Thus, while we stand proudly behind our American roots and we are loyal to protecting jobs and careers keeping all of our productivity inside the U.S.A., we’re getting global props. And frankly, nothing feels, well, more deserved.

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Hello.

If You edited your privacy settings on Facebook before December’s change, you’re cool. In other words, you’ve got what you want.

If you didn’t, and want to change things you share, listen up:

There’s a button beneath the status update field that lets you select who can view any particular update. It says “Everyone.”

Got it?!

To go private, mouse over the settings menu at the top right of your Profile page and you will be guided through a series of processes that will make you private…ahhh, yes, you can go home again.

Remember…what happens in Vegas stays on Facebook. Get it. Got it. Change it.

The joke is on me, apparently. As recently as last week, I promoted Facebook as a business networking tool to clients. At my Boomer age, I’ve even been teased about being a part of Facebook by younger Facebook devotees. I’ve debated the virtues of Facebook with associates who refused to participate on Facebook…otherwise sophisticated Internet operators who resolutely resisted. They said they had their reasons.

Now I am a believer…not in Facebook, but in the damage internet networking can net.

For the record, I did not post explicit photos of myself for anyone to view. In fact, and this may be too much information, I don’t have explicit photos of myself to post in case the aberrant urge possessed me. As explicitly as I can possibly elicit the words: IT AIN’T SO.

Moreover, I don’t have the carbon footprint big enough to warrant anyone hacking into my Facebook account. I just do what I do…below the radar. I’m no Ashton. I’m no Britney. I’m no news.

What, was it only last week that I proclaimed to a willing listener that I felt compassion for a wife married to a golf swinger? The shock of having so much private detail consume Internet bandwidth has to be brutal on her, the unwitting victim in a drama played out on every conceivable medium.

I’ve joked privately that I have no life outside of my work. My friend that alerted me to the false Facebook invitation to link to my explicit photos laughed with me. He and I, he said, are the only two people on earth checking their emails on a Sunday from our office desks during a Broncos game. In truth, it’s not that my dear friend has no life, nor is it true that I have no life. It’s just that it’s my life and nobody else’s business.

So take that, Facebook. You’re off my radar. It may be true that if it happens in Vegas, it stays on Facebook. But if it happens in my life, it won’t be there.

-300 million people are on Facebook and that number is growing daily

- 1.4 million fan pages are currently collecting more than 10 million fans every day

- Businesses can create fan pages and then the business gains publicity each time someone becomes a fan because it is seen by the fan’s friends on minified.

-It is important to establish objectives and strategizing accordingly before setting up anything on Facebook

- Ask your friends to fan your page first so that you have a fan base when you launch

-Personalize your page with photos, videos, updated information and specials

-Do not hard sell. Facebook interaction should be a conversation

-It is a customer service more than a sales tool, but it can generate significant revenue

-Facebook advertising is affordable and highly targeted, you can even target very specific demos like status or location.

-You can also target ads through social claims. Example: if someone sends a message to a friend asking if they’d like to go get a burger sometime, you can market your hamburger stand to the individual directly.

-You can elect to pay per click or per impression

- Advertisers have the ability to schedule the day the ad runs and set a daily
maximum budget

-Facebook provides the number of clicks and impressions so you can experiment with which ads are most effective

-The classic marketing tactic: offer something free works well on Facebook because it brings consumers from cyberspace to your doorstep.

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Beginning Dec. 1, bloggers or other word-of-mouth marketers must disclose their material connections to advertisers-material connections meaning payment or free products. Cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement.

Violations can result in a lawsuit or other action.

How the FTC will monitor blogs is yet undefined. Think government bailout: the big banks got money without appropriate restrictions on how to spend it, so ever more egregious actions resulted.

Do you think the FTC will do any better managing the universe of cyberspace than FEMA did Hurricane Katrina?

I’m speechless. And that’s not a paid position.

