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PRWeb Podcast Expands Podcast Service Availability and Offerings

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podcast, businesses, Tech News, marketing, online, technology, holiday, Culture, Society, offerings, prweb, launch, distribution, david mcinnis, seo.

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Since its launch nearly a year ago, PRWeb Podcast has recorded over 1,700 episodes and delivered more than 500,000 downloads.

Starting Monday, December 18th, PRWeb Podcast will offer two new podcast services available at all PRWeb press release distribution levels.

Ferndale, WA (PRWEB) December 15, 2006 -- PRWeb, a Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS) service and the Internet's leading direct-to-consumer press release newswire, announces changes to its popular PRWeb Podcast service.

On Monday, December 18th, PRWeb will expand podcast availability to all of its distribution levels with two new press release podcasting services.

As PRWeb approaches the one-year anniversary of its podcasting service, PRWeb Podcast, to date the PRWeb team has recorded over 1,700 episodes and delivered more than 500,000 episode downloads since the launch of www.PRWebPodcast.com.

"We have received a lot of great feedback this year about our podcasting production services," noted Andrew Schlichting, PRWeb's Web 2.0 Content Manager.

"We've taken this info and created some exciting new offerings that will expand podcast opportunities for all PRWeb users."

Prior to this announcement, PRWeb users could request a five to seven minute podcast interview at no charge at PRWeb's $200 Advanced Online Visibility package level.

Beginning Monday, December 18th, PRWeb's existing podcast services will be available as an add-on to any of PRWeb's press release distribution packages for $100.

Since 1997, PRWeb has been changing the way businesses, marketing departments and public relations firms think about press releases.

PRWeb was the first company to build and offer a search engine optimized platform for press release distribution.

For more information, visit PRWeb's site at http://www.prweb-inc.com.

CompAir Recognized as an Outstanding Success Leading global manufacturer, CompAir, has been awarded 'Private Company Turnaround of the Year 2006' by the Society of Turnaround Professionals (STP).

PRWeb Podcast Expands Podcast Service Availability and Offerings Since its launch nearly a year ago, PRWeb Podcast has recorded over 1,700 episodes and delivered more than 500,000 downloads.

NewBlue Releases Two New Sony Vegas Plugin Packages (NewBlueFX) for Video Editing Enthusiasts Interactive audio and video technology developer NewBlue, Inc. announced today the launch two additional special NewBlueFX plugins packages for Sony Vegas software.

Official Launch of FriendsOver50.com Offers Boomers & Seniors a Vibrant, Unique, & Free Interactive Online Knowledge Management Community Unlike other online communities, FriendOver50.com is driven by the success of its members.

A Unique Christmas Gift for Food Lovers: Your Recipe Book Personalized recipe book or vouchers are available through the new, simplified Your Recipe Book website.

California Business Brokers Increasingly Turn to Internet Advertising to Sell Small Businesses California Business Brokers are using the Internet to list and sell small businesses.

101 Easy Ways To Use Google's New Website Optimizer to "Explode Your Profit" Google's new "Website Optimizer" tool allows website owners to test different versions of their site to see which is best at "converting" visitors into customers.

Last Minute Holiday Shopping Guide From DayTimers Time Management Expert Gift buying is the biggest holiday organization challenge people have this season.

This innovative delivery system allows the user to easily adjust the strength of the active medications up or down, for maximum acne treatment while minimizing skin irritation, redness, dryness and discomfort.

Online Florist Directory, LocalFlowerShop.com, Reports Record Levels of Online Traffic and Phone Inquiries as the Holiday Online Shopping Frenzy Begins The floral industry's fastest growing directory becomes deluged by record numbers of consumers clamoring for an opportunity to order flowers directly from a local florist.

For Debt-Burdened Companies, An Alternative to Debt Consolidation With Performance Source Inc's "collaborative debt settlement" process, businesses avoid the pitfalls of debt consolidation.

Unique Gift Idea from Lobster Gram Allows Users to Create Own Gift Certificate Live lobsters, crab, shrimp, and other seafood delicacies can be combined to form a fun holiday gift idea.

MyOtherDrive.com - a Free On-line File Storage and Sharing Site - MySpace, YouTube, and Photo Sharing Site Killer MyOtherDrive.com is a free 5GB hard drive with an Explorer(r)-style interface that provides storage anywhere Internet access is available and the ability to allow access selectively to others.

In addition to offering the same benefits as other photo-sharing sites, such as Yahoo, Flikr, and SmugMug, MyOtherDrive.com competes with broader file-sharing sites Kazaa and eDonkey, and even YouTube.

