Lauren from Vocus, parent company of PRweb.com, gave me a call yesterday to let me know about the new Small Business Edition for PR and Onlinne Marketing they just launched.

Basically, it’s an additional Press Relations tool that can help small business owners to improve their online visibility with the new tools they provide. Now, this will be a step above simply sending out a press release on PRWeb.com.

You can check out a demo here for free and receive a free e-book, How to Use PR to Drive Sales. Pretty good deal if you are not familiar with online marketing and PR I’d say.  I will try out their software and let you know on the results soon.

Lanham, MD (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 7, 2008 — Vocus, Inc., (NASDAQ: VOCS) a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management, today announced a new release of its Small Business Edition (SBE). Combining Vocus’ award-winning PR software with its PRWeb platform to provide everything, small businesses need to promote their business. Designed specifically to meet the online marketing and public relations needs of small businesses, SBE is an easy and cost-effective way to create publicity, increase traffic to a website and generate sales leads.

(Thanks Lauren for the tip!)

via PRWeb

Fuzz, a music portal/social networking site, has launched Blip, basically a Twitter-clone for Music lovers.

The most outstanding feature is that when people “blip” instead of “twitt”, they can link an MP3 song straight from the Fuzz database. This feature is really cool as I am actually listening to an MP3 “blipped” by one of Blip users.

Great stuff, although I am not an avid Twitter, I will be an avid Blipper as now I can hop from song to song.

But if music is indeed a significant part of Pownce’s future, then Blip is one step ahead. Call it “Twitter for Music” since it’s essentially just that: a way to suggest music and share your thoughts about it with a network of contacts.

The beauty of Blip is that, unlike with Pownce, no file uploads are necessary. Just search for the song you have in mind and Blip will grab it from Seeqpod, Skreemr, or parent company Fuzz’s own database of music. Your followers (”listeners”) can hear full versions of the songs you post using a Songza-like player at the bottom of the page.

via techcrunch