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September 23, 2009-- News Release: Vancouver, BC Canada

MEET MEMBERS OF THE SUITE101.COM EDITORIAL TEAM THIS WEEK
AT WRITING-RELATED EVENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA

Catch up with Suite101.com Editor-in-Chief Colin Smith at Word on the Street in Vancouver, BC and meet Plants & Animals editor Barbara Nicholson Bell at the Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, NC.

(Vancouver, BC, Canada)>> Suite101.com editorial staff are breaking out of the office to mix, mingle, and meet with current and potential writers at the following writing-related events:

Barbara Nicholson Bell, Suite101.com Plants & Animals Editor
Attending: Garden Writers Symposium, Raleigh, NC.

Barbara will be attending the 61st Garden Writers of America Annual Symposium, held Sept 23 - 26 in Raleigh, North Carolina. She’ll be talking writing with current Suite writers and will be recruiting new writers for her popular Plants & Animals section.  Meet her there at her recruiting table in the Author Signing Area, or e-mail her to catch up in person. Can’t make it but curious about joining her section as a writer? Drop her a note to touch base: Barbara.bell@suite101.com

Colin Smith, Editor-in-chief, Suite101.com
Attending: Word on the Street Festival, Vancouver, BC

You can find Colin this Sunday, September 27th, at the “Word on the Street” Festival located in downtown Vancouver just outside the Vancouver Public Library, at Homer and Robson. Colin will be joined by Lima Al-Azzeh, Associate Editor, in the Magazine Life tent.  Together this team hopes to reconnect with Suite101 writers and readers living in Vancouver, and talk to potential writers about what it’s like to write for Canada’s largest online publisher. Drop by to learn more about writing opportunities at Suite101 or simply to have a friendly face-to-face chat.

More About Suite101.com
Suite101.com is known in the online writing world as a respected site where freelance writers and journalists, as well as home-based experts, write and publish short, helpful, fact-based articles online. Suite101 features 20 sections such as Business & Finance, Film & TV, Health & Wellness, Travel, and Food & Drink. New articles are posted daily and advertising revenue from articles is shared with writers. This dividend style payment happens each month even if a writer adds no new articles. In July 2009, a 29 year-old part-time Suite101 writer set a monthly earnings record of $5000 from her articles on Suite101.com.

About Suite101.com Media Inc.
Suite101.com Media Inc. is a private Canadian company based in Vancouver, British Columbia with offices in Berlin, Madrid and Paris. It has been a successful consumer internet operation for over twelve years and has an international full-time staff of 28, plus over 40 editors working around the world. Suite101.com Media Inc. operates Suite101.com, Suite101.de, Suite101.fr, and Suite101.net.

Marci Hotsenpiller
Suite101.com Media Inc.
Tel: 250 650 6524
E-mail: marci.hotsenpiller@suite101.com



September 17, 2009-- News Release: Vancouver, BC Canada

ONLINE PUBLISHER SUITE101.COM GOES GLOBAL WITH LAUNCH OF
WEBSITES AND OFFICES IN SPAIN AND FRANCE

Online magazine that shares revenues with writers becomes the first website of its kind in Spanish and French market, adding to its presence in Germany and North America.

September 17, 2009 (Vancouver, BC, Canada)>> Suite101.com Media Inc. announced its expansion into Spanish and French-language countries this week with the opening of offices in Madrid and Paris, and the launch of online magazines Suite101.net and Suite101.fr.

These websites, with launch events happening in Miami and Madrid this week and in Paris (Sept 21), are the first of their kind for Spanish and French freelance writers. Writers earn dividend-style revenue for their published articles, work with professional editors, and retain all copyright to their work.

“This kind of online revenue-share journalism is a totally new model for writers of these languages,” explains Peter Berger, president and CEO of Suite101.com Media. “Our goal is to become a known outlet for Spanish and French freelance writers as an option alongside writing work at newspapers and magazines. We also want to reach experts who might not consider themselves writers.”

In Madrid, Eva Fontiveros leads Suite101.net as Editor-in-chief with a team of editors in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, the US (Miami), and Venezuela. Jérémy Reboul, is Editor-in-chief of Suite101.fr in Paris working with editors in France.

The Suite101 model is a success in North America where it has operated Suite101.com from Vancouver, British Columbia for over a decade. The English-language site publishes articles by 2,500 freelance writers and gets 15 million visitors a month, most of whom find the site while searching the Internet for information on a specific topic. Today Suite101.com is the fourth most-visited Canadian-owned website (behind the Government of Canada and ahead of CBC.ca) in terms of monthly traffic, which has doubled in each of the past three years. A German-language site launched in 2008 went from zero to one million monthly unique visitors in ten months.

