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» JenL_2 - Re: just a little P.R.
In response to message posted by dewam:Thanks dewam - here's the 10/19 press release from Biz.Yahoo.com:
Suite101.com Launches Reorganized Site, Bringing Order of the Library to the Chaos of the Internet
VANCOUVER, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ - Suite101.com, Inc. (OTC BB: BOWG), the original online publishing community of real people helping real people, announced today the release of its reorganized Best-of-Web Directory using the Dewey Decimal Classification® system (DDC) and the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). Suite101.com is the first commercial Web Directory to incorporate these information management tools, used by most public libraries in the English-speaking world.
The new organization of the Directory makes it easier for users to find content on the site and on the Internet. And because these information management tools are completely scalable - working equally well for collections of 100 or 100 million items - access to this information will not be jeopardized by the growth of the Directory.
``All of us who try to help Internet users find the 'best of the Web' have been struggling for the past few years with how to manage the massive amount of information on the Internet and on our site,'' said Julie Bradshaw, Managing Director of Suite101.com. ``Suite101.com has always been about 'real people helping real people' find the best the Web has to offer. So, rather than wait for technology to solve the problem, we made a decision to ask the information management experts - librarians - who have been indexing and organizing massive amounts of information for centuries.''
``You don't go to the library expecting to wander aimlessly through rows and rows of bookshelves looking for a specific book,'' Bradshaw said. ``Even in places like the New York Public Library, which has over 52 million items, you count on finding everything in its place because of the predictable, orderly system that the librarians have used to organize the information there. That's why we are using the DDC system to organize our growing collection at Suite.''
Used by 95 per cent of the public libraries in the US, the Dewey Decimal Classification system is familiar to most Americans. According to a recent Gallup poll conducted for the American Library Association http://www.ala.org two out of three Americans own and use a library card. Over 60 per cent of Americans have visited their public library at least once in the last year. A recent Suite101.com survey of its members found similar results. Over 70 per cent of those surveyed said they have visited their local library in the past six months.
``The reorganization of our Directory has been a huge undertaking,'' said Sandra Singh, MLIS, hired in October, 1999, as Suite101.com's Head Cybrarian. ``Like all directories, our goal is to ensure that our users can easily find information they are looking for on our site, regardless of our size. Our solution was to adopt proven tools rather than try and re-invent the wheel. With the DDC and LCSH, we are not only providing superior access to information on our site, but our users will also be able to use the DDC numbers or LCSH subject headings to browse their local public library, online catalogues and, in the future, online bookstores.''
Singh and her team of cataloguers have been working to index more than 70,000 unique pieces of content in Suite101.com's 1,200-plus topic Directory, including articles, discussions, and Best-of-Web recommendations. The team's work will be ongoing as Suite101.com continues to grow. Since May, 2000, more than 200 new Contributing Editors have joined Suite101.com. On average, Suite's growing team of Editors are adding 1,900 new articles and more than 3,000 Best-of-Web recommendations to the Suite101.com Directory every month.
About Suite101.com
Suite101.com began in 1996 as an online publishing community and directory that employed real people to write about their own subject of interest and recommend the best related Web sites. Today, the site hosts more than 1,200 Contributing Editors - the largest collection of paid topic guides creating original content on the Web. Managing topics ranging from Astronomy to Vegan cooking, Suite101.com's Editors use the site's ``enabling platform'' software to publish articles, list their Best-of-Web recommendations, and host discussions on their topics. As of October 19, 2000, the Best-of-Web Directory had 1,203 unique topics, each managed by a Contributing Editor. Collectively, the Editors have created more than 70,000 articles, reviewed links and hosted almost 30,000 discussions, all archived and readily available at http://www.suite101.com
The Suite101.com community now includes 700,000 unique visitors each month, and more than 270,000 registered Members, all of whom have unlimited access to a full suite of Web-based services, including topic- specific discussions and chats, personal start pages and HomePages, our new SuiteGiving Corner for charities, as well as Web-based email and electronic postcards.
About OCLC
OCLC Forest Press, a division of OCLC since 1988, publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system and a variety of related materials to help people keep pace with knowledge and distributes them through OCLC's subsidiary, Forest Press Distributions
http://www.oclc.org/fp
Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization whose computer network and services link more than 37,000 libraries in 76 countries and territories. OCLC is dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. More information about OCLC, its affiliated U.S. regional networks, international divisions and distributors is available on the OCLC Web site http://www.oclc.org
Dewey, DDC, Dewey Decimal Classification, Forest Press and OCLC are registered trademarks of OCLC. All copyright rights in the DDC system are owned by OCLC......
