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Better Business Bureau Fake Email Complaint Scam

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If you  have gotten any email like the one I posted below, it is FAKE.The thing is I am not sure what they are trying to do.When you are unsure of an email one thing you can always count on aremisspelled  words, and bad grammar such as in this case when they say the complaint is in respect to their dealership???? What the heck does that even mean? “with respect to their dealership with you.”   So I looked up the domain which is showing on the bogus link amazonandbeyond.com and it is listed below. No one answers that phone number of course.Also it looks like whoever bought it, added the privacy service. Here is the offical notice about the scam from the BBB, Better Business Bureau. If you know what exactly the scammers are trying to do please leave it in the comment section.This one is a bit puzzling for me. I usually can figure out what they are trying to do.It could be the scam link already got pulled so the infection or rip off they were trying to pull off is no good on this copy I got. Another tip I can offer you is if you are […]

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San Francisco Writers Conference Linda Lee- WordPress Master Class and Author Marketing with Social Media.

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WordPress Master Class and Author Marketing with Social Media. SFWCI am very pleased to be presenting two classes on Monday Feb 20th as part of the San Francisco Writers Conference  post conference “Master Classes”.In my first class, “Author Marketing with Social Media”,  9-12 we will go over the basics in helpful detail. This class is a smaller group so I will be able to work personally with each attendee. Bring your questions, your laptop or ipad and lets work! We will target the best ideas and choices for you as an author, and I have a few unexpected places and sources to share with you, where you can optimize your social media time and efforts. I like to simplfy and show you how to get the most out of the time you do have to promote yourself. Sign up and pay here: www.SFWriters.org Build Your Blog and They Will Come:Step-by-Step Creation of a WordPress Author Blog! Bring your laptops and if you need a WordPress blog/website, you will have one by the time you leave. If you already have a WordPress site we will look at it and work on it and improve it. Once again this will be very […]

8 Must-Have Elements For Your Author Website | Linda Lee | Author Solutions

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Author Solutions Webinar presented by Linda Lee Are you an author who needs help putting together your website? Do you have a website that needs some help and wonder what you are missing? Join me and Author Solutions, Oct 26, 2011 4:30 PST, 7:30 EST for this FREE webinar. This webinar can be viewed later of the Author Solutions-Author Learning Center. They offer all their webinars for free! Click here to sign up now as a guest and then sign up here for my webinar, and the login information will be sent to you via email to join us for “8 Must Have Elements For Your Author Website”. I also cover some alternate free methods and places you can promote yourself and your books and products. We will cover social meda badges, adding sample book content to your website, creating a sales page and much more. It is packed with great information. Not too complicated or hard to understand, just the facts with rock solid resources and directions to help you create the best Author Website for your needs. I speak in plain english not techspeak.  You can a.lso watch it again after the live Webinar is done so don’t […]

WordCamp San Francisco 2011 Volunteering

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I do professional Volunteer Coordinating for organizations as a  PT job so I am always involved with volunteer opportunities. Here is a good one for all Bay Area WordPress users. This will be my 4th year volunteering for #WCSF WordPress WordCamp San Francisco, and they just put their form up for those who are interested.  I can’t image doing this a week and half before a 3 day event, yipes, I do not envy that person. 😯 . I emailed a pitch for the job of Volunteer Coordinator for #WCSF to Matt Mullenweg, but he did not get back to me! Gee maybe he is busy or something, lol. Anyway I wanted to get this up for those of you who would like to attend and help behind the scenes, which to me is always more fun then just being an attendee. Click here for the 2011 Volunteer Form for WordCamp SF. If you volunteer this year and found out about it from my blog post, please leave me a comment below or stop by and say Hello at the event. I will be working there Saturday and Sunday. Not sure where yet, but I will update when I get my assignment. […]

Video of saving a whale from fishermans net. Are whales intelligent like humans?

