Connect Ohio Names YouTube Video PSA Contest Winners

Connect Ohio Names YouTube Video PSA Contest Winners

Contact: Amanda Murphy

614-220-0190 or amurphy@connectohio.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 5, 2011

Winners receive an iPad, others selected as talent for upcoming statewide public service announcements

COLUMBUS – Connect Ohio is proud to announce the winning entries of the organization’s statewide YouTube video public service announcement contest. Of almost three dozen submissions received between February and March 21, 2011, two videos have been chosen as winners and two additional videos have been recognized with an honorable mention. Those featured in each of the winning videos will be invited to take part as actors or voice talent in the production of upcoming statewide Connect Ohio public service announcements. The creators of the two winning videos will also be receiving Apple iPads.

Winning Awardees:
Jorge Morera Gonzalez, Cleveland Heights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ln2-wUd3U&feature=channel_video_title

Mark Van Horn, Reynoldsburg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soj2NGw0kas&feature=channel_video_title

Honorable Mention Awardees:
Bonnie Jean Connor, Westerville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_P5PHOwJPc&feature=channel_video_title

Brandon Green, Cleveland Heights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-q5_WP-EM4&feature=channel_video_title

The winning videos were chosen based on their messaging and demonstration of the usefulness of the Internet to the daily lives of Ohioans in an effort to help raise awareness of the statewide Every Citizen Online program.

The Every Citizen Online program offers free basic computer and Internet training to adults in Ohio to introduce new users to a wide range of communication, education, and healthcare tools available online. Connect Ohio has partnered with more than 100 libraries and community colleges across the state to offer the training at 210 locations. A statewide public awareness campaign was launched by Connect Ohio in December 2010 and included television, radio, and print mediums. Additional public service announcements will be produced late April 2011.

All contest entries along with the contest rules and guidelines can be viewed at http://connectohio.org/consumer_training/video_contest.php.

For more information on the Every Citizen Online program, visit http://connectohio.org/consumer_training or call 1-855-NOW-I-CAN (669-42260) to find a local training location.

View Connect Ohio’s current Every Citizen Online televised public service announcements at http://connectohio.org/consumer_training/media.php.

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Connect Ohio, a division of Connected Nation, is a nonprofit, technology-neutral public-private partnership that works with telecommunications providers, business and community leaders, information technology companies, researchers, public agencies, libraries and universities in an effort to help extend affordable high-speed Internet service to every Ohio household. For more information about what Connect Ohio is doing to accelerate technology in Ohio's communities, visit http://www.connectohio.org.

Related Links: Connect Ohio on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ConnectOhio

Connect Ohio on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ConnectOH

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