nsSwami weighs in

August 5, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

Hi Folks! You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs and it seems we have broken a few eggs it seems judging by the number of tweets and a few blog posts (listed below) who are giving us the honor of attempting to “rebrand the internet”. (wow!). This weekend, visitors to Networksolutions.com saw a new [...]


Shel Israel announces the Twitterville Book launch party

August 3, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

I have watched the book Twitterville, How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods Shel Israel’s newest book grow from the time Shel Israel “tweetsourced” it with case studies from businesses using Twitter – getting both companies and customers contribute to the book .
In a post on Global Neighbourhoods Shel Israel announced tBASH, the Twitterville [...]


GrowSmartBiz Conference : Chris Anderson to Keynote

July 31, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

We had told you the conference in  a previous post and we have some good news to share Wired Magazine Editor-in-Chief and Author of the books The Long Tail andFree Chris Anderson will be the keynote speaker for the GrowSmartBiz Conference.
“Chris Anderson is a well-renowned, engaging speaker and we are excited to have him join us at the GrowSmartBiz [...]


Other Network Solutions Products Not Impacted By Incident

July 28, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

Here is a statement posted for Network Solutions customers on http://www.CareandProtect.com that is useful for our blog readers as well.
We would like to take this moment to make it clear that the incident reported on Friday is solely related to Network Solutions e-commerce customers.  Customers of Network Solutions that have other products [...]


Network Solutions engages social media to act faster in crisis

July 25, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

Network Solutions engages social media to act faster in crisis
- Creates online feedback forum to address customer concerns in real-time
Yesterday Network Solutions issued an E-Commerce Data Security alert to merchants who might have been affected by an unauthorized code on servers supporting some of its ecommerce merchants’ websites. The code has been promptly removed and [...]


Alert to Ecommerce Customers

July 24, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

Earlier today we alerted approximately 4,343 of our more than 10,000 E-Commerce merchants that their customers’ information may have been affected by a data security issue. The issue has been fixed and more details are available at http://careandprotect.com
At this point, we have no reports or other reasons to believe that any credit card account information [...]


Free Statement of Work Builder at LinkTogether.com

July 20, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

Guest post from Bonnie Williams – Bonnie is the marketing maestro for LinkTogether™. Over the past year she has turned LinkTogether into a growing community with thousands of Web Developers and Designers. Bonnie has been with Network Solutions for a year and a half and when she’s not working you can find her biking, hiking, [...]


Power of the email subject line – Think of it like a tweet

July 14, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

This is the age of communication overload and  I am sure everyone will appreciate your kindness in giving people some of their time back. The time spent in opening and email and finding out what the email is about.  Why not think your email is twitter and start writing your email subject lines and your [...]


PSA : Network Solutions Email Service

July 14, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

Update: July 15th 2009 :13:04 PM
If you are still experiencing difficulty, please reach out by phone to Network Solutions Customer Support at 1-800-333-7680 or on our support page at http://customersupport.networksolutions.com/
Update : July 14th 2009 :08:30 AM
The  email services for  customers  impacted should be  back to normal.   The mail that was queued is being delivered.  This [...]


Think Like a Pirate : Matt Mason’s advice

July 13, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

If you read my previous post on Matt Mason’s talk at Pop!tech you would have known in the tone of the post that I am a fan. I read Matt Mason’s  book ” The Pirate’s Dilemma – How youth culture is reinventing capitalism” over and over again.  While it is not a business book   [...]