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New Media has always been only as important as its users make it. Certainly there's marginal value in a Twitter post about a great new restaurant or a Facebook pic of a birthday party. Such things, however, do little to add lasting value. In Baltimore and elsewhere there are people facing serious health troubles and finding in blogs, Facebook, and other online outlets a chance to build communities that wouldn't have been possible a decade ago. Here, Bmore Media's Katharine Schildt tracks down some of their stories.

Hailed by ESPN as "the original retro park and still the one all others are measured against," Baltimore's Camden Yards is one of the city's greatest cultural and civic treasures. Join us as we take a fresh look at the home of the O's.

Even when he was still in business school, Kwame Kuadey knew that a slow climb up the corporate ladder wasn't for him. He knew that some day, when the right opportunity presented itself, he'd go off on his own. Today his startup, GiftCardRescue, has seven employees in Ellicott City and is poised to continue growing. And Kuadey did it all without a dollar of venture capital.

"I'm not here to create champions in boxing; I'm here to create champions in life." These are the words of Marvin McDowell, Maryland Boxing Hall of Fame member and founder of the UMAR Boxing and Youth Development Center. Where, through a combination of education, coaching, and mentoring, he's giving kids hope.

For more than three decades the House of Ruth has served as a safe haven and resource for domestic violence victims in Baltimore. So, what are batterers doing there? Learning the skills they need to change their behavior for good thanks to new approaches at the center's Abuser Intervention Program. Bmore's Dan Collins went behind the scenes to learn more.

Bmore Media is excited to announce that we've partnered up with the recently launched Spanish language newspaper Mundo Latino.

Between reality TV and social networking, between the Royal Wedding and the Jersey Shore, people watching is all the rage. If that trend seems like perhaps it's not always a good thing that's because it isn't. But it doesn't have to be that way. Meet Baltimore artist Erin Fitzpatrick, who uses the age-old form of portraiture to turn people watching into an art form -- literally and figuratively.

The video game industry may not be Maryland's equivalent of film in Los Angeles or country music in Nashville, but it is a force. Companies such as Zynga, Firaxis, Big Huge Games, and Day 1 Studios are all based here and are responsible for some of the industry's most interesting titles. We're also lucky to have a robust gaming program at UMBC, where students on the creative and technical ends of the game creation process learn side-by-side how to conceptualize and create the games of tomorrow.