) November 3, 2009 -- Holiday shoppers looking to go green while saving green can click their way to thousands of dollars in discounts on sustainable gifts, thanks to a free online coupon guide from respected green living companies Ecoscene and MeGoGreen.

2009 Holiday Green Guide

) November 3, 2009 -- It seems that “counting your blessings” is more than an everyday phrase – In fact, according to scientific research and TIME Magazine, practicing gratitude is the “#1 path to happiness.” The problem is remembering to do this often enough to reap the rewards.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Count Your Blessings Book

) June 2, 2009 -- Email-Marketing-Options.com, a website that compares and reviews email marketing software, has just been given a face-lift, re-designed and re-launched. The website features a new email marketing comparison grid that displays ratings for each provider across five main categories: Email Creation, Contact Management, Email Deliverability, Analyzing Reports and Customer Support. Each email marketing provider has been rated on each of the five categories and has also been given a cumulative score. The website’s comparison grid had previously listed only the main features of each service.

) August 14, 2009 -- Recently, more than 100 marketing professionals were asked which social media tool they thought would be the first to become irrelevant.

The poll was conducted by the 60 Second Marketer (http://www.60secondmarketer.com), an online magazine visited by thousands of marketers each month from around the globe.

Respondents to the poll were given five choices for the “first social media tool to become irrelevant.” The choices were MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The prediction? MySpace would be the first to go, according to 51 percent of respondents. Twitter was next in line for a forecasted decreased popularity, receiving 35 percent of the votes.

) April 8, 2009 -- Wirefly (www.wirefly.com), the leading online authorized retailer of cell phones and wireless service plans, announced today several important enhancements to its brand promise as part of its ongoing commitment to being America’s trusted source for cell phone shoppers. These improvements include: straightforward pricing with no rebates, fast free FedEx shipping on all purchases all the time, The Wirefly Satisfaction Guarantee, and the appointment of John Bailey as Chief Customer Service Officer.

) March 2, 2010 -- AgencyNet is proud to announce the launch of the new agencynet.com. Building on the much talked about experiential nature of their previous site, AgencyNet uses their web-presence to showcase the agency’s people and innovation-driven culture in an immersive, 3D representation of their offices in NYC and South Florida.

AgencyNet Founder and CEO, Richard Lent summarizes the effort:

“Clients rank chemistry as a major variable in their selection of an agency partner – many consider it the most important factor in their decision. Our site allows visitors to get to know our unique culture as deeply as possible.”

) November 3, 2009 -- October 29, 2009 -- He helped then presidential candidate Barak Obama stand out from the crowd during the campaign with his now world famous “Hope” poster, and now Shepard Fairey has turned his keen artistic eye to the fashion world with the launch of the Obey x Levi’s collection.

Shepard Fairey

) June 29, 2009 -- Taking a cue from its name, the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Frederick County program is taking the lead in using social media to promote their efforts for their next class of recruits. Beth Schillaci of VillageWorks Communications, Inc. will be developing a complete social media outreach campaign.

Leadership Frederick County

) November 3, 2009 -- The camaraderie and networking unique to being Greek shouldn’t end with college. That’s the thinking behind the creation of http://www.forgreeks.com, a newly retooled website created by founders Jarrell Liner and Enrique Allen. “For most of us, the connections we made with our fraternity brothers or sorority sisters were one of the highlights of our college experience,” said Liner, a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Gamma Phi Chapter. “Enrique and I set out to provide a portal that would take those strong bonds to the next level.”

) September 24, 2009 -- People searching for care for their aging parents find almost no independent advice about senior care facilities online. Often, these families are drawn to misleading sites whose sole function is to sell their personal information to the highest bidder.

In response, OurParents announces the addition of user forums to OurParents.com, the largest free and independent online senior care directory on the web, with information on over 100,000 nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and in-home care providers.

) August 28, 2009 -- Brand Thunder LLC (http://www.brandthunder.com), the custom browser specialists, announced today an agreement with racecar driver Emerson Newton-John’s “Full Speed 2 a Cure” motorsport cancer awareness campaign (http://www.fullspeed2acure.com) to deliver a custom browser Boom!. The launch of the Boom! coincides with a special auction for a keepsake Gladiator GarageWorks Workbench signed by all 33 drivers from the 2009 Indianapolis 500 and in order of their pole position.

) March 4, 2010 -- ShopIgniter, Inc., a multi-channel ecommerce software provider, today announced that it has secured $3M in venture capital funding. The Series A round was led by Madrona Venture Group.

The ShopIgniter platform tightly integrates social media into core ecommerce functionality to increase a seller’s online sales by as much as 30%. The platform enables retailers, wholesalers and product brands to merchandise products through FaceBook, find customers through Twitter, and manage all the functionality of their online store through an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.

) November 3, 2009 -- Over 1,900 unique visitors from around the world join the celebration of diversity at the latest LGBT online magazine, 10,000 Couples. The first issue of 10,000 Couples, released for October of 2009, garnered over 6,200 page views from visitors in 94 countries around the globe.

