GLINN GAY NEWS DISTRIBUTION SERVICE

For a fee of $35.00 (unchanged for many years) GLINN will take your news release and distribute it by email to all the publications listed in our database that have email addresses. PLUS, it will be included in our GLINN Gay News RSS/XML News feed which is displayed on over 350 gay web sites and viewed by over 15,000 people a month.

Our news distribution list includes between 350 and 400 live addresses. The majority of these are LGBT publications which are included in the list from our databases and other sources, plus web news sites, p.r. agencies, television and radio programs, freelance writers, LGBT organizations, and others who have specifically signed up for this double opt-in list. Subscribers can easily unsubscribe at any time.

Our fee is hundreds of dollars less than other commercial services, plus we have many benefits over other news services, to say nothing of doing this for over 15 years and supporting our community.

We live in a world of visual and audio media. Only GLINN lets you compete in that world inexpensively and easily. However, we still are not done. We can customize the podcast for you. Do you have exciting audio from a previous event? Want to record your own or a featured guest to include in the podcast? If you are featuring a music or comedy event, provide us with content. We can include your own Custom Audio for an additional fee of only $20.00. You are also free to use the audio file on your website or in other ways.

We don't stop there! You can make your news release stand out in our news distribution feed. We can have a photograph display right next to your news release within our news distribution feed on every website that is carrying it. The image should be suitable and useful for display at 300x300 (approx.) pixels on the web page and 144x144 pixels (Maximum) or 120x120 (Recommended) for the news feed itself. You can send us a larger image, but it will be reduced to these sizes. It can be slightly smaller in either dimension. This optional feature is available for only $10.00. This is available on the payment page, simply add it to the shopping cart.

Certainly, if you have held your event before, people you know must have taken video. Everyone shoots video of everything these days. Content is indeed king. Posting some video after the event has taken place might be nice but it will do little to promote your next event a year away.

I know what you are saying, "Gee that would be nice, but I don't have the time to do all that, even if I knew how and had all the hardware and software." Or perhaps you have nobody to edit and produce the video for you. Going to some local video production house is going to cost many hundreds of dollars if not thousands, and you will still have to sign up and submit it to all the sites, etc. It does not seem practical, does it?

GLINN Media Corporation has been producing and using video for a long time. See our site RageFilm.com about the AIDS Quilt Memorial Weekend we photographed over 12 years ago. We are not a Hollywood studio but we have a decent production capability, especially for Key West, FL which you can see at TVKeyWest.Com. We offer the Florida Keys only audio video rental house. For example, we offer low cost sound systems for wedding and other events at KeyWestAudio.Com,We provide sound services for the Key West Boat Races and other large outdoor events. We also are fully equipped for post production. We can also shoot in HD Video (720p) although that is not offered as a standard service.

GLINN is now offering a new feature as part of our news distribution service. Send us your VHS or MiniDV tape, or DVD disk. You can also upload files to our FTP server. Write a short script and let us know what video you want included. We will produce a one to three minute video and distribute it to video sites. It will be included in the news distribution feed like the audio file is. The video file will replace the audio file. Your video will be produced with titles and sound. It will be produced as a news story from GLINN complete with an anchor person in our television studio and at other locations in Key West, rather than just a commercial announcement so it will get wider play. You are free to use the video in any other way you like.

If you have no video, but have a selection of photographs, we can produce a video that is a slideshow of the photographs along with music and narration.

The complete production package is only $95.00 for a one minute video, $125.00 for a two minute video and $150.00 for a three minute video. The length of the video depends on how much video you have, and how much narration is needed to properly describe your event or product, along with titles, graphics, and so forth, together with your budget. If you are putting on a large public event, these fees are insignificant compared to the increased exposure you will receive. And frankly, who else could possibly produce and distribute a video for that little money?

To learn the details about this feature, click CUSTOM VIDEO here.