.....Jen
-- posted by JenL_2
» Hugs - Just a little P.R.
Well, this is getting very interesting. And I do mean, very interesting. Given how "full" my position in bowg is, I suppose it would make perfect sense for me to post here why this is such a compelling investment value.First off, my long position isn't any more likely to "go away" than Suite101.com is. The only variance will be the size of it, as I may (when it is valued more sanely) trade around a core position holding. (By the way, this has all the making of a perfect stock to do that with.)
The question that I have, and that I struggle with, is why post anything "positive" at this point in time here? Who would see it? Who would read it? And what it accomplish? (But, perhaps the last question is really the first that I need an answer to.)
So... what is the motive? (Always a good place to start, isn't it?) Well, what are the "possible" choices?
1.) The most obvious. I own beaucoup stock and benefit many $'s in net worth if the stock price lifts.
2.) hmmm.... is there another? Oh yes, well let's see... what could another be? How about, real people helping real people? Okay, well.... maybe.
Well, I guess my list seems rather short, dosen't it? I suppose I could put down "aspirations to attain investment guru status," but maybe that just so far out of the question and removed from any prospect of reality, it seems quite silly, even to me. And, it seems that nearly anything else that I can think of, really dissolves into one of the above two when put to the acid test.
So, I'll leave it at those two, and then examine them a little closer. Maybe even take a little time doing it. There's really no rush or sense of urgency to any of this, is there? If your in and long, well, relax. And, if your our and neutral, your cool. And, if your against and short, I already know you aren't going anywhere... you can relax too. I'm just not quite sure what to make of all you short folk yet that are still hanging around here. (Some I do, some not.)
First of all, it is quite clear to me that not many investors on Wall Street have charted the right course for Suite101. They don't know where they're headed towards or going to with this show. But, that may soon change... as there's a few things that have started to unfold to me here lately. And it makes "too much sense" for it not to fit. Sort of like a "hand in a glove" analogy. And yes, it does excite me...
As most of it is "news and information" that is available on the internet that are like "pieces of the puzzle" that you just have to start putting together with what's happening here, I'm quite sure that I could do it in a rather reasonable and logical manner. In fact, I have done it in my own head. The question is, should I write about it here? Honestly, I just don't know. I still have to resolve the aforementioned issue on what the reason or motive for it would be. And, it's not as simply as choosing, # 1 or # 2.
Either motive could lend itself "either way" (whether to write much or say nothing and wait.)
If financial gain is the reason, then writing much might give a quicker "pop" in price. Might, I said. I don't know who all may happen to read here, but it is such a thinly traded issue, that it doesn't take much to move it. It really doesn't. On the other hand, if I stay quiet, the shorts that I believe are still all over it won't get spoked and cover at these low prices. It will allow the more astute, long term investors to get in at a cheap price, and the shorts will be force to cover at much higher prices. Guaranteed buyers for later, if you know what I mean. So, there is a certain advantage in letting the sleeping dog lie. Maybe it's better to leave the price low in hopes of attracting a long term venture capitalist type group, or a insitutional fund manager, who will take a large position off the open market because of the absurdly low price. If they move stealthily, then the shorts are forced to cover higher, long after a new and stronger position is established.
Likewise, maybe by saying nothing, the people that are long now will be more pleasently surprised later at what may happen here. Perhaps there is a certain danger in building "expectations" too soon or too high, that it really doesn't help them. Maybe it's too soon. Again, I don't know. (As some of what I am thinking is still 6 months + out there.) And, eventually, there will be more news and P.R. from the folks here at Suite101.
Do you see the quandry I am in? Let's see now... what should I do?
Hu
-- posted by Hugs
» matttheduck - nope
first, i'm not qualified to question your opinions. you are clearly doing a lot more thinking about this company than almost anybody with the possible exception of kirk. i will say i am yet to be convinced that the inherent value of this site can be turned into on-going, growing revenues and profits, but my mind remains open on that question.from your description of the choice, i think keeping quiet (at least publicly) is the best choice. if there is value here, it will eventually be realized in the stock price, so what's the hurry of talking up the stock (and opening yourself up to charges that you're just another "pump and dumper" like abby cohen from the pigman (lol))? in the meantime, you will not have caused anyone to buy the stock in the unlikely event that you're wrong. there's just no downside to letting the stock run whatever course it will run regardless of whether either of us ever posts here again.
-- posted by matttheduck
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