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You really owe it to yourself.
I need you to delete one or more, if not all, of your Facebook Business Pages right now.
Every Conference. Every Webinar. Every Blogger.
For the last three years I have witnessed and taught more classes on Facebook than any other topic, by a mile.
Most of the classes included strategies and ideas on how to create and run a successful Facebook Business Page.
Start one for your neighborhoods, start one for your city, start one for your niche, start one for your brokerage and while you are at it, start one where you talk about 365 things to do around town.
It’s what you all wanted by the way, the elusive line in the sand between the personal use and business use of Facebook.
We failed. Now please take action.
90% of new restaurants close their doors in the first year because for whatever reason their venture fails.
By taking a dime a dozen approach to Facebook Pages by the real estate industry, at both the teaching and implementation levels, I am positive that MORE than 90% of Pages started in the last three years have failed.
How long has it been since your last post?
Have you gotten any business you can directly attribute to your efforts?
Screw that. You know if you need to do this.
Unlike a brick and mortar go at it, failing online, especially with a free Facebook Business Page, is cheap in regards to the hard dollar cost.
The more important question to think about is what does the cost of that failure subtract from your brand?
What does it subtract from your focus?
What does it subtract from your time?
When a restaurant fails they pack up, they take down all of their branding, they give back the keys and they CLOSE FOR GOOD.
I am asking you to also do that.
Please close your Facebook Pages that failed.
Facebook provides step by step instructions here on how to do so quickly.
I am hoping that this message resonates and then spreads far and wide, sorry Zuck.
If you disagree, I would imagine there are some strong opinions from the “gurus” on this topic, the comments are open and I would love to hear what you think.
It will be, by all accounts, the greatest sports team ever assembled.
''Nobody has ever seen anything like this group of players,'' said Indiana Pacers General Manager Donnie Walsh, a member of the selection committee that will announce its choices Saturday for the top 10 spots on the 1992 U.S. Olympic men`s basketball team, the first time National Basketball Association professionals wi...
Patrick Ewing, the Jazz`s Karl Malone and John Stockton, the Warriors` Chris Mullin and the Celtics` Larry Bird.
Consider the possibilities: Air flying and Magic doing his tricks, Larry offering the stuff of legend, the Mailman delivering and the Admiral steering a course.
It`s the man with the highest career scoring average in the history of the NBA playing alongside the best playmaker in the game`s history. Then there`s the game`s best ever at his position, Bird, while Robinson already may be the most versatile ever to play center.
With Jordan, Johnson and Bird, the team will have the league`s last eight MVP award winners; Johnson and Stockton give it the leaders in assists the last six seasons; and Jordan gives it the league`s leader in scoring the last five seasons.
So who are the backups here? Barkley, who`ll be bumping bodies into the Pyrenees, or Malone, who casually averages 30 points and 10 rebounds annually and has armies turn away when he`s running at full speed in their direction?
The Soviet people needn`t have risen up. These guys certainly would have destroyed the Communist party on the way to their own victory party.
And that`s really how all of this began.
And they were. Teams from the Soviet Union, East Germany and Yugoslavia were comprised of athletes paid by their nations and trained for such events. The U.S. continued to use 19- and 20-year-old collegians.
The collegians were good enough until the world caught up. And now they were beating the U.S. at the game the U.S. invented. It all became too much, and the NBA cavalry was called.
Its players certainly were the best, as were its coaches. That is why the Pistons` Chuck Daly is head coach and collegiate coaches are assistants. It was made pretty clear to the collegians that the pros were taking over.
Of course, the big question remains, Is it all necessary? Isn`t a fly swatter enough to kill a pesky insect? Why a sledge hammer?
And that`s certainly what this team will do. It will turn opponents into granulated crystals. They`ll sparkle only if one looks close enough. The international community is bringing cubic zirconia to the bazaar while the NBA offers only sparkling, 64-carat diamonds. And it`s not even the best team the NBA could assembl...
This is a team of stars with the likes of Jordan, Johnson, Bird, Barkley, Malone and Mullin. And why not? It`s the first time NBA players will compete in the Olympics, and perhaps the principal area of expansion on the NBA agenda is international. The NBA wants to sell its game and its merchandise overseas. So why not ...
This is the invasion of Grenada all over again.
For not only is an NBA talent infusion unnecessary for a U.S. team to win in the Olympics, despite the events of recent history, but the world has changed dramatically in the last year.