“Looking ahead we see immense growth in this business,” explains Berger. “Basically we create opportunities for writers and experts to write and publish, and we link them to readers who are hungry for reliable, trusted, well-written online articles.”
 
Suite101.com is known in the online writing world as a respected site where freelance writers and journalists, as well as home-based experts, write and publish short, helpful, fact-based articles online. Suite101 features 20 sections such as Business & Finance, Film & TV, Health & Wellness, Travel, and Food & Drink. New articles are posted daily and advertising revenue from articles is shared with writers. This “dividend” or royalty style payment happens each month even if a writer adds no new articles. In July 2009, a 29 year-old part-time Suite101 writer set a monthly earnings record of $5,000 from her articles on Suite101.com.

About Suite101.com Media Inc.
Suite101.com Media Inc. is a private Canadian company based in Vancouver, British Columbia with offices in Berlin, Madrid and Paris. It has been a successful consumer internet operation for over twelve years and has an international full-time staff of 28, plus over 40 editors working around the world. The company is co-owned by Burda Digital Ventures of Munich (the venture capital arm of Hubert Burda Media) and Vancouver-based Internet entrepreneur Dr. Boris Wertz of W Media Ventures.
Suite101.com Media Inc. operates Suite101.com, Suite101.de, Suite101.fr, and Suite101.net.

Marci Hotsenpiller
Tel: (1) 250 650 6524
marci.hotsenpiller@suite101.com


September 1, 2009-- News Release: Vancouver, BC Canada

PART-TIME FREELANCE WRITER SETS A MONTHLY EARNINGS RECORD OF $4,940US
FOR ARTICLES PUBLISHED ON SUITE101.COM

Lena Gott, 29 year-old accountant and stay-at-home mom in North Carolina, surprises herself by earning $4,940 in July and setting a monthly earnings record for online writing site Suite101.com.

September 1, 2009 (Vancouver, BC, Canada)>>  Suite101 Media Inc., the Vancouver-based company behind online magazine Suite101.com, is pleased to congratulate freelance writer Lena Gott on setting a new monthly earnings record for articles published on Suite101.com.

During the month of July, Lena Gott’s articles earned her revenues of $4,940.77US—the most earned by a writer in a one-month period since Suite101.com launched in 1996.

“I can attribute much of my July earnings to my article on the Cash for Clunkers program,” said Gott, who normally earns around $2,000 a month for her articles on Suite101.com. “I strongly believe that writing in article clouds, or webs, and interlinking the related articles results in higher revenue.  For the same amount of work, you get more page views because every article has the ability to drive page views to several related pieces, fulfilling the reader’s search for more information.”

This 29 year-old professional accountant has been writing for Suite101 since 2007. She has published a total of 228 articles on Suite101 as a Feature Writer, most in the Business & Finance section. ”Suite101 is definitely a real part-time job for me. I try to devote at least 15 hours per week to researching and writing articles. I would do more, but I’m a stay-at-home mom and have others jobs as well.  I’m a CPA and teach for Axia College of the University of Phoenix, I also own a jewelry business, Milan Jewelry Design.“

Gott represents many of Suite101’s high-earning writers who combine writing with other jobs or passions. When asked what kind of writer she is, Gott says she thinks of herself as a teacher first: “This is a weird question for me because I never thought I’d be a writer!  I like to write to inform or teach.  I want each of my readers to learn helpful information from my articles, whether it’s important details about new tax law, how to save money, or just where to find a useful family budgeting spreadsheet.”

Suite101.com earns revenue from advertising that appears on each article posted on Suite101.com. Writers earn a share of the revenue from the pages where their articles appear. This “dividend style” of payment continues as long as the articles appear on the site. Suite101 pays writers each month via PayPal. While there is no upper limit to a writer’s earnings, this model means there is also no guaranteed baseline—a fact that can dismay new writers first starting out but that can reward productive writers over time.

To read additional online writing tips from Lena Gott—and view a screenshot of her revenue statement for July—visit the Suite101 Limelight blog here.

About Suite101.com Media
Suite101.com is an online magazine published by a network of over 2,500 freelance writers. As a company we’re committed to creating opportunities for writers at each stage of their career. Visitors to Suite101.com find answers to pressing questions in the 200,000+ articles published on our site, covering over 400 topics. Suite101.com has emerged over the past decade as a trusted site visited by over 17 million readers each month. Suite101.com Media Inc. is a private Canadian company in Vancouver BC with offices in Berlin, Madrid, and Paris. Visit us at Suite101.com and Suite101.de.

