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ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Prominent Placement, Inc. (PPI), one of the first Internet marketing and SEO companies in Atlