Catch Up Post

We’ve been super busy here at b5media. I know that’s no excuse not to post, so I do apologize. Here are some quick updates:

Our team has changed a lot since last post. Joey DeVilla left us earlier this month. We will certainly miss his cutting edge sense of humour, and of course his accordion, but he has agreed to come back for birthdays so we can have background music when we sing.

There’s was a shift with the Channel Editors. Kori Ellis is now manageing the Tech and Beauty channels in addition to the Sports channel she has grown really well. Mary Jo Manzanars took on the Business Channel in addition to the worldly Travel Channel. And Gayla McCord, who has been the Lifestyles guru forever took over the Health and Wellness channel. Arieanna Schweber, who has been a channel editor for entertainment for a zillion years came aboard full time as the producer for Starked (see launch announcement below). She’s still the channel editor at entertainment.

We’ve also hired two of our Entertainment bloggers as fulltime staff writters. Julie Bonner and Nikki Katz are part of the full-timers now at b5. Woo hoo!

At HQ in Toronto, we hired Ellen Ewart as Marketing Coordinator. Her favorite food is bacon.

We hired a new Sales Rep down in San Francisco. Anna Riddle (no relation to that Harry Potter character).

We attended Blog World Expo in Vegas in the middle of September. It was a big success for us. Tons of fun too.

While at BWE, we launched our new website at b5media.com and our new entertainment portal, Starked.

Some team anniversaries: Lee Newton, has been impressing us for a year as a server-whisperer. He reads a lot of books. Not server books. Books in general. Ok, so that was the only anniversary.

Check out the video that was done for byte tv. It’s pretty nifty.

We made Profit Hot 50’s list. (#6)

I’m sure I missed an event or two in there, so you can see why we’ve been too busy to post! I’ll try to keep it more up to date.

Bye Bye CJ!!

Today is Christina’s last day with b5media as Director of Network Content. (Booo!) CJ has been with us since the start but has decided to move on….apparently she’s got some fancy pants job testing out beauty gizmos and products (after they are deemed safe for use of course). She’s going to stay on a Channel Editor, so we’ll still hear from her from time to time. 

Things we know about CJ:

- She has pigs as pets

- She drinks Bud Light

- She likes girly things

- She drives a Suburban

- Blonde, Texan, Happy-Go-Lucky

- She still drinks Bud Light

We’re really sad to to CJ go, but we know you’ll be kicking around. I miss you already. Sniff.

b5 BWE Schedule

I’ve got some official updates on our plans for BWE! Tons of great stuff going on and a great opportunity for our bloggers and the rest of the community to come out and meet us.

Friday September 19th:  Blogger Summit- this is held at the convention center (room number yet to be confirmed). It will be a full day of workshops/talks about all things blog related. We have some big names speaking…a schedule of all the topics and speakers can be found here. A great all-star lineup of speakers! It’d be great to just come out and meet everyone!

In the evening of September 19th, we’re having a blogger meet up at Fusia restaurant at the Luxor hotel from 7pm to 9pm. Space for the event is limited, so if you are interested in joining us, please rsvp to ed@b5media.com. The event is open to all our bloggers, partners, friends. Come on out!!

Saturday September 20th is the official first day of BWE. During the day, you can find us at our booth (#309). Pop by for some poker! Like last year, we will have a poker table set up in our booth and great prizes to win! We’ll have tons of fun ways to earn a spot at the table. The team plans on attending the BWE opening night party, and we look forward to mingling with you all there.

Sunday September 21st is the last day of the conference. We’ll be in full force during the day at the conference, and look forward to seeing you there. If you can’t make it out to play poker on the first day, come this day. We’ll still be pumping the gambling!

Please let me know if you plan on coming out so I can say hi!

24 Sleeps to BWE

I’m like a kid waiting for Christmas!! Blog World Expo is my favorite time of year. We’re all about getting involved in the blogging community and meeting up with everyone. We’ve got a bunch of our Bloggers and hard working Channel Editors coming out this year. With everyone working remotely, meeting up once a year at a place like Vegas is really awesome.

Out of the bloggers that are coming, I’m personally excited to hook up with my old pal Jon Rochetti from The DC Traveller. He really knows my style and we are going out on the town. Shea Sylvia from MTV Reality World is going to be there too. After all the time we spent together at SXSW in March, she’s gotta be missing me by now. Lara Kulpa from Dating Dames is meeting up with us. Hopefully she can offer me some advice on my love life (my blue complexion gets a lot of attention, but sometimes I think it’s all just superficial). Even Jason Bean from Microsoft Weblog is coming out! Like Shea, he probably misses all the fun times we shared at SXSW! And Kevin Palmer is coming. Big deal.

The Channel Editors that are making it out include Kelly from the Business Channel. Hopefully she’s not all business!! Of course Mary Jo from the travel channel is coming…she’d go to anything that she could travel to. And Arieanna from Entertainment is coming out…hopefully she can entertain us down there. I know she certainly did at SXSW!! b5’s new Training Manager, and Channel Editor for the Music Channel, Jeanne Dupuis,  is coming out. I wonder if she does music training? We’ll have to find out.

Should be a good time all around…can’t wait to see everyone!! We got some good stuff planned for the weekend we are there, so let us know if you are going to be around so we can include you!!!

b5 at BWE 2008

Once again b5 is planning it’s sponsorship at Blog World Expo in Vegas (Sept 20th and 21st). This is my favorite time of the year and probably my favorite conference. They’ve got great speakers (some b5ers in there), great panels, great industry folk, great parties, great times.

Like last year, b5 is doing a blogger day the day before the full conference starts. It’s open to the public, but we’re really hoping to get a lot of b5 bloggers out this year. Being in the head office is cool, but we LOVE meeting the men and women who really make it happen for us….we realized this at SXSW in March when we got to meet Shea Sylvia, Jason Bean and Joe Ruiz.

We’ve got tons of fun b5 stuff planned for while we’re down there and a lot of the team is coming. (Finally, I get to meet some of the Channel Editors!) We’ll keep you posted on the fun stuff that’s planned…come out and meet us!

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