Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
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Monday, 27 February 2012

WorldWidePR.net to Host First Ever Tweetup in East Grinstead


Local social media marketing firm wants East Grinstead businesses to take advantage of 21st century marketing techniques

East Grinstead - WorldWidePR.net, the East Grinstead-based social media marketing firm, is hosting the town's first ever "Tweetup" - a free business get-together or "Meet-up" all centred around Twitter - at Bluebells Café in London Road from 6-9pm on Wednesday 29th February 2012.

"This is your chance to meet over a coffee, face to face, the Twitter users you've so far only met online, free of charge. A Tweetup is an informal business networking get-together, ostensibly to talk about Twitter or about any aspect of social media. Here, advanced users will have a chance to chat with other advanced users, while at the same time, beginners can chat with anyone they want to chat with, to find out what the hell this social media revolution is all about!" says John Wood, founder and creative director of WorldWidePR.net

John Wood of WorldWidePR.net at Bluebells Café, the venue for Wednesday's tweetup
The event has certainly piqued some local interest: an article appeared in the East Grinstead Courier and Observer as well as on Sussex Living Magazine's blog last week and there's been quite a lot of noise about it on Twitter too. The event even has its own official Twitter hashtag (any string of characters prefixed with the # symbol. When included in a tweet, a hashtag serves as a tag providing a loose, free-format form of categorization), for those who wish to talk about it and promote it some more. The official hashtag for East Grinstead's first tweetup is #EGtweetup.

"The East Grinstead Courier and Observer found out about our Tweetup because they saw we were promoting it on Twitter. That's exactly how it's supposed to be," says John. "We hope you will be able to pop in for a chat on Wednesday when you can find out everything you've always wanted to know about Twitter but were afraid to ask."

The Tweetup has an Event Page on Facebook where those wishing to attend can add themselves to the list: http://www.facebook.com/events/322146294489865/

About WorldWidePR

WorldWidePR.net offers an outsourced social media solutions service. You, an SME, are too busy running your business to have time to manage your blog, Facebook Page, Twitter profile etc - so we do it all for you. This allows you to take advantage of the immense power of social media marketing to promote your business while, at the same time, never having to worry about any of your profiles going out of date.

For more information, please contact:

John Wood
Founder/Creative Director
WorldWidePR.net
197 Garden Wood Road
East Grinstead
West Sussex
RH19 1SH

+44 (0)1342 323750
+44 (0)777 152 0001
jw@worldwidepr.net
http://www.worldwidepr.net

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Thursday, 22 December 2011

Filmfunds Acquires Duran Duboi Us And 3d Liveflix, Places Bid On Duran Duboi France


Filmfunds Prepares To Ask Millions of Movie Fans,
“What Film Do You Want To See In 3D?”



Los Angeles – Having launched a production arm to help bring promising new films to market, FilmFunds today announced the acquisition of Duran Duboi US, an independent California-based company whose patented 3D LiveFlix technology, combined with FilmFunds’ own digital crowd-sourcing technology, will allow FilmFunds to poll public opinion on the most popular films audiences want to see in 3D, then offer conversion services to content owners. Its acquisition of Duran Duboi US moves FilmFunds a significant step closer toward becoming a one-stop shop for filmmakers.

FilmFunds has also placed a formal bid for Duran Duboi France, currently in Chapter 11. The company, headquartered near Paris and part of Quinta Industries, is the internationally renowned visual effects company behind such hit films as Alien: Resurrection, Amelie, La Vie En Rose, A Very Long Engagment, Crank, Hannibal Rising, Underworld and Black Gold. In its bid, FilmFunds has ensured the completion of outstanding projects undertaken by Duran Duboi France, including the Luc Besson-produced film The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart. FilmFunds’ bid is structured to continue a quarter-century of visual expertise and deliver expert post-production and visual effects services to the website’s filmmakers.

With the in-house ability to convert 2D projects to 3D, and access to more than 60 million movie fans, FilmFunds will ask its members: Are the right movies being made in 3D? Which movies do you want to see in 3D? Voting by the FilmFunds community will determine the most popular projects for conversion and, based on this enthusiastic audience, the company will approach studios and other content owners – with both the data to prove an audience for a 3D version of the film, as well as the conversion technology. FilmFunds aims to partner with studios on a project by project basis to bring promising 3D films to life.

“While popular films like Star Wars and Titanic will soon be coming out in 3D, there are many others that have a built-in audience, if only studios and filmmakers had an easy-to-use, crowd-sourcing social marketing tool to prove it. Now they do. FilmFunds looks forward to working with content owners to help identify and convert the most beloved 2D films for 3D-hungry audiences everywhere,” offered FilmFunds Co-Founder and Chairman Carl Freer, a respected technology entrepreneur and visionary.

