If you’ve been keeping up with the latest news about Zvents, you’re aware that hundreds of newspaper publishers, tv, radio stations, mobile, and online media partners have been eagerly embracing the Zvents Media Platform. HUGE national media are powered by Zvents, including: MSN, MTV, YELLOWPAGES.COM, and more are in the queue. Zvents’ strength also lies in scooping up influential local media channels — some recent additions to the network include: The San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate, the Denver Post’s PoliticsWest, the Richmond Times, Columbus Alive, and Online Athens…and several others.

More than 250 media partners have joined the Zvents network. Why? A recent article in Forbes Magazine by Victoria Barret explains, “Zvents aims to understand the nuances of time and place,” using event listings to promote local businesses and engage local customers. Zvents has created a way to promote local businesses online, in ways that match traditional media buying patterns. Barret also cites that “…since Boston.com began using Zvents technology in January 2007 the number of events in its database has gone up fourfold, and traffic to the events content increased eightfold,” which exhibits Zvents’ solid and positive impact on its partners.

That’s why we’re so excited that Zvents has been nominated for the Forrester Groundswell “Embracing” Award. As more and more partners continue to embrace Zvents’ local search technology, we continue to recognize that there is a serious demand for local search.

We welcome and encourage you to *rate and share your personal opinions* about the Zvents Media Platform for the “Embracing” category of the Groundswell Award here.

The winner will be announced on October 29th, so please add your ratings and reviews as soon as you can.

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Major league baseball is in full-swing and Shysterball, a well-known blogger and serious baseball fan, is now hosting a Photo Contest! In an effort to build up Zvents’ image gallery for baseball park venues, teams, and players, he’s now generously hosting an independent photo contest for all of you baseball fanatics. Here’s the info you need to participate (for more details, check here):

Send me a photo that best represents your team’s home ballpark and/or a photo that best represents your home team without prominently including the team’s logo. It could be a field action shot, a team photo, a uniform shot, a picture of the team name that doesn’t include the actual logo, whatever. Examples that spring to mind: the ivy — or, I dunno, drunken Lincoln Park Trixies — at Wrigley. Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. The McCovey cove at AT&T Park. General apathy at Rogers Centre. Adam Dunn eating a four way at Skyline. Something — anything — that defines your team and/or its stadium in a picture without actually showing the logo.

The only catches are (1) the photos must be 1MB or large JPG; and (2) must be taken yourself, not horked off the web.

The winning photos for each team/venue will have the pride of placement as the official photo of the stadium venue, and as the official photo of the team “performer” on Zvents (the photo will also show up on the Zvents-affiliated papers too, which means your picture of the Green Monster, for example will be in the Globe whenever people search for Sox events). One grand prize for best overall photo will get $100 and a Zvents t-shirt, and one almost-grand prize will get a t-shirt.

Please send Mr. Shysterball an email with your baseball pictures!

Play ball!

*Flickr Photo Credit: Wisdoc

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