Celebrities Chat to UK Video Website at Chelsea Flower Show

(PRWEB) May 29, 2011

An annual event that has always put Britain on the map and has evoked within it a great sense of Britishness is of course the Royal Horticultural Society?s Chelsea Flower Show. Once a year, flower lovers, horticulturists and many proud Britons come to this esteemed event held in the glamorous west London location of Chelsea to witness and experience the beauty and magnificence that the RHS Chelsea Flower Show offers. WinkBall.com, the UK?s no. 1 video site, were of course there to capture all the action and speak to the many who had travelled to see all the beauty of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, including a string of celebrities.

WinkBall and its extensive video reporter network spoke to a number of celebrities about the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, including: British national treasure Barbara Windsor MBE, TV and Radio presenter George Lamb, comedian Rob Brydon, journalist Piers Morgan, television personality Sir Michael Parkinson, DJ Jo Whiley, presenter Gloria Hunniford, comedian Joan Rivers, newsreader Natasha Kaplinksy, medical broadcaster Dr Robert Winston, actress Samantha Bond, antiquities expert Tim Wonnacot, model Yasmin Le Bon, singer Beverley Knight, newsreader Bill Turnbull, designer Bruce Oldfield, actor Christopher Biggins, journalist Diana Moran, British ice dancer Jayne Torvill, Jo McDonald ? wife of newsreader Trevor, TV personality Johnny Ball, writer Julian Fellowes, actress Dame Maggie Smith, TV personality Nancy Dell'olio, DJ Dr Neil Fox, model Nell McAndrew, newsreader Peter Sissons, pop star Will Young, former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips, newsreader Sophie Raworth, footballer Sol Campbell, film and stage actress Sheila Hancock, television producer Phil Redmond, broadcaster and journalist Nigel Slater, newsreader Nicholas Owen and former children?s TV presenter and Lib Dem peer Baroness Floella Benjamin. Speaking to these high profile figures, WinkBall asked them what they love about this fantastic horticultural event and what makes the RHS Chelsea Flower Show such a unique and special event ? and they tell of their secret gardening tips!

Through their unique video coverage, WinkBall captured the splendour and beauty of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show perfectly and gave a fantastic insight into this event via the power of citizen video-vox pop. Commenting on the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, celebrities lavished fantastic testimonials onto this distinguished social event. Barbara Windsor MBE spoke on the unique British feel that this event has and commented on the joy it brought out in so many people:

??Because it?s British - it?s English isn?t it? This is a great time: we have this, we have the tennis, and it?s glorious! Look at everybody, everybody has got a smile on their face.?

Sir Michael Parkinson added this about the RHS Chelsea Flower Show: ?It?s a brilliantly conceived show - it?s full of glorious things, full of ideas and it?s in a perfect setting.?

WinkBall?s trained video reporters got the best out of the celebrities invited to this special VIP day, and the subsequent video wall and edited video story presents all of what is so fantastic about this esteemed social event, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Through their insightful, revolutionary and unique video coverage, WinkBall captured the true essence of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and gave a real insight into the event via the emotional power of online video.

To see the many celebrities that WinkBall spoke to at the RHS Chelsea Flower, go to the following link:

http://www.winkball.com/walls/34mGqn6zjv28/chelsea-flower-show-celebrity-day

About WinkBall

WinkBall is the British video network that specialises in capturing the public?s passion at events - as they happen - and providing vox-pop and video services to clients worldwide.

Now the UK?s no. 1 video website, WinkBall?s interactive Video Walls, Blogs, Forums and Messaging technologies create the ultimate online presence by engaging with the people who truly matter. This provides a dynamic, mass media, social and participatory experience to connect with the public and targeted communities. Services include vox-pop creation, consumer interviewing, market research, event coverage, video reporter hire, and business and product videos.

Featured on the BBC, CNN, CNBC, Sky News and many more, WinkBall were also nominated finalists in the PR Week Awards 2010 and the CIPR Excellence Awards, 2010.

The technology was designed and built in London in 2005 as a quintessentially British collaboration between academic inventiveness (Goldsmiths, University of London) and commercial endeavour. Co-founded by Dr James Ohene-Djan and Duncan Barclay and launched 18 months ago, WinkBall.com has had nearly 35 million hits (about 1.25 million regular viewers per month) and has a growth rate of 25% per month.

Contact WinkBall:

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Head of Press:

Jennifer(@)winkball(dot)com????????????????020 8962 3033

Contact WinkBall?s PR, Max Clifford Associates:

Victoria Cameron

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Enhancements to the Site24x7 Website Monitoring Service Deliver More Actionable Information to Website Owners

Austin, Texas (PRWEB) October 18, 2011

Site24x7, a leading website and web application monitoring service from Zoho Corp., today released service enhancements that deliver significantly higher levels of actionable insight to website administrators and developers. Service enhancements range from greater insight into the actual experience of a website from a visitor?s perspective to improved insight into web page object performance for a better understanding of how individual components affect website performance. The enhanced features of Site24x7 are available immediately.

?Site24x7 can now monitor page load times versus just response times,? said Gibu K. Mathew, director product management, Site24x7.com. ?This gives marketing teams more visibility into how their websites are performing for end users when they roll out new marketing initiatives. The new capabilities will also help developers understand what is slowing down a web page, as they provide performance metrics across the various domains accessed by the page.?

