There's a ton of work to do and we need to people to do it. If you want to join a team of smart, creative, incredibly good-looking people, send us your resume along with a cover letter to jobs@federatedmedia.net and we'll take a look.

VP of finance
This key member of the management team will proactively influence the executive team on strategy and tactical operations as the organization continues to develop and expand its business model.

Inside Sales Manager
FM is looking for a self-motivated, career-oriented sales professional to help us build our inside sales team. The ideal candidate should be passionate about online media and believe strongly in its value to marketers. The inside sales manager will make outbound sales calls to targeted customers, working the entire sales process - from initial contact to close - for prospects both large and small.

Director of Event Sales
Earlier this year, FM hosted its first conference, the CM Summit, which sold out, and promises to be a great event series in 2008. We also helped GigaOm, one of our authors, produce a wildly successful event NewTeeVee Live. Now we need a superior sales pro to join our team to help us build this business for 2008 and beyond.

Experienced PHP / MySQL Developer
Our engineering team is seeking a talented and dedicated person to help build the next generation of our advertising platform. We're looking for someone who is a good fit for our small team, and who wants to really get things done. Experience with blogs and blogging software a plus.

Sales: Account Executive
We're looking for high-energy account executives in both San Francisco and New York. You'll need to have at least 3 years of online advertising sales experience. The perfect candidate has existing relationships with media buyers and advertising clients. Required skills include fluency with media-buying terminology (eg, CPM v. CPA, reach v. frequency, GIF v. Flash), familiarity with online ad-serving platforms (eg, Doubleclick's Mediavisor), proficiency with Excel and Powerpoint.

Here's the newly-minted official agenda for the upcoming CM Summit. Man, what a lineup. Space is limited, so if you haven't gotten your tickets yet, please do so here. See here for the agenda with complete speaker and panelist info.

Featured Speakers:
- Jeff Berman, President of Sales and Marketing, MySpace.com
- Beth Comstock, Chief Marketing Officer, General Electric
- Jon Raj, Chief Digital Officer, OMD
- Randall Rothenberg, President & CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau
- Rich Silverstein, Co-Chairman, Partner, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

Monday, June 9th:
2:15 PM - Opening Remarks
2:25 PM - A Conversation with Beth Comstock
2:55 PM - The Brand Managers’ Challenge Moderated by Jonah Bloom, Editor, Advertising Age
3:40 PM - Case Study: Intel Inside Online
3:55 PM - Case Study: Does The Government Want to Kill the Web? with Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau
4:10 PM - Break
4:35 PM - Brands, on Social Networks?! Moderated by John Battelle, Chairman and CEO, Federated Media
5:15 PM - Case Study: Meet Hulu
5:25 PM - Case Study: A Sneak Peak at Spore
5:35 PM - A Conversation with Sarah Fay, CEO North America, Aegis Media North America
6:05 PM - Closing Remarks
6:15 PM - Reception hosted by our diamond sponsors: Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Verizon

Tuesday, June 10th
7:30 AM - Registration and Breakfast
8:30 AM - Opening Remarks
8:35 AM - A Conversation with Wenda Harris Millard, President, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and Chair, IAB
9:05 AM - The Client of the Future, Moderated by Clark Kokich, CEO, Avenue A | Razorfish
9:45 AM - Case Study: Engagement Inside Social Networks with Mark Kantor, Co-founder, Graffiti
10:00 AM - Brands as Content, moderated by Henry M. Blodget, CEO, Silicon Alley Media
10:45 AM - Break
11:15 AM - Search and Brand: The Missing Link, moderated by John Battelle, Chairman and CEO, Federated Media
12:00 PM - Case Study: Listening to Your Customers
12:10 PM - Can Agencies Change? Moderated by Chas Edwards, Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer, Federated Media
1:00 PM - Lunch
2:30 PM - Case Study: American Express
2:40 PM - Case Study: About.com
2:50 PM - Measuring Conversational Media, moderated by Debra Aho Williamson, Senior Analyst, eMarketer
3:35 PM - Case Study: Regeneration.org
3:45 PM - Break
4:15 PM - Case Study: Meebo
4:25 PM - A Conversation with Rich Silverstein
4:55 PM - Closing Remarks
5:00 PM - Reception hosted by our Platinum Sponsors: American Express OPEN , Samsung and Toshiba

In addition to the venerable Tech Federation and newer federations like Video Gaming, FM’s family of conversational media sites now includes the Green Federation. See here for the press release. Welcome all!

Inhabitat, a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.

Earth2Tech, part of Giga Omni Media, which keeps members of the supporting eco-ecosystem informed about technology startups, entrepreneurs and university labs working to keep the earth green, the water clean, electricity costs lean and the transport infrastructure running.

ViroPop, a green video network from Next New Networks, highlights the most exciting and entertaining things happening in the new eco-revolution. ViroPop is the first network on the Internet to treat environmental pop culture with a sense of irreverent fun.

GM Volt, a website all about the newly introduced GM Chevrolet Volt concept car and related topics. This is a non-affiliated, independent site from Dr. Lyle Dennis, a committed advocate for widespread use of alternative energy and petroleum displacement.

