Buzz Writer

By Steve Joseph

 The amazing World Wide Web seems to have limitless potential in store for us to explore. The internet as we call it for short, is a good resource waiting to be exploited. The many avenues that have opened up are all being rapidly utilized to render profitable revenues. Apart from providing entertainment the internet is now being further used to increase connectivity & bring the world together. A plethora of social networking sites have opened up for the young to make new friends & the old to renew acquaintances. Many media houses have their own websites that provide news round the clock.

So can sports be far behind? Gone are the days when you had to find excuses to call sick at the office so you could watch your favorite soccer game. Or when you would stay up all night to catch the sports highlights. Now that the internet is here, its easy to get live updates on the match that is currently on, right from your desktop. You can watch online videos of your favorite games and view all the action first hand. Not only highlights but also breaking sports news and top headlines can be viewed in just a few clicks. You no longer have to wait for the newspaper to get your quota of sports updates. No need to fight for the TV remote to watch the game or hear the news.

All you have to do for that is to look up a reliable sports website and in a few clicks you will get all the news that you want. There is a wide variety to choose from. There are sites which offer membership and added incentives to their members, like free tickets or contests. So not only to do you get to view all the breaking sports news, you might even win a trip to go & see the live action!

Your professional life keeping you too busy to actually surf the internet? No problem! Nowadays sites allow you to subscribe to the latest breaking sports headlines and updates so that they get delivered directly in to your inbox or through messages to your mobile. This leads to a hassle-free way of staying updated.

Many online groups also provide the same service where you can get all the sports news online and also connect socially with other fans. Moreover the added advantage of surfing for sports news on the internet is that you have a wide variety of sporting events to choose from. You can keep a tab on all national as well as international events at one go. From FIFA fans to cricket worshippers, there is something for everyone!

Steve Joseph

http://www.sportgate.org.uk/

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NewsCollective continues momentum with registrations from over 1,000 professional writers

By Newscollective

 Stockholm, Sweden. July 20th, 2010: NewsCollective, an Online News Bureau focused on empowering journalists and publishers worldwide to source content online, has announced today that they have over 1,000 journalists and 30 publishers from 26 countries registered on the site. What is commendable is that this widespread participation has taken place during the beta testing of the site in less than three months.

NewsCollective launched an invite-only beta test phase of its website on 28th April 2010 for 100 select professional writers to start exploring the many tools available to build their online identity, create/ upload/ sell articles, manage their professional reputation and have better working relationships with publishers and peers, online.

The focus markets for the invitation only beta testing phase initially planned were India, USA and Sweden but were later expanded to 13 countries, due to the overwhelming response to this new disruptive concept for content creation and transaction.

The website is fast gaining popularity among the professional writer and publisher communities, respectively.

“We are delighted with the success of the beta testing of NewsCollective. The number of registrations to the website has been more than encouraging,” commented Jan Villars, CEO of NewsCollective. “It proves the website has already struck a chord with professional writers who are looking for alternative sources where they can sell their content and ensure that they get paid, without any hassles.

Ninna Engberg, Chairperson of NewsCollectives Board of Directors added, We would like to thank both these communities for their tremendous support and response to NewsCollectives unique business model. Their inputs during the testing phase will be crucial in our efforts to complete the beta stage, and we look forward to participants’ help in shaping NewsCollective.

The success and momentum of NewsCollective continues as the new website starts to address the daunting challenge of the changing face of the media industry with publishing houses gearing up to cater to the needs of an ever-demanding audience for latest news and unique content. At the same time, as business gets squeezed, employee lay-offs have been increasingly taking place in media houses, leaving a deep impact on the prospects of professional journalists globally. Professional journalists are dealing with a scenario where they have a lot of unique content but do not have the access to reach out to publishers and negotiate assignments with them in an open and professional market place.

NewsCollective team has been working towards creating a genre-defining experience, and the beta signups certainly validate that we are taking the website in the right direction. Writers who have a lot of content but did not have the right platform to sell it to publishers outside their geographies have been giving us a lot of positive feedback about our efforts to market them and their work effectively. We would like to thank all our beta testers for the assistance, observations and experiences they have given so far,” said Kaushik Thakkar, Vice Chairman, NewsCollective.

NewsCollective has created an online portal to help professional writers interface and sell their content to publishers, at a price determined by them. It gives writers the perfect platform to write their own personalized content, in the form of stories, features, photographs, videos, etc.

This website is slated to be launched officially in October 2010. Once the beta test is complete, NewsCollective will open its doors to others journalists. Registration for journalists to the website is free, while publishers will have to pay a nominal monthly charge to be part of the network once the site is officially launched. They can then choose from three different subscription packages to access content from different geographies and content verticals.

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