) March 5, 2010 -- “Personalized jewelry is a booming industry,” says Zoe Sia, Director of UnusualDesign, a jewelry manufacturing company that specializes in creating personalized name jewelry using high-quality raw materials and hand craftsmen. “When Carrie Bradshaw was spotted wearing a ‘Carrie’ name necklace in the movie series 'Sex and the City,' a fashion fire was set ablaze, and stars everywhere fell in love with the look.”

Carrie Name Necklace of "Sex and The City"

) May 6, 2009 -- Visible, a Chicago-based web development and search engine optimization (SEO) company, has announced VisibleLite, a promotion which offers three months of SEO for $1. VisibleLite is designed to reach start-ups, small businesses and e-commerce sites by demonstrating the value of an optimized web site. The promotion is available now through VisibleLite.

“Generally, it takes about three months to see SEO results,” says Holly Roetgerman, Director of New Business, Visible. “We’re offering VisibleLite as a way to show the power of SEO to businesses that may not have the marketing budget to try us otherwise.”

) February 18, 2010 -- Logo Design Guru is pleased to announce that it has begun working with Bill Rancic, winner of the first season of “The Apprentice” and star of "Giuliana and Bill", a new reality series to design a logo and update his website.

Rancic, a successful entrepreneur and author of “Your Hired”, a bestselling book, needed a logo and updated website design and was impressed with Logo Design Guru’s service, design quality and affordability.

) March 4, 2010 -- Hastings Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAST) announced today that March starts the countdown toward the biggest release week that gamers and vampire reading enthusiasts have seen since the 2009 releases of HALO 3 ODST and Twilight on DVD.

Hastings Entertainment

No matter what fans like to sink their teeth into, Hastings customers are gearing up for exciting spring break Midnight Release parties for God of War III and the Twilight: The Graphic Novel on Monday, March 15, 2010 as well as New Moon DVD/Blu-ray on Friday, March 19, 2010.

) September 2, 2009 – Students, faculty and fans of University Canada West now have more options to interact with the online university, with the official launch of the school’s Twitter, YouTube and Facebook profiles. Each initiative will be used to promote UCAN news, special events and alumni updates. Visit http://ucan.ca/news for more information.

According to UCAN President and Vice-Chancellor, David Strong the networking sites are a “perfect fit” for the university, with its student body covering two campuses and the World Wide Web.

) June 22, 2009 -- Today Afilias, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced that is has been selected by Big Room Inc. as the registry services provider for its application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for a new .eco domain during the upcoming new top-level domain (new TLD) application process.

Afilias logo

) November 3, 2009 -- Beautiful people can be rated, users can network, stay in touch with others, and even gain popularity on this website. So kind of think about it as an American Idol on the computer for beautiful people. Except for the fact that this website is not only dealing with America, it is dealing with all countries in the world.

DimePlace.com

) March 2, 2010 -- WebmasterRadio.FM, the premier free, 24/7 Internet business radio network focused on the B2B marketplace, has announced that starting Tuesday March 2nd WebmasterRadio.FM will be re-launching the show “Search Cowboys” under a different name: State of Search.

) September 28, 2009 -- London, Ink, a marketing and communications consulting and services firm headquartered outside of Washington, DC, announced the addition of Christina Jacobs to its team of marketing consultants and project managers to meet the demands of the company’s growing client base.

Chris Jacobs joins London, Ink marketing consulting team

) October 21, 2009 -- iYogi, the fastest growing on-demand tech services company, announced today the results of tracking tens of thousands of online conversations around the subject of http://windowsWindows 7 [Microsoft. In a look at online discussions over the last week in ten widely used forums, 25 review sites, and four of the largest social networks, iYogi found that application compatibility and migration by far topped the list, followed by discussions around features and performance.

iYogiWindows 7 Migration

) February 24, 2010 -- Globalization Partners International (GPI), a provider of website, software and documentation translation services in over 100 languages, announced today that its documentation globalization team has added consultation, content analysis and custom workflow design for companies moving to structured authoring and publishing processes using DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture). DITA maintains content in discrete “chunks” as topics, or concepts, which are ideal for management by Content Management Systems, resulting in significantly reduced authoring and translation costs for large scale projects.

GPI Logo

) July 23, 2009 -- People searching for care for their aging parents find almost no independent advice about senior care facilities online. Often, these families are drawn to misleading sites whose sole function is to sell their personal information to the highest bidder. That’s how the so-called lead generation business operates in the senior care industry. These businesses don’t care about the quality of the providers they sell the leads to, which can lead to some terrible experiences for the impacted families.

) February 25, 2010 -- Nexternal Solutions, a leader in ecommerce shopping cart software, is excited to announce the release of a new feature which provides a powerful integration with two major social networking sites; Facebook and Twitter. This new update gives online merchants the ability to allow their customers to post recent purchases on Facebook and Twitter during the checkout process.