Media contact:
Marci Hotsenpiller
Tel: (1) 250 650 6524
marci.hotsenpiller@suite101.com



May 7, 2009-- News Release: Vancouver, BC Canada

SUITE101 CELEBRATES ALL KINDS OF MOMS THIS MOTHER'S DAY

May 7, 2009 (Vancouver, BC, Canada)>> Suite101.com writers have produced a bounty of wonderful gift ideas designed to celebrate every kind of mom on Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 10, 2009). Suite101 articles range from practical gift ideas for the “travel mom” junkie, to sympathetic gifts for expecting mums, to special gift ideas celebrating recent birth mothers and grandmothers. 

Suite101.com, the online magazine with over 15 million monthly readers, has published a wide range of articles providing valuable and entertaining information about Mother’s Day activities. Visit the Suite101.com website and become inspired by helpful ideas meant to honor the special women in your family.

Here are some ideas on how to celebrate the special mom in your life:

•    Mother’s Day in A Blended Family
•    Mothers Day Gifts for Twin Moms
•    Mother’s Day Gifts for Travel Moms
•    Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for Grandmothers
•    Best Gift Ideas for a New Mom on Mother’s Day
•    Mother’s Day Gifts for Expectant Mums
•    Mother’s Day Gifts for Stay-at-Home Mums
•    Celebrating Birth Mothers Day

About Suite101.com
Suite101.com is an online magazine published by a network of over 2,000 freelance writers. As a company, we’re committed to creating opportunities for writers at each stage of their career. Visitors to Suite101.com find answers to pressing questions in the 150,000+ articles published on our site, covering over 400 topics. Suite101.com has emerged over the past decade as a trusted site visited by over 15 million readers each month. www.suite101.com

Media Contact:
Lima Al-Azzeh
Communications Coordinator
Lima.alazzeh@suite101.com
778-227-8611





April 22, 2009-- News Release: Vancouver, BC Canada

GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK: EARTH DAY IS CELEBRATED WITH GREAT CONSERVATION TIPS AND INFO FROM SUITE101 EXPERTS

April 22, 2009 (Vancouver, BC, Canada)>> Suite101 writers show their love for the earth with tips on building green communities, shopping for eco-friendly products, and traveling with a reduced carbon footprint. 

Suite101.com, the online magazine with over 14 million monthly readers, has published a wide range of articles about the importance of conservation. Suite101 writers also deliver expert advice about maintaining healthy, green habits whether at home or on-the-go.

Learn useful tips on how to build community gardens, shop for eco-friendly products to use at home, and teach kids how to start building green habits. Suite experts also share valuable tips on how to reduce carbon footprints while on the move—from handy “Ecodriving” methods to taking eco-friendly vacations.

Here are six eco-savvy ways to stay Green at home, or while on the move:

•    Spruce up communities by building green spaces.
•    Shop for natural, non-harmful cleaning products to use at home.
•    Organize community events around protecting the environment.
•    Consider an Electric Bike to save energy and money.
•    Save Gas by Driving Green.
•    Travel the Eco-Way by researching eco-friendly hotels before planning a vacation.

About Suite101.com Media Inc.

Suite101.com is an online magazine published by a network of over 2,000 freelance writers. As a company, we’re committed to creating opportunities for writers at each stage of their career. Visitors to Suite101.com find answers to pressing questions in the 150,000+ articles published on our site, covering over 400 topics. Suite101.com has emerged over the past decade as a trusted site visited by over 12 million readers each month. www.suite101.com


Media contact:
Lima Al-Azzeh
Suite101.com Media Inc.
communications@suite101.com
778-227-8611munc


April 16, 2009-- News Release: Vancouver, BC Canada

Suite101.com surpasses the CBC as the Most Popular Canadian-Owned Content Site

Suite101.com is now the most popular Canadian-owned content website as measured by global web traffic company, Alexa Rank. With 2,000 writers and 160,000 original articles on its site, Suite101.com attracted an audience of 14 million unique visitors in March 2009, surpassing the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) site.

The top 5 Content Websites according to global Alexa Rank, as of today’s date, are:
•    http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/suite101.com
•    http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cbc.ca
•    http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/canoe.ca
•    http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/canada.com
•    http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thestar.com

The good news was announced on Limelight, Suite101’s company blog:

“Here’s further proof that the web loves great writing,” says Peter Berger, CEO. He further commented that, “One reason for our success is that, unlike our competitors, we focus solely on online writing and do this very well. Another key reason for our success is we don’t stop at the Canadian border. We attract an ever-growing readership from other English-speaking countries, and Suite101 has begun to tap into additional language markets with the introduction of our first European office last year too.”

