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After the damage inflicted on its reputation by the YouTube video of its employees' unsavoury conduct, Dominos President Patrick Doyle has responded with a video of his own in an attempt to reassure its customers.
In the YouTube video, Doyle assures us that the employees have been sacked and it will do all it can to avoid a repeat of the incident, but is this enough to recover from the damage that has been done to the brand?
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by Graham Charlton 16 April 2009 14:03pm 4 comments
Keeping an eye on mentions of your brand / company on Twitter is important, and pretty easy to do, with the range of Twitter search tools available, but one measure of your success on the site is the number of retweets you are getting.
I've just come across a useful tool (though it has been around for a few months) that allows you to see how many retweets you are getting on Twitter, as well as tracking the most popular Twitter users.
Developed by Mike Sheetal of UltraSuperNew, Retweetist tracks and ranks Retweets; I've been trying it out...
by Graham Charlton 16 April 2009 11:00am 1 comment
According to comScore, traffic to Twitter surged in March to nearly 10m uniques, up a whopping 131% in a single month, driven in large part by middle-aged users. Twitter's remarkable growth has everyone speculating about a possible acquisition.
Facebook made an offer, but it was turned down. And recently rumors have been circulating that Google might have an interest in the microblogging startup.
by Patricio Robles 16 April 2009 08:59am 2 comments
Twitter, the wildly-popular microblogging service that's the topic du jour amongst digital marketers these days, had a really bad weekend.
First, on Friday it came to light that a Twitter-oriented advertising network called Magpie was being used by affiliates to promote spammy affiliate links on Twitter. The affiliate links were presented as 'testimonial' tweets and the users who sent them did not directly disclose that their tweets were paid.
by Patricio Robles 14 April 2009 08:30am 9 comments
In this age of specialization, it's no surprise that we've seen specialization on the agency side.
And that means it's no surprise that somebody has decided to start an agency for the hottest social media service on the internet right now: Twitter.
by Patricio Robles 09 April 2009 17:10pm 25 comments
DiGiorno is launching its new flatbread pizza via traditional media channels -- and on one not-so-traditional one. The brand is looking for highly influential twitterers and will be offering to deliver pies to their tweetups.
"We've always been out there with a lot of different media touch points, with a combination of online and offline," Tom Moe, director-marketing for Kraft's DiGiorno brand, told AdAge. "We're always looking for the newest and most relevant places to be in both areas, and we thought this would be a great offer to combine with Twitter."
by Rebecca Lieb 09 April 2009 17:02pm 2 comments
Digg recently released a URL shortener that doesn't take customers to your website. It wraps your website in a Digg frame instead. This presents a number of challenges.
by Andrew Girdwood 09 April 2009 11:45am 3 comments
Yahoo has a lot of work to do as it looks to rebuild under new CEO Carol Bartz. Bartz has assets to work with, namely Yahoo's diverse portfolio of highly-trafficked properties.
One of the biggest challenges: figuring out a way to pull them all together, both from an operational standpoint and a functional standpoint.
by Patricio Robles 08 April 2009 11:30am 1 comment
With all of the talk about social media and Marketing 2.0, it's easy to overlook less exciting marketing tools. Like coupons.
But make no mistake about it: coupons are in vogue as consumers look for every opportunity to save money. That means business is good for players in the online coupon industry.
by Patricio Robles 08 April 2009 10:05am 2 comments
If you want to keep an eye on what is being said about your company / brand on the web, then searching Twitter is pretty essential nowadays.
Twitter is currently testing new versions of its search engine and it needs to, because the current version can be frustrating to use at times. There are plenty of third party Twitter search tools around though, so I've been trying out a few of them...
by Graham Charlton 08 April 2009 09:50am 6 comments


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Student Chapter Alternative Representative | Daniel Alemneh |
To assure Chapters of a voice in Society activities, the Chapter Assembly advises the Board of Directors on all matters involving the mutual interests of the Chapters. The Chapter Assembly consists of an elected or appointed representative from each Chapter. The Assembly Director, elected by the Assembly as its presiding officer, serves on the ASIS&T Board of Directors. The Chapter Assembly Director is assisted in matters relating to the Chapter Assembly by the Deputy Chapter Assembly Director and the Chapter Assembly Advisory Committee.


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And now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine.
The Washington Post gave about the same coverage same amount of coverage to Sunday's birthday festivities in the nation's capital.
As it did to January's march for life rally here in Washington.
However the crowd sizes for the rallies were vastly different despite cold and rainy conditions.
For both events examiner reports organizer.
Earth Day network's expected tens of thousands of people to show up.
For a full roster of speakers and performers.
-- the numbers we're somewhere between forty.
And several hundred.
Meanwhile the pro life rally did draw tens of thousands of people with the Washington Post estimating more than 171000.
Participants on that.
Former MF global CEO Jon Corzine is currently under federal investigation for his role in the brokerage firm's collapse after the disappearance of as much as.
