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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2010
Contact: Ben Leis
Office: 561.206.4506
Email: ben@thecampusbuzz.com (For Interviews and More Information)
LEAVE YOUR KEYS ALONE ORDER YOUR FOOD FROM HOME WITH DORMZY.COM!
LEAVE YOUR KEYS ALONE ORDER YOUR FOOD FROM HOME WITH DORMZY.COM!
COLUMBUS, OH- November 18, 2010 – Oh the weather outside if frightful and staying in is so delightful- since there’s no place like home, order in, order in, order in!
Mother Nature is taking its course, forcing us to put our shorts and flip flops away and get out the winter coat and gloves. Imagine sheets of snow and slush on the ground teamed with frosty winds and biting cold temperatures. We all knew this time would come, and we’ll start dreading the routine trips for our surviving needs, including trips to the grocery store.
You can now forget those long lines, wasted time driving to the grocery store, leaving that precious parking space or nagging a friend for a ride because you don’t have wheels. Let Dormzy do the work for you! Dormzy offers a fast, convenient, and more affordable alternative to traditional grocery shopping, especially when you don’t feel like leaving the comforts of home.
Troy Murphy, a freshman at Vincennes University in Indiana chose Dormzy for its sheer convenience. “It was really useful because I don’t have a car and there are no stores near campus,” he said. “Having this service available is great for college students.”
Created by a college student, Chris Sammons, CEO and founder of Dormzy, started with the concept of shipping box’s of non-perishable foods and other household items out of his mothers’ basement. When orders started accumulating, “It was clear that there was a need for delivered goods” he said. With help from an Angel Investor, who believed in the success of Dormzy, our website was then launched.
“My mom sent me care packages every other week,” he said. “Because she worked fulltime, it was really a pain for her to get the items, find a box and go to Fed-Ex.” Sammons launched Dormzy about four months ago after fine tuning the initial idea about a year ago.
He realized that local college convenient stores were under stocked and overpriced. This is why he made sure Dormzy offers quite the contrary. With prices 20%-40% cheaper than campus convenient stores, and 1-2 day delivery via FedEx right to your doorstep, “Dormzy can save anyone money” said Sammons.
Now that Dormzy has shipped to over 150 colleges and universities nationwide, Dormzy is gaining favorable reviews and retaining new customers daily. Caroline Eckin, a freshman at The University of Kentucky felt that Dormzy was an obvious choice because of the speed of delivery and variety of items. “I needed groceries, and my package arrived in 24 hours,” she said. “It has everything I could need, from groceries to school supplies.” With Dormzy.com easy to use website and wide variety of food, health & beauty, pharmacy, toiletry and household items to choose from, Dormzy projects pumping out 8,000-10,000 boxes of goodies this fall!
Dormzy does not only seek to help the busy college student, but also parents, like his Mom, who want to take care of their kids from afar. “There are several pre-made care packages for different occasions,” he said. “Parents can send their kids everything from birthday, good luck on exams, healthy snacks, and get well soon packages with greeting cards included.” We also feature gift cards perfect for the holiday season.
The next time you look out your window and Mother Nature shows no sign of stopping, and the cupboards are screaming go shopping, tuck your keys down low, order in, order in, order in!
Food and more to your door, is just a point and click away.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
November 8th, 2010
Audimated.com Awarded $25,000 to Elevate Indie, Collegiate, and Unsigned Musicians
Miami, Florida November 8th, 2010: University of Miami and “Launch Pad” entrepreneurs Lucas Sommer and Andrew Levine launch a revolutionary social media site for indie, collegiate, and unsigned musicians called Audimated.com.
Audimated helps artists and fans share, discover and monetize music. For the first time, a music community gives Fans the ability to make money sharing their favorite independent content, and Artists the tools they need to make money in a music career. Audimated bands and indie artists keep their copyrights and allow fans to be the sales force for their music, merchandise and products.
Founder Lucas Sommer adds, “The internet has taken the control of marketing and distribution out of the record labels hands and leveled the playing field for all musicians. Audimated uses this paradigm shift to forever change the independent music industry by turning music fans into the sales force for the content. Audimated’s unique e-commerce platform will be the new standard for how independent music does business.”
Audimated has recently been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Inc Magazine and most recently The Huffington Post (Second slide http://tiny.ly?1DF).
About the founder:
Through Lucas Sommer’s work as the founder of three successful music ventures and ten years working with independent artists he realized the need to help artists monetize their music careers. Lucas, along with fellow UM alumnus Andrew Levine, developed Audimated.com to help artists make more money with their music, and give fans a financial incentive to promote the artists they support. In only its development stage, Audimated won the $25,000 first prize WeMedia Pitch it Challenge for best new start up. Only in its fourth month of marketing and promotion Audimated has quickly amassed thousands of artists and their fans across multiple genres, countries, and age groups.