First off, the 1988 Olympic team coached by anyone other than John Thompson would have won a gold medal. With talent like Robinson, Danny Manning and Mitch Richmond, among other current NBA stars, only Thompson`s dictatorial ways robotized the team enough to cost it a victory. That`s why one thing was made clear to the...
And even though the U.S. has not won in recent competitions like the Pan Am Games, none of those competitions, other than the Olympics, drew the best among the U.S. collegiate players.
In fact, it would be hard to imagine this team not winning in the 1992 Olympics: Shaquille O`Neal, Christian Laettner, Clarence Weatherspoon, Jim Jackson and Todd Day, with the likes of Alonzo Mourning, Calbert Cheaney and Terry Dehere playing a backup role.
They might give an NBA All-Star team fits. And now the U.S. faces the 1992 Olympics in men`s basketball playing, what, Serbia or Croatia instead of Yugoslavia? Lithuania and Latvia instead of the Soviet Union.
International reordering has reduced the competition to mere annoyances. That also takes the luster off the event. Ask anyone their greatest Olympic Games thrill, and you`re likely to hear about the 1980 U.S. hockey team that defeated the Soviets. Americans love David and Goliath stories. Now, however, the U.S. in bask...
The U.S. team only can lose in these games. A victory is expected-almost demanded-with pros. And who`s interested in seeing the big guys win every time? How much fun was baseball when the Yankees won every year? The world basketball community has been reduced to a bunch of also-rans.
Which is why this isn`t even the best team the NBA could offer. It should be the most well known, if also the most reluctant, with Jordan and Bird, assuming they finally accept the call in the national TV show Saturday, as members. That`s why the team is talking about having its practices in Monte Carlo, close to both ...
If you were building the team to win, you might want some role players, some defenders. Put Bird, Barkley, Mullin and Johnson on the floor at the same time, and it will be like the autobahn. Nobody gets stopped.
Will Malone be willing to rebound and not score? How about Barkley?
Ewing? Someone will have to. Is Mullin there to set screens? Pippen? It won`t matter.
Jordan probably is the team`s best defensive player as well as offensive player. But does the team need him to win? Of course not.
The talent is overwhelming and the opposition dubious. And the corporate sponsors who hire these people will be wearing the widest grins.
If you just want to grab some paper, here is a list of papers. I also have on line my CV and professional statement (the latter overlapping, to some extent, with this page).
In the last few years my main research theme has been to develop, and practice, what I call practice-oriented provable security. This line of work bridges the gap between cryptographic theory and cryptographic practice. The approach falls within the provable-security tradition of modern cryptography, as first carried o...
Recurring themes in my work include: (1) bringing provable security to bear on practical problems like entity authentication and session-key distribution; (2) using finite pseudorandom functions (or finite pseudorandom permutations) as a way to bring provable-security to constructions based on confusion/diffusion (ie.,...
Building on sensibilities, paradigms, and techniques that have arisen from the provable security tradition, I have worked to fashion a line of research that is simultaneously useful and foundationally strong. In large part, this line of research was developed in collaboration with Mihir Bellare, of UCSD. We have built ...
Practice-oriented provable security has steadily gained in importance, and my own papers have been cited about 14,000 times. At every major conference one now sees papers that seem to follow our approach. Nowadays, concrete security analysis is about as popular as asymptotic analysis; the random-oracle model is extensi...
Symmetric encryption. In 1982 Goldwasser and Micali introduced the provable-security approach to cryptography by treating asymmetric (public key) encryption. • In [se] we give a concrete, systematic analysis of symmetric encryption. We describe four definitions, all of them equivalent from the point of view of polynomi...
Message authentication. Message authentication lets communicating partners who share a secret key verify that a received message originates with the party who claims to have sent it. The sender computes, as a function of the message and the shared key, a "tag" (or "MAC", for "message authentication code") which he atta...
Fast cryptography. One of the reasons that cryptography is not used more pervasively is the assumed-to-be-high computational cost for doing bulk software encryption and bulk software message authentication. • The SEAL algorithm we proposed in '93 remains the fastest published method for symmetric encryption. It encrypt...
Asymmetric encryption. The RSA primitive f(x) = x^e mod N is not used (and should not be used) directly to encrypt a string; instead, asymmetric encryption is accomplished by an (often ignored) protocol which sits on top of the RSA primitive. For example, RSA-based encryption is often done using "Public Key Cryptograph...