One point six billion dollars of customer thoughts.
However that hasn't stopped him from playing a large role in president Obama's 2012 reelection effort.
Corzine is listed by the campaign as having raised at least 500000 dollars bundling donations.
At the end of last year the Obama campaign returned Corzine's personal contributions.
In the wake of the and a global scandal.
Again Corzine the former democratic governor of New Jersey has testified on Capitol Hill that he does not know.
What happened to the one point six billion dollars of and that global funds.
Finally Florida congressmen Republican congressman Allen west was disinvited.
From keynote speaker duties at a local NAACP fund raiser that was supposed to happen Saturday.
The Huffington Post reports at issue recent comments from west -- some eighty house Democrats are members of the Communist Party.
West has stood by those comments despite Massachusetts democratic congressman Barney Frank saying quote.
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One of the key advantages of a public utility is its investment in the community—sharing common goals, contributing to the funding of vital public services, and making capital improvements that strengthen its ability to provide value to citizens.
In late 2011, Pasadena Water and Power ("PWP") staff and the community came together in the face of a powerful windstorm that caused considerable damage throughout the city. Despite the severity of the storm, PWP crews, assisted by contractors and mutual aid from our neighboring public power agencies, were able to restore electricity to 90 percent of affected customers within 48 hours. The ability to quickly respond to service issues is attributable in large part to our ongoing commitment to improve reliability and upgrade infrastructure in the power and water distribution systems.
PWP continues to leverage the benefits of technology to achieve business enterprise and productivity goals, and manage data complexity. A new information technology strategic plan has been created that will guide the prioritization and implementation of major technology projects over the next five years. Our efforts are continually directed at operating efficiently by reducing costs and optimizing infrastructure performance. This past fiscal year, PWP has also undertaken studies to address the costs of service delivery and create equitable water and power rate structures that also reflect new developments and regulations within the utility industries.
We recently reexamined our Electric Integrated Resource Plan, making updates to reflect current market conditions and customer attitudes. Along with pilot projects to implement advanced technologies that can increase energy efficiency, PWP is on track to exceed the state's renewable portfolio standard ("RPS") goals.
PWP's objective, as always, is to generate proactive communication with customers and stakeholders to help establish a shared vision. Customer input was incorporated into both the updated power resource plan as well as the extensive operational and service delivery assessments that accompanied the development of the Information Technology strategic plan.
PWP was able to augment its local water supply in Fiscal Year 2012, thereby reducing its dependence on imported water. By the end of 2012, two additional local wells are expected to come online as part of the NASA-funded Monk Hill Water Treatment Plant. PWP is also participating in projects to capture tunnel and stream water that will further boost local resources. Rebates and water-wise workshops continue to make a significant impact in irrigation related water savings. Rising compliance-related costs and the current economic climate continue to provide challenges for California utilities. PWP generated approximately $240.3 million in operating revenues in Fiscal Year 2012. We also invested $33.2 million in water and power infrastructure improvements, 58 percent of which was directly related to Master Plan projects. An additional $4 million was spent in windstorm-related repairs. PWP also contributed almost $19.2 million to the City's General Fund to support vital public services that benefit the entire community.
Reflecting on our achievements as well as the recent windstorm, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the citizens and businesses of Pasadena for their cooperation, neighboring communities for their valuable aid, and to PWP staff and crews for their tremendous efforts to restore utility services to the city. Accompanied by the leadership of City Council and City management, PWP is committed to demonstrating the benefits of a public utility as we all work together to build a sustainable future for Pasadena.
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Jean Kalicki is a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP focusing on international arbitration as both arbitrator and counsel. As arbitrator she has served as chair, sole arbitrator, and co-arbitrator in a wide variety of disputes before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). As counsel, she has represented investors and states in roughly equal numbers under bilateral investment treaties, NAFTA and the Energy Charter Treaty, and in commercial cases has represented clients (including the United Nations) in cases involving five continents.
Ms. Kalicki is a member of the AAA Board of Directors, the ICC Commission on Arbitration, and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She is the long-time co-chair of the DC Bar's International Dispute Resolution Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. She teaches as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and American University Washington College of Law.
Ms. Kalicki has been widely recognized for her leadership in the field. Selected as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" for international arbitration (2010-2012) and as one of Global Arbitration Review's top 30 women in arbitration worldwide (2007), she "is considered outstanding by market sources" (Chambers USA, 2012) and has been described as "a thorough, meticulous and highly motivated arbitrator" (Chambers USA, 2011), as "simply superb" (The Legal 500, 2008), and as "an incredible investigator and researcher who is gifted at identifying key issues" and "knows how to use legal analysis to structure the best argument possible" (Chambers USA, 2008). She is also repeatedly listed in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers and International Who's Who of Business Lawyers.
