Heartbleed Security Bug and Your Forwarded Email / Google Account

Emerge2 has sent out two versions of this courtesy security notification to mailboxes originally setup by Emerge2. Mailboxes that are auto-forwarded to another address received this notification (below). Mailboxes that are not auto-forwarded (i.e. are directly read by the user) received a different notification (you can read it here). Copy of Client Notification (Forwarded Version)…

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Heartbleed Security Bug and Your Email / Google Account (Normal)

Emerge2 has sent out two versions of this courtesy security notification to mailboxes that were originally setup by Emerge2. Mailboxes that are auto-forwarded to another address received a different notification (you can read it here). Mailboxes that are not auto-forwarded (i.e. are directly read by the user) received this notification (below). Copy of Client Notification…

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The Reality of Facebook Promotions

“Most businesses don’t have tens of thousands of Facebook fans. Most don’t have hundreds of thousands of website visitors. So it’s easy for the social media expert in your neighborhood to follow the hippie’s and tree-hugger’s version of social media and say Facebook advertising and promotions are bad.” “We ran a one-week experiment at my…

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An Email Newsletter Done Right

“I’ve signed up for enough newsletters to know it was an automated message welcoming me to the list but I was surprised at what I found. What followed was an email with a truly personal touch. It made it feel like we’ve been friends before but lost touch over the years. In no way was…

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Email Marketing 2.0 is Facebook and More

Link: Email Marketing 2.0 is Facebook and More “The changes to Email Marketing will not end with Facebook. Email Marketing 2.0 should look vastly different from today’s email marketing. With all due respect to the email providers integrating social sharing into email, that does not make email marketing a platform for sharing and discussing. It…

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