I just spoke at the Social Rockstar Workshop at Busboys & Poets in Washington, D.C. about Social Media & Blogging. It was a great conversation and thank you to everyone that attended. I have uploaded to docstoc the online document sharing site for anyone that would like to take a look at the presentation.
I got some social media feedback from some of the attendees here and here.
Docstoc, the online document community offering, which I have covered a number of times, has raised $3.25 million in a series B round of funding. I got a call from founder and CEO Jason Nazar yesterday to inform me of the news. Congratulations to Docstoc on getting some additional funding and good luck on building the product out in the next couple years.
Additionally, Docstoc announced the creation of the Content Partnership Program which allows content partners to generate revenue off of a content they are sharing through Docstoc. This should help motivate more people to add and share documents on Docstoc.
Are you twiisting up in southern California tonight? Unfortunately, I was not able to get out to southern California like I was for Twiistup 1. But thanks to advancements in modern technology (i.e. Web 2.0) I just got a chance to video chat over BlogTV with Mike Macadaan who is hosting his third Twiistup event in Venice, California tonight at the Air Conditioned Supper Club. The event will feature 9 showoff companies and an appearance by celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton.
I am an avid baseball fan and former collegiate baseball player. During my time growing up playing the game the professional baseball player pay scale increased dramatically, raising the stakes for anyone playing the game from tee-ball to the pros. Watching Major League Baseball through the years, many players transformed in front of my eyes from lanky ballplayer of the 1980's to bulky players of the 1990's and beyond. With all the controversy swirling around steroids in baseball, Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig appointed former a former Senate majority leader and federal prosecutor, George J. Mitchell to conduct an investigation on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport.
With the investigation now completed the results creatively title, The Mitchell Report were released. The report calls out a number of respected and previously thought to be 'clean' baseball players as steroid users. It is now available online for you to read and cherish for yourself.
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Docstoc, the Beverly Hill-based document hub startup, has officially launching to the public today. Docstoc leverages the power of user generated content to enable users to upload just about any document type
(Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator or PDF) and display it on any website as
a Flash include.
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Have you ever needed a particular type of document like a contract of lease but did not know where to start? If so, you might have looked to order templates online or purchase them at an office supply store. Docstoc, a Los Angeles-based startup, might be able to help as it just launched at TechCrunch40 to offer a repository for user contributed documents.
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