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I went out to dinner with two of my friends, Elisa Southard, (author of “Break Through the Noise“) and Barbara Santos, (author of “Practice Aloha: Secrets to Living Life Hawaiian Style” ). We had a grand old time. We were celebrating Barbara’s birthday, (Happy Birthday Barb!), and Elisa asked us if we had seen the video of these people who work with the Great Whale Conservatory, saving a whale, and she emailed it to us. I got a kick out of the fact that as we were talking, Elisa could get on her Android phone  and email us a link, and look things up, like books we were discussing and other things in conversation. This is how modern life has evolved with technology today. The video is amazing and I just had to share it with you. It made me cry when they cut the humpback whale free from all these yards of netting it had gotten terribly tangled in and the whale was near death. It seemed to know they were helping it, and once free it put on a heck of show for them which seemed like a thank you to me and to them. This made me […]

Do you think twitter is dead?

Is Twitter dying or dead? Why Biz Stone the founder has left the company

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Will twitter die? Is twitter dying? What do you think? Who is really using Twitter today? When Twitter started, I seriously thought it would never catch on, ( but I also thought DVD players would not replace VHS, so I definitely can miss the boat big time.) Now wherever you go, any conference, any “Internet Marketing” type of gathering, you are told to use twitter and other “social media”. I even signed up and have been using Tweetdeck, since Tee Morris taught a class with me at the San Francisco Writers Conference on Social Media. (Update: Tweetdeck was absorbed by Twitter and they run a different program and interface with it now). Another tool that many people use that is a paid option is Hootsuite, they do offer a limited free program as well. Part of my philosophy about working online is to try to minimize distractions and stay the course on what you are trying to accomplish. So it was with great interest that I read this article about why the creator of Twitter, Biz Stone has left the company. Why Biz Stone really left Twitter. By FastCompany-2011 A few items jumped out at me. The majority of  Twitter users, […]

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What is a gravatar, and how do I get one?

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Many people ask me how to get a gravatar, or really they ask me this, ” How do I get one of those photos that will show up next to my name on other websites”? Many people do not even know what a gravatar is. A gravatar is an image you select , that is attached to whichever email you select, when you sign up for a gravatar here. http://en.gravatar.com/. This image to the left of me is a gravatar I custom created. I was just using my headshot, but I noticed many places I left a gravatar, left no way of knowing who I was or where I could found. I took one of my images and just added my business name on top there, and now I use this as one of my gravatars. Another nice thing with gravatars are you can have multiple emails and images attached to each email, so you do not have to have the same image all the time. What do you use a gravatar for? Well if you are online much, you problally have a business, a book, a product or just yourself that you would like to promote or have known […]

Make your website sticky so people stay on it

10 Ways to Make Your Website Sticky, CWC Berkeley Branch, May 15, 2011

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May 15 2011 California Writers Club, Berkeley Branch “10 Ways to Make Your Website Sticky” How can you get readers to come back to your site again and again? How do you engage readers and encourage loyalty and comments? So you have a website or a blog, now what? How can people find you? What are they looking for? How do you build up regular readers or followers? What are some good ideas to promote yourself online? These are just a few of the topics Linda Lee will be discussing with us in her presentation. Discover some easy and fun ways that you can “build your tribe online” and keep your readers coming back for more.

WordPress help and questions answered

WordPress broke my site after I updated, why does it do that and what caused it?

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    Dear Linda, My website broke after I updated WordPress! Why does that happen? How annoying.  Why is WordPress such a fuss budget?  My friend was just telling me all her photos stopped working on one of her sites (she has something that switches them up) they simply disappeared and she had to reload them all. Signed, Upset WordPress User Dear Upset, I am 95% sure it was not WordPress. It was one of your plugins. Many people think WordPress “runs” everything you use when you are working in WordPress, but they don’t. This can be confusing. Sometimes clients call me and say, ” I need to call WordPress, they need to fix this.” There is really no where you can call, it does not work like that. Here is why. WordPress is what is called an “Open Source Project“. Everything you see from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community.Which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it. As in the entire set up is completely FREE.  This also means the only customer […]