Comments on: b5media Offers To Buy Know More Media Blogs and/or a Full Corporate Acquisition http://www.centernetworks.com/b5media-knowmoremedia-acquisition Web 2 and Social Media News and Reviews Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:50:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jeremy Wright http://www.centernetworks.com/b5media-knowmoremedia-acquisition/comment-page-#comment-18205 Jeremy Wright Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-18205 Yep, we just want to do our best to save the network, save the bloggers, save the team :) Yep, we just want to do our best to save the network, save the bloggers, save the team :)

]]> By: Easton Ellsworth http://www.centernetworks.com/b5media-knowmoremedia-acquisition/comment-page-#comment-18451 Easton Ellsworth Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-18451 Allen, thanks for writing about this. On Monday, July 21, Know More Media announced via its internal company blog to all KMM authors that we will cease operations as of Friday, August 1, 2008 (unless something like a proposed takeover by b5media occurs). That means the blogs will stay live, online, but we won't be paying anybody who chooses to continue to post (and some have said they will). And the full-time team will dissolve. For clarity, I'm going to re-post a comment I just left at Jeremy's blog. Hope that's okay. :) I’ve been a full-time editor at Know More Media since we launched in 2005. Speaking for the others on the full-time team, let me say that we’ve done all we could to make it a successful business and to treat our authors well. I’ve poured my energy into it from day one and have no regrets about my efforts as a writer, editor, promoter, advertiser and trainer. I understand that Jeremy is waiting to hear from Hal Halladay, our CEO, about this open letter. I hope whatever communication may come of it will be satisfying to all parties. I am personally grateful to every person who has worked for Know More Media (KMM) in any capacity. I am happy to say that I have been able to work alongside dozens of fantastic people there - the several on the full-time team and the dozens of wonderful blog writers. I’m sad, of course, that Know More Media has reached the point that it has as a business - but I am confident that everyone who has contributed to it will find success in their future if they hold to the publishing standards we tried to uphold and teach. As to why Know More Media hasn’t performed better as a company, I’ll defer to Hal (our CEO) on that. He is my close friend and mentor as well as an excellent boss. He has done far more than most of our writers realize to try to make our network succeed. I do know with absolute certainty that we haven’t failed because of any lack of effort on the part of any employee. I’m available at 970-372-6630 or myfirstname at knowmoremedia dot com if anyone wants to talk to me. Also twitter.com/easton or contact me via the form on my personal blog consulting site, visionaryblogging.com. I do want to make sure nobody gets misunderstandings about this discussion. Allen, thanks for writing about this.

On Monday, July 21, Know More Media announced via its internal company blog to all KMM authors that we will cease operations as of Friday, August 1, 2008 (unless something like a proposed takeover by b5media occurs). That means the blogs will stay live, online, but we won’t be paying anybody who chooses to continue to post (and some have said they will). And the full-time team will dissolve.

For clarity, I’m going to re-post a comment I just left at Jeremy’s blog. Hope that’s okay. :)

I’ve been a full-time editor at Know More Media since we launched in 2005. Speaking for the others on the full-time team, let me say that we’ve done all we could to make it a successful business and to treat our authors well. I’ve poured my energy into it from day one and have no regrets about my efforts as a writer, editor, promoter, advertiser and trainer.

I understand that Jeremy is waiting to hear from Hal Halladay, our CEO, about this open letter. I hope whatever communication may come of it will be satisfying to all parties.

I am personally grateful to every person who has worked for Know More Media (KMM) in any capacity. I am happy to say that I have been able to work alongside dozens of fantastic people there – the several on the full-time team and the dozens of wonderful blog writers.

I’m sad, of course, that Know More Media has reached the point that it has as a business – but I am confident that everyone who has contributed to it will find success in their future if they hold to the publishing standards we tried to uphold and teach.

As to why Know More Media hasn’t performed better as a company, I’ll defer to Hal (our CEO) on that. He is my close friend and mentor as well as an excellent boss. He has done far more than most of our writers realize to try to make our network succeed. I do know with absolute certainty that we haven’t failed because of any lack of effort on the part of any employee.

I’m available at 970-372-6630 or myfirstname at knowmoremedia dot com if anyone wants to talk to me. Also twitter.com/easton or contact me via the form on my personal blog consulting site, visionaryblogging.com. I do want to make sure nobody gets misunderstandings about this discussion.

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