Enhanced Performance Monitoring

Enhancements to the Site24x7 monitoring software include:

????User perspective analysis: Administrators using Site24x7 can now monitor a website from the perspective of a site visitor, enabling them to experience page load and image rendering times as a visitor would. This perspective becomes very valuable to administrators and webmasters as they try to increase conversions or retain visitors on their sites.

????Web page analyzer: Administrators and developers can identify which web page components are slowing down a website and fine tune those components to ensure better performance. The web page analyzer can assess the performance impact of all website components?including HTML, images, CSS and JavaScript.

????Website downtime information: Administrators and developers can now see a screenshot, captured from the point of view of a user, when a web page is not working properly. This screenshot capture illustrates the exact problem causing the disruption and gives webmasters more visibility into a reported downtime.

????Enhanced website URL response time: Administrators and webmasters now have access to in-depth details of page response times, DNS time, and connection time performance. Site24x7 also provides insight on average response times from different monitoring locations across the globe as well as hourly and daily response times. These help administrators and webmasters understand website performance as experienced by users worldwide.

Usage and Pricing

Site24x7 offers a 15-day free trial, and all services are backed by a 30-day, no-hassle, money-back guarantee. Pricing for the Professional Edition of Site24x7 with Web Page Analyzer capability starts at $ 4/URL/month. For detailed pricing information or to sign up for a free 15-day trial of Site24x7, visit http://www.site24x7.com/site24x7-pricing.html or email support(at)site24x7(dot)com.

For more information on Site24x7, please visit http://www.site24x7.com; follow the blog at http://blogs.site24x7.com, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Site24x7 and on Twitter at @Site24x7.

About Site24x7

Site24x7 is an easy, fast and effective website and web application monitoring service from Zoho Corp. The service helps global companies ensure website uptime, diagnose performance and usability problems with web pages, troubleshoot any unplanned downtime quickly with instant alerts, and track website performance and trends with intuitive reports. Site24x7 supports HTTP(S), FTP(S), DNS, PING, TCP, SSL, SMTP, POP, etc. For more information, please visit http://www.site24x7.com.

About Zoho Corp.

Zoho Corp. is a privately-held and profitable company that serves the technology needs of millions of SMB and enterprise IT customers worldwide with ManageEngine, WebNMS and Zoho. The company is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA with offices in Austin, New Jersey, Chennai, London, Tokyo and Beijing. For more information, please visit http://www.zohocorp.com.

Site24x7, Zoho and ManageEngine are registered trademarks and WebNMS is a trademark of Zoho Corp. All other brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Tags: Site24x7, Zoho, ManageEngine, server monitoring, website monitoring, cloud, website analysis, web page analysis, web page performance analyzer, real-time IT

Media Contacts:

Dottie O?Rourke

TECHMarket Communications

(650) 344-1260

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ManageEngine

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Sports Camp Federation Launches New Website and Introduces Brand New Sports Marketing Services

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) January 25, 2012

Chicago-based marketing firm Sports Camp Federation has just launched its entirely new website and name change, now known as SCFederation. In addition, the company has expanded its service offerings to include various levels of social media marketing and consulting services to its clients.

Sports Camp Federation (now referred to as SCFederation) is a free resource available to youth camps, youth and adult sports leagues, organizations, educational programs, community centers, social groups and more. The company seeks to help programs become successful through use of its database to gain visibility and utilize resources. Its newly launched website is easy to navigate and has a completely new look and feel. "Aesthetically, the site matches our own brand so well. As we ramp up our services, this new site is just the first step in a really exciting overall process," says Sarah Leonard, Director of Business Development.

SCF provides such services as sponsorship development and product sampling programs so that participants find more value in their experience with a given camp or organization. In addition, SCF has now included social media training to better gain visibility for its partners. The company strives to help create a dialogue amongst organizations and its participants through use of social media techniques. Its comprehensive training program and ongoing consulting services were not previously offered in the past, and while this portion of the company?s offerings does come at a cost, it can be affordably tailored to fit any organization?s or camp?s needs.

While SCF helps organizations and camps become successful, it is also a viable platform for brands to generate awareness amongst targeted demographics in the active lifestyle community ? both youth and adult. The company can utilize its extensive database to place products in the hands of active youth and adults. In addition, SCF can integrate product placement campaigns with a social media response to generate buzz about a particular brand or product. This integration of social media is a new addition to the SCF portfolio of services for 2012.

Sports Camp Federation was founded in 1998 by Scott Bronstein. SCF has provided millions of free samples, product promotions, movie premieres, concert tours, drive to web campaigns for all youth and adult channels within a network of over 10 million consumers directly. Their unique ability to provide feedback, pictures, and drive sales directly allows for a cost effective option for brands to reach consumers with new or existing products. Camps, leagues, tournaments and organizations of all types, shapes and sizes will benefit from SCFederation?s free membership. SCF has also opened up their network to families directly through in-home sampling programs with coupons on products that families can use on a daily basis. For more in-depth information please visit http://www.scfederation.com.

For additional information, please contact:

Maggie Mistovich

maggie(at)scfsports(dot)com

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