Coventry Villagebuzz, a Brand New Community Forum

By Bruce Everiss on December 4, 2008

Coventry, December 4, 2008 — Coventry Villagebuzz http://coventry.villagebuzz.co.uk , a new and much needed community forum went online this week. Free to join and free to use Villagebuzz seeks to be a friendly place for people to chat and to become a repository for everything to do with Coventry. The site is the idea of Bruce Everiss who based it on the established Harbury Villagebuzz forum http://harbury.villagebuzz.co.uk . Bruce is optimistic: “I have seen forums grow to become fantastic, supportive communities. All it takes is for people to join and then to make posts”

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New Sales Galleries for Artists are Free to Use

Artforums the successful online community for atists, http://www.artforums.co.uk, has now been considerably enhanced with the addition of new art for sale galleries.

Warwickshire, UK (PRWEB) March 1, 2007 -- Artforums the successful online community for artists, http://www.artforums.co.uk , has now been considerably enhanced with the addition of new art for sale galleries. These galleries are totally free for artists and their customers to use and with one and a half thousand page views a day the site has plenty of traffic to ensure that the work is seen. These galleries are brand new, so artist are only just starting to find and use them, the site will grow rapidly once the word gets out.0

Site owner, Bruce Everiss explains the benefits: "For every artist who sells their work this is a no brainer, it costs them absolutely nothing to put their art in front of lots of potential customers."

Game Industry Blog Takes Off

After just two months the video game industry blog Bruceongames is having great success. Already 11,000 visitors from around the world have viewed the daily articles.

Leamington, UK (PRWEB) October 12, 2007 -- After just two months the video game industry blog Bruceongames is having great success. Already 11,000 visitors from around the world have viewed the daily articles. These include well known game journalists and senior industry executives; many of who now receive the articles by RSS feed.

The blog covers analysis of news events, marketing tips, anecdotal musings and predictions for the future of the industry. Over 80 articles have included Sony are wasting their time with the PSP, Those silly Germans, The TV industry is losing badly, Will Sony ever make Playstation 4? and Are social networking and MMORPGs the same thing?

Bruceongames has received accolades from the press The Weekend Gamer said "One of my absolute favorite sites for gaming has got to be Bruceongames" and "Bruceongames.com is so appealing to me. The conversation has, so far in the short life of the site, maintained a high degree of intelligence that is refreshing."

The author of the blog, Bruce Everiss, is very happy with the success: "It takes application to come up with the content for a new article every weekday, but it is worth the effort when I see how popular Bruceongames has become in such a short time."

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Petition to President of China Reaches 1,000 Signatures

Petition created to prevent shark slaughter reaches 1,000 signatures.

Warwickshire UK (PRWEB) November 13, 2007 -- This petition, created by Bruce Everiss, owner of SCUBA diving website Scubabrucie, has now reached 1,000 signatures.

Everiss is a very experienced diver, a PADI instructor with over 1,000 dives, and it is seeing the depletion of shark populations for himself in seas all around the world that has led him to start this petition. This is a huge ecological disaster that most people are unaware of and which will have serious consequences for all of us. It is probably the most damaging ecological issue of our age.

Because what is happening is hidden beneath the waves it does not have the same impact as ecological damage on land. Also many people's perception of sharks comes from the film Jaws which totally misrepresents these perfectly evolved creatures and their behavior.

Everiss believes that the methods of fishing for sharks are especially barbaric. They are caught on long lines often several miles long baited with many hooks. These can clear a large area of sea of it's entire shark population very quickly. Because the economic value is in the fins, these are frequently cut off with the shark still alive. The finless shark is then thrown back in the water where it sinks to the bottom and dies slowly, often over many weeks.

As an apex predator the shark breeds very slowly. They reach sexual maturity late and have few offsprings. Populations can be very easily damaged and take a long time to recover. Even if fishing were banned today Everiss thinks that the shark population would probably not recover even in our children's lifetimes.

The petition:

To: Hu Jintao president of the People's Republic of China.

Currently the Chinese people are eating a soup which is causing the biggest ecological disaster of our time. Supplying the demand for Shark's Fin soup involves the death of what best estimates say are between 50 and 150 million sharks a year. This is unsustainable and will inevitably lead to all sharks becoming extinct, many species are already over 90% eradicated.

The shark is the apex predator that keeps the whole ecology of the sea in balance and healthy. Nobody knows what the effects of their removal will be but is can be guaranteed to involve a lot of unwanted harmful outcomes.

