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Breaking News: Anil Dash announces Six Apart WordPress Plugins at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic

The audience at Word Camp Mid-Atlantic drew a deep breath as Anil Dash, one of the co-founders of Six Apart a rival blogging platform delivered the keynote address. During the keynote he made a very sensational announcement. The screen lit up with a URL http://www.sixapart.com/wordpress which is like Microsoft having a place for Apple software [...]

Tune into UserFriendlyThinking May 8th 2009 1 p.m EST

On the Friday, May 8th, edition of User Friendly Thinking radio, will be about social media in the corporate space and on the growth of new media for marketing and business communications.
I am thrilled to be a guest on this show and thank http://www.bizzuka.com/ and Paul Chaney http://thesocialmediahandyman.com/. If you tune in please [...]

Network Solutions DNS Update

Update: 10.36 A.M: April 23rd 2009
Please accept our apologies for the slowness of our DNS services on April 21st 2009. We work very hard to deliver on the promise of providing the best services at all times and we realize we did not meet our service assurance to some of the internet users in this [...]

One Year and 500 Posts – The Best of the Best and the Future is Looking Bright

For all of our readers out there, we are marking a milestone of our 500th post here at Solutions Are Power and it has been an awesome 16 months of growing, learning and listening. We hope we have provided you valuable and timely information along with some humor thrown in for good measure. We plan [...]

Small businesses are optimistic, regardless of the current gloomy economic situation : Roy Dunbar CEO on Fox News

Roy Dunbar CEO of Network Solutions spoke to Jenna Miller on Fox Business about Small Business and their optimism despite the economy.
During the conversation Roy and Jenna discussed the findings of the Small Business Success Index and the pulse of Small Business.  The Small Business Success Index (www.growsmartbusiness.com) that Network Solutions and the University of Maryland [...]

The 5th Annual New Communications Forum :April 27th – 29th, 2009: San Francisco, CA

Last year I attended the 3rd Annual SNCR Research Symposium & Awards in Boston. The presentations were full of research and findings. Here is some on the presentations that can be seen here:

SNCR Survey of Media in the Wired World (Presented by Don Middleberg & SNCR Executive Director Jen McClure)
Findings from the First Longitudinal Study [...]

Small Business Success Index covered on Blogs and Media

Anita Campbell Editor in Chief of Small Business Trends site and the Small Business Trends newsletter and also the host of Small Business Trends Radio wrote Grass Not Always Greener in This Economy, Say Small Business Owners on SmallBiztrends.com
I thought it remarkable that nearly half thought their competitors had been significantly impacted by the downturn.  [...]

Connecting Startups, Socializers and Job Seekers

Social Matchbox is organized by Robert and Juliana Neelbauer and Network Solutions is proud to sponsor this event under the Small Business Success Index umbrella. Robert says :
Social Matchbox is DC’s longest running open mic night and networking event for startup companies that are backed by angel and venture investors as well as those which [...]

Being a Director of Community Amber Naslund

Amber Naslund who is one of my fav. bloggers at http://altitudebranding.com/ wrote a great post on the role of community director:
As a community director, I see my role as a bit of a blend: part business development, part client services, part communications (like marketing and PR all smashed together). In short, my job is to [...]

Share your perspectives and opinions on new product ideas and services

Network Solutions is in the process of creating an online community of businesspeople and web professionals who are willing to serve as consultants to us by sharing your perspectives and opinions on new product ideas, services, and programs. As one of 300 select members, you will not only have the opportunity to share ideas with [...]