(SkyNewswire.com) --- In celebration of Labor Day 2010, Movis Photography is offering, through its partner sites, its 10 most popular images at a discount of up to 50% Off its original price for 10 days (Sept 4 to Sept 13 2010).

The following images are currently on sale in fineartamerica.com

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Lights. Camera. Action. Renton will be the place to be this October for aspiring, ahead of the curve filmmakers during the epic Third Annual Renton FilmFrenzy.

Registration opens September 1 for the 50-hour filmmaking competition, which will be held from October 8-10. The deadline to apply to participate in the FilmFrenzy is 5 p.m., Friday, October 1. The Frenzy will award $1,700 in cash prizes during the Curvee Awards Gala on October 26. In addition, a Downtown FilmWalk and People's Choice Award are planned.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Matthew O'Brien, the Founder and President of Mint Social, a social media marketing ( http://www.mintsocial.com ) and online branding company based in Scottsdale, Arizona, will be one of the presenters at Social Media AZ (SMAZ), Arizona's largest homegrown conference on social media for business at Tempe's MadCap Theater on September 9, 2010.

The focus for the the third SMAZ conference, will be on applied social media practices, and presenters will be showcasing successful strategies that have worked for their businesses or clients. "This is the big social media event in Arizona and it is great to be a part of the excitement as a presenter and as a sponsor," says Matthew O'Brien of Mint Social.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Briggs & Rogers, a full service public relations and marketing firm based in Fort Myers, received four awards from the Florida Public Relations Association for events and campaigns produced on behalf of its clients during the past year.

The association’s annual Image Awards program recognizes outstanding public relations programs in Florida and encourages and promotes the development of public relations professionalism in the state. Awards are given at three levels: Golden Image, the best program entered in its category; Award of Distinction, for outstanding programs; and Judges’ Award, for programs that achieve maximum results with a minimal budget.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- In recognition of the trends of the digital era, photographer Kevin Sommers of studio-s-photo.com announces that all consumer clients will be provided a DVD of selected high quality color corrected images with a written limited copyright release following the shoot. The release grants clients the freedom to legally reproduce the images for personal reproduction or commercial promotional purposes. This works especially well for those in the music, acting and fashion business where headshots and composite cards often need to be reproduced in great quantity on short notice. However, a photo credit is still required for published work, as many of Kevin's fashion and entertainment clients often have their pictures published.

Kevin's pictures of singer and actor Beau Davidson have been published in national magazines, newspapers and the web. His work has appeared on the sites of Elite Modeling Agency, Evolution Model Management based in London and The Block Agency. He has photographed portfolios for several well known singers and actors. Most recently, Chord Overstreet whose pictures appear at studio-s-photo.net was signed as a new star for the upcoming season of Glee on Fox television. His portfolio includes Kassie Miller, star of CMT's Coyote Ugly, Darrin Otto, featured in several music videos, television hostesses Jessica White and Nichole Murphy and singer/songwriters Andy Lusk, Caroline Mitchell, Alex Gallagher, among many others.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Latinos in Social Media [LATISM], the first and largest non-profit organization to engage, organize, train and promote Latinos and Latinas in the social media arena, has released the results to the first study ever to take a look at Latina bloggers both from a demographic and a cultural standpoint. Given the growth of the Hispanic market, these Latinas are the vanguard of an emerging consumer segment that is the most attractive target for companies right now.

Carried out by LATISM, and conducted through the leading online research tool Survey Monkey [surveymonkey.com], “The LATISM Bloguera Survey” questioned 939 respondents in the United States and Latin America.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Your Time Publishing, LLC announces the release of Paulette Jones’ new book HerStory: Revelations. HerStory invites one to a place most could not even imagine. It strolls around the Bayous of Louisiana and then tosses one into the more modern enclaves of New Orleans suburbs. Paulette Jones' says, "There’s something for everyone on the pages of this unfathomable tale of wealth, power, lust and love." Paulette Jones, a native New Orleanean, was first recognized when three of her stage plays were performed at the Black Repertory Theater in Berkeley, California in the early nineties. HerStory: Revelations is her first full length novel. Performing her first reading at Allways Theatre, 2240 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, La., August 21, 2010, 8 PM, is an appropriate venue considering her theatre roots. Along with Michelle Embree’s, Six in the Kitchen, a reading of five scripts written by Michelle’s workshop group, Paulette will be the sixth reader and share a sample of some kitchen scenes from her novel, HerStory:Revelations. Celebrating her book release from Your Time Publishing, LLC there will be an author signing, food, music and conversation. This event is free and open to the public. For more information go to yourtimepublishing.com.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- In anticipation of this year’s Beijing International Book Fair, Xlibris announced today the availability of Gabriel, Michael and Rafael: God’s Little Helpers, a captivating children’s book authored by Bonnie Geiger and Connie J. McCarroll.