Random oracles. Many cryptographic goals have been solved in the provable-security tradition, but only by virtue of protocols too inefficient to be competitive with what ad. hoc techniques already provide. Indeed this is one of the reasons that provable security has often been ignored by security practioners. • In [ro]...
Authenticated key exchange. The problem is how two parties can authenticate each other across the network and/or obtain a joint session key (the latter problem is the more useful.) The adversarial model envisages an active adversary who can, among other abilities, start multiple sessions of different entities. Many pro...
Formal encryption. In joint work with Martín Abadi, our paper "Reconciling Two Views of Cryptography" spans two very different ways to look at cryptography. One way (Martín's world) relies on a simple but effective formal approach. The other way (my world) relies on a detailed computational model that considers complex...
Secure function evaluation. I have not worked in this area for a long time, but the secure function evaluation (SFE) problem is certainly interesting. In this problem a group of "players", each of whom holds his own private input, wish to evaluate some function on these private inputs in a way that reveals only the cor...
Complexity theory. I haven't been doing complexity theory of late, but perhaps I will return to it. • In [qp] we show that, under a complexity assumption, there is no polynomial-time approximation algorithm (even with a terrible guarantee) for the problem of QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING. Compared to what came later, the techn...
Maurizio Sarri has cranked up the Chelsea charm offensive aimed at keeping Eden Hazard at the club by insisting the Belgian can win everything by staying at Stamford Bridge.
And one Chelsea supporter has played his part by paying £7,000 to try to help the club convince Hazard to sign a new contract.
The fan, who wants to remain anonymous, has personally funded a 100x50ft banner, which reads ‘Eden Hazard we want you to stay’ and will be displayed during Saturday’s lunchtime kick-off against Manchester United.
Chelsea fanzine cfcuk was approached by the fan, who supplied the image of Hazard’s knee-slide celebration and the wording he wanted to be used, to organise the making of the banner that will be displayed in the Lower Matthew Harding Stand.
Hazard is waiting to see whether or not Real Madrid promise to make a big push to sign him next summer, before deciding whether or not to re-sign with Chelsea. He last week claimed that a move to Spain may help his chances of winning the Ballon d’Or, despite going into the United game on the back of eight goals in his ...
Another player Chelsea may face a battle to keep is Andreas Christensen, who will ask to leave Chelsea if he is not playing by Christmas, according to the central defender’s father and agent Sten.
Danish international Christensen has only played three times for Chelsea this season and is yet to make a single appearance in the Premier League.
Christensen spent two successful seasons on loan at Borussia Monchengladbach, but Sten added: “For me it’s not a loan again. Either it’s Chelsea or else he needs to leave. I don’t think a loan is the optimal situation for Andreas. It’s sort of either or.
“I think, unfortunately, Chelsea have too many players who just go out on loan if [the club] isn’t going to use them and I don’t think Andreas should get caught in that.
My youngest, now 19 months, wasn’t so much into the trick or treating. She followed her brother dutifully behind. She kept him from racing from house to house in his quest for candy since we told him that he (Obi Wan Kenobi) had to have his sidekick (Yoda) with him when doorbell ringing commenced.
I have, at this point, hidden all the Halloween books. Well, they aren’t hidden too far, just on one end of my son’s bookshelf. He would actually have to look for them instead of just grabbing randomly.
I have some hope of switching gears in the next week or so to Thanksgiving.
Stephanopoulos reports—without comment—that Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), who is the Chair of the Senate Budget Committee and serves on the Deficit Reduction Commission, favors extending all the Bush tax cuts as part of his plan to reduce the deficit. On this score, Conrad echoes the Republican “Pledge for America.” One pro...
In theory, of course, there is a point at which lowering the tax rate actually should increase tax revenues, by encouraging people to work and earn more. But there is little reason to believe we are at that point. In fact, as Ruth Marcus points out, tax revenue fell from 21% of GDP in 2000, the year before the Bush tax...
So far from helping eliminate the deficit, extending the Bush tax cuts would make it much worse. The idea that tax cuts will reduce the deficit—shared by politicians on both sides of the aisle—is pure have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too fantasy. The same can be said of the idea that we can reduce the deficit by cutting non-d...
