If you are connected in any way with securities, you MUST read this!  I’ve been working with clients who are under the SEC’s purview.  To stay successful, abide by the rules and keep abreast of changes.  Here’s the story…

Earlier this month, the SEC’s Division of Enforcement alleges that Anthony Fields, of Lyons, Ill., offered more than $500 billion in fictitious securities through various social media websites, including professional networking site LinkedIn. Fields provided false and misleading information concerning his assets, failed to maintain required books and records and did not implement adequate compliance policies and procedures, according to the SEC.

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Imagine an internet world devout with only websites approved by the Federal Government.  On the flip side, imagine a world where the government, like many third world countries, have shut down YOUR website.  For the next 18 or so hours take a look at Wikipedia.  They are a good example of what the internet world will be like if the feds controlled the internet.  Unless you were part of the 1%, you wouldn’t have the resources to fight the feds for freedom of speech.  Here’s the scoop.

Today Wikipedia is dark.  Although Google is not dark, they are suporting the blackout; another way the feds could censor the internet.  What are your thoughts?  Do you think the Feds should control internet content?  Is this the start of censorship?  Take action.  Go to Google and make your voice known.

Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.

Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.

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Let us know how you feel so we can let others know.

What is SOPA?  It is the Stop Online Piracy Act (House Bill 3261) that our dear friends in Washington, D.C. are trying to get passed.  If you want to read about it on Wikipedia, but you only have about 6 hours to get to it.  Wikipedia and about 18,000 other websites will be going offline at midnight for 24 hours to protest this Act.

SOPA is crazy!  Simply stated, if my writing shows up on your website, the Feds can SHUT YOU DOWN.  They will be able to legally shut down your website.  Obviously the people in Washington, DC don’t understand the internet or how so many people have become famous by their content becoming viral, nor do they care. Oh, I get it.  They really want to control the money related to your going viral. The 1% are not making any money on your going viral on the internet.  Maybe they don’t think anyone in the 99% should be able to compete with people in the 1%?  Just becasue we don’t have the wealth of the 1% does not mean we shouldn’t have the same rights.  “They” need to get on board and realize this is America and capitalism isn’t just for the 1%.  Should we have to pay an “agency” to make us go viral?  NOT!!  Most agencies pick and choose wh0 goes viral after they’ve decided how much money they’ll take from YOUR earnings.

Is this starting to sound like a third world country or something from a soap opera?  It does to me.  Do something before more is taken away from the 99%.   The middle class is slipping away.

Dont give up. Make your voice known!  If you feel the internet should continue without government regulation, let your people in Washington know…NOW.

Not more spying, or is it REALLY spying on social media sites? You decide, then let us know your thoughts.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, according to a government document.

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Turn Facebook pink, red or black? Don’t fall for online scams

Have your Facebook friends invited you to switch your boring blue Facebook profile to an attractive shade of red, black or shocking pink?  Before changing anything read the story behind the scam…..

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Did he really say that 99% of the American people (have nots) are envious of the 1% (haves)?  Yes he did.  He not only stated it last night during the primaries, but he also stated it this morning on the Today show.  Mitt Romeny believes the “have nots” (99% of the population who aren’t millionaires) are envious of the “haves” (1% of the population who are millionaires).  Wow, has he forgotten his roots?  Doesn’t he remember his father telling him about how he grew up in poverty?  What are your thoughts?  Do you think if Mitt becomes president we will see the 99% suppressed for the sake of the 1%? We’ll see.  Also, what is this about some of the Republican candidates purchasing businesses, sellling off the assets for a profit and disolving the business they purchased putting hundreds of people out of work?

If you are alive and can type (or have someone do it for you) I’d love to hear from you about the candidates.

Their may be several factors operating.

1. It offers bypassing clerical personnel, either by shortcutting a wait on the telephone, via telephone triage. It also offers after hours communications.

2. It depersonalizes the initial contact with a non-medical person, who they do not want to know about a personal problem.

3. Some have expressed a brief social media contact with the doctor would alleviate anxiety while waiting for an appointment.

4. Some perceive a professional social media contact as an act of caring and would offer a means of expressing anxiety, which might facilitate an earlier office visit.

5. The acceptance of these forms of communication have been limited by the feds. Ethics have been replaced with law.

6..Google + hangouts it turns out is not a secure platform, nor would an application on top of it be secure.

7.others

I don’t doubt the Government will soon be watching me and my posts as I am one of the many people following their covert activities with Social Media Spying (see my 01/04/12 post, “Yes, the Feds Are Spying on Social Media”) .  The Governemtn is setting up “aliases” with which they can penetrate the social media world by being someone they’re not.  This is all part of the social media surveillance game.  Keep in mind, the same thing can happen in business.  The following story is a great business model.  Read on:

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Last week, the Privacy Impact Assessment for the program was released and contains some fascinating insights into how the government is monitoring the internet.  A copy of the Assessment is available from the DHS website.   The program is set up to have government agents set up false social media profiles to then gather information about its citizens’ activities on virtually every site on the internet. The report admits as much:

The NOC will use Internet-based platforms that provide a variety of ways to follow activity related to monitoring publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites, and message boards. Through the use of publicly available search engines and content aggregators the NOC will monitor activities on the social media sites listed in Appendix A for information that the NOC can use to provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture…..The NOC will gather, store, analyze, and disseminate relevant and appropriate de-identified information to federal, state, local, and foreign governments, and private sector partners authorized to receive situational awareness and a common operating picture. [O]PS is permitted to establish user names and passwords to form profiles and follow relevant government, media, and subject matter experts on social media sites listed in Appendix A in order to use search tools under established criteria and search terms such as those listed in Appendix B for monitoring that supports providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture.

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Business relationships are a great thing to have in your life.  Rock Solid business relationships are even better.  They are tougher to attain because there’s an initial boundary between you and the person you’re trying to build the relationship with.  Wow, I think I even confused myself with that thought.  If you follow me, that’s great.  If you aren’t following me, hang on.  Let me try to explain.

When I initiate the first contact with a “target,” there are only three things to overcome:

1. How to contact them

2. What medium are they most likely to communicate with

3. When are they most liklely to respond or teleconference with you

After you’ve taken care of these three thinge it is time to implement your contact.  Knowing these initial three things about your target allows you to start building that Rock Solid relationship.  This is how I know this…

First off, I use these three principles in every contact I make.

Secondly, there is a young business man who’s been attempting to contact me.  In my opinion, we’ll have a great business relationship, but we have to get past the initial boundary.  At this time I am too busy with new clients to break through the boundary and he’s not willing to get the answers to the three principles above.   He is persistent, but he has not learned how to work on my time.  We have an awesome project coming together and now we HAVE to work together.  He still has bit to learn, but he has the potential to be very successful in his career.

Build Rock Solid relationships, but understand the three principles above and how they pertain to the target.  Work slow, understand the mechanics.