On Saturday March 14th at 3:30pm Raj Malik and I are conducting a Core Conversation“A Hard Sell? Social Media & Your Boss “ at SXSW in Austin. Raj is one of our resident legal Gurus at Network Solutions for Social Media and I do not tire from telling people that I am the Social Media Swami at Ne...

Stephanie Massler examines how brand enthusiasm impacts media buying on Doe Anderson. Stephanie provides two thoughtful examples and offers five guidelines for an advanced media purchasing framework. These include focusing not on how many people you reach, but in how you are able to connect with you...

Today’s guest blog post is from 3Sharp, the primary developer of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint. 3Sharp has very deep technical knowledge of PKS and can effectively leverage it to quickly implement custom social media applications for the enterprise. We hope that today’s blog will help you un...

During the Q&A portion of the If You Build It, Will They Come? event this week (which was a really good event, incidentally), speaker Frank Warren (of PostSecret fame) mentioned that when it comes to creating the weekly narrative from each batch of 20 or so posted secrets, “Controversy can be good...

Over the Christmas holiday break, I was trying to do some writing for my personal blog.  And I was having a hard time of it — it’s gotten trickier for me over the years. I’m a not an over-sharer by nature, and then on top of that, throw in the couple of years I’ve been blogging for The Man ...

Evidently, Cisco's (NASDAQ:CSCO) alliance with IBM (NYSE:IBM) and  demo at the UBS' Global Technology & Services Conference last week didn't generate the positive momentum neccesary to reverse its slumping stock. Cisco dropped 0.98, to 15.42 per share, (-5.8%). Bloomberg.com reports that Ci...

We have some terrific case studies that were submitted for our event in SIlicon Valley tomorrow night, Five For Sharing.  It was hard to choose, and indeed we had to pass on a couple of really great one’s just due to time constraints.  In the end, we have a great balance that will be really ...

So what does today's vote from ICANN mean to the regular person? Well, if Network Solutions honors its promise, it means the next time you search for an available domain through Network Solutions, they won't immediately snatch it up and force you to register it through them at an increased fee. In t...

"EBK" and "Defiant," the online monikers of the hackers who disrupted Comcast's online service, have gone on record about their exploits. They say that a hole in domain-name registrar Network Solutions' security let them change Comcast's registered address in domain records to "Dildo Room, 69 Dick T...

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