For more information and radio interviews please contact:
Lucas Sommer
CEO, Founder
lucas@audimated.com
www.Audimated.com
305-215-4912
3346 SW 25th Street, Miami Florida 33133
Audimated.com
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To request a copy to review email Ben@TheCampusBuzz.com
Flickin’ Chicken™
They bounce, they roll, but can YOU hit the target? Nine rounds of CHICKEN THROWING INSANISTY! Fun indoors or out.
This go anywhere game is a blast at the beach, in your backyard, in your neighbor’s backyard, at the local park, in your living room, while tailgating, while on vacation, or anywere good friends and fun can be found!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Media contact: Andrea DeLesDernier
New Wave Dynamics
ph. 818-295-8021
“AARON KARO: THE REST IS HISTORY”
TV SPECIAL PREMIERES ON COMEDY CENTRAL
ALBUM RELEASED BY NEW WAVE DYNAMICS
Summary: Popular comedian and Ruminations author Aaron Karo releases his second digital comedy album on 11/20/10. The TV special of the same name premieres on Comedy Central 11/19/10. Showcases Karo’s ruminating about dating and the single life. (Interviews and review link available.)
To request album for review or an interview with Aaron Karo please contact press@newwavedynamics.com.
Burbank, CA November 3, 2010 – AARON KARO: THE REST IS HISTORY has its national Television premiere on November 19th at 11pm ET/PT on Comedy Central. And, will be released uncensored & uncut as a digital album through New Wave Dynamics on November 20th. Both the audio and video will be available for download on iTunes, Amazon, and wherever digital music is sold.
Aaron Karo hates when bridesmaids conclude their speeches about how the bride and groom met with the tired phrase “…and the rest is history.” His first one-hour stand-up special kicks off with this complaint and then runs the gamut from drunken friends who always start fights, to couples who take pictures of their feet while on vacation, to the singles table at weddings being filled with people in relationships.
Irreverent, insightful, and relentlessly funny, Karo offers a unique glimpse into the world of guys who defy convention, morality, and their moms in order to preserve their independence. Karo’s trademark brand of storytelling is on display as he unleashes a series of side-splitting observations about being thirty and unattached that keep the crowd roaring with delight. True to form, Karo ends his performance by revisiting those pesky bridesmaids in a deft and hilarious finale.
The special was taped live at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston during Karo’s nationwide tour to promote his third bestselling book, I‘m Having More Fun Than You (HarperCollins 2009).
Karo has performed on The “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” on CBS, and Comedy Central Records released his debut stand-up album Just Go Talk to Her in 2008. He is perhaps best known for his Ruminations email column, which began as a forward sent from his college dorm room and has since spawned a worldwide following. The column’s popularity led to Karo’s first two books, Ruminations on College Life (Simon & Schuster 2002) and Ruminations on Twentysomething Life (Simon & Schuster 2005). In 2008, Karo founded Ruminations.com, a user-generated humor site and social network.
Originally from New York, Karo attended the University of Pennsylvania and made a brief stint on Wall Street before transitioning to comedy. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
AARON KARO: THE REST IS HISTORY will be available on iTunes, Amazon, and wherever digital music is sold.
Direct Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041J3670?ie=UTF8&tag=ruminations-20
To request album for review or an interview with Aaron Karo please contact press@newwavedynamics.com.
Press site: http://newwavedynamics.com/aaronkaro
New Wave Dynamics specializes in distributing digital content throughout the world.
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The Campus Buzz College News Internship
Section Editors
THECAMPUSBUZZ.COM seeks responsible, highly-motivated, diligent spring interns who work well on their own. Candidates must start asap and end in May.
The Campus Buzz is a college news curation and distribution service. We scan, filter, sort and link to college news articles from across the internet.
INTERNSHIP DESCRIPTION
Editors will be responsible for scanning and selecting college news articles from across the web.
Interns will work on their own and can do so from home.
Seeking Editors in the following college news categories: Career, Tech, Higher Ed Policy, and Sports.
Must have a strong interest in college news.
Semester : SPRING
Hours : 1-2 Hours Per Day, 5 Days Per Week
College Credit : Possible
Compensation : Paid
Apply by : Email with Resume ASAP
iCONN
(Inter-Collegiate Online News Network)
January 14-15
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Summary: The second annual conference of the Intercollegiate Online News Network (ICONN) will take place in Knoxville on January 14-15, 2010. The theme of this year’s conference will be “Building a Better Campus News Site.”
The emphasis of this year’s conference will be on what students can do to construct news web sites for their campuses that are creative, immediate and attractive to many campus audiences.
The cost of the conference will be $15 for students and $25 for faculty and professionals. All of the conference sessions will be open to the public. Registration fees partially cover the cost of two meals.
Associated Collegiate Press
February 25-28
Wyndham Hotel, Phoenix, AZ
26th Annual ACP National College Journalism Convention, MEDIA+
Summary: Today’s journalist knows being successful at telling the story takes more than one medium, more than one platform. Words, sounds and images don’t exist in isolation. Print, broadcast and online converge to communicate the message and to allow the reader or viewer to create an experience. To tell the story, it takes media plus so much more.