Sample Tweet

) November 3, 2009 –- Treepodia, an early market leader in automated online product video technology and services, announced today that UK electronics retailer Electric Shopping (Treepodia Smart Video Platform with great results.

) March 4, 2010 -- SturdiBuild (formerly Mid Atlantic Supply) announced that its SturdiMount product has taken The Most Innovative Imported Product Award at the 2010 WRLA Prairie Showcase Buying Show & Convention in Canada.

SturdiMount
WRLA is one of the largest shows of its kind in Canada, with 600 booths and over 250 exhibiting companies. “SturdiMount was one of the Broadleaf lines we featured in the WRLA’s New Product Showcase, in addition to being launched and displayed at our booth.” Said Daniel Lopez, Product Development Manager, Broadleaf Logistics Company.

) April 2, 2009 -- VillageWorks, a consistent leader in modern marketing techniques, has made another bold move. The company is dedicating its focus to social media marketing with new services and a new location.

) May 23, 2009 -- There wasn’t a Better Sex Homemade Sex Toy Design competition when Nortel laid off Bruce and Melody Murison. The Murison’s believed one door closing meant another must be opening. A natural inventor, Bruce focused efforts on joining a growth business by creating sex toys. The Murison’s wanted to create something new, something the adult toy market had never seen. Their unique idea: create a toy designed for use while making love. They mortgaged their house to fund an entrepreneurial dream and the We-Vibe vibrator ( bettersex.com/Sex_Toys/we-vibe-sex-toy.html ) was born.

Adult Toy Contest

) June 11, 2009 -- MidMarketer.com released a new report today entitled “Taking the sure shot: Score more goals with landing pages.” The report illustrates for marketers just how easy it is to use landing pages in their marketing efforts, and how they can significantly improve ROI with a minimal time investment.

) November 3, 2009 -- PistachioHealth.com, the leading online resource of information on the health and nutrition benefits of pistachios, was awarded both the Consumer Goods Standard of Excellence and the Food Industry Standard of Excellence awards by the Web Marketing Association.

PistachioHealth.com received high marks in both the Consumer Goods and Food Industry categories for credible content, skilled copywriting, site design and ease of navigation. The site averages 16,000 visitors each month within one year of launch.

) July 27, 2009 -- OnlineRadioStations.com, the fastest growing single source of internet radio from radio stations around the world, announced today that it recently launched its second-generation website format for music listeners wanting free music from radio stations online.

) November 3, 2009 -- http://www.qmpeople.com/ , a fast growing social network, adds new video functionality to its service allowing users to upload unlimited videos and also share them on other popular video sharing sites.

“We want our users the have tools to communicate; to share their experiences and video provides this. We choose vzaar http://vzaar.com/ , to power our video requirements. They offer an API that was easy to implement on a robust platform which we are delighted with.“ comments founder of qmpeople.

) November 3, 2009 -- A Great Piece of Rock & Roll History, what the New York Times called a “Jubilant Piano Summit,” and People Magazine chose as the “Pick of the Week” when it premiered in July of 1986, is finally available on DVD. This musical treasure was missed by the major companies; they ignored an incredible night of music magic. Producer David McBurnett has taken control of his original Masters to ‘Fats Domino and Friends’, a live concert shot at New Orleans’ famous Storyville nightclub. He and his partner Rick Lazes have re-released the show on DVD and made it available at their web site: www.FatsAndFriends.com.

) May 27, 2009 – Millions of Baby Boomers are struggling to care for their aging parents. Many don’t know where to turn or even what their options are in making important decisions about senior care facilities for their parents.

) March 4, 2010 -- April is the time for forward thinkers, innovators and entrepreneurs to be in Lexington, Ky. In addition to being one of the Bluegrass region’s most beautiful months, April features “April is,” a series of events dedicated to celebrating and engaging the creative class and technology professionals.

A mixed group gathers at funky Al's Bar for a Geeks Night Out. Social and other events are helping technology and creative professionals connect with each other more often.

) January 14, 2009 -- As the day nears when President-elect Barack Obama must give up his Blackberry, there is still the issue of how to dispose of it in a secure, environmentally-friendly manner that meets Federal regulations for decommissioning and disposal of sensitive communications gear.

) June 25, 2009 -- The Halo Group today announced Tyler Jennings, a veteran communications pro with an extensive background in social media, joined the agency as Social Media Specialist. Tyler further rounds out Halo’s digital offering and keeps the agency on the forefront of the newest marketing communications disciplines.

Before joining The Halo Group, Tyler consulted with various companies where he was responsible for social media efforts, monitoring and administration for specifically selected brands. He has worked with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Blogger, WordPress, Ping and Bebo.

) April 29, 2009 -- Researchers at the University of Iowa today announced a major study to track public perception of the swine flu outbreak and other infectious diseases, utilizing a unique, realtime index of the social web from OneRiot.