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May 2010
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Watch Blogs with Balls 3 Live on Justin.tv
We’re pleased to announce that Blogs with Balls 3: The Main Event will be streaming live, thanks to the good people at Justin.tv and Wondershot Productions. While they haven’t figured out the technology to let us stream all of the food and drink over wifi yet, they’ve got live streaming video down to a science, [...]
Announcing BwB3 Main Event Title Sponsors
For the first time in its short history, BwB’s title sponsor for the main event will be a consumer brand. We are proud to announce the involvement of P&G – the company that produces brands like Gillette, Old Spice, Vicks and Head & Shoulders – and its “Official Locker Room Products of the NFL.” Many of those brands have a [...]
Lucas Joins Punter on the House of Punte Podcast
Zerkle astutely notes and starts a great conversation about the seemingly new approach by consumer brands and companies to partner with online outlets to create original integrated advertising. Coincidentally, we just did that/are doing that with our myTown project! The talk about the evolution of BwB…which also lead to Chris slipping in the fact that we’ve brought [...]
Don Joins Jon Santiago on the Davis Sports Deli Podcast
Today, Don joined Jonathan Santiago on the Davis Sports Deli Podcast to talk about the upcoming show in Chicago as well as give perspective on sports media present and future, and the role sports bloggers are playing in it. You can listen to or download the interview by clicking here.
BwB Media Partner Named Innovative Website by Mashable
Launched in August 2009, the Chicago Tribune Media Group’s ChicagoNow.com has quickly become the standard-bearer for newspaper transitioning online. Yesterday, Mashable posted a column, “5 Innovative Websites That Could Reshape the News,” noting “Few industries are experiencing greater upheaval at the hands of technological progress than the news media. New ideas are popping up every day, [...]
BwB Twitter List: Speakers, Sponsors, Partners & Venues
Below is a list of those currently involved with the June 5 show. If you are an attendee and want to be included on a list of attendees’ Twitter handles, @blogswithballs us. You can follow BwB Tweeters individually below or follow the entire BwB3 list here. Panelists Alana Nguyen, Yardbarker: @alana_g Amanda Rykoff, The OCD Chick: @AmandaRykoff [...]
Bleacher Report presents The Kickoff Party
Bleacher Report is proud to present Blogs with Balls 3: The Kickoff Party — the official BwB welcome party — on June 4, 2010 at the Fifty/50 Club in Chicago, featuring complimentary beverages graciously furnished by GUINNESS from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Online event registration for Bleacher Report presents BWB3: The Kickoff Party powered by Eventbrite – About The Fifty/50 Dining scene [...]
First Official BwB3 Panel & Speaker Announcement
Announcing Panels and Speakers for Blogs with Balls 3 3rd installment of Influential sports media event to be held in Chicago’s Wrigley Field at the Captain Morgan Club Chicago, IL – HHR Media Group and Modern Hombre are proud to announce the current lineup of sports bloggers, journalists, media industry leaders and technology innovators who will [...]
Blogs with Balls: The Android App
In case you missed it, BwB, through our talented partners at Notice Software recently released our first foray into mobile with the launch of our Android App. From Bunch: You can’t keep holding conferences about “the future of sports media” without having some sort of mobile offering of your own; it’s just unseemly. This was the problem [...]
SB Nation Cribs/Video Interview with Jim Bankoff
WSJ’s Kara Swisher catches up with soon-to-be-3-time BwB speaker Jim Bankoff of SB Nation who shows off the company’s digs and talks about the expanding network. “Professional blogging lends itself to more viral-ity.”