This petition seeks the Chinese government to ban the catching, import and sale of sharks and all shark related products.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

Everiss is delighted with the support: "Every little bit counts in trying to prevent this huge ecological disaster. I urge everyone to sign this petition. You can make a difference"

Once there are sufficient signatures the petition will be printed out and presented to the Chinese Embassy in London.

note: Editorial background and support for the facts in this release can be found in this Wikipedia article.

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Exceptional Artist's Community Celebrates First Birthday

In just 12 months Artforums.co.uk has grown to be a vibrant and thriving community. It is very friendly and supportive which is a great environment for creative people to share their thoughts and help one another.

Warwickshire, UK (PRWEB) November 27, 2007 -- In just 12 months Artforums.co.uk has grown to be a vibrant and thriving community. One thing that makes Artforums.co.uk so special is the high standards of personal behaviour of its members. There is no profanity or abuse of fellow members, no flaming, no trolls and no cliques. This makes the community very friendly and supportive which is a great environment for creative people to share their thoughts and help one another.

In the first year Artforums.co.uk has gained 699 members who between them made 15,389 posts. The site had 56,995 visits and 603,437 page views. Visitors came from 129 countries and territories and members joined from all around the world.

The busiest area is the forum for artists. But in addition there is also a forum for Art Lovers and a gallery section at Art For Sale. Everything is free to join and free to use.

Forum owner Bruce Everiss is delighted with the success: "It is fantastic that Artforums.co.uk has become so busy in such a short time, but better still is the fantastic quality of the people who have joined and the great contributions that they make to the community."

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The Bible Vs Video Games

Computer games industry blog, Bruceongames.com, addresses the issue of video game content by comparing games with the Bible.

Warwickshire, UK (PRWEB) February 11, 2008 -- Recently, there has been much debate, on both sides of the Atlantic, about the content of video games. Cooper Lawrence's totally misinformed attack on Mass Effect on Fox News, Kevin McCullough being equally misinformed on Townhall.com, Janice Turner of The Times thinks that games are "crack cocaine of the brain" and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has blamed them for knife crime. Even Hillary Clinton has had a go.

What all these critics have in common is that they do not play video games so they don't have the faintest idea what they are talking about, they are as relevant as blind cinema critics.

Now Bruce Everiss, author of the respected and widely read game industry blog Bruceongames.com, has written an article that puts the whole issue into perspective. Entitled The Bible Vs Video Games it compares the content of the Bible, a book which children are encouraged to read, with the content of video games. Would you want your child playing a video game that featured harlots 48 times? Because that is exactly what the Bible does.

Bruce Everiss explains: "Video games are just another form of media like books, film and music. It is the content that matters and it is irrefutable that games have far less sex and violence than books or television. Yet, amazingly, books and television have no age ratings whilst video games do".

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New Article Explains Free Internet Marketing Methods

Bruce Everiss is a veteran video game industry marketeer who now runs a number of blogs and forums. In this new article at Bruceongames he lists 15 proven ways that it is possible to market successfully online without spending any money.

Coventry, UK (PRWEB) December 4, 2008 -- Bruce Everiss is a veteran video game industry marketeer who now runs a number of blogs and forums. In this new article, http://www.bruceongames.com/2008/12/02/15-ways-to-market-on-the-internet-for-free/, he lists 15 seperate, proven ways that it is possible to market successfully online without spending any money.

With his game industry blog he writes daily articles analysing the industry and publishing marketing tips and advice based on over thirty years of marketing experience and over eight years of specific internet marketing knowledge.

Many of these methods have been used on chart topping video games and in this article they are collated together for the first time.

Bruce is keen to get these tips widely known: "In these difficult economic times marketing becomes even more important yet the budgets have gone. These 15 free to use techniques allow a marketeer to still be effective and do their job well."

Coventry Villagebuzz ready for action

The Coventry Villagebuzz community has now been seeded with hundreds of posts to create a foundation for people to build on.

Bruce Everiss, who runs the successful Artforums.co.uk, has created a new online community for the City of Coventry.
Coventry Villagebuzz http://coventry.villagebuzz.co.uk is free to join and free to use.
Bruce has now seeded the forum with hundreds of posts to give new members a myriad of topics to discuss and to make Coventry Villagebuzz already a fantastic online resource for knowledge and information about Coventry.

Forum areas include Coventry Chat, Coventry News, Pubs and Restaurants, Local Businesses, Upcoming Events and Schools and Education. There is a Free Advertising section for anything and everything. And, importantly, the Useful Links and Information section is a repository for a huge amount of knowledge resources about the city. You would be amazed at what you can learn there.

Coventry Villagebuzz creator Bruce Everiss is optimistic: "Coventry is a great and historic city that is going places, it needs a vibrant online community and hopefully Coventry Villagebuzz will be that place, the mass of content now gives a foundation for people to build on."