETWORKING
The January issue of Quill magazine had an interesting article about the various ways reporters can use social networking sites. There's also a bunch of social networking sites created specifically for journalists. Here are some networks that you may want to join:

Boston Journalists Myspace Group
http://groups.myspace.com/bostonmedia

New England SPJ Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8922921220

Wired Journalists
http://mediageeks.ning.com/

SPJ's Ning Network
http://mediageeks.ning.com/group/societyofprofessionaljournalists

SPJ's Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204558289