You may also submit your news release in HTML format in ADDITION to the text format. Subcribers to our news distribution have the option of choosing the text version or the HTML version. If there is no HTML version all subscribers get the TEXT version. The HTML version can NOT be an email message. The message displays as HTML but there is no effective way to capture the code. You must send the HTML as an attachment to the text version of the news release and it must contain all the HTML code. Including the HTML version is optional.

Most importantly, if you want your news release to have any chance of being used in a publication, it must be in plain text so that a publication can easily copy and paste it into whatever publishing program they use. Web sites will do the same and will add their own html code to conform to the look and feel of their site.

If you want to distribute a document and the actual look of the document is important, such as a chart, it should be distributed in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat). The document or file should be hyperlinked within the news release. If you do not have a server to put the document on, it can be stored and accessed on our server for one month from the date of the release. However, do not send us a news release as a PDF file. We can not and will not use it.

Photograph Guidelines: On your computer you can call your images anything you like, but when you send them to us, please use common sense short file names. Do not use spaces, special characters or upper case characters. All our file names are lower case. Upper and lower case are two different things to a Linux/Unix web server.

No other news release distributor can match our XML news feed that is on over 250 gay websites or any easy way of providing a WAP site or submitting to Google or Yahoo news. We have other news distribution methods we do not publicize and you could never duplicate them. Thus, you don't want to use our email service, all our other services are available for only $20.00. We will place your news release into our XML feed, WAP mobile site and include it in other distribution that is not related to our email list and mailing.

If you are using a big commercial service for emailing your release, you really should use GLINN as well. We cover many more gay publications, not just the big ones. We include many other outlets and individuals who have signed up for our list. The more expensive commercial news wires do not. Publications are used to getting more than one copy of a release, and there will not be enough duplication to cause any problems.

We send your news release in a professional manner, each one is individually addressed. There are no carbon copy lists or other attributes of a personal mailing. We use a professional commercial mailing service utilized by many Fortune 500 corporations. There are no advertisements attached to your news release which you will find on many services handling mailing lists. (There is a small two line statement indicating the source of the email and it includes an "Unsubscribe" link.)

GayData receives updates directly from gay publications so we will have more current information than any other source. Many ISP's have very restrictive rules on the number of people the same message can be sent to, especially when they have not requested to get email from you. Why risk lossing your dialup account, DSL or cable account or dealing with the other headaches?

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You are free to include a hypertext link to any photographs on your own server. You may also send us the photographs in 72 dpi format (for online use) we will host them on our server at no additional charge. Your news release will remain on our site indefinitely. The standard news release distribution includes one photograph, although additional photos and other options are available on the payment page.

GLINN's XML Gay News Feed has a link from the summary in the feed to each full article on our website. The article displays with any photographs that you have provided. Publications and others can easily save these photographs.

If you have any questions, please use the Comment Form. The comment form is in a secure area due to spamming.

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Beyond being the original email LGBT news distribution service; GLINN Media Corporation is the parent of the Gay/Lesbian International News Network (www.glinn.com) one of the original gay news sites on the Internet and started off in 1987 on a direct-dial computer bulletin board system. We have a long history of service to the gay community, beginning in 1986 providing photo-typesetting services to Wisconsin's gay publications, non-profit organizations and providing a free community voice mail information line.

We were the parent of GLINN Network One, America's Gay Owned and Operated Internet Service Provider (www.gn1.net) for two years. We were the first national ISP for the LGBT community. (GLINN Network One sold it's national dialup business in Oct. 1999). GLINN also had the largest gay presence on the Internet (i.e. number of sites and pages) with over 15 GLBT web sites, including this one offering a range of free community resources together with consumer services such as shopping and various business-to-business services.

In September 2001, GLINN moved its offices from Milwaukee, WI to Key West, FL. Our new location is more suited to the nature of our business and offers opportunities for future planned business operations. GLINN Media Corporation now is a division of Blue Planet Offices, Inc., a Florida corporation. Dan Schramm, the founder of GLINN, continues as president/CEO.

We are the only gay news distribution service, and the only commercial service at $35.00 for many years. Plus nobody else provides the extra features we do at any price.

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