Ms. Kalicki was associated from 1991-1998 with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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The Legal 500 Latin America 2013 for International Arbitration
The Best Lawyers in America 2010-2014 for International Arbitration
Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business: Ranked for International Arbitration in 2007-2013; described in the 2012 edition as "considered outstanding by market sources," with "particular expertise in ICSID arbitrations" in a "prominent practice [that] spans representation of both sovereign states and investors"; in the 2011 edition as "a thorough, meticulous and highly motivated arbitrator" and in the 2008 edition as "an incredible investigator and researcher who is gifted at identifying key issues" and "knows how to use legal analysis to structure the best argument possible"
Washington, DC Super Lawyers 2013 for International Arbitration
Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2013 for International Arbitration: USA
Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration (2009-2013): Included as an "Expert in Commercial Arbitration"
Women in Litigation "Top 250" 2012
The Legal 500 US: Recommended for International Arbitration in 2007-2008 and 2010-2012 and described in the 2008 edition as "simply superb"
International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration: Ranked annually in 2007-2012
Euromoney's Guide to Women in Business Law 2010: included as an Expert in Commercial Arbitration
Global Arbitration Review, listed as one of the top 30 "Women in Arbitration" worldwide in 2007
Global Arbitration Review "100 Names to Know" 2010
Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (Litigation Practice in International Arbitration), 2005–present
Adjunct Professor/Faculty Expert, American University Washington College of Law, Summer Program on International Arbitration (Investment Treaty Arbitration), 2006–present
Chair/Co-Chair, District of Columbia Bar International Dispute Resolution Committee, 2001-present.
Member, Board of Directors, American Arbitration Association, 2010-present
Member, ICC Commission on Arbitration; ICC Task Force on Reducing Time and Costs in Complex Arbitration; ICC Task Force on National Rules of Procedure for Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
Chair, US Council for International Business, Arbitration Subcommittee for Washington, DC
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US FDA's changing culture: what every food company needs to know
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is undergoing a major culture change, and nowhere is that impact being felt more than in the food industry. While visibly preparing new regulations to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the agency is quietly becoming much more inspection-oriented and enforcement-minded, even before FSMA is fully implemented. This trend will only continue as FDA completes FSMA rulemaking and begins enforcing the act.
This cultural change means that the practices that made food companies successful in the past may not be enough to make them successful today. Companies must be fully prepared for today's FDA inspections or expect to face enforcement consequences. This article outlines FDA's recent increased emphasis on inspections and enforcement, and discusses the steps food companies can take to get ready…
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SALINAS, Calif.- More controversy in the legal battle between the Monterey County Sheriff and one of his sergeants.
Wednesday, we told you a judge rejected a temporary restraining order against Sheriff Scott Miller, by Sergeant Archie Warren.
This investigation started after Sgt. Archie Warren was transferred from the narcotics unit to the coroner's division.
Warren's attorney, David Mastagni claims, "Without anything further, officer Warren has shown he's been retaliated against."
But today, Sheriff Miller's attorney said that's not true. This investigation has nothing to do with Jacob Miller's arrest, "It had to do with another matter where the Sergeant disclosed info to the public through the press about an unrelated narcotic action."
Miller's attorney explained the investigation is to find out whether Warren leaked information to the media about a marijuana bust.
Martin Mayer said the Sheriff's Office wants to know what Warren said about the bust planned for the same time Miller talked publicly about his son's arrest last week.
Mayer said the bust was canceled because of the leak.
This was all supposed to be confidential. It wasn't even entered into evidence during Wednesday's hearing, but both sides say it's obvious what happened after it showed up in today's Monterey Herald.
"The article indicates that it was someone in the Sheriff's Office. I have no idea where that info came from," said Mayer.
But Warren's attorney said no matter how the info was released, it's a bogus attempt to hurt Warren's case.
"The fact the Sheriff's Department has gone public that is to the media with quote, a new investigation, is a further violation of the Peace Officer Bill of Rights, the penal code, and the right to confidentiality of the effected officers and the department," said Mastagni.
Everyone will be back in court at the end of August. That is the chance Miller's camp has to defend the allegations of retaliation.
Warren's side will ask for an injunction. Basically a stop to any further possible retaliation.


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Converting images with Kim
With a Konqueror-integrated service menu called Kim, you can modify and manipulate image files through a handy context menu.
Whereas Windows has let applications
add functions to the
Explorer file manager for some
time, KDE version 3.2 was the first version
of KDE to give users this ability.
KDE 3.3 included a version of Konqueror
with a separate context menu for image
files. Thanks to this menu, users can
right click to view, rotate, and scale
images directly from within Konqueror.
The KDE Image Menu ( Kim) by
Charles Bouveyron [1] takes this feature
a step farther. Kim gives you far more
options than a Windows user can
expect. The context menu allows users
to convert, compress, rotate, crop, and
mail images in various formats via Konqueror.
The program can even create an
MPEG clip from an image directory. Kim
draws on the functionality of the
ImageMagick [2] image manipulation
program and Mpegtools [3]. Kim also
integrates Kalbum [4], a KDE program
designed for creating Web galleries and
photo albums.
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