However, MyOtherDrive.com users can specify who can see the content on their site -- a significant advantage over other "public" sites.

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Billboard and Vocus Launch Major Entertainment and Music Promotion Service

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billboard, billboard publicity, vocus, billboard publicity wire, entertainment, media, PRWeb, news, distribution, search engines, web site, online, charts, seo, Radio.

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Billboard Publicity Wire guarantees distribution through vast SEO and social media press release network.

New York, NY and Lanham, MD (Billboard Publicity Wire/PRWeb) October 24, 2006 -- Billboard, the premier source of music, video and digital entertainment news, charts, reviews and analysis, and Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS), a global leader in web-based software for public relations and online visibility and the provider of the PRWeb press release newswire, today launched Billboard Publicity Wire, a major entertainment and music promotion press release service.

"From the largest record, film, and consumer product companies to the newest emerging artists, Billboard Publicity Wire provides publicity and online visibility for all."

Billboard Publicity Wire uses Vocus' specialized team of PRWeb editors and proprietary SEO tools to help ensure that press releases receive maximum exposure.

After a release has been distributed, the sender can view a variety of graphical reports that show how many times it was opened, downloaded and printed; which search engines and search terms were used to find it; and a geographic breakdown of readers.

Press releases are indexed by major search engines and published on myriad news and entertainment sites including Yahoo News, eMediaWire and PRWeb.

In addition to guaranteeing widespread distribution of press releases, Billboard Publicity Wire is a source of web site content and story leads for media outlets and journalists.

At no charge, webmasters and online editors can subscribe to an array of targeted, royalty-free RSS feeds and re-publish headline links to press releases and any associated photos, podcasts and electronic media kits.

Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Billboard is the flagship property for the Billboard Information Group, which also consists of Billboard.biz, Billboard.com, Billboard Chart Alert, Billboard Information Network (BIN), Billboard Directories, Billboard Books, Billboard Licensing & Events and Radio & Records.

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Hot New 2007 Christmas Gift That is Not the PS3 - Doggie's Angel 2007 Calendar

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gift, calendar, Angel, christmas, holiday, animals, producer, market, health, photographers, beauty, Blescia, pets, Katrina, homeless.

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) December 19, 2006 -- This Christmas season, beside the Playstation 3, there's another new must-have cult item on the market: The Doggie's Angel 2007 calendar.

Doggie's Angel, a charitable organization committed to the rescue of homeless animals, has created a unique pin-up/dog calendar featuring some truly winning canines.

The charity will contribute 60% of the net proceeds from calendar sales to the Louisiana SPCA for the benefit of a large number of animals displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to Vincenza Blescia, founder and executive producer.

These gifted photographers, working with a gorgeous model and some adorable rescued puppies, have created images that define the very ideal of beauty.

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Billboard and Vocus Launch Major Entertainment and Music Promotion Service

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billboard, billboard publicity, vocus, billboard publicity wire, entertainment, media, PRWeb, news, distribution, search engines, web site, online, charts, seo, Radio.

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Billboard Publicity Wire guarantees distribution through vast SEO and social media press release network.

New York, NY and Lanham, MD (Billboard Publicity Wire/PRWeb) October 24, 2006 -- Billboard, the premier source of music, video and digital entertainment news, charts, reviews and analysis, and Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS), a global leader in web-based software for public relations and online visibility and the provider of the PRWeb press release newswire, today launched Billboard Publicity Wire, a major entertainment and music promotion press release service.

"From the largest record, film, and consumer product companies to the newest emerging artists, Billboard Publicity Wire provides publicity and online visibility for all."

Billboard Publicity Wire uses Vocus' specialized team of PRWeb editors and proprietary SEO tools to help ensure that press releases receive maximum exposure.

After a release has been distributed, the sender can view a variety of graphical reports that show how many times it was opened, downloaded and printed; which search engines and search terms were used to find it; and a geographic breakdown of readers.

Press releases are indexed by major search engines and published on myriad news and entertainment sites including Yahoo News, eMediaWire and PRWeb.

In addition to guaranteeing widespread distribution of press releases, Billboard Publicity Wire is a source of web site content and story leads for media outlets and journalists.

At no charge, webmasters and online editors can subscribe to an array of targeted, royalty-free RSS feeds and re-publish headline links to press releases and any associated photos, podcasts and electronic media kits.

Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Billboard is the flagship property for the Billboard Information Group, which also consists of Billboard.biz, Billboard.com, Billboard Chart Alert, Billboard Information Network (BIN), Billboard Directories, Billboard Books, Billboard Licensing & Events and Radio & Records.

