Social Media Campaigns: Facebook Installation Part 4 | Small ...

Welcome to Part 4 of our fabulous Facebook campaign! A couple weeks ago I taught everyone how to create a business page. This week we?ll take a deeper look into this very subject, showing you how to properly manage these pages and put those handy Facebook metrics to work. We?ll even discuss a few little-known features you should be taking advantage of when you?re posting to your wall!

Stay tuned next week as we continue to chisel away at the social media mountain otherwise known as Facebook.

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Source: http://www.getuwired.us/Small-Business-Web-Marketing/2013/01/social-media-campaigns-facebook-installation-part-4-2/

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Union boss 'brainwashes 15-year-olds' | The Sun |News|Politics

BRITAIN?S top union boss has been accused of brainwashing after launching a secret bid to sign up schoolkids.

Unite leader Len McCluskey has set up a team of ?union tutors? to target every 15-year-old in the country.

The hardline Left-winger has ordered his hit-squad to visit secondary schools as part of a campaign to ?educate, agitate and organise?.

But the move was last night branded a ?scandalous? exploitation of young people.

Ex-docker Mr McCluskey let slip details of the classroom warfare after giving a lecture in London in honour of Labour leader Ed Miliband?s dad.

He said: ?While I do not ever advocate violence, neither do I preach obedience to the law at all costs.?

Unite has compiled a ?schools pack? to teach kids how to ?stand together? and fight ?cuts and attacks?.

Union activists would have to seek permission from staff to be allowed to enter schools or youth clubs. But critics fear it could easily be granted in many schools, where teachers? union membership is strong.

Last night Conservative MP Gavin Williamson urged ministers to ensure union heavies are kept out of the classroom.

Mr Williamson said: ?Parents do not want their children being indoctrinated by Left-wing radicals at school.

?Ed Miliband must condemn this Soviet-style campaign to infiltrate our education system, and reject the extremist policies of his union paymasters.?

The catch-?em-young drive will embarrass Mr Miliband, who relies on Britain?s biggest union for funding.

Unite bankrolled his leadership campaign to the tune of ?100,000 and has donated ?7.5million to the party in two years.

Mr McCluskey declared at the time that he would only fund the party if it backed his favoured policies.

A Unite spokesman said: ?Trade unions are a fundamental part of a civilised society. Young people should be able to learn about their history and their rights.?

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Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4753790/Union-boss-brainwashes-15-year-olds.html

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French troops move further into Mali to combat radical Islamists

January 16, 2013 - 06:48 am

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - French troops pressed northward in Mali toward territory occupied by radical Islamists on Wednesday, military officials said, announcing the start of a land assault that will put soldiers in direct combat "within hours."

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French ground operations began overnight in Mali, Adm. Edouard Guillaud, the French military chief of staff, said on Europe 1 television. France's Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on RTL radio that soldiers were headed away from the relative safety of the capital toward the rebel strongholds in the north.

Residents of Niono, a city in the center of Mali which is just south of a town that was overrun by the jihadists earlier this week, said they saw trucks of French soldiers arrive overnight. The natural target for the French infantry is Diabaly, located 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of the capital and roughly 70 kilometers (45 miles) north of Niono. French warplanes have carried out airstrikes on Diabaly since the weekend, when a column of dozens of rebel vehicles cut off the road out of Diabaly and seized the town as well as its military camp.

Ibrahim Komnotogo, a resident of Diabaly who heads a USAID-financed rice agriculture project, happened to be outside the town when the jihadists encircled it. He has 20 employees and contractors who he says are stuck inside the town, which has a population of 35,000. He told The Associated Press that al-Qaida-linked rebels have sealed off the roads and are preventing people from leaving.

Komnotogo says he fears the Islamists are planning to hide within the mud-walled neighborhoods and use the population as a human shield.

"The jihadists have split up. They don't move around in big groups ... they are out in the streets, in fours, and fives and sixes, and they are living inside the most inhabited neighborhoods," he said, explaining that they had taken over the homes of people who managed to flee before the road was cut off.

French warplanes bombarded the military camp, but there have been no airstrikes inside the actual town, which begins at the eastern wall of the garrison. Residents have evacuated the neighborhood called Bordeaux, after its sister city in France, which is only 500 meters (yards) from the camp, he said. They have moved mostly into a quarter called Berlin, about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from the military installation.

"They are preventing the population from leaving. We have been trying to get our employees out, but they can't leave," said Komnotogo. "They have parked their pickup trucks inside the courtyards of empty homes. They have beards. And they wear boubous (a flowing robe). No one approaches them. Everyone is afraid," he said.

French President Francois Hollande authorized the airstrikes last Friday after the Islamists began a push southward toward the capital from the northern half of Mali that they control. They seized the Afghanistan-sized north last April in the chaos following a coup in Mali's normally-stable capital.

Five days of airstrikes have done little to erode the Islamist gains in Mali, which some in the West fear could turn the region into a launching pad for terrorist attacks. The bombardments began in the town of Konna, which the rebels occupied last Thursday. After initially saying they had stopped the rebel advance, Le Drian on Tuesday acknowledged that Konna was still in the hands of the rebels.

Sahara Media, a Mauritanian-based website that the jihadists use to post videos and messages, published a video allegedly from Ansar Dine fighters in Konna, posing with the city's sign.

A member from the rebel group, one of three extremist organizations operating in north Mali, identified as Abou El Habib Sidi Mohamed, a member of Ansar Dine's communications team, said: "Thank you to God, who encourages jihad and the application of Sharia on this Earth, for we are now standing in the town of Konna, on this day, Jan. 14, 2013."

The seizure of Diabaly brings the Islamists to only 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the capital. Konna, the closest point where they were known to be before, is 680 kilometers (425 miles) away.

The ground assault reverses France's earlier insistence that it would provide only air and logistical support for a military intervention, which would be led by African troops. "Now we're on the ground," Guillaud said. "We will be in direct combat within hours."

On Tuesday, France announced it tripling the number of troops deployed to Mali from 800 to 2,500. The offensive was to have been led by thousands of African troops pledged by Mali's neighbors, but they have yet to arrive, leaving France alone to lead the operation.

Guillaud said the militant groups have a history of taking human shields and France would do its utmost to make sure civilians are not wrongly targeted. "When in doubt, we will not fire," he said.

A resident of Niono said that some residents of the besieged town had managed to slip through the rebel noose.

Source: http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/01/french-troops-move-further-into-mali-to-combat-radical-islamists-84127.html

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Analysis: Why Google NKorea visit irks US

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Google chief Eric Schmidt's plan to visit North Korea has put the Obama administration in the awkward position of opposing a champion of Internet freedom engaging with one of the most intensely censored countries.

But the Obama administration is wary for a reason: It fears Schmidt's trip could give a boost to North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un, just when Washington is trying to pressure him.

North Korea in December launched a long-range rocket in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, and the U.S. and its allies are seeking tighter sanctions. That's proving difficult because of resistance from permanent council member China, which likely fears its troublesome ally could respond to punishment by conducting a nuclear test.

U.S. officials are also concerned that the high-profile visit could confuse partners in Asia and suggest a shift in U.S. policy as the administration prepares to install a new secretary of state to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton. The nominee is Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004.

An imminent change of government in South Korea is already raising questions about whether Washington and close ally Seoul can remain in lockstep in their dealings with Pyongyang. Newly elected leader Park Geun-hye is expected to seek a more conciliatory approach toward rival North Korea after she takes up the presidency in February.

This helps to explain why the State Department, which has been a vigorous advocate of social media freedoms around the world, particularly last year during the Arab Spring, made clear it was displeased by the planned "private, humanitarian" visit by Schmidt and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, expected this month.

"We don't think the timing of the visit is helpful and they are well aware of our views," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told a news briefing Thursday.

Richardson, a seasoned envoy and a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Friday that the State Department should not be nervous. In interviews with CBS and CNN, Richardson said they had been planning to visit in December but postponed the trip at the department's request because of the presidential election that month in South Korea.

Richardson said he would raise with North Korea the matter of an American detained there last month on suspicion of committing unspecified "hostile" acts against the state that could draw a sentence of 10 years of hard labor. He'll also try to meet with the detainee, he said.

He also said he was concerned about North Korea's nuclear proliferation and this was a "very important juncture" to talk and try to move the North Koreans in the "right direction."

Schmidt, Richardson said, was traveling as a private citizen. But the trip raises questions about whether Google has plans for North Korea.

Schmidt, the company's executive chairman, is a staunch advocate of global Internet access and the power of connectivity in lifting people out of poverty and political oppression, and there are few countries where the obstacles are as stark. North Koreans need government permission to interact with foreigners ? in person, by phone or by email ? and only a tiny portion of the elite class is connected to the Internet.

U.S. law restricts American companies' dealings with North Korea, which is subject to tough sanctions because of its nuclear and missile programs. Imports of North Korean goods are prohibited, but travel to North Korea, exports of U.S. goods and investment in the country are allowed, subject to some restrictions, such as on exports of luxury goods.

Richardson himself has been to North Korea at least a half-dozen times since 1994, including two trips to negotiate the release of detained Americans. His last visit to Pyongyang was in 2010.

The present detainee, Kenneth Bae, is the fifth American held in North Korea in the past four years ? including two U.S. journalists who were freed in 2009 after former President Bill Clinton traveled to Pyongyang and met with then-leader Kim Jong Il. Richardson said it was doubtful he and Schmidt would meet with Kim Jong Un, but he expected to talk with officials from the foreign affairs and economic ministries and the military.

North Korea could show good will by freeing Bae, but detainees risk becoming bargaining chips for Pyongyang in its tumultuous relationship with Washington, which retains nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with a truce, not a peace treaty.

Kim Jong Un's elevation to leadership after his father's death a year ago offered some hope of better relations. But after agreeing in late February to an offer of U.S. food aid in exchange for nuclear concessions, North Korea derailed the deal weeks later when it attempted to launch a satellite atop a rocket that the U.S. believes was a test of ballistic missile capabilities.

Relations were set back further by the latest launch, this time successful, which the North again insisted was for a purely peaceful space program.

In the past year, Kim has made at least stylistic changes that hint at more openness, leading some commentators to call for a fresh outreach by U.S. diplomats. That's something that the nominee for secretary of state, Kerry, might support. But there's still little sign of substantive reform in Pyongyang.

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Matthew Pennington covers U.S.-Asian affairs for The Associated Press.

An AP News Analysis

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-why-google-nkorea-visit-irks-us-090434958--politics.html

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