August 2012
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New Member Monday with Blissfully Ever After's...
Jennifer Mead is a twenty-something mom living in Washington State with her husband and beautiful baby son. She’s also a Natural Nutrition & Green Living Educator and a non-profit founder. Her blog, Blissfully Ever After chronicles her personal life along with really useful DIY posts for anyone looking to spruce up their own home. She’s the newest member of Bob Vila Nation, so...
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New Member Monday with Poppy Haus' Heather...
Heather Jennings is a former designer for the indie children’s clothing line, Jasper Hearts Wren, and is now a stay-at-home mom and DIY/Design blogger. Her blog, Poppy Haus, is one of the newest members of the Bob Vila Nation community!
She loves the functionality and liveliness of contemporary Scandinavian design, and picks out paint colors using her degree in psychology. She lives with...
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Social Publishing Roundup: Scribd, Foboko, and...
This week’s roundup series is dedicated to all those writers out there looking for someone - anyone - to read what they’re writing. Thanks to the internet, anyone can write and publish online, but now these new social publishing sites are helping all those great stories and novels find the audiences they’re looking for.
Scribd
“The world’s largest online...
July 2012
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Community Roundup: Yuku, Ning, and Tidal
As the second post in our new Roundup series, today we’re taking it a step up, from just simple blogging to online community platforms including us, Tidal! Some serve as a collection of individual blogs and bloggers, some just aggregate people looking to talk, but either way people are gathering online around their interests!
Yuku
“A social universe of communities united by...
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New Member Monday with Stylish Patina's Kelly...
This Monday we’re getting to know Kelly Thompson, whose blog Stylish Patina is one of the newest additions to the Bob Vila Nation community!
Kelly is a 39-year-old wife and mother to four dogs living in Falls Church, Virginia just outside of DC. After 15 years in corporate America she gave up her job as VP of Operations for Hooked on Phonics to start her own businesses: Stylish Patina and...
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Simplified Blogging Roundup: Tumblr, CheckThis,...
The concept of blogging was such a hit at its beginning that we’ve been trying to improve it ever since. After years of new programs and platforms, we’re able to pin, favorite, or thumbs-up whatever we like, creating little online compilations of our favorite things.
Welcome to the first of Tidal’s new Roundup series, where we survey a group of online platforms that are working...
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First-ever New Member Monday with Decoholic's...
Welcome to Tidal’s very first post in our New Member Monday series where we interview one of our favorite new contributors!
Melina Divani’s blog Decoholic is one of the most recent additions to Bob Vila Nation, a collection of our favorite home bloggers and experts. Her collection of interior design posts gets 180,000 pageviews per month!
She’s 31, from Greece, and has a BA...
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The OTHER Tidal Labs
Those of you familiar with us here at Tidal know that our website doesn’t have the usual “.com” factor. Instead, we sent over a URL registration to Albania to snag our site, Tid.al. Sometimes this makes it difficult to explain our online location, but mostly we just like to think it makes us look more tech-savvy/awesome.
But we probably...
June 2012
2 posts
Tidal presenting at Flavorpill's Startupfix next...
Next Wednesday at Culturefix, Tidal is presenting as part of Flavorpill’s monthly tech meet-up, Startupfix. We’ll be giving a sneak-peek of a couple of our new features, so stop by and check it out!
When: next Wednesday, June 20th from 7:30-9:30pm
Where: CULTUREfix, 9 Clinton St., NYC
It’s $10 for admission but that includes two drinks. You can see...
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Tidal featured on the Rackspace Blog & Newsroom!
Last week we were lucky enough to be featured on Rackspace’s Blog & Newsroom.
They gave an overview of what Tidal is all about - amplifying the most passionate voices we can find in the blogosphere - plus a couple of great quotes from Matt. We use Rackspace’s Startup Program as our cloud host, and they give us plenty of space for millions of outfit posts from our favorite fashion bloggers,...
May 2012
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January 2012
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Betabeat: Blogger Syndication Network Tid.al Opens...
Betabeat caught wind that we’re opening our public beta to the world. We have deep coverage in fashion, food, tech, home, music and are a great way to add content, community and traffic to publisher sites, ecommerce, startups, non profits, apps and more. Reach out to matt (at) tid.al if you’re interested!
Blogger Syndication Network Tid.al Opens Self-Serve Platform in Beta by Adrianne...
December 2011
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Tidal Launch Party
We’re finally digging out from all the excitement of our launch last month. I wanted to share some news and pics from the party.
One of our contributors was in attendance, taking some pics and checking out the scene. Nicole (aka The Owl Girl) is a New York fashion blogger that was able to stop by. Check out some of her great pics!
The party was a smashing success with a great group of...
November 2011
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Bob Vila Nation
Bob Vila is the biggest name in home building, renovation and improvement. Bob learned building alongside his father and has spent his life helping teach others through thousands of TV episodes, a dozen books and now online. He truly is the dean of home repair.
Bob turned to Tidal when it was time to expand bobvila.com across the country. Bob Vila Nation features posts by hundreds of...
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Mashable: Tidal, the Startup That Gets Big...
The day after launching tid.al, Sarah Kessler of Mashable posted a comprehensive report on the launch, and how Tidal works.
A few choice quotes:
“Genius Idea: Unlimited content for publishers, exposure for bloggers.”
“Tidal seems like a no-brainer for such publishers. Instead of paying for each piece of content from a source such as Demand Media or Contently, they pay a...
Launch of tid.al
We’re excited to announce the launch of tid.al. Tidal is the best way for passionate bloggers to grow their following. We find the best posts by foodies, fashionistas, home remodelers, and all those talking about what engages them.
The best bloggers today (both professional and amateur) create content as good as that seen in the pages of glossy magazines. They pride themselves on their writing...
October 2011
2 posts
First Growth Venture Network
Today wat the kickoff of the fourth “vintage” of the First Growth Venture Network. This group helps to connect top startups with venture funding. Tidal was chosen from tons of applicants and we’re in good company with First Growth alums like Birchbox, ChallengePost and 20x200.
It was a great session getting to know the other companies, getting some initial feedback on our...
September 2011
2 posts
A pretty new office
We believe in the convergence of public relations, advertising and media. Luckily we have some great partners that do too. We’re crashing with the amazing team at Affect, one of Silicon Alley’s leading B2B tech PR firms. We’re excited to be here and will be having a shindig in the next few weeks to showoff our digs. You’ll just have to wait to see it then!
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Teen Vogue Fashion Click 100.
We quietly launched a new feature on Teen Vogue Fashion Click. The Fashion Click 100 uses votes from readers to rank hundreds of fashionistas contributing to Teen Vogue. Everyone wants to be number 1! Fashion Click members promote to their thousands of friends, fans and followers on their blogs, Twitter and Facebook.
We think this ranking is actually pretty important. Everyone loves to have lists,...
