Updated: Tuesday, April 28th
Our team at The Webby Awards has been monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak closely, and recently announced we have moved the 24th Annual Webby Awards live event, to an Internet celebration on Tuesday, May 19th.
Despite these changes and the current global environment, we are still excited to celebrate this year’s Webby Honorees and Nominees, which were just announced. See the Nominees and support your favorites to win a Webby People’s Voice Award.
We are committed to using our platform to raise awareness for global issues and be a resource for our community.
There has never been a more important time to harness the power of the Internet to connect, inform, and support people. To that end, we’ve put together a running list of online resources we’ve seen in response to help you and your team stay informed, connected, and engaged. We’ll update this throughout the upcoming weeks with new finds. Feel free to send resources you come across to our team
If you’re looking for a way to help others during this time, donate through the Coronavirus Relief Fund, a list of organizations working to assist those who need support
Industry + Health Resources:
- World Health Organization COVID-19
- Sexual Violence Awareness
- Acast’s Tips on How to Adapt Your Podcasting Process
- The Drum on how COVID-19 is prompting brands to show the power of purpose
- YouGov – Depictions of Human Contact Drop 30% in Social Media Ads
- YouTube Will Serve Video in SD Across the Globe
- Glimpse – COVID-19 Trends
- Global Call to Creatives: An Open Brief from the United Nations
Tools Fro Your Team:
- Tscheck – “Social Undistancing” for Remote Teams by denkwerk
- enso – Slack notifications to reduce stress by denkwerk
- Ad Age – 10 Ways Agencies are Keeping Remote Employees Engaged
- GitLab’s Guide to Working Remotely As a Team
- Remote Daily—A Virtual Gathering to Tackle Challenges of WFH
Entertaining Experiences:
- Emergence Magazine hosting free sessions with writers and filmmakers
- Big Gratitude Experiment
- New York Public Library Made over 300,000 Books Available for Free Download
- Night Sky App releases free “Teach Yourself at Home” series in app to learn the constellations, and more
- Pineapple Street Studios’ Stuck At Home Podcasts produced by kids
- The Guardian’s gallery ‘Balcony spirit: hope in face of coronavirus – in pictures’
- Museum Virtual Tours
- Dancing.Alone.Together – free online dance classes
- Houseparty App – Hang out with friends
- Coronavirus Concerts – Daily schedule of when artists are live streaming concerts
Things We’ve Loved:
- Laterdate.net experimental website
- isitcanceledyet.com
- Do Not Touch Your Face website using machine learning
- Love Is Quarantine on Instagram
