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Just released for your musical pleasure, The Drop launches their final podcast of the year. What made the cut? Download it here!

Tuesday this week launched the first podcast from The Drop in the digital music world with artist JC Sutherland from The Seattle Digital Orchestra. Dan caught up with JC just before the launch of his latest album “Apparent Horizons” (Available on iTunes)

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This past week Mark Horvath, jumped in his car (courtesy of Ford) and is hitting the road this summer to capture and share stories of the homeless. Formerly homeless himself, Mark brings personal experience and compassion as he aims to bring understanding and knowledge to the growing homeless crisis. He will visit 25 cities across the nation including rural areas, larger cities, shelters and youth facilities. Mark has been creating enough waves in the LA and National markets that the Los Angeles Times recently published this article about him on Sunday.

Portnoy Media Group, under the moniker of The Drop, is joining Mark in sponsoring his trip. “I personally love what Mark is doing and it’s really taking the issue of homelessness to the people.” says Dan Portnoy “In this time of economic hardship, it’s important for me to be reminded of the situations of others and be part of the solution” The Drop has recently relaunched and is working to unite a growing group of entertainment enthusiasts who also care about changing the world.

Please join us and check out the stories that Mark Horvath is telling, these raw snapshots of life on the street don’t get any more real.

Please watch a few and join with us by donating to the cause.

The Drop joins other national companies like Ford Motor Company (that have donated a Ford Flex for his travel) Amazon.com, Whrrl, Hanes, The Idea Camp, Big Finish Media, Holy Cow Creative, Pitch Engine, change.org, Union Rescue Mission, The Dream Center, New Hope and Lord, Save us from your Followers.

About a month ago we made a significant switch on THE DROP website. The adjustment came as a way to incorporate the multitude of ways that users would interact with the website. We had been using a social plug-in and it really started out working amazing. Last month I was introduced to ShareThis and I found that the plug-in was easy to use and that it actually gave the user more options to pass around the info and would be crucial in the interaction of social media to the site. The user would then be able to add or share the posts via their Myspace or Facebook but could also email them to friends if they so chose. A little while back The Drop was featured on the ShareThis site. We got sandwiched between infertility and obscure movies – I don’t think it’s a bad start.

I also had a chance to join their Publishers Group on Facebook. What I loved about this was that I then could put faces with the code writers and other bloggers/new media types who were employing the same pieces and any additional strategy that they may have. ShareThis has just been named one of the Top 20 plugins to have on WordPress and I highly recommend it.