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Behrendt regaled the crowd with his “Truth in vodka” skit which revolved around his throwing back 8 (at least) vodka shooters and then calling his girlfriend who had happened to move to another coast where she was living with another man in a hotel while she and her new love awaited the completion of their new custom home. Deep into his vodka, Behrendt was also in deep denial about the status of his relationship with the woman: the clear beverage, it seems, clouded his vision. He felt compelled to pick up the phone and call her after his night on the town, by then convinced that her moving out of state was not a sign she’d moved out of the relationship.

He dialed the hotel and the front desk receptionist answered. He slurred his words as he requested his true love’s room number. The desk captain asked him to repeat the number several times and then when Behrendt finally pronounced the room number articulately enough to be understood, the desk captain asked, “Sir, are you sure you want me to put this call through?”

Behrendt awoke the next morning with the phone cradled in his chest and no recollection of the call that ensued.

“Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a little man who lived in your phone who would ask you that same question when you’re dialing impaired?” Behrendt asked the audience. Pretty much to a one, the entire audience could sympathize with Behrendt’s prone position, hooting with laughter.

Well, now Google’s gone and done it.

The Internet king has developed Mail Goggles, a system you can set up on your computer to prevent the transmission of regretful messages while under the influence. It works by requiring the user to answer a series of math questions before the email “send” button will activate, effectively allowing the composer time to reconsider.

I’m not seeing a downside to this innovation. Cheers.

Best known as the author of “The Elements of Style,” William Strunk Jr. was famous for urging writers to cut out the excess. He hadn’t met Twitter yet.

Last week, two US Governors, Sarah Palin and Arnold Schwarzenegger, came under fire for shortening their Twitter messages to a point that they were less than clear. And everyone knows how clearly politicians address their constituency, ahem.

Yahoonews.com reported that Palin’s abbreviated Tweet went like this:

Re inaccurate story floating re:ethics violation/Legal Defense Fund;matter is still pending;new info was just requested even;no final report.

Schwarzenegger accompanied his Tweet with a video of him holding a knife big enough to fend off a polar bear (oops, wrong Guv.) Even his press secretary couldn’t explain why.

Tweet limits the writer’s commentary to 140 characters. That leaves little room to elaborate or even explain.

While the brevity might have impressed Strunk at first, it’s certain that the Master of Succinctness would have blanched at the resulting confusion. After all, writing well is a means of communicating, not obfuscating.

Even bloggers at the Christian Science Monitor poked fun at the politicos by compiling examples of political tweets in a post entitled, “Politicians using Twitter: Morons or visionaries?”

At Blonde Productions Group, a member of the Unleaded Group, we urge our clients to Twitter thoughtfully. Too much too often is annoying to followers. Deploy your tweets sparingly and save the planet.

What started out as an indie notion has been widely adopted. Seemingly overnight (Kindle is two years old, but most of the world didn’t begin to recognize it by name until late 2008 and early 2009), clicks are the new currency of reading.

This new form of New Media Gloss is here to stay. Cultivating green reading; sparing forests.
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The judges’ ruling was based on content value. A lot like the value between a good Internet site and one that’s lacking.

From the public-facing side of a website the SEO underpinnings aren’t necessarily evident. A flash home page, for example, might fill the senses with entertainment, but it can’t be optimized the way a hybrid html/flash page can. And if you’re seeking to boost your website to the top of the search engines, it’s essential that your website be able to be optimized.

The alternative is like dieting on martinis and chocolate-entertaining but valueless.

If you need help determining the nutritional value of your website as it exists today, or if you want a whole new website with exemplary content written by proven journalists, contact us at www.blondeproductionsgroup.com. Or call 720-221-7126.

We are a homegrown Denver business and we’re coming out to support the independent Colorado agricultural industry. Well, that and we just plain love the straight-from-the-vine goods. We have teamed with another local business dedicated to sustainability, Coda Coffee, to bring you gourmet coffee and espresso beverages. What better way to start out your morning at the market than with an iced latte or a steaming Octane blend? If you are looking for breakfast we carry baked goods and biscotti in addition to the freshest breakfast burritos you will ever take to go.

We love to connect with our Cherry Creek community so come by and introduce yourself and grab a biscuit for your canine companion Saturdays May 2nd through October 31st from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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