Archive for October, 2006

October 31st,2006

More Entertainment for you!

If you need some more entertainment in your lives - and face it, we all do - check out the latest blogs from our Entertainment and Celebrity channels.
First, Reality Exploits, from new b5er Lynn DeVries:

Reality Exploits is adventure reality tv in every detail. From Most Haunted to Amazing Race to all the latest Survivor scandal. […]

1 comment | Posted by Arieanna

October 31st,2006

More b5media Beauty!

I am so excited to announce two of my very favorite bloggers who have joined our Beauty & Style channel with some great blogs! First off, Shannon Nelson, at Makeup Minute:

Shannon will be talking about - you guessed it! - cosmetics! From Shannon:
I’ve loved makeup since my mother began applying it on me from the […]

1 comment | Posted by Christina Jones

October 26th,2006

Discover Both Washingtons With b5media’s New City Blogs

Travelers and residents of Washington, on either coast, have a new resource with the addition of two new city specific travel blogs.

The DC Traveler, written by Jon Rochetti, covers Washington DC, and nearby Virginia and Maryland neighborhoods. Jon says: I look forward to writing The DC Traveler and hope that it […]

1 comment | Posted by Mary Jo

October 25th,2006

Searching b5media

OK, so all the net’s buzzing about Google’s new Co-op search product, so we really haven’t got much to add to what’s already been said, however it’s given b5media the opportunity for the first time to combine search across all our blogs, something certainly we’d been planning for the future, however today, thanks to the […]

10 comments | Posted by Duncan Riley

October 19th,2006

Hiring an Online Ad Sales Manager

We’ve been leaking this out through the grapevine over the last week, but it’s time to go public. b5media Inc. is hiring an Online Ad Sales Manager. Here is the brief blurb on the position:
b5media Inc., a Toronto-based new media content network, is seeking a qualified and experience online ad sales manager to add to […]

2 comments | Posted by Jeremy Wright

October 18th,2006

Big Thanks to Sean Wise, for Helping with Funding

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while. It takes a whole team to raise funding (see my personal blog for some examples). But some people stand above the rest because they continually stepped up and you just know that without their help you wouldn’t have landed the round.
For us, one of those […]

No Comments | Posted by Jeremy Wright

October 18th,2006

New Parents Join the Family and Relationships Channel

The b5media family continues to grow. Four new parenting blogs have recently joined the Family and Relationships Channel. We’re excited to welcome them to our dysfunctional happy home!

First up is Steve Remington at Inside Fatherhood who writes about issues that all parents should care about with special consideration for stay-at-home dads. Duncan is […]

10 comments | Posted by Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD

October 17th,2006

Discover Your Passions in the Arts & Crafts Channel

I am so happy to announce the new additions to the ‘almost famous’ Arts & Crafts Channel here at b5media! ;)

For starters, we have our first male artist joining the team, William Lehman, who is writing Artist Hideout:
Often I will put together a project idea, with helps and tips along the way. […]

6 comments | Posted by Christina Jones

October 16th,2006

Shel Israel, Ambassador Extraordinaire!

One of our kind of under-the-covers announcements during our recent funding round was that Shel Israel, co-author of Naked Conversations and speaker, blogger, nice guy has come alongside b5media. For now his role is as an ambassador as we help send him around the world as part of the research for his new book on […]

7 comments | Posted by Jeremy Wright

October 6th,2006

Welcome to Mark Evans, VP, Operations

b5media is very, very proud to welcome Mark Evans, formerly the Senior Technology Writer at the National Post (one of Canada’s largest national daily newspapers). Mark will be joining us as VP, Operations. Mark is our first external hire since our funding announcement.
Mark wrote his official goodbye (to the National Post) and hello (to b5media) […]

4 comments | Posted by Administrator