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Internet Slide Show of Ads On Steroids Announced by 100% Cotton Advertising

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advertising, Cotton, ads, risk taker, safe advertising, play-it-safe, gambler, gambling, shot, Stan Cotton, branding, internet, Blink, Shadows, Simpy.

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A slide show from 100% Cotton Advertising that gives alternative ad approaches to business-as-usual approaches is now available for view on the Internet.

Take a look at an offbeat internet slide-show by Stan Cotton, one of the 20th Century's most outrageous adman, and 15 advertising case histories ads that made mincemeat of sacred cows while moving product and services.

It's a positive way to determine whether safe advertising is a waste of money.

"A risk taker says, 'How can I do things better?'

whereas a gambler doesn't think his problem out - he sees a chance and takes a shot at it.

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Study Shows Flavoring Improves Quality of Life Scores & Compliance at Children's Hospital

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FLAVORx, medications, hospitals, patients, taste, treatment, compliance, control group, healthcare practitioners, pediatric patients, life, ingest, child, bitter taste, treatment programs.

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An independent study from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital showed that the addition of flavoring to medicine can improve compliance and quality of life scores drastically in pediatric patients.

Bethesda, MD (PRWEB) December 19, 2006 -- As many hospitals and healthcare practitioners know, the bitter taste of medications can have a negative impact on compliance, and add significant strain to treatment programs for pediatric patients.

A recent study from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital showed that commercially-available flavorings (FLAVORx) significantly impacted compliance among children admitted to the hospital.

Oftentimes, taste alone can be enough to deter a child from ingesting a medication, taking medications properly or fully completing medication regimens.

Patients in the control group, who did not receive flavoring, were allowed to use conventional methods such as crushing a tablet in ice cream or mixing the medication with chocolate or cherry syrup to improve taste and smell.

Patients in the control group had an initial 'quality of life' score of 2.5 (out of 10), with the score improving to 3.8 after instituting conventional methods to improve palatability.

Most importantly, because healthcare practitioners spend less time struggling with patients to ingest medicine, they can use time and resources efficiently to care for more patients.

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Lonelygirl on top 10 of youtube

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YouTube, video, star, Internet, NBC, networks, culture, Canadian Press, community, Michael, campaign, amateur, high schooler, bedroom, clips.

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Declared the invention of the year by Time magazine, the video sharing website had Ohio judges posting their weekly sentencing hearings and spawned countless explosive experiments involving Diet Coke and Mentos candies.

Of course, the pretty high schooler named Bree was eventually revealed to be 19-year-old actress Jessica Lee Rose, who was acting out a scripted plot with two behind-the-scenes producers.

But that strange mutated duality of what's real and what's fiction, what's amateur and what's professional, remains the heart and soul of YouTube, where everybody and nobody is a star.

The video was seen by more than five million viewers before NBC asked YouTube to remove it in February.

Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg's rhymes boosted the hipness of "SNL," but more importantly, it was the first time networks were alerted to their new competition.

3. Political fallout - YouTube, like the Internet in general, has made it a specialty to reveal the gaffes and mistakes of the establishment.

George Allen didn't deserve his fate after a video of him calling a rival campaign staffer "macaca" drew constant clicks on YouTube.

6. Celebrity spy - Michael (Kramer) Richards' racist rant at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood in November would have drawn headlines without YouTube, but would millions have seen it?

A user named Peter who goes by the name geriatric1927 has become one of the biggest and unlikeliest stars of the YouTube community.

9. International compendium - Unlike perhaps anything before, YouTube compiles videos from around the world, making for a truly borderless repository of pop culture.

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Social communities go mobile

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social communities, mobile, ABI research, members, sponsor, market, growth, wireless, online social communities, subscription, technology, Wheelock, York, forecasts, Business Wire.

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A new ABI Research Brief has found that "mobile social communities" currently count nearly 50 million members worldwide, a number that is expected to reach 174 million in 2011.

In a logical progression, many social communities are now based on the mobile phone and other portable wireless devices instead of (or as well as) the PC.

The brisk pace of mobile social community growth means opportunities for new entrants hoping to join the established players such as SMS.ac, AirG, and Jumbuck that provide the technology and marketing behind leading mobile communities.

Companies can sponsor special interest communities that relate directly to their brands or services.

For instance, MTV Asia sponsors a music forum for Asian users, where members talk about music.

which also includes Research Reports, Market Data, Online Databases, the ABI Vendor Matrix, ABI Insights and analyst inquiry support.