Gabriel, Michael and Rafael: God’s Little Helpers tells a touching story about obedience to God through the eyes of three angels – Gabriel, Michael and Rafael. As he continued creating Earth and all forms of life, God gives each of his three helpers specific assignments that are vital to it completing the creation. Michael gets assigned to protect a family that is dear to God. Rafael has to make sure to keep the family well. Lastly, Gabriel is tasked to provide beautiful music to Earth by playing the trumpet. Can these three angels fulfill their task successfully? The outcome awaits readers.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Author and spiritualist Laura Legere today announced the release of her self-help book It’s Not Weird Anymore, An Entertaining, Educational, Adventurous, Self-help Guide to Spiritual and Health Wisdom, Conspiracy, Sacred Sex and a Match dot com Love Relationship, published by Outskirts Press. Laura’s eclectic new work uses her uniquely adventurous life as a narrative backdrop to help point people in a purposeful and positive direction.

After leaving her Virginia home for the West Coast at age eighteen, Laura travelled the world, working as a deckhand on a cruise ship and a commercial fisher-woman in Alaska before sailing from Hawaii to Samoa and then back to Alaska. She then became a high voltage cable splicer for a power company.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Self publishing is on the rise. The number of self published book authors is up 181 percent from 2009, according to Bowker bibliographic company. Arizona author Charles G. Irion of Irion Books LLC is part of this growing trend.

As technology progresses, so do the standards and expectations of publishing. Ten years ago a self published book could be spotted immediately and held a negative stereotype. Today, authors who choose to self publish have the same benefits as those who use traditional publishing and in some cases the benefits exceed those of traditional. Last century’s logic is now outdated and lacks the agility of self publishing.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- The Standard Media Group has created a dynamic interactive Internet radio station that delivers The Great American Songbook to a global community. It tailors its format to be the most contemporary sound of standards and classic tunes. It is the home of The Lounge Sound AKA Martini In The Morning where Timeless Classics meet today’s Contemporary Cool. Radio Executive Chuck Hillier said that "MITM represent the Hottest, Hippest, Coolest and youngest version of the format in history."

The Lounge Sound has created a niche market that looks to capitalize on the baby boomers and younger generations that are disenchanted with local radio broadcast programming and other mainstream media. "We are an interactive internet station that keeps our audience involved and connected," said Brad Chambers the founder of the radio station.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- BlogHer, Inc. (blogher.com), the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online, will host its sixth annual conference August 5-7 at the Hilton Hotel in New York City.

The BlogHer Annual Conference will bring over 2,400 attendees together on August 6-7 for content-rich sessions, topical discussions and endless networking opportunities. A record 100 brands will connect with BlogHer's influential and tech-savvy community, including Fortune 500 companies, such as sponsors Hillshire Farm/Jimmy Dean, PepsiCo, Walmart, and Procter and Gamble. The conference sold out in March.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Anglers across the United States and the Bahamas can now access essential fishing information from the palm of their hand. At the touch of a button, Coastal Angler Magazine's smartphone FishOn application instantly delivers up-to-the minute local weather, marine conditions, tides, fishing regulations and other details that can affect a day on the water.

The GPS-driven, Marvel Mobi powered application, is available on Droid, Blackberry and soon the iPhone. In addition to fishing forecasts, catch photos, fishing reports, information on conservation, towing, and fishing licenses, the app also contains a fish scale.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- TLC Channel's wildly popular hit new series, "DC Cupcakes", was responsible for crashing servers on Friday, July 23 according to an Internet radio website founder. TLC's DC Cupcakes is a six-part series that follows sisters and business partners Sophie LaMontagne and Katherine Kallinis as they run Georgetown Cupcake, a small cupcakery that they have transformed into a huge success.

That success has delivered huge ratings and an incredible fan following. It's so large that their initial ratings beat the entire CW Network's ratings and crashed an Internet radio station! Shonda Lewis, 2009 Arnold (Schwarzenegger) Classic Fitness winner, and hostess on BlahTalkRadio.Com's Spotlight said she was excited to have the sisters on her show Friday.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Imikimi Photo Frames LITE (free download) was approved by Apple July 13th. Within 48 hours it had skyrocketed into the top 10 photography apps in the US and over 35 other countries by the end of the week. During that time, iPhone users have framed over 150,000 photos. Imikimi introduced its first iPhone app in December 2009 with access to over 1.7 million user created photo frames. The app has been in the top 25 paid photography apps on iTunes almost continuously since then. In February 2010 Apple featured the app as "New and Noteworthy". Today there are over 2 million user created photo frames available on Imikimi.com and through the Imikimi Frames & FX iPhone app, with frames and styles for every possible sentiment and occasion.


The new, free Imikimi LITE photography app has over 40,000 frames dwarfing all other highly-ranked photo framing apps which typically have less than 50 frames. With dozens of new frames added daily to the Picture Frames category by the Imikimi community, there is no shortage of fresh new content. Imikimi LITE features a beautiful, polished interface with superior multi-touch image sizing, rotation and multi-photo-frame editing. Other features include adding photos from Facebook, multi-level undo and sharing framed photos on Twitter or Facebook.