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Revival Fire For Kids is parnering with Kids Power Company and North Cleveland (TN) Church of God, in an effort to help with disaster relief for the people of Haiti. Operation KidPassion is the name of this relief effort. It is an outreach in which students are encouraged to get involved personally. They do this by filling a one-gallon size Ziploc bags with basic items that kids who have been orphaned and homeless due to the Earthquake need desperately.

Here’s some items you can fill the Ziploc bags with:

• Small Bible
• Socks
• T-shirts
• Shorts
• Sweats
• Socks
• Shampoo
• Toothbrush
• Toothpaste
• Comb
• Brush
• Lotion
• Chapstick
• Germ X
• Sandals
• Gum
• Candy
• Blankets
• Underwear
• First Aid Kit
• Beef Jerky
• Bottle Water
• Anti-bacterial Wipes

This immediate need is great! Hundreds of thousands of people and orphan children are living on the street! Please encourage your kids to quickly get involved! We are also partnering with Operation Compassion to get all the items shipped to Haiti ASAP. Please collect your bags no later than Sunday, January 24th. Our friends who are Kids Ministry leaders across the country, please encourage the kids in your church to get involved.

The jury is out on Microsoft Corp.’s new weapon in the fight against cybercriminals: the courts. A federal judge on Monday granted the company’s request for a court order to deactivate nearly 300 Internet addresses with a suspected link to the Waledac botnet, which pushes spam out of a worldwide network of PCs. read more

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Microsoft’s New Weapon Against Cybercrime Raises Questions

The jury is out on Microsoft Corp.’s new weapon in the fight against cybercriminals: the courts. A federal judge on Monday granted the company’s request for a court order to deactivate nearly 300 Internet addresses with a suspected link to the Waledac botnet, which pushes spam out of a worldwide network of PCs. read more

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Microsoft’s New Weapon Against Cybercrime Raises Questions

An amendment to the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act ( H.R. 2701 )

An amendment to the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act ( H.R. 2701 )

A company that verifies whether retail and other Web sites adequately secure customers’ personal information has agreed to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it misled its customers. read more

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Online Privacy and Security Certificate Company Settles with FTC

European Union interior ministers want to negotiate a new agreement on sharing bank data with U.S. counterterrorism investigators, after the European Parliament struck down an interim deal earlier this month, according to EUobserver.com . read more

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EU Wants to Try Again on Data-Sharing Agreement with the United States

Top 5 Real Estate Social Media Blunders:

1.    Talking about yourself to no end. Enough about me, let’s talk about ME! Yes, social media is social – but at some point, it is NOT all about you! This is tough in real estate, where you learn from every marketing person to ‘sell yourself’ and ‘you are your brand’ – which is true – but many people (especially the Gen X and Gen Y crowd) don’t want to hear all about you – they want to know about the interesting things going on in the community, in their neighborhood, local market stats, and other things that make what YOU do valuable to them.

2.    Only posting your listings. Major faux-pas!  Luckily I have not seen as much of this lately, but it’s still happening.   You can post your listings – but make sure you post other great content. (See my ideas in #1 above)

3.    Copying content and claiming it as yours. Big “no no” here. There is so much great content out there – it’s fine to use an excerpt of something and then credit the source, but don’t copy someone else’s  material and claim it as your own.

4.    TMI. There is a fine line between being social and giving out “too much information” – no need to tell your social network everything and anything!

5.    Speaking the same on Facebook as you do Twitter. Maybe this is my own irritation, but whenever I see hashtags and @ signs on Facebook I cringe a little. The language on Facebook is different than Twitter. I think it’s fine to duplicate messages on both channels (especially since a LOT of people are only on one of the channels and not both) – but if you do, take a moments to adjust your language to be more “Facebook friendly”