At ACP’s 26th annual National College Journalism Convention, expect professional, idea-packed and sometimes provocative or humorous keynotes, breakout sessions and workshops from some of the best journalists, advisers and 
students in the country. It opens Thursday, Feb. 25, with intensive workshops, a stimulating keynote address and networking receptions, and continues on Friday and Saturday with a full program of more keynotes, scores of breakout sessions, displays and critiques. The convention ends Sunday morning after another set of breakouts, a final keynote and the presentation of the Best of Show awards. All sessions will be led by media professionals, accomplished student media advisers and a select group of student journalists.
Who Attends: Student journalists and their advisers from college media outlets around the country. They come from all types and sizes of schools — two- and four-year, public and private — and from all newsroom positions. A special emphasis at this convention is on multimedia, so online managers are especially encouraged to attend. Short courses on Thursday, Feb. 25 target editors, reporters, designers, advertising reps and advisers.
Conference Program: (A PDF will be posted shortly before the convention. Watch the convention blog for updates. Follow ACP on Twitter @acpress for updates.)
Sponsorship Opportunities: None, but ACP members receive discounted registration, and groups of four or more students from the same ACP member campus media qualify for a special rate.
Registration Page: http://register.studentpress.org/phx2010/
College Media Advisers
March 14-16
Marquis Hotel, New York, NY
Summary: In the spring, CMA starts a week (March 14-16, 2012) with three days in a convention of unconventional 
education and learning opportunities with movers and shakers in the media center of the world. The New York experience provides top notch educational opportunities well as giving delegates a chance to explore New York City. Read this page for information and when you are ready to start your journey, CLICK THE BIG RED APPLE.
Who Attends: Students and advisers from coast to coast and beyond.
Associated Press Managing Editors/Mid-America Press Institute Chicagoland NewsTrain
March 26-27
Arlington Heights, IL
At A Glance
Become a more effective editor. Training in editing and management skills for online news and print.
When
$50 TO ATTEND ONE OR BOTH DAYS.
Friday-Saturday, March 26-27, 2010
Sign-in begins about 8:30 a.m. Workshop runs approximately 9 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. each day.
Where
The conference will be held at the Daily Herald, 155 E. Algonquin Rd., Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Cost
$50 registration fee to attend one or both days. This includes lunch and coffee breaks. Travel awards available for educators.
Program highlights:
CHOOSE A TRACK AND CHOOSE A DAY, OR ATTEND BOTH DAYS
Track 1: The Nimble Leader
* News Ethics and Values
* The Skeptical Editor
* Creating a Constructive Culture
* Story Planning for Multiple Media and Multiple Deadlines
Track 2: The Evolving Journalist
* Your Data Strategy: What info to collect and what you can do with it
* Alternative Distribution: Putting links, RSS and social networking to work
* Covering Communities in New Ways
* Knowing Your Audiences
Educator Track
Educators are invited to attend a 75-90 minute course in hands-on video editing before the start of the program on Saturday, March 27, 2010. Please bring laptops loaded with editing software.
Council of Independent Colleges &
American Association of State Colleges and Universities
June 23-25
Baltimore, MD
The 2010 College Media Conference will help communications and public relations professionals prepare news 
materials that produce results and also to make contact with some of the nation’s top reporters, editors, freelance writers, producers, bookers, educational correspondents, and campus news professionals. Participants learn first-hand from major news organizations and their representatives how to accomplish the following:
- Approach key reporters who cover higher education for national and regional newspapers, web publications, news services, and magazines;
- Create and pitch story ideas to editors and freelancers;
- Propose radio and TV features;
- Pitch article ideas via email, mail, fax, phone, and distribution services; and
- Make use of the various new media to make the case for their institutions.
Looking to follow College Media (Campus Newspapers, Magazines, Television, Radio) on Twitter?
Follow our list of over 300 college media profiles on Twitter so you can see what the real-time scoop is across the collegiate landscape.
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1. Visit our most popular stories and find an interesting topic that you can use to write a local slant for your campus. You can do the same thing by visiting any of the archives pages or recent stories to look for a common theme.
2. Use our college media search engines to see how other campus news organizations are reporting on a similar story to yours. Include links to their stories in your articles to give perspective
3. Today, you no longer have to find the news, the news will find you. Whether you’re a college journalist writing for your school paper, or just a student looking for the latest trends in today’s collegiate climate, The Campus Buzz is here to deliver the news, straight from the source and into your email inbox, facebook news feed, rss reader, twitter feed or friendfeed. Whatever your passion or beat is The Campus Buzz will deliver the news you want. We cover just about everything from earning money on campus and financial advice, adjusting to college life, career advice, college admissions, student health, university policy, college sports to wacky college news.
