If Macworld wasn’t enough to excite you all, worry not, the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off today in Las Vegas and runs through January 11. The all-star lineup includes our dear friends at Opera who, aside from a few exciting happenings around their mobile broswer, remained relatively quiet in 2008. But because they spent the bulk of that down time
A freshly minted blog network called SportsBlog Nation (or SB Nation, as it calls itself) has secured a round of funding in the “mid-seven figures,” Sports Business Journal reported Monday.
Jim Bankoff, who once served as chief of programming at AOL, put the round together and will serve as hairman of the board at SportsBlog Nation, which boasts over 150 blogs, each one dedicated to a different college or professional sports team.
The funding round was led by Accel Partners, best known these days for having been an early investor in Facebook; partner Jim Breyer holds a minority stake in the Boston Celtics. Also contributing were Ted Leonsis, former AOL vice chairman and owner of the Washington Capitals; former Yahoo executives Dan Rosensweig and Jeff Weiner; football-player-turned-private-equity manager Brent Jones; investment bank Allen & Co.; and several executives from Providence Equity Partners, where Bankoff is an adviser.
The Washington, D.C.-based SportsBlog Nation has been in development for about a year, Sports Business Journal wrote.
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Blog network SportsBlog Nation scores funding
Concursive has decided to provide users with the opportunity to use its flagship product, ConcourseSuite 5, for free while having avoided placing the many limitations that a user would normally expect from an offering like this. This package is a culmination of several separate modules — solutions like CRM, CMS and Collaboration — that have been brought together in a single solution to assist companies with managing information and enabling collaboration.
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Free CRM ConcourseSuite is a Limited Time Offer
The web management challenge is to shift your focus away from your website, technology and content, and to focus instead on the needs of your customers.
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Too Close to Your Website, Too Far From Your Customers
Gilbane has released a report that any organization catering to the global community needs to have a look at. It’s entitled Multilingual Communications as a Business Imperative: Why Companies Need to Optimize the Global Content Value Chain — don’t be swayed by the less-than-captivating and very long title. It’s chock full of qualitative research on how global businesses are creating, managing and publishing multilingual content. The short answer is that they’re not.
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Are You Managing Your Global Content Properly?
