Telemarketers - Kill the Calls As I have not had a chance to fully compile the list of every Small Claims Court in the United States yet, please visit this list until such time. If and when I get my list fully compiled, I shall be including a lot of extra data such as links to the applicable court rules and which courts allow the filing of claims online as mine does. When most people think about the process of suing a business entity, they naturally consider it a complicated and expensive process. For those individuals like me who have succesfully prosecuted cases against telemarketing firms, there is little need for an attorney. I have personally filed four claims in Small Claims Court against telemarketers. Filed a claim against a telemarketing firm based in Florida (Health Benefits Direct) for $1500. Adding up the above numbers, you can see that I invested $195 (or $250, if you consider the SBC claim that I let go) and received a total of $6160.00. ! 1. 2. Know the upper limit for damages. 3.
The Retail Email Blog: AM Inbox: Time is running out... The Retail Email Blog monitors the email marketing campaigns of more than 100 top online retailers. Here are highlights from my inbox this morning: NFLshop, 4/22 — 2010 Draft Sale: 3 Special Offers – Make Your Selection NowUnique discount codes are usually served up at the time that an email is opened. NFLshop uses this same tactic to serve up the number of days, hours and minutes until their sale ends so that it’s accurate at the time of open.
The Silver Lining in MySpace? Mention MySpace and other online "social networks" to educators and parents and you'll likely get a reaction worthy of Edvard Munch's The Scream . Take a peek at the Internet-style spelling and grammar on these sites and you might belt out a shriek yourself. But not so fast, says an educator named Joe Bellacero. Has cryptic online "computer speak" caused kids to forget how to write? Well, you could take that view. What's happening online right now is a real opportunity for young people to invent language and invent conventions. How so? When I see my son on MySpace, quite often he will write in a kind of a short hand and use a lot of metaphors. As teachers begin to recognize this and start to understand what kids are saying, they can use it to point out how communication actually works. So teachers can harness this language to teach? That's right. I'm communicating a great deal by the language I choose, of course. So MySpace can serve as an excellent example.
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Behind the Photograph: Phyllis Posnick on Shooting Olympian Carmelita Jeter Photographed by Bruce Weber, Vogue, June 2012 For the June issue of Vogue,Bruce Weber and Vogue Executive Fashion Editor Phyllis Posnick teamed up to create a striking portfolio of American athletes. Of all the arresting images featuring these talented men and women at the top of their game, Weber’s shot of United States Olympic runner Carmelita Jeter racing a horse and a speeding train stood out. “Not only is she the fastest woman in the world, but she has the most infectious laugh,” Weber says. In anticipation of Jeter’s 100-meter race tomorrow, Posnick takes Vogue.com behind the photograph. “It was totally Bruce’s idea. See our photo portfolio of Team USA's female Olympic athletes. See the slideshow of Karlie Kloss posing with America's top male athletes.
News: Protect Yourself From Pretexting Pretexting has long been a tactic used by private investigators and others to obtain personal information and records about people. Also known as "social engineering" in the hacker realm, it involves using ploys to obtain data and documents. The ploys range from the creative to the straightforward. In the Hewlett-Packard case, outside investigators hired by the company simply posed as the victims -- HP board members and journalists -- to obtain their phone records from phone companies. On the more inventive side, Verizon Wireless last year accused online data brokers of making hundreds of thousands of calls to the company's customer service lines posing as fellow Verizon employees with the company's "special needs group," a nonexistent department. The callers obtained customer account information by claiming to be making the requests on behalf of voice-impaired customers. Buy a TracFone. Don't Tell on Yourself. Choose Your Own Passwords.
Mobilize Mail Opinion » Blog Archive » Flash and Email – Can it Work? Every couple of weeks I wait with baited breath for the next installment of Tim Ferriss’s exciting life. Tim Ferris is a man who states that he only works 4 hours a week to earn more in a month than some people earn in a year. I have read his book and love it so it was an easy leap to get me to sign up to receive updates to his blog via email. Sometimes Tim provides a little movie dealing with something interesting which automatically appears within my email client. In the last installment it was how to “peel” a hard-boiled egg without peeling!! To view the movie within my email client all I have to do is play it. I thoroughly enjoy watching the movies and told many of my friends to sign up to his email alerts. What I forgot to mention was that unless you are using Apple Mail as your email client you are not in fact going to see the movies nor in Tim’s case will you ever know they were ever present! Apple Mail Go Tim! Entourage Yahoo! Gmail Nope – nothing here. Outlook No surprises here.
Information literacy for old dogs October 17, 2006 — It’s certainly reinforced by parents daily that their children know more about their technological surroundings than their parents do. After all, it’s the children that have always placed their requests upon parents for the latest-and-greatest come Christmastime; and, since the late 80′s, it’s been everything from the Famicom/NES to the Xbox360, or even the increasingly-complex Tickle Me Elmo craze. Today’s American children have an insatiable want for everything tech, be it a new computer or even an electronic version of an old favourite. This technological prowess, be it as simple as operating a stereo or as complex as transcoding audio from an open-source format to AAC, continues to progress as children age as they grow comfortable learning new technologies or adapting old ones to new concepts. Explaining information literacy Instead of reinventing the wheel, terms exist for technological aptitude in the realm of library science. Teaching the old dogs new tricks