Kate McLaughlin joins FM as a Regional Sales Manager in our New York office. Previously, Kate served as a Regional Manager, Brand Marketing with Ziff Davis Media/Enterprise focusing on both print and online platforms. Prior to her two year stint at Ziff Kate held a sales position with TransPerfect Translations. Kate earned a degree in Business and Organizational Behavior Studies from Muhlenberg College (a credit shy of a minor in dance). When not at FM, Kate spends her time running, snowboarding, reading and watching trashy reality TV shows.Welcome to FM, Kate!

Congratulations to Ars Technica who yesterday announced their sale to Conde Nast. We at FM are thrilled for our friends and long-time partners at Ars. We've enjoyed working closely with Ken Fisher and the rest of the Ars team on some of our favorite marketing projects. Clearly, Conde Nast saw the value we've helped to create and we're excited to see where they take Ars in the future. Ken and his team worked very, very hard for the past decade on building the Ars brand, and the result is one of the best tech sites on the Web. And we are particularly proud of what Ken has to say about FM in his announcement:

Via Ars Technica:

"In particular I want to thank John Battelle, Neil Chase, Jason Weisberger, and Marcia Simmons at Federated Media, among many awesome people there. Silicon Valley is loaded with businesses that like to project an altruistic image. Federated Media is one of the few that's not shoveling a load of you-know-what when they do it. True believers, I wish them success."

Thanks, Ken!

Congrats to the team at Boing Boing TV on their 150th episode. Here's the press release. When Xeni Jardin and team launched the project back in October 2007, she described it thusly:

"This is not the result of a business plan, or a corporate focus group. We promise no huffy manifestos about Taking Down The Networks with A New Television Paradigm, no breathless hyperbole about Reinventing Citizen Journalism With the Disintermediation of Long Tail Postmodernist Blogonomics -- gah!

We just want to have fun and explore interesting things with you. But, y'know, now with video, because video allows you to explore stuff that text, photos, and audio -- all the things we've experimented with so far -- do not.

We don't intend to take ourselves too seriously. And we're not trying to be TV. Same old Boing Boing, but with talkies."

Now, less than a year later, with millions of views and countless BBtv addicts around the globe, they've produced their 150th episode. Congrats all!

Josh Stivers joins FM as VP, Ad Operations. Josh comes to FM with extensive experience in growing and managing Sales, Marketing and Product Management functions at many Silicon Valley companies including Digital Island, Cable and Wireless and Habeas. Prior to joining FM, Josh served as VP of Sales & Marketing with On Point Personnel. In between gigs, Josh is an avid guitar player, roman history buff and enjoys sitting on tropical beaches doing absolutely nothing at all. Welcome to the family, Josh!

Paige Thomas joins us as our new Account Executive for FM Events.

Paige comes to Federated Media with an advertising background in traditional print media. She most recently came from SPIN, where she was Pacific Northwest Manager. She has also worked for VIBE, Cosmopolitan, and CosmoGIRL! magazines. Paige is really looking forward to bringing her background in traditional brand marketing, to the exciting new world of conversational marketing. Paige is native to the Bay Area, and after leaving for 4 great years to attend University of Arizona, she knew immediately she would make San Francisco her home. Paige loves checking out live music, traveling, trying out new restaurants, and spending time with family and friends. Welcome to FM, Paige!

Zac Brown joins Federated Media as our Staff Accountant. Born in Oklahoma, Zac attended college in Portland, OR at Lewis And Clark College as a Literature Major. Most recently Zac worked as a Real Estate Treasury Accountant for Forest City Ratner Companies in Brooklyn, NY. Outside of work he likes to write and record songs and travel as much as possible. Welcome to the FM family, Zac!

Chas lent his expertise to Inside Facebook in a wide-ranging interview the delves into the Facebook application developer and marketing ecosystem. Check out the full interview here. Check out Chas's ongoing thought in the industry here.

"...look at what we’ve done on Graffiti with Paramount Studios (Movie Poster Contest), BMW (What Drives You campaign), Dell (Regeneration eco-friendly campaign), or Haagen Dazs (Graffi-bee Contest), and these kinds of campaigns really resonate with the brand marketer. It’s not just about clicking through to my website and buying a pint of ice cream, it’s about getting hundreds of thousands of people to know more about this bee situation - and if they know more about it they might care more about it, want to learn more about it, and want to learn more about Haagen Dazs’s role in it. When you do that you’re likely to have a more emotional experience with the Haagen Dazs brand - creating brand equity that will lead you to make different purchasing decisions when you go to the grocery store. This is really hard to do on the internet, which is just awash in banner ads."

They Today Show tapped Heather Armstoring of Dooce this morning for her take on the mommy-blog phenomenon. Check it out:

We mean it when we say that FM is "author driven." Here's a list of the latest superstars to get behind the wheel. Welcome all!

Big Think
GM Volt
Inhabitat
Mighty Girl
Mighty Goods
Mighty Junior
Search Engine Land
ViroPop