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FL Carbonell Awards Given April 2; Hairspray, Light in the Piazza, Michael McKeever Among Nominees

By Kenneth Jones 02 Apr 2012

The Carbonell Awards, celebrating South Florida professional theatrical productions from 2011, will be handed out at an April 2 ceremony at Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale. Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Jupiter, FL, received the most nominations 25.

The evening will feature entertainment from shows of the year.

Actors' Playhouse earned 14 nominations followed by Broward Stage Door Theatre with 11 and Palm Beach Dramaworks with 10. Actor Avi Hoffman was nominated in two categories Actor in a Play for Superior Donuts and Supporting Actor in a Musical in Hairspray.

In a category that indicates the health of community, suggesting adventurousness on the part of producers and audiences, the nominees for Best New Work are David Michael Sirois for his play Brothers Beckett (Alliance Theatre Lab) in Miami Lakes; Michael McKeever for his play Stuff (Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton); Christopher Demos Brown, who won the award last year, for his play Captiva (Zoetic Stage in Miami); and Carter W. Lewis for his play The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider (the final production at Florida Stage in Palm Beach County; the theatre folded in 2011).

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Best New Work Brothers Beckett, David Michael Sirois Alliance Theatre Lab Captiva, Christopher Demos Brown, Zoetic Stage The Cha-Cha of the Camel Spider, Carter W. Lewis, Florida Stage Stuff, Michael McKeever, Caldwell Theatre Company

Best Production of a Play All My Sons, Palm Beach Dramaworks August: Osage County, Actors' Playhouse Clybourne Park, Caldwell Theatre Company The Pillowman, Infinite Abyss Stuff, Caldwell Theatre Company

Best Director of a Play Joseph Adler, Red, GableStage Jeffrey D. Holmes, The Pillowman, Infinite Abyss J.Barry Lewis, All My Sons, Palm Beach Dramaworks Stuart Meltzer, Captiva, Zoetic Stage Richard Jay Simon, Side Effects, Mosaic Theatre

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01-04-2012 12:39 Rss Feed Dream By John Robbins SEO Cardiff wales Page One Web Marketing Cardiff

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The value of the SEO market rose 18% in 2011 to reach $821 million, up from $697 million a year earlier, and $601 million in 2009, according to Econsultancy. That includes agency fees to revise and improve natural and paid SEO, SEO PR, social media optimization for search and SEO staffing investments.

At the same time, SEO practitioners are having to incorporate many more online elements into their realm of responsibility including social, mobile and local search, says Econsultancy senior research analyst Jake Hird, adding "It's a complex landscape, but one that marketers are clearly engaging with."

Google's reign continues in the UK with over 90% of search queries conducted on the search engine which means that any changes made have "significant impact to existing SEO efforts".

"The boundaries of SEO as a digital discipline are blurring. As businesses focus on end goals, the technical distinctions between different digital disciplines become less relevant, with SEO techniques permeating (and being permeated by) other areas of digital marketing," says Econsultancy in a press release.

Tags: digital marketing, Google, search marketing, search trends, UK

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SEO in UK worth over three-quarters of a billion dollars in 2011

The explosion of social media has left many people struggling to keep pace with a torrent of online feeds and updates, from the latest celebrity tweets and friends' Facebook posts to co-workers' blurbs and professional bulletins on LinkedIn.

But if it seems like there's another trendy social network launched every year to keep up with ( hello Google (GOOG)+), don't despair. Several online tools can help you stay on top of feeds from multiple accounts, post your own messages simultaneously on different sites

And here's a little secret the pros know: With these services, you can compose those pithy witticisms when inspiration strikes in the middle of the night -- and schedule them to post automatically at a later time, when more of your friends and colleagues are likely to be online.

"I think we're all trying to cope with the best way to manage the fire hose, without getting drowned," said social media consultant J.D. Lasica, referring to the deluge of digital updates that threatens to consume our waking hours.

Three of the most popular tools for managing social media are free. While similar in concept, each may appeal to different users.

HootSuite in particular has many functions geared toward marketing professionals, although a spokesman said it has a broad base of casual users, too. Seesmic, meanwhile, plans to discontinue some services in coming months as it focuses on fewer products, according to CEO Loic Le Meur.

For now, all three are available both as Web-based services and as apps for iPhones and Android devices. There are also desktop versions that can be downloaded onto a PC or Mac, but the Web versions can be accessed from any computer without downloading extra software.

Essentially, each service provides a dashboard that pulls the feeds from all your social media accounts together into columns that you can view on one screen or, on a smartphone, a series of screens that you can access with a touch or swipe of your finger.

That makes it relatively easy to track all those accounts without opening a different app for each one. You can also set up columns for specific purposes. For example, you can put all the tweets from your close friends in one, or create a search that lets you monitor updates on a particular topic in another.

In addition, these services let you write an update, attach a link or photo, and post it simultaneously to the accounts you choose. By clicking on the appropriate icons, you can share the item with all your followers, or target only certain accounts. And all three services let you schedule your posts, so you can compose them when it's convenient and distribute them at other times of the day.

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A bike thief who failed to factor in the power of social networking abandoned his spoils after being chased through the streets of an Australian city by the rider's Facebook friends.

When Akira Takahashi returned from lunch to find someone had cut the lock to his AU$2,000 (US$2,072) bike in Adelaide's central business district on Friday, the quick-thinking restaurant worker immediately posted news of the theft on his Facebook profile rather than going to police.

'I know about 200 Facebook friends who work in the city so I knew it would be more effective than going straight to the police -- I couldn't just sit and wait, I wanted to hunt it down,' Takahashi, 27, said.

The ploy paid immediate dividends, with one friend seeing the distinctive custom-made bike being ridden down a nearby street by a 'scruffy-looking man with a beard.'

'He saw the bike and chased him, yelling out to pedestrians that he was riding a stolen bike, but because of the traffic he lost him,' Takahashi said.

'He must have been thinking, 'Oh, no, I've stolen the wrong bike here.' I think he got scared that all these people were chasing him around the town.'

Another friend, bike courier Phil Portellos, saw the Facebook post and sent a text message to colleagues to keep an eye out for the bicycle.

The exasperated thief gave up and dumped the bike behind a pillar and fled on foot when one of Portellos' friends took up the pursuit.

The bike was eventually returned to Takahashi by Portellos after a fellow courier found it and phoned him.

'Usually when a bike like this gets stolen you assume you're never going to see it again,' Portellos said. 'A lot of people are saying he owes me a beer.'

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