During the month of October 2012, 48 community members participated at the Featured Member Contest and became featured for their activity.

The monthly contest highlights the site’s activity and rewards those members that keep the community alive with daily contributions: participating members get their avatar featured and stay highlighted at the homepage until another community member starts contributing and they get "kicked off" from Telecentre-Europe’s "Featured Five at Hall of Fame”

Every month, three of those featured members are awarded with a Gold, Silver and Bronze medal as Top Members and WINNERS (*)of the Featured Members Contest.

Medal winners for the month of October:

	Karolina Jasvinaite Vilinius, Lithuania Published the blogposts New website to encourage more e-services users in Lithuania and “IT for Your Tomorrow”: Let’s motivate young people! which together accumulate more than 150 views and 10 comments. She also published the photo album A few moments from “IT for Your Tomorrow" and pictures from TE's Summit in Warsaw.
	Ivan Stojilovic Belgrade, Serbia Published the blogposts Silver surfers conquer new spaces and ICT in a prison which together accumulate more than 150 views and 7 comments.
	Juan Francisco Delgado Granada, Spain Published the blogposts Workshop on Digital Skills Certifications in Spain Telecentres #CCD12 and The #MarketPlace model in social innovation Telecentres which together accumulated more than 70 views. He also published the video Innycia - Innovation Live (Market Place) and 17 comments on blogposts, videos & photos, shared content 5 times and posted 7 status updates.

Featured Members for the month of October:

Here's the list of reasons why above community members were featured during the month of October 2012:

• Adam Gieniusz (Poland) for flagging his attendance at the Telecentre-Europe's Summit 2012 & for publishing the blogpost NGOs and libraries in the cloud – 2012 report from TechSoup Global
• Ahmed Eisa (Sudan) for commenting 2 blogposts and for congratulating the Telecentre-Europe Awards 2012 Winners
• Alina Zamfir (Romania) for publishing the blogposts IT turned me into a successful entrepreneur!  and New opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities
• Bela Tumasova (Russia) for publishing the blogposts Volunteers to Train Deaf Users, "I can now speak through the Internet!" & Building Partnerships to Extend E-skills Training
• Borko Vujadinovic (Serbia) from International Aid Network for joining our community.
• Claudia Popescu (Romania) for flagging her attendance at the webinar Developing applications with socio-economic impact for communities
• Cornelia Popescu (Romania) for publishing the blogpost Sustainable telecentres through exchange experiences
• Cristina Torrecillas (Spain) from JRC-IPTS for joining our community
• Edita Satiene (Lithuania) for commenting a blogpost and flagging her attendance at the event 4th European Congress on e-Inclusion: Partnerships for a Digital Eu...
• Ekaterina Fedotova (Russia) for commenting a blogpost and flagging her attendance at the Telecentre-Europe's Summit 2012
• Elzbieta Dydak (Poland) for publishing the blogpost Orange Poland offers 3 extra years of free internet at Polish libra...
  
• Gianluca Misuraca (Spain) from JRC-IPTS for joining our community
• Gordana Stankov Stojilovic for publishing the blogpost ICT for women empowerment
• Grazia Guermandi from Regione Emilia-Romagna for joining our community
• Heba Gamal (Poland) from Techsoup for joining our community
• Ian Clifford (UK)  for commenting on 6 blogposts and sharing 2
• Iva Walterova (Czech Republic) for publishing the blogpost IT Services Management trainings for SMEs: results achieved and les... and the event EISCO 2012 - OPEN GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE: A Challenge for the Digital...
• Jennifer Tapies (Austria) from Enfuze Consulting  for joining our community.
• Jhalak Lal Shrestha (Nepal) for commenting 2 blogposts
• Keith Thode (USA) from The Aidmatrix Foundation for joining our community and for publishing a reference to his blogpost
• Lieven Depuydt (Belgium) from Accenture Belgium for joining our community
• Loreta Krizinauskiene (Lithuania) for commenting a blogpost
• Mara Jakobsone (Latvia) for commenting & sharing a blogpost
• Morten Lembke (Denmark) for commenting a blogpost and for publishing pictures from TE's Summit in Warsaw.
• Nabil Eid (Syria) for commenting a blogpost
• Nenad Obrenovic (Croatia) for congratulating the new board
• Noemi Gryzko (Poland) from the Information Society Development Foundation for joining our community
  
• Pawel Makowiecki (Poland) for sharing a blogpost
• Pepe Luis Valentin (Spain) for commenting & sharing blogposts
• Rhobai Musimbi Angule (Kenya) for publishing a status update
• Ricard Faura (Spain) for sharing a blogpost
  
• Richard O'Farrell for sharing a blogpost
• Sotiris Michalopoulos (Greece) from the Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus" for joining our community.
• Sven Weber (Germany) for publishing the blogposts Tablets to the people, UdL Digital Roundtables: Agenda setting for digital inclusion &  Modular social media curriculum development
• Tine Munch Pedersen (Denmark) for publishing the blogpost Working for telecentre sustainability
• Viacheslav Zaychikov for commenting a blogpost
• Victor Koroli (Moldova) for congratulating the new board
• Wojciech Skrobisz (Poland) from the Polish Ministry of Administration and Digitization for joining our community.
• Yakov Ostanin (Russia) from PH International in Moscow for joining our community
• Yuliya Melnyk (Canada), for publishing the blogposts "Bibliomist": helping Ukrainian farmers to purchase & save, Language Café – Bridging Gaps One Skype Session at a time and Wi-Fi: Get it now at your closest park!
• Zarko Cizmar (Croatia) for publishing the blogpost Media literacy for the 21st century and for publishing pictures from TE's Summit in Warsaw.

(*) The ranking is automatically calculated through ning's leaderboard algorithm, taking into account a combination of quantity and quality of the content which boils down to the questions: “How much is the member contributing?" and: "How valuable are his or her contributions?”. We don't know how the algorithm exactly works, but publishing blogposts & events, marking attendance, and getting comments, views & sharescertainly has a lot of weight in the calculation of the ranking.