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WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. (AP) — There has been no word from the family of a Minnesota couple missing in the Italian cruise ship disaster since the search for missing people was called off.

Members of the Jerry and Barbara Heil family of White Bear Lake did not immediately return phone calls from The Associated Press on Tuesday. The family website has not been updated since last Wednesday.

The Heils are members of St. Pius X church in White Bear Lake. Parish administrator Larry Erickson says he has not heard from family members recently but that parishioners have been keeping the couple in their prayers.

Italian emergency officials decided to end the search due to the danger to rescue workers.

Seventeen bodies have been recovered. Sixteen people are listed as missing but are presumed dead.

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24-01-2012 23:49 FotoZap® connects real-world brand experiences to social networks. We snap a photo of a consumer at an event, retail location, show, or anywhere a brand wants to make waves. The consumer gets a card with instructions for retrieving the photo online, and logs in to share the image across social networks. The process generates millions of hits for brands, and thousands of brand impressions per photo captured. The FotoZap® App is available in the Android Marketplace, and it's coming soon to iOS. For more information about how your brand—big or small—can use FotoZap® to create meaningful connections online and in the real world, contact us at (949) 623-9889 or visit FotoZapApp.com and PictureMarketing.com.

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SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GraphEffect, a social marketing software company, announced today that Paul Ollinger, J.B. Kropp and Hari Menon have joined the company’s advisory board. In this capacity, they will provide counsel on business development, technology and advances into new markets.

“GraphEffect is playing a leading role in changing the social marketing landscape by providing Fortune 500 companies and global agencies the tools they need to discover new, influential audiences and to transform their best owned and earned content into paid media,” said James Borow, CEO of GraphEffect. “The wealth of knowledge, professional experience and strategic insights Paul, Hari and J.B. bring to the advisory board will be key in our continued profitable growth and development.”

Paul Ollinger, one of the original 250 employees at Facebook, helped lead business and sales growth for the company as West Region VP of Sales, working with some of the world’s most prominent marketers and Facebook’s top clients. Prior to joining Facebook, Mr. Ollinger held positions at LAUNCH.com and Yahoo, where he worked in sales, business development and content partnerships.

J.B. Kropp is a leader in interactive marketing and consumer generated media. Prior to joining Twitter in Strategic Partnerships, Mr. Kropp was an executive with Vitrue, a social media management company. Mr. Kropp launched a consumer marketing accelerator, The Brandery, and also led the product strategy and distribution efforts at ShareThis, developer of the social sharing tool that now reaches more than 400 million users across more than 500,000 websites. Mr. Kropp was a co-founder of one of the first online video sharing communities, Sharkle.com, which was acquired by Vitrue.

Hari Menon is a serial entrepreneur who advises and invests in companies around the world. Mr. Menon was most recently Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Ensemble at Collective Media, Inc. Mr. Menon joined Collective Media upon its acquisition of Tumri, Inc. where he was Founder and CEO. Prior to Tumri, Mr. Menon was the founder of Accordia and SixthDimension, and served as director of strategy and product marketing at Aspect Development, which was acquired by i2 Technologies.

They join current advisory members Brandon Berger, Bob Dees, Peter Hershberg and Dave Knox. Mr. Berger, Chief Digital Officer, Worldwide at Ogilvy, is a global digital leader responsible for digital resources in over 120 countries. Mr. Dees, recognized media expert and founder of DeesMadia, has led media buying strategy for Proctor and Gamble. Mr. Hershberg, active entrepreneur and angel investor, was Co-founder of Reprise Media, which was sold to IPG. He is currently Co-founder and Co-CEO of Social Plow. Mr. Knox, Chief Marketing Officer at Rockfish Interactive, is an experienced strategic marketer and brand builder. He is also Partner at Rockfish Brand Ventures.

GraphEffect is the foundation upon which the most successful social marketing initiatives are built. GraphEffect’s social marketing software helps brands and agencies simply and effectively manage, measure and optimize paid, owned and earned media, delivering performance at scale.

About GraphEffect

GraphEffect, a social marketing software company, enables companies to seamlessly integrate and manage their advertising and conversational marketing programs on a single platform. Large brands orchestrating multiple marketing agencies can use GraphEffect's collaboration tools to coordinate their efforts and measure bottom line impact. The company's platform is designed to work with any current or future social media channel, with the first release focusing on Facebook. GraphEffect was founded in 2010, and is backed by venture capital firms Lerer Ventures, Thrive Capital, Founder Collective, Rincon Venture Partners, CrossCut Ventures and Baroda Ventures. The company has offices in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.

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Angie of Angie’s Cake: Cake Balls and Cake Pops in Houston woke up to a startling discovery one morning when she learned that Itty Bitty Cake Pops of Calabasas, Calif., had stolen her cake ball images and displayed them as their own on Facebook. Angie, who has had much success through social media, boasting nearly 3,000 Likes on Angie’s Cake’s Facebook Page, raised awareness of the infraction with her fans on her Facebook wall. Fans rallied to support Angie’s claims, visiting Itty Bitty Cake Pops’ Facebook page and leaving comments. Later, Sally Rahban, CEO/President of Itty Bitty Cake Pops, apologized publicly to Angie’s Cake, citing that she was unaware and doesn’t run the Facebook page. For a fledgling business, like Itty Bitty Cake Pops, this is a public relations nightmare.

In this age of internet and social media, intellectual property is shared with the click of a button and it is just as easily stolen. The recent attention to this matter of stealing intellectual property by the PIPA and SOPA bills demonstrates that this issue is far reaching, yet an adequate solution has not yet been found.

Social media marketing services is an emerging field. Services from consulting to coaching to full management are available. Social media marketing includes strategic posting of status updates, photos, videos, and links, bringing branding to social media platforms, providing feedback on response with company postings, and engaging in direct conversation with followers and fans. A quality social media marketer offers expertise and experience using tested and proven methods that comply with all guidelines and regulations.

Dana Williams of {PRO}motion Social Media, LLC explains “Trust is at the foundation of any relationship, business or personal, and it certainly factors into online relationships in social media. Social media marketing is no exception, in fact, the relationship aspect of using Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and the others makes it that much more critical to use your manners and play nicely in the sandbox. PRO}motion Social’s values of trust, individuals, partnerships, and technology help businesses to navigate the always changing and often complicated world of marketing in Web 2.0.”

{PRO}motion Social Media, LLC is a social media marketing company dedicated to offering professionalism and expertise in social media relationship marketing. It provides world class collaborative social media management and training services to a limited clientele in order to deliver superior, personalized attention to each unique business.

For more information, call 832-408-0999 or visit http://www.PROmotionSocial.net, facebook.com/PROmotionSocial, or twitter.com/PROmotionSocial.

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30-01-2012 06:38 Micro-blogging service Twitter has announced that it will filter tweets on a country-by-country basis due to differing legal demands. Critics were quick to accuse the company of attacking freedom of online speech to make extra profit. Aaron Schwartz, the founder and executive director of Demand Progress.org, an organization campaigning against Internet censorship, thinks the newly introduced measure will hardly achieve its goal of censoring Twitter. RT on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com

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