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How to Avoid Email Hubris and Costly Fines

      Email hubris is spamming your friends and everyone else in your contact database without their consent. Like trying to resist a danish with coffee in the morning, it is hard to contain your enthusiasm.  You want to share the next great product or service with everyone.       To keep you in check from spewing forth [...]

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Plagiarism Sites

This week has been tough. I’ve been on overdrive for the past few days, adjusting to changes at work, keeping up with whatever the family is doing, and packing for vacation. This is the first vacation that my husband and I have taken in years. I am so looking forward to it….Anyway, before I left [...]

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Is the Interconnectivity of Blogging a Legal Tightrope?

Blogging is fun.  It seems innocuous enough…that is, until one day you find a seething comment about your competitor on your blog.  At first glance, you might read the contribution as a gift, because you didn’t have the guts to be so brutally honest.  Maybe the information revealed feels like a relief because you realize others [...]

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How Legal is Your Blog?

Before I started this blog I was concerned about the legal aspects of the written word. Unlike journalism where the reporters’ code is to cross check the fact against at least two sources, this relatively new medium has no checks and balances and only loosely restricted.  Many years ago, my mom wrote what I consider [...]

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