With the acquisition of Duran Duboi US, its president, Christian Paris, will transition to vice president of FilmFunds, helping to approach online content distributors like Netflix, as well as traditional distributors, in supporting 3D-converted projects. “I look forward to marrying our proprietary technology with that of FilmFunds, which truly offers a 21st-century solution for filmmakers,” said Paris. Having spent ten years as a U.S. representative for various European visual effects and sound technology companies, in 2010 he launched 3D LiveFlix, which recently provided the 3D conversion for Conan the Barbarian.

About Duran Duboi US and 3D LiveFlix
Duran Duboi US (DD US) is an independent California-based company created in 2002 by Christian Paris. DD US marketed visual effects services in Hollywood for Duran Duboi France for eight years and then for Quinta Industries for five years. It went into the business of visual effects as 3D conversion became more popular and created 3D LiveFlix to propose conversion solutions to film libraries, studios and independent filmmakers. Investing in R&D, it owns a unique process of conversion for theatrical release, home video and handhelds. 3D LiveFlix has exclusive branch partners in Paris along with India, Mexico and Hawaii. For more information, please visit www.duranduboi.com or http://www.3dliveflix.com.


About Duran Duboi (France)
Duran Duboi, founded in 1984, is widely acknowledged as a pioneer of the digital audiovisual post-production industry. Serving the film, TV and advertising communities, Duran Duboi Studio offers a full spectrum of services including digital audiovisual post-production, visual effects, 3D animation, pre-visualization and commercials. For more information, please visit http://www.quintaindustries.com.

About FilmFunds
Headquartered in Los Angeles, FilmFunds offers a 360-degree solution for Hollywood to test nascent film projects, helping move content through the pipeline by creating an audience for it, while giving fans a unprecedented opportunity to be part of the green-light process. FilmFunds utilizes crowd-sourced social marketing research to replace the costly live test-screening model used since Hollywood’s Golden Era. A social environment where Hollywood filmmakers can meet their real audience, with the most accurate, state-of-the-art diagnostics guiding their efforts to improve and build support for their product, FilmFunds is a place where film lovers have a chance to make it their movie. For more information, please visit http://www.FilmFunds.com.


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Monday, 8 March 2010

ASOS.com Launches Fashion Twitter Application www.asosfollowsfashion.com

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New Twitter aggregator site helps to connect fashion-loving people with real time news and views from the best of the fashion world

LONDON, United Kingdom - ASOS.com, the UK’s leading online fashion store has launched http://www.asosfollowsfashion.com, a Twitter application aggregating the latest tweets from fashion industry insiders and influencers.

Commenting on the launch, James Hart, eCommerce Director at ASOS.com, said: “We’ve been chatting to our customers through social media for a few years now but our ASOS colleagues also follow and interact with some of fashion’s greatest through Twitter. With asosfollowsfashion.com, we get to share this passion. It’s a simple tool with a simple goal really; to connect fashion-loving people with real time news and views from the best of the fashion world.”

Featuring categories like ‘The Brands’, ‘The Bloggers’ and ‘The A-List’, asosfollowsfashion.com helps users to discover interesting fashion tweeters and view real-time fashion news and stories. Encouraging users to help curate the list of featured tweeters, the application also invites them to share their view and highlight any accounts that should be added.

“ASOS.com’s continued growth is due to their consistent ability to innovate with their online activity,” said James Haycock, Managing Director of AdaptiveLab, the creative technology company that built the social media application. “Their open approach to including competitors on the site demonstrates that they really understand the role their brand can play when it comes to social interaction, as this application positions them as a useful resource that will have continued relevance.”



About AdaptiveLab
AdaptiveLab is a London-based creative technology company. The company designs innovative online products and services (that it launches under its own name and creates tailor-made) for clients such as ASOS.com and YouGov Plc. http://www.adaptivelab.co.uk
http://www.twitter.com/adaptive_lab

About ASOS.com
Established in June 2000, ASOS.com is the UK's largest independent online fashion and beauty retailer with over 35,000 products and 1500 new lines added each week. Aimed primarily at fashionably aware 16-34 year olds, the site attracts over 6.9million unique visitors per month and has in excess of 2.9million registered users. http://www.asos.com http://www.twitter.com/asos http://www.asosfollowsfashion.com

For further information, images and samples please contact:

Amy Davies
asos.com
Greater London House
Hampstead Road
London
NW1 7FB

+44 (0)20 7836 1284
press@asos.com
http://www.asos.com


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Thursday, 5 February 2009

Brownbook is listed in Outsell Inc's Top 30 Companies to Watch in 2009


Brownbook earns its place on Outsell Inc's list for demonstrating that there is a new business directory business model that works and can lead to new pricing architecture

February 5, 2009 - Worldwide

NEWS FACTS
  • In Outsell's "Information Industry Outlook 2009: No Guts, No Glory" report in which the 30 firms are listed, the reason for Brownbook.net's inclusion is "For demonstrating that there is a new business directory business model that works and can lead to new pricing architecture."
  • Any company included in Outsell's 30 to Watch list is considered to be in the right place at the right time, where new competition and threats are emerging, and in tune with way in which the landscape of information delivery is changing.
  • Outsell's analyst team selects 30 firms that are doing particularly innovative things - shaking up their respective marketplaces and challenging publishers and information providers to re-evaluate their activities - and publishes them in the list.
  • Outsell Inc (http://www.outsellinc.com), the only research and advisory firm focused on the publishing, information, and education industries, every year, looks at firms that they believe will have an important impact on the publishing and information-provider community.
  • The other companies in the list are: Apple, CNN, Elsevier, The Guardian, Thomson Reuters and Google BBN Ad Network, Blurb, British Medical Journal, CNN, Collexis, Critical Media, Data Explorers, Demand Media, Exact Editions, Flat World Knowledge, Google, The Guardian, Hakia, Hulu, IHS, LiveMocha, MarketTools, Nature Publishing Group, Public Library of Science (PloS), Safari, Thomson Reuters, Wood MacKenzie, and ZoomInfo.
  • These firms exemplify Outsell's theme - No Guts, No Glory - in the leading stance they are taking. It is, indeed, an honour to be included in Outsell's 30 to Watch list.
Dave Ingram, Brownbook CEO

ATTRIBUTABLE QUOTES

Attributable to Dave Ingram, CEO, Brownbook.net
  • We're very proud to have been recognised by Outsell as the company that is turning the online directory business model on its head. We're taking this as a nod from on high that we're doing good things.
  • Brownbook helps a business get found all over the web by heavily optimizing its listings for all the major search engines. In this way, our business customers are benefitting from what we call bread-crumbing - leaving calling cards that direct enquiries to their website from all over the internet.
  • Brownbook adopts the concepts of crowd sourcing, collaboration and peer production to offer a unique business model that doesn't rely upon advertising sales or large on-the-road sales forces and expensive call centres. This allows us to pass huge savings on to our business customers, as well as pay our members a generous lifetime share of our revenue.
  • Brownbook is different, primarily because it grants users the freedom to update their directory listings immediately and as often as they wish, as well as add rich media like photos, videos, and widgets. Everyone shares in the site's success through our lifetime revenue share program.
BROWNBOOK KEY FACTS
  • Brownbook is the free directory that anyone can edit - anyone in any country anywhere in the world can add, edit and review businesses in any country
  • Business owners claim their listing to optimize it, get alerts and customize it with photos, videos, logos, widgets, and any additional information
  • Business owners use Brownbook Bidgets (Business widgets) to easily add features like reviews, maps, and video on all their other web presences
  • Unique business model that rewards contributors with a lifetime share of revenue
  • Launched in the UK in May 2008 with 2.2 million UK businesses listed, expanded to USA, Australia and Canada in July 2008 with an additional 25 million records
  • On web (http://www.brownbook.net) and mobile web (http://m.brownbook.net)
  • Brownbook.net has a totally open ethos, with its OpenSearch API and Micro Formats that allow Brownbook.net data can be used everywhere by anyone.
USEFUL LINKS

Website: http://www.brownbook.net
Blog: http://blog.brownbook.net
Press and Images: http://blog.brownbook.net/press
Founders' Twitter pages: http://twitter.com/daveingram, and http://twitter.com/marc_lyne
Brownbook interview on Fast Company: http://tinyurl.com/ct5qby
Brownbook overview by Wikinomics: http://tinyurl.com/6omb2s
Dave Ingram interview on Intruders.TV: http://tinyurl.com/5vfos7

CONTACT US

Please contact Marc Lyne (marc[AT]brownbook[DOT]net) to arrange an interview and/or for additional quotes:

Marc Lyne, COO
Brownbook.net
London Road
Sayers Common
West Sussex
BH6 9HS
United Kingdom

+44 (0)208 1235 466
marc[AT]brownbook[DOT]net
http://www.brownbook.net
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