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Thursday, February 26, 2004
Last Call for the Ford Business Grant for $100,000 dollars in prizes!
February 28th is the last call for the Ford Business Grant contest Go Here to Find Out More. This contest has $100,000 Dollars up for grabs. Good luck all! KamauOne of Einfonews Subscribers Michelle Delaney becomes a Finalist for the Miller's Inner City Grants!
I am elated and wanted to congratulate one of the subscribers to Keep it Real Profitable Ezine for being a finalist in the Miller's Inner City Grant worth $20,000. Good luck to you Michelle Delaney, our prayers are with you to win the event. To receive grant alerts and web marketing updates go to the Einfonews.com homepage and sign up.Kamau
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
HBO Short Film Award $20,000
DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2004Home Box Office is seeking entries for its 7th Annual HBO Short Film Award, to be presented at Film Life's 8th Annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) in Miami, Fla., July 14-18. The HBO Short Film Award was created in 1998 to celebrate the writing and directing talents of up-and-coming black filmmakers. Time Warner is the presenting sponsor of the festival, with HBO as its founding sponsor. The competition is open to U.S. and international filmmakers of African descent who have directed and/or written a short film of 30 minutes or less. All entrants must be 18 years of age or older and films must have been produced after January 1, 2003 in English or contain English subtitles. Film entries must arrive at the ABFF office postmarked by the April 15, 2004 deadline.
Short films that have won awards at other festivals or those that have previously been submitted to the HBO Short Film Award competition, under its current or any former title, are not eligible. Films must also not have had previous cable broadcast screenings. There is no limit as to the number of entries that can be submitted by a filmmaker. Submissions will be accepted on 1/2" VHS cassettes and must be accompanied by an official HBO/ABFF entry form and $30.00
submission fee. For more information on official rules, regulations and entry forms, log on to: ABFF. A panel of industry professionals will select the five finalists whose films will be screened at the ABFF in South Beach for the final round of competition. One grand prizewinner will be awarded $20,000 by HBO during the festival's closing ceremonies on Saturday, July 17. The four runners up will each received $5,000.
HBO presented the 2003 HBO Short Film Award grand prize to Frank E. Flowers, writer/director of "Swallow," a story about a high school senior who learns the art of the "swallow" when he takes on an unusual internship as a drug mule to make money for college. The four runners-up were Randall Dottin, writer/director of "A-Alike"; Jowan Carbin, writer/director of "Welcome to Life"; Lynn Henderson, writer/executive producer and Joseph Anaya, director, of "Short on Sugar"; and Sylvain White, director and Christopher White, writer, of "Quiet."
Microsoft's Technology Makeover for Small Business Contest!
Courtesy Black business tech evangelist Jim Greene. if your company has between 10-50 employees and at least 5 pcs, you can enter Microsoft's contest to win a $75,000 technology makeover of your firm. Visit here to enter.Monday, February 23, 2004
The Search Engines Diversify!
Google gets real competition in Search. If you know about search engine rankings and promotion you knew that Google powered 2/3rds of the search results on the Internet. This is because Google search technology was behind the search results of Yahoo and to a less extent MSN and AOL. As of February 19th, this is no longer the case. Yahoo purchased the assets of some smaller but advanced search engines and technologies last year. They are now providing their own results which are different than Google's results. Therefore, people looking to increase their search engine ranking again have to optimize for different search engines. So far my rankings have gone through the roof with the Yahoo results. Google seemed to be penalizing sites for reciprocal linking which doesn't seem to be the case with Yahoo. Soon MSN will release their own search engine technology. I hope the new competition will mean less prices and more user friendly search engines for the consumers -- the advertisers. If you would like to know more about search engine promotion, why don't you sign up for the Free Tao of Search Engine Promotion Tele-course? Click Here Now!Peace Out Kamau