About Alexa Rank
Alexa Rank is the most trusted system on the web- designed to analyze global web traffic based on a site’s number of unique visitors and page impressions. (The world’s most visited site receives an Alexa rank of “1”.)

Currently, the four largest Canadian-owned websites, according to Alexa are: www.plentyoffish.com, an online dating site; www.metrolyrics.com, a song lyrics database; www.gc.ca, the Government of Canada website; and www.suite101.com, the top online content site.

About Suite101.com Media Inc.
Suite101.com is an online magazine published by a network of over 2,000 freelance writers. As a company, we’re committed to creating opportunities for writers at each stage of their career. Visitors to Suite101.com find answers to pressing questions in the 160,000+ articles published on our site, covering over 400 topics. Suite101.com has emerged over the past decade as a trusted site visited by over 14 million readers each month. Suite101.com Media Inc. is a private Canadian company based in Vancouver BC with offices in Berlin. Visit www.suite101.com and www.suite101.de

Media contact:
Lima Al Azzeh
Suite101.com Media Inc.
communications@suite101.com
778-227-8611


April 6, 2009 - News Release: Vancouver, BC Canada

Suite101.com Expands Editorial Team with the Addition of Three New Editors Including Award-Winning Canadian Writer and Editor

Suite101 Media Inc., the Vancouver-based company behind online magazines Suite101.com and Suite101.de,  has expanded their editorial team with the addition of three professional editors including award-winning author, editor and journalist Lynn Coady.

Suite101’s editorial department now employs eleven section editors to accommodate its ever growing stable of professional writers. The online magazine receives hundreds of applications every week from freelance writers and journalists around the world. Lynn Coady of Edmonton, Alberta recently joined Suite101 as the editor of the Travel and the Politics & Society sections, Mia Carter of Boston, Massachusetts is the new editor for Mind & Soul, and Lisa Nichols of Portland, Oregon is the new editor for Business & Finance.

 “Every week, we are amazed at the talented men and women who apply to become writers at Suite101,” said Editor-in-Chief Colin Smith. “Quite interestingly, as newspapers and other traditional media are shedding writers and editors, we are thrilled to have them join us and contribute to the next wave of online publishing.”

Meet Suite101.com’s New Editors

•    Lynn Coady, a Governor-General’s Award nominee and the author of four award-winning works of fiction, is the current Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. “As new media changes, I look forward to working with Suite 101 and establishing some of the highest writing and editorial standards in online journalism,” says Coady. Her writing has appeared in The National Post, the Vancouver Sun, The Walrus, Chatelaine, Geist, and EnRoute. Coady has also been a columnist for The Globe and Mail.

•    Mia Carter currently writes for Suite101.com on a range of topics, with a special focus on pet care. She was an editor at CBS Radio affiliate station in Massachusetts, and Carter brings a wealth of journalism experience to Suite101 including feature writing, freelance photography and content strategy with Examiner.com, and Justanswer.com websites."I’m honored to be working with such a talented editorial staff and I look forward to this opportunity to grow the site by sharing my knowledge with Suite101 writers. I've thoroughly enjoyed writing for Suite101. Now as an editor, I can help cultivate those same positive experiences in other writers."

•    Lisa Nichols also currently writes for Suite101.com on a range of topics, with a special focus on Business Travel. Her professional background includes extensive writing credits for the Chicago Sun-Times, The Best of Cincinnati Guide, Pique Fashion Magazine, and a variety of community press newspapers.  “As news media continues to evolve and change, the new progression of public conversations will sustain us on the Web. Suite101 attracts top-notch journalists, feature writers and Web writers—I’m thrilled to be part of the conversation!”

About Suite101 Media
Suite101.com is an online magazine published by a network of over 2,000 freelance writers. As a company, we’re committed to creating opportunities for writers at each stage of their career. Visitors to Suite101.com find answers to pressing questions in the 160,000+ articles published on our site, covering over 400 topics. Suite101.com has emerged over the past decade as a trusted site visited by over 14 million readers each month. Suite101.com Media Inc. is a private Canadian company based in Vancouver BC with offices in Berlin. Visit www.suite101.com and www.suite101.de

Media contact:
Lima Al Azzeh
Suite101.com Media Inc.
communications@suite101.com


February 18, 2009 - News Release: Vancouver, BC Canada

SUITE101.COM TAKES PARTS IN POPULAR NORTHERN VOICE CONFERENCE
AND LAUNCHES TWITTER NEWS FEED FOR FREELANCE WRITERS

Suite101.com Media Inc., the Vancouver-based company behind online magazines Suite101.com and Suite101.de, announced today that Colin Smith has joined the company as Editor-in-Chief for the English-language Suite101.com site.