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Friends at NewsGator Are Having a Webinar on Content and Traffic ManagementToday

Newsgator is having a webinar on How To Enrich Your Web Content to Drive Traffic & Page Views. Jeff Nolan works there.

Interactive/Digital Media Content Providers, Advertising Managers, Business Development Managers, SEO and Web Traffic Specialists should attend.

Now is your chance to dramatically enrich the content on your site by adding NewsGator’s Related Content feature. This addition will give your audience a broader perspective around articles and an enhanced user experience while increasing your advertising revenue, traffic and page views.

NewsGator’s Related Content delivers high quality, relevant headlines on your article pages giving your audience a more comprehensive and informed view of a topic. You choose the sources; we search for contextually relevant content. So whether you are serving up additional headlines of your own content or from selected partners, NewsGator’s Related Content service will encourage your audience to keep clicking – driving increased web traffic and page views. With NewsGator’s service, you enhance your site’s content without relying upon expensive, traditional news sources. The related content also enhances your Search Engine Optimization by expanding page content and can include advertisements to boost your revenue.

Please join Walker Fenton, GM of NewsGator’s Media & Consumer Products, for this informative free webinar that will p

Is Curt Schilling Moving 38Pitches Blog From WordPress To WEEIToday

Curt Schilling the famed Red Sox pitcher is now blogging at WEEI.com. Curt is keeping his wordpress.com site on the Automatic’s wordpress.com platform.

I wonder if Curt will be keeping the site on WordPress.com

Here is the message from WEEI to their readers.

“To WEEI.com readers: I am going to begin working with Rob Bradford and the folks over at EEI to blog going forward. I wanted a forum that would allow me to talk about things beyond baseball, while at the same time being connected to people with a passion for the game. WEEI.com and Rob’s team afforded me that opportunity.” - Curt Schilling. 38 Pitches is now available on WEEI.com

      

Silicon Valley VCs Are Actively InvestingYesterday

All the talk about Silicon Valley being dead is bull. In fact many of the top VCs are actively investing like True Ventures, Norwest, Benchmark Capital, Foundation, among others. There are some top tier guys who are really hurting. I’ll post more on that later.

Here is a post from Benchmark partner Bill Gurley. I first met Bill when he was an analyst years ago before he joined Hummer Winblad then Benchmark. Bill not that technical but is very skilled at analyzing and reading the market. I think his views are right on the money (pun intended).

Bill says…
What is driving our enthusiasm to be optimistic while the general perception is that we should be “scared”? Here are four answers on a roll:

1) We make money investing, not sitting on our money. Innovation and disruption are constant and not subject to the whims of the overall economy.

2) We believe that environments like this tend to sort out the true entrepreneurs from the pretenders. When money is easy in Silicon Valley, it tends to attract short-term opportunists looking to make a fast-buck rather than build a lasting company. Only the best entrepreneurs set sail in rough seas like this.

3) We like the probability for startups (especially Series A deals) in this environment. Consider that people are easier to hire and rent is cheap. Incumbents are cutting th

Real Time Terrorism Captured on Twitter - Mumbai Attacks Mumbai India AttacksNovember 26

Terrorists are killing people at western hotels in Mumbai India of what people are calling the Mumbai attacks. This is real time and being captured on Twitter.

Here is the twitter search string that you can follow. This is tragic but it shows how the best resource in real time communications is people. People provide the human seed or meta data (aka folksonomy) that machines can scale with. You know what the content is great and gets better when the machines (search and social discovery) take over.

We had the London Bombing and before that the Tsunami. Here is some info on Mumbai India.

      

Viral Campaign: Change a Life for $10 - Send East Palo Alto Champion To FloridaNovember 25

This is a personal request to my blog readers to see if you could be part of viral campaign to send 10 East Palo Alto champion football players to Florida.

I’m looking to find 1k friends @ $10 to raise funds to send underpriveledged families to Florida.As some of you know East Palo Alto is a very diverse community often trying to make end meet. What you have there is a vibrant community of families with energy and great kids who are athletic and smart.

UPDATE: YOU CAN PAY WITH A CREDIT CARD VIA THE PAYPAL LINK - YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A PAYPAL USER. JUST STEP UP AND PUT DOWN THE CREDIT CARD…

Click here and donate $10 and send an 8th grade football champion to Florida to compete for national championship and change a boys life forever.

Recently the Palo Alto Knights 13yr olds have gone undefeated and were recently invited to Florida to compete for the AYFL National Championship in the All American Division. Now ten (10) families can’t send their kids due to financial difficulties.

Change a life and donate $10 or more.

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