Guest Contributors on Associated Content

We're excited to launch our Guest Contributor program, which features well-followed and established experts from a variety of disciplines – sports, literature, health, entertainment, business and more.

Our Guests will contribute occasionally to Associated Content, adding their decades of experience and unique perspectives to Associated Content's community of more than 350,000 Contributors.

Among our first Guests:

* Bill Romanowski, a former NFL star and four-time Super Bowl champion, who is now a vocal leader in the health and wellness industry.

* George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, a world relief and aid organization that is heavily involved in Haitian relief efforts.

* Gini Dietrich, CEO of Arment Dietrich, a public relations firm at the forefront of social media expertise.

* Robert Denerstein, film critic for the Rocky Mountain News for 27 years, who is currently blogging, teaching and making short films.

Click here to meet more of our Guest Contributors, and read their perspective on some of the most important issues of the day.

Burn, Baby, Burn!

Is your Associated Content profile on fire? It is if you're one of the 500 Contributors with the highest volume of February 2010 page views!

Earlier this week we rolled out the Hot 100 & Hot 500 badges to the Contributors with the largest audiences, and most engaged readers, viewers and listeners.

The Hot badges will be updated once per month to give Contributors a sense of how their content is performing compared the rest of the AC community.

If your profile didn't catch on fire this time around, be sure to turn up the heat in March... And keep it going! 1000 Contributors with the most annual page views will receive a permanent Top 100 or Top 1000 award at the end of this year.

Two Million and Counting

Today, we have over two million reasons to be thankful to our Contributors!

When we published our two millionth piece of content this morning, we were both stunned and humbled.

It was long-time Contributor Sherry Wight's review of the new Dancing with the Stars lineup that pushed us over the hump. Thanks to Sherry, and our community of more than 350,000 Contributors, for helping us reach this point. We are The People's Media Company™, and this is one of many milestones we look forward to crossing together! Three million, here we come!

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