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My spaceteams

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MySpace, Cingular, mobile, Cingular Customers, friends, wireless, MySpace profile, ability, community, feature, blog, network, photos, partnership, Parental Controls.

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The landmark deal marks MySpace's largest-scale mobile partnership and gives Cingular's customers exclusive access to MySpace Mobile's rich tool set including the ability to edit MySpace profiles, view and add friends, post photos and blogs, send and receive MySpace messages, and much more -- all from the mobile phone.

"MySpace.com has a passionate community of users, many of whom use our site as their primary means of staying in touch with family and friends," said Chris DeWolfe, CEO, MySpace.

"The photo upload feature of MySpace Mobile means Cingular customers will now have the ability to capture, record and share their world as it happens via their MySpace profile, creating a more enriching experience for our customers as well as their MySpace friends."

Available on select Cingular handsets, MySpace Mobile allows Cingular customers to select photos stored on their mobile device and upload them to their MySpace profile.

From their Cingular phones, they have the ability to send messages to their MySpace friends, read and reply to messages sent to them, as well as view and manage friend requests.

MySpace Mobile allows Cingular customers to perform basic friend searches giving users the opportunity to "click-to-add "friends into their network.

MySpace Mobile allows Cingular customers to post new blog entries and make comments to other users' blogs or MySpace profile pages.

The Friend list contains a text listing of the friends, which when selected would show the profile picture along with a link to that user's MySpace page and the ability to add the friend to your contact list for quick bookmarking.

MySpace Mobile Alerts have been available to Cingular customers since March 2006 and, to date, more than 75 million alerts have been received on Cingular handsets.

Cingular offers Parental Controls that enable parents to block their children's purchase of and/ or access to wireless content that may be inappropriate for young users.

MySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc., is the premier lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, discovering popular culture, and making a positive impact on the world.

Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving 58.7 million customers.

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Facebook

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Facebook, students, school, campus, employers, profiles, Malavenda, networking, social-networking, technology, phenomenon, colleges, friends, Christian Science Monitor, life.

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Facebook: A campus fad becomes a campus fact; The social-networking website isn't growing like it once did, but only because almost every US student is already on it.

Bridget Henry didn't think her school, the University of Iowa, gave students an appropriate venue to participate in the search for a new president.

Henry, a senior majoring in political science, started "Hogan's Heroes," a group supporting provost Michael Hogan for the job.

Henry and her friends tried a laundry list of ways to publicize "Hogan's Heroes" - everything from a letter-writing campaign to handing out flyers.

But what succeeded most was their page on the social networking website Facebook, which attracted more than 200 supporters.

Even if Hogan doesn't get the job, Henry learned what colleges and universities are waking up to: Facebook is no longer just a fun way for students to keep in touch.

It is now essential to the college experience, a fact that faculty and staff are scurrying to catch up with.

Soon to enter its fourth year, Facebook has matured into a warehouse of school information, a big-time player in campus activism, and a mirror of university life - good and bad.

More than 12 million users are signed up.

School officials, most of whom were either dismissive or unaware of the phenomenon, are now awake to it.

And they worry about information in student profiles, especially after hearing that employers routinely check them.

Students still "friend" others in their school or regional networks, exchange messages and pictures (Facebook claims to be the largest photo-sharing website), check class schedules, or post diary notes.

Then there are groups like Henry's, for example.

Or the one at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., that wants to revive sluggish campus social life.

Students running for campus office campaign on Facebook, as do actual politicians.

"Any [campus] behavior that you could experience face to face, you'll see on Facebook," says Pablo Malavenda, associate dean of students at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

Malavenda says the schools overreacted because they were confused - after all, he adds, social networking is the biggest campus phenomenon since phones were allowed in residence halls.

Brian Payst, director of technology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, says schools need to use the changing ways in which students communicate.

At Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., administrators sent "a call to action," asking faculty and staff to join Facebook in the hopes that it would have a "norming influence" on content.

Michael Bugeja, director of the journalism school at Iowa State University, views Facebook as one of several distractions that the spread of wireless access has allowed to flourish on campuses.

"They have dominated their niche," says Fred Stutzman, who studies Facebook for his doctoral dissertation at UNC.

The site is a hit, and within a few months it expands to other schools in the area.

One of the most publicized warnings about Facebook comes from a slew of surveys showing that employers check Facebook profiles before making hiring decisions.

A recent survey by Christine Wiley and Mark Sisson, who work in the Career Services office at the University of Dayton, Ohio, not only confirms the use of Facebook by employers, but it also points to the disconnect that exists between students and the adults who make decisions about them.

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