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SIM Partners (http://www.simpartners.com), a provider of local and social marketing automation technology, today announced USA Taekwondo (http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Taekwondo) selected SIM Partners to establish, expand and maintain a local digital presence for the more than 750 USA Taekwondo locations nationwide.

USA Taekwondo is the National Governing Body for the sport of Taekwondo in the United States and serves as the lone entry way for athletes hoping to qualify for the USA Olympic Taekwondo Team. USA Taekwondo member clubs are located throughout the US and serve as the recruitment, education and training centers for current and future USA Olympic team members.

This program will make it fast and easy for athletes interested in learning and practicing Taekwondo to find their local USA Taekwondo club, said Bruce Harris, CEO of USA Taekwondo. USA Taekwondo member clubs provide the best instruction and training in the sport, and their digital presence should reflect that. SIM Partners team and technology is the perfect match for increasing online visibility for each of our member clubs.

SIM Partners will utilize the Velocity technology to create a strong digital presence for each USA Taekwondo member club. Each member club also has the option to expand the effort to include additional online optimization to improve their visibility in local search results and online directories.

Increasingly, consumers turn to the Internet to find and research businesses in their local communities; if a business doesnt show up in the local search results thats a lost opportunity, said Jon Schepke, CEO of SIM Partners. With Olympic enthusiasm in full swing, now is the perfect time to capitalize on peak interest levels. Providing USA Taekwondo member clubs with an optimized digital presence will help them capture that interest and convert it into more athletes joining the sport.

SIM Partners platform, Velocity, is used by more than 25,000 businesses and is an automated and scalable way to achieve success in local online marketing.

About SIM Partners: SIM Partners technology empowers Enterprise brands to maximize digital marketing results at a local level by optimizing location-specific content and business information to dominate local, mobile and social search results for hundreds or thousands of local entities. SIM Partners provides a full suite of scalable and automated digital marketing technology, anchored by automated local marketing SaaS solutions, Velocity and Velocity SocialTM. The Velocity platform enables brands to optimize their content and location information through social, local search and mobile channels to maximize results for stores and locations. A social CRM tool and extension of the Velocity platform, Velocity Social enables large brands to effectively manage social communities for multiple locations on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and empower locations to build their businesses with social media while ensuring each post complies with brand standards. SIM Partners has offices in Chicago and San Francisco and authorized resellers in Australia, Germany and Italy. For more information, visit http://www.simpartners.com.

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The Monitor's Peter Ford knows censorship happens all the time on his China beat. But when it happened to him in an interview with CNN, he felt punched in the gut.

Its not as if Ive been physically assaulted, I grant you. But I certainly feel violated that nauseous sensation when you realize your home has been burgled.

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Ive been censored.

One moment I was on the TV screen, a guest of CNNs On China talk show discussing press freedom in China, and the next I wasnt. The screen went black. The Chinese censors had pulled the plug. Where there was light, they brought darkness. Nobody in mainland China could watch the program.

Well of course, you will say. You are in China. What do you expect? The freedom to talk publicly about the lack of freedom?

And, of course, I know perfectly well that almost all of my Chinese colleagues are censored, or forced to self-censor, every day.

But this was my first time. And the first time is different.

As well as my day job being The Christian Science Monitors correspondent in China, I am also president of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China. That means people come to me when they want to know about foreign correspondents working conditions in China.

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Before last week's student protests, President Maduro pledged to purge a 'culture of violence' from the media.

David Smilde is the moderator of WOLA's blog:Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights.The views expressed are the author's own.

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[Yesterday's] protest and speech by Leopoldo Lpez was covered live by television news channel Globovisin. At least in part. Globovisin split their screen so that they could transmit the opposition protest and government march at the same time and also cut away from the speech before Lpez was done.

This, however, was a significant improvement over media coverage of the violence during the Feb.12 march (see Davids comments in the Financial Times).

That day when the students protests turned increasingly violent, private televisionstations stopped their live coverage of the incidents. Globovisin, the news channel that used to be considered the main pro-opposition media but is now owned by a business group said to be close to the government, had initially given ample but not live coverage to the protests. But as soon as violence erupted in the afternoon, they switched to a fashion program.

Public television channels did not cover any of the opposition protests, concentrating instead on a government organized patriotic youth march commemorating the anniversary of La Victoria battle of the war of independence.

People with access to cable television services turned to the Colombia-based news channel NTN24 for live coverage of the incidents. As violence erupted, the channel broadcasted videos reportedly filmed by protestors showing Venezuelan police officers firing on protestors. The government ordered cable providers to take NTN24 out of their grids. Viewers reported by twitter that by leaving the channel on it could still be viewed in Venezuela, but as soon as it was changed or the cable set turned off and on again, the image was lost. The web page of the channel was also blocked from access in Venezuela. But it was available live on Youtube.com.

President Nicols Maduro justified the censuring measure declaring: a television channel [NTN24] that is trying to compete with Telesur [Venezuelan government backed Latin American news televisionchannel], attempted to broadcast the chaos of a coup dtatI had to defend Venezuelas peace. He also scolded Agence France-Presse news service for using local reporters to harm the truth about Venezuela.

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Strategies must be drawn to control the negative impact of social media on society, Mass Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said.

Responding to a question by a journalist at the Cabinet press briefing yesterday, the minister said a background study on the impact of social media networks such as Facebook is in progress.

He said as cases of negative impact of social media are on the rise, a wide discussion should be facilitated in society as to how these could be countered and controlled.

The minister observed that whenever the government attempts to introduce some sort of regulating mechanism on social media, it comes under heavy criticism over obstructing media freedom.

Therefore, he said designing strategies to control the negative side of social media must be done after careful study and with broad consultation with experts in the field.

The minister further observed that social media assumes a greater role in communicating general knowledge, adding that the positive side of social media should not be hindered by any kind of regulation.

Government Information Director General Prof Ariyarathna Athugala and News Director Wasanthapriya Ramanayake were also present.

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