Politicians get elected by selling the idea that we can avoid hard choices, and that we can get government for free. The hard truth they want to avoid is that if we want to have the best military in the world and keep entitlements programs like Medicare, we’re going to have to pay for them.
Art Institute's section winner, Jonathan Ayala.
Can’t you see it? They show up every time a well is drilled or fracked next to a school or park. They record the noise and play it back outside city council members’ homes at 2 a.m. Instead of Anonymous masks, they wear the visages of mayors and Chesapeake Energy officials and the Texas Railroad Commission executives w...
Longtime TV news anchor Gloria Campos is a household name in the Metroplex. In March, she walked away from a 30-year career at WFAA. Covering everything from political conventions, presidential inaugurations, and the funerals of Ann Richards and Ronald Reagan to local tragedies and triumphs, Campos was always in the mo...
Sure, his “laugh” is annoying. Coming from his mouth instead of his belly, it sounds forced. And like nearly every other sports pundit in North Texas, he only pays lip service to the Dallas Stars. But the 30-plus-year broadcast veteran approaches football, baseball, and basketball (and the ponies) with an equal mix of ...
Tragically, many newspaper journalists could never make it as movie stars or underwear models –– we have faces (and bodies) for print, to paraphrase the old saw about radio personalities. But then longtime Star-Telegram sports writer Mac “Big Mac” Engel started doing regular YouTube vids with Randy Galloway, as well as...
Local morning news shows tend to rely on acerbic, slightly goofy male anchors, a la Tim Ryan, Ron Corning, and Brendan Higgins (well, at least until Higgins got fired after getting drunk and rowdy in Aspen last month). The male anchors mostly rely on smart and pretty female co-anchors to chuckle and pretend to be shock...
There’s no mistaking that pterodactyl laugh once “The Hardline” gets rolling on The Ticket. Since taking the co-host slot in 2007 after years as producer, Corby Davidson has been on his game. In his early years, Davidson was thought of as a funny guy who stepped aside when the sports talk got too deep. Now he displays ...
No matter what’s on the front page of the Star-Telegram, Sanders’ column almost always provides meaningful food for thought. His topics run the gamut from botched state executions to immigration issues, and he’s not afraid to tell it like it is. In addition, Sanders is an active and entertaining public speaker. His cur...
First Congregational United Church of Christ practiced what it preached about inclusion and hired Arlington native Lee Ann Bryce as its minister, making her perhaps the only openly lesbian minister leading a mainstream church in North Texas. Bryce does a beautiful job of promoting peaceful, loving coexistence without b...
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While I am honored to be a recipient of the 2014 Critic’s Award in the Watchdog category, I would like to correct a couple of details. While the railing against gas drilling for several years at Arlington City Hall is true, I would like to clarify that I was not a key player in the Dalworthington Gardens case of XTO’s ...
Jane, you deserve all the kudos there are. You stepped up years ago, pushed through your quiet, reserved nature and transformed yourself into a force that cannot be ignored. You have helped shepherd many others into that role also. You are a leader and a light.
Yeah I nominated Jane Lynn last year for the GreenSourceDFW community activist award…she has the heart and will of a beast!!!
Long a recognized figure in the music industry — she was head of the Music and Entertainment Marketing at Pepsi before joining Beats by Dre in 2014, which was purchased by Apple shortly after she arrived — Saint John stepped onto the global stage a year ago at the Apple WWDC, where she grooved to Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapp...
Her new role makes a high-profile statement for Uber, which has faced accusations of sexual harassment from female employees in recent months.
While at Apple, Saint John worked on such campaigns as the ad for Taylor Swift’s workout wipdeout and another starring Mary J. Blige, Kerry Washington and Taraji P. Henson. At Pepsi, led teams that created partnerships with film studios for product placement, record labels for commercial deals, and the sports industry ...
Prior to Pepsi, Boz served as Vice President of Marketing for Ashley Stewart (a women’s fashion brand) and managed accounts at advertising agencies Arnold Worldwide and Spike Lee’s SpikeDDB. It was in the latter job that her professional relationship with Beyonce began, through a 2002 Pepsi commercial, which culminated...
Born in Connecticut and raised in Kenya, Ghana, Washington DC and Colorado, she was named 2016’s Female Executive of the Year by Billboard Magazine, featured in Fortune Magazine’s Disruptors, Innovators & Stars 40 Under 40 feature, Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People, Ad Age’s 50 Most Creative People, Ebony Magazin...

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