Friday, November 14, 2008 -- "Writing Your Press Releases" SDSIC. If you're writing your press releases like it was still 1994, you're not maximizing the value of this tool in this Internet-centric age. Discover how to write for the 3 audiences that delivered-by-Internet releases can reach: media, search engines, and direct-to-public. Dana Todd, Chief Marketing Officer of Newsforce Inc., will educate us on the new things happening in online media relations and PR.

If you can write a 5-10 page short on the subject, you’re eligible to enter. The competition is called “Write for a Cause” and started on July 1st. Scripped.com wants to hear what you have to say about the global financial crisis and the political complexities surrounding it. Registration costs only $10 and if your short is picked, you win $500 and some very good exposure.

Write an Editorial Calendar Write an Editorial Calendar One of the most helpful steps in this process continues to be writing out an approved Editorial Calendar of topics and replies for commonly asked questions, allowing a company social media team to act quickly and consistently when dealing with online audiences.  Use Editor’s note: This is part 4 in the series of Lessons Learned:  Easy tips on how to create and grow a social media program.   This series includes a discussion on the following topics:

AV Flox is either trying to write an Evanescence song or trying to sound deep. In the meantime, I’ll wallpaper Los Angeles, write you these things and set them to sea. Welcome to a new column here on lalawag called Twits, a place where I (Alice) review and berate your 140 character or less masterpieces. I’ll be looking each week off the official lalawag twit list , if you’d like to be included please let us know in the comments.

AV Flox is either trying to write an Evanescence song or trying to sound deep. In the meantime, I’ll wallpaper Los Angeles, write you these things and set them to sea. Welcome to a new column here on lalawag called Twits, a place where I (Alice) review and berate your 140 character or less masterpieces. I’ll be looking each week off the official lalawag twit list , if you’d like to be included please let us know in the comments.

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Zak had an idea for a screen writing magazine, and was trying to make it as a screenwriter, and found out there was a lack of good resources for people trying to scrap and get to the top. Are you targeting Hollywood and existing script writing software? Sunil We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. Scripped (www.scripped.com)

It has changed my emotional outlook. Best damn marketing tool by an order of magnitude. Both And it's free. Other thoughts on the value of blogging: Value of Blogging - Thanks Tracy , Common Questions and Some Thoughts Around Blogs and Blogging , Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog . But from a value perspective, it really comes down to the numbers I showed for my eLearning Technology blog. Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Be interested in what they write.

apologies for the lack of posting to my blog -- I broke my arm snowboarding six weeks ago which makes it hard to write. :-)A Plus Teams - Frank Adante Startonomics LA ...Tags: Recently, I was asked to present my philosophy and methodology toward building what I call A++ teams at the Startonomics conference. Below, you'll find the video recording of the presentation and the actual presentation itself.My

Jason Calacanis, the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based search engine Mahalo , claims that it now has a number of writers who are making over $20,000 a year writing freelance articles for the site. According to Calacanis, the firm is now paying $5 - $10 to writers to write articles for the site, and then splitting revenues from Google AdSense with those writers. Calacanis claims that writers of its how to articles are now making between $10 and $2000 a year, depending on traffic to those articles. Mahalo now has about 3,000 how to articles on the site.

Before you start bitching about investors not writing checks in this economy let me just say this � bullshit. I just finished our capital raise for our new company, Affordit.com and can tell you first hand that I've never seen more people eager to write checks. Does For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have an article from Wil Schroter , CEO and founder of Santa Monica-based Affordit (www.affordit.com). Wil also founded Go Big Network , an online community for entrepreneurs.