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At 12:06am on February 8, 2008, Hilary delaBruere said…
Thanks for the comment/hope Maria! :)
At 1:34pm on January 29, 2008, George M. Dratelis said…
Hello Maria,

I spotted your contact info and thought I would say hello to a fellow Greek. I have known Howard Owens from our time together in the Digital Media Federation and I am pleased to see this new site launched.

Best regards,
George Dratelis
At 4:00pm on January 23, 2008, Bryan Mahoney said…
Hi Maria -

My blog posts' back; I think it took it down when I was editing. No worries.
Nice to meet ya!
At 12:24pm on January 23, 2008, Ryan Sholin said…
Thanks, Maria! Glad to see you here!

Feel free to start a B2B group, or jump into the New to Video group and let everyone know what it's like getting in front of the camera on a regular basis on your videocast.
At 11:42am on January 23, 2008, Paul Conley said…
Thanks Maria. Good to see you here as well. There aren't enough B2B journalists here yet ... but I'm hoping that changes.

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Purchasing magazine
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I'm the Associate Editor at Purchasing magazine, where I'm responsible for daily news updates on our website and I co-anchor our weekly videocast, the Monday Midday Business Report. Outside of my day job, I blog on my personal site (linked below) and maintain a number of freelance gigs for English-language Japanese rock music magazines and blogs (no, I'm not kidding).
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http://purchasing.com
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http://mvarmazis.com
Twitter URL
http://twitter.com/varmazis
LinkedIn URL
http://linkedin.com/in/varmazis

I'm all over the web!

You can find my Flickr here. I don't use it professionally—yet—but I think it's good to get in the habit of bringing my camera everywhere, if just for the practice!

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Hey, these headlines aren't very SEO-friendly!

Gawker has a painfully funny post about misleading and/or plain bizarre headlines from CNN. When you're pulling your hair out trying to get the most compelling and Search Engine Optimized (SEO) headline on that story, take heart and check out these, um, gems. Even a news goliath like CNN has its off moments.

Some of my favorites:

Baby pandas! Baby pandas! Baby pandas!—Just imagine the Goog… Continue

Posted on January 31, 2008 at 5:13pm —

Maria Varmazis

Gonna have to face it, you're addicted to (social network) love

I think I have a problem. A serious problem. One that's strangely at odds with a lot of my peers (I think). While pundits and Poynter prod journalists to embrace a social networks, you know, maybe just one or two as a bare minimum, I can't stop joining them.

I was on the beta list for Pownce. I'm an elite member of Yelp. I was on Facebook well before it went outside the college realm and I'm an early adopter of Livejournal (a member since 2000). I book artist interviews through M… Continue

Posted on January 23, 2008 at 4:53pm — 7 Comments

 
 

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