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PSA : Network Solutions Hosting

Update : June 26th 8:38:22 : All affected websites should be resolving normally now. Please comment here or contact @netsolcares on Twitter if you you are having problems. Thanks for your patience.
As always, we will continue to work to take measures to prevent these and other types of technical issues caused by third parties that [...]

Consumer Advisory: Beware of Check Fraud

We want to advise our readers to be vigilant for fraudulent checks that look like they are from Network Solutions. The counterfeiters are attempting to dupe people into accepting these fake documents and presenting them to their banks. The letters that accompany the checks usually try to solicit personal information, such as the intended victim’s [...]

Announcing New growsmartbusiness.com Event for the Legal Minds of DC

Every industry is gearing up to get into social media, whether it’s to promote good customer service, establish a personal face to a brand, or become a great thought leader. To help those in the legal industry better understand how they can use social media, growsmartbusiness.com is proud to present a series of events aimed [...]

Network Solutions Advice to domain registrants: Prevent a Domain Hijacking horror story

Maintaining control of your domain name is very important and to do that your information with the domain registrar should be up to date and secure. The email address you use to register the domain name is very important, see some additional tips about ways to protect your domain name here http://blog.networksolutions.com/2008/8-tips-to-protect-your-domain-registration/ . Taking a [...]

IABC09 - Thinking like a Strategic Thinker James E. Lukaszewski

I was lucky to be on a panel early in the day on Communications leadership with Jim Lukaszewski , Jason Falls and Heidi Sullivan.  Jim is the guy you call when you have a crisis.
If all problems are management problems then all problems are also leadership problems.  The most powerful tool leaders have is their [...]

Washingtonian Honors the 100 Top Tech Titans at the Smithsonian

On May 28th the 100 Washingtonian Top Tech Titans were honored at a reception held at the Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian. I was honored to be on the Top Tech Titan’s list and to be there and meet the others on the list. Garrett M. Graff the list’s creator took into account several [...]

The Brunch did it. Building a relationship Outright.com and Network Solutions (RT)

I met Kevin Reeth CEO of Outright ( Small Business Book keeping software) at the SXSW Small Business brunch organized by Pam O’ Hara and Michelle Riggins of Batch Blue a Small Business CRM Tool company and Network Solutions. About 40 people came together  at South By South West (SXSW) and networked and the feedback [...]

A Technology Moment: Blogging from 34118 ft above sea level

I am sitting on the Virgin America flight 67 enroute to San Francisco as I am writing this post. I am thrilled  and you may have heard the good news? Network Solutions won the 2009 Golden Quill Award from IABC for Voice of the Customer along with our agency CRT-Tanaka. I will be attending the [...]

Service Notice : Network Solutions VPS customers

Update 6.45 p.m  6th June 2009 : All VPS customer websites should be resolving.  We work with world class data -centers and this was  an event that you plan for but never hope to execute. We regret the inconvenience.
Comments and feedback welcome at the Network Solutions Customer Feedback Site
Due to a power outage in one of our [...]

Joe Pulizzi - Everyone is a Publisher today

Some Content with Your Social Media? - Preso at Speakerbox
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I was glad that  Elizabeth Shea of SpeakerBox invited me to their event on May 13th featuring Joe Pulizzi of  Junta 42 (@juntajoe ) co-author of “Get Content. Get Customers.” Joe spoke about the new trends in marketing where content plays [...]