Kammy Burleson, founder of YNot Web, will be speaking in February at the Entrepreneur’s Edge, an educational symposium for business owners hosted by the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Sacramento chapter.  Kammy will be presenting, “Social Media 201: Best Practices for using Social Media effectively for Business.”  

In this break-out session, Kammy will be teaching participants how to use LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter with actual demonstrations of the social media sites and her recommended tools and techniques for managing each from a small business perspective.  Kammy will answer participants questions and help them discover strategies to effectively incorporate social media into their marketing plan, regardless of the size of their business or budget.

This will be the second year Kammy has been invited to speak at the Entrepreneur’s Edge.  The event is open to all Sacramento area business owners and potential business owners.  The 2010 event is scheduled for Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:00pm – 7:30pm at IKEA in West Sacramento. For complete details and to register, see the Entrepreneur’s Edge listing on the NAWBO website.

Kammy Burleson, owner of YNot Web, will be speaking this month at the American Business Women’s Association (ABWA) on the topic of Online Visibility and Promotion.  This presentation will be hosted by the Placer County chapter of the ABWA.  The ABWA-Placer County meets at 6pm on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at Coach’s Classic Bar & Grill in Rocklin, CA.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 6:00 PM the ABWA Placer County Chapter presents:

“How to Gain Visibility in an Ever-Growing Sea of Competition”

To learn more about the meeting and the ABWA-Placer County Chapter, please visit their website at:

http://www.abwa-placercounty.com/

Recently I received a Phishing scam email that was written to target people who host websites with a popular hosting company (in this instance, HostGator clients). The email subject was “web hosting update” and read:
“Due to the system maintenance, we kindly ask you to take a few minutes to confirm your FTP details.
Please confirm your FTP details by using the link below:”

As with all Phishing attemplts, the link did not link to Hostgator servers, but the scammers fake, deceptive website. You can generally view the destination URL by hovering OVER a link in an email in programs such as Outlook, noting that scammer URLS usually start out with what looks like a legitimate address but on careful examination continue on to a longer domain name (ex. http://paypal.com.leggtts.co.uk or such)

As always, be careful when receiving requests from companies to ‘confirm’ or ‘reset’ your login information. Always use your own bookmarked links to access your accounts, not one in an email that say “use the link below”.

Range of Light

This simple ecommerce site features an easy to update shop with shopping cart, Paypal payments, and RMA process.

See it at http://www.gorangeoflight.com

“I just want to say what a pleasure it is to working with you and thank you for getting me set-up on WordPress. Every day I use it I am reminded how easy you’ve made it for me and how great the site looks with minimal effort on my part.
It’s the end of the semester and I’m modifying the DVC site for next semester and I am truly amazed how easy you have made it for me. – Thanks

Last night Kammy Burleson, founder and president of Fair Oaks web design firm YNot Web, was elected to the executive officer position of Board Secretary for the Fair Oaks Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Ms. Burleson will be sworn in as an officer of the board at the upcoming Fair Oaks Chamber general membership meeting on Thursday, December 10, 2009 and will serve in this position for the chamber in 2010.

YNot Web founder and president, Kammy Burleson, an established Fair Oaks business owner and Fair Oaks Chamber member, was recently appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of the Fair Oaks Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Burleson was elected by the current members of the board to fill a recently vacated position beginning December 1, 2009.