We have just added a new feature that will allow you bookmark, share or email almost any story in the QueensSpeech publishing network.
Underneath every story you will see either a ’share’ or ‘email’ button. Simply select either button and you will be able to re-publish the story on your own Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo Buzz, Digg and Reddit account.
This new feature is great for sharing content with your friends, or serving as a discussion starting point for your Twitter followers!
The QueensSpeech editorial team has been busy over the weekend finding and reviewing some great new sources of news, politics, entertainment and gossip. After much debate we shortlisted around 40 sites and blogs that offered the best and most original content.
The shortlist has now been added to the QueensSpeech index and you should start to see them appear throughout our publishing network within the next 24 hours:
If you would like QueensSpeech to review your blog for possible inclusion into our network, please email m[at]queensspeech.com with your full contact and site details.
* Remember, we value and respect copyright, so we only publish a short publicly available summary or extract of the story that we link to.
Don’t forgot you can follow us on Twitter to get frequent updates with what’s happening on QueensSpeech.com. Feel free to drop us a DM (direct message) via Twitter if you have any suggestions for new features or content, we’d love to hear from you!
We here at QueensSpeech are proud to announce that we will sponsoring The 16th Original GLBT Expo in New York - America’s oldest and largest business and entertainment event for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
Over 450 Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller, entrepreneurial companies exhibit and sponsor this historic event in 2009. Companies from the fields of health, investments, food and beverage, financial, travel, communications, fashion, entertainment will be on hand to meet the expected 21,000+ attendees.
Rainbow Wedding Network (the GLBT Wedding Show) will take place on the Expo floor and will have a huge selection of everything needed for a “Gay Wedding”.
The Passport Magazine’s Travel Show will explore exotic destinations from around the globe showcasing the best locations for the gay traveller.
2 Days of Nightlife, the show’s famed, non-stop entertainment spectacular featuring award winning performers such as Kevin Aviance, Sister Funk, The Glamazons, surprised guest to be announced. All will appear on the main stage along with over 30 sensational performers.
Presented in co-operation with Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, attendees can view the latest in GLBT films and shorts and meet the actors and writers in person.
When: Saturday, March 21, 2009-11am-7pm and Sunday, March 22, 2009-12noon-6pm
Where: Jacob Javits Convention Center, West 38th Street & 11th Avenue, New York City, USA. (view map)
Tickets: Can be purchased online at www.originalglbtexpo.com or at the Expo. Ticket prices are $15.
Hope to see you there!
Introducing our new and exciting Conversational Advertising product.
Since our inception in December 2006 we have promoted and publicised over 400 of the best gay and lesbian blogs on the Internet. Our guiding philosophy is to inform our readers, giving them access to the most up to date news, gossip and entertainment from across the Queer web. Our aim is to drive traffic to all the amazing sites that appear on QueensSpeech.com.
Realising the power of online conversations, we have just launched our innovative and exciting advertising product called Conversational Advertising. We are now offering a limited number of premium sponsor packages to blog owners who want to promote their blog content, products or websites through their RSS feed.
The package includes premium blog placement across all pages of the QueensSpeech site. As an advertiser, you control the message of your ad when you update your blog your new post will appear almost immediately across QueensSpeech within your dedicated ad space.
Conversational Advertising is a perfect platform to promote both websites and blogs. Your content will have approximately 600,000 page views a month, and you’ll receive nearly 185,000 new incoming links for the duration of your sponsorship. There is no limit on the amount of posts that can be made, the more messages you post, the more you will be connected with the 250,000 monthly unique QueensSpeech users.
We are proud to announce our first conversational advertising sponsor as Manhunt and their new Manhunt Daily Blog, we have a limited number of further sponsorship placements available for website owners to promote their blog to our audience. Please contact us for further information about this exciting product through our advertise page.
Actor George Takei (Star Trek and Heroes) joins other Asian Pacific Islanders leaders at a press event and rally in Little Tokyo to oppose Proposition 8.
Building on our last update, we wanted to continue to explore different ways to help track and promote common themes occurring across the gay blogosphere, often referred to as Memes (definition of Meme). We already have the tags page, and although useful, it lacks context (if you’re busy browsing for stories, the last thing you’d want is to be moved away to a dedicated tags page where your current context is lost.)
Last night we released our Meme Explorer bar, which is now available at the top of all main section pages across the site. This new feature analyses all stories in a given category published over the last week. It then attempts to identify common themes, threads and topics discussed, then ranking them in order of activity. The most popular re-occurring themes appear in the new ‘Popular this week’ bar as shown below:
This particular example is taken today from the news section - where this week the hot topics have been Brad Pitt, who reportedly donated $100,000 to support gay marriage, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama.
You may have noticed the brand new navigation bar across the top of the top of QueensSpeech.com(?) - the end product of a major review in the way we classify, categorise and organise the 130,000+ stories published within on our network.
When we re-launched back in November 2007, we categorised content into 6 basic high-level categories, News, Opinion, Gossip, Blogs, Sexy and Adult. These were adequate for casual browsing, but not really powerful enough to explore related stories or low level themes. So to compliment them we introduced our dynamic tagging engine - a powerful system to automatically tag the stories based on their subject matter and relationship to similar stories found on mainstream search engines (summary of the most popular tags here). We’re now tracking over 650,000 inter-related tags and memes covering topics such as Lindsay Lohan, Hillary Clinton, The Olympics, and even gay prison inmates,
But we wanted to go one step further and make it even easier for you to discover interesting and relevant content. So with the launch of the new toolbar we re-jigged the old top level categories, and introduced several more, including a number of secondary level categories such as Politics, Religion, Travel and Gay Marriage.
So have a browse round and please do let us know what you think.
Please vote for us at the 2008 GaySocialites Awards - there is only a few hours left before voting ends!
Since we re-launched back in November 2007 we’ve been busy scouring the web for some the most talked about, and most popular stories affecting gay communities around the world. We’ve covered everything from the drawn out US Primaries to Heinz pulling one of their tv ads (because a few people complained of a two gay men being portrayed as a ‘normal’ couple).
Now we’re delighted to announce that we’ve passed the 100,000 stories mark! That’s over 100,000 stories, fully searchable, categorised and available on QueensSpeech for you to read and enjoy. We’ve also increased the number of information sources that we search (every hour), tripled the capacity of our hosting servers (to improve page loading times) and we currently have a range of exciting new features in development - which we’ll be announcing over the coming months.
We still have a long way to go, and lots of work ahead of us. But for now, a very big thank you to everyone that has helped and contributed to the project so far!