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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 [...]

Along with Memorial Day traffic issues we had our own brief DNS issue

Today around 11:18 a.m ET we noticed high volumes of DNS queries on our network. As the DNS requests queued up, people querying websites using Network Solutions DNS servers were unreachable or slow. It took us approximately an hour to isolate the traffic and add additional capacity to manage the high query volume and [...]

The DC Restaurant Social Media Meet-Up on WUSA Channel 9

Kristin Fisher is the new media reporter at WUSA Channel 9 and her job is to “Go behind-the-scenes of the Nine News Now morning show.”  Kristin also does  ”What’s Hot on the Web” live weekdays from 5-7AM . She covered this story forr her “Your Stories” segment on today’s ( May 22nd)  6 AM WUSA9 [...]

Managing Your Business, Life & Beyond on Social Networks – e.Factor event this May 28

Are you overwhelmed with the social media frenzy that’s changing the way we see the world?  Are you trying to figure out how to manage your life, business or career now that social networks have entered the picture?  Do you want to make since out of it all?
Social Networking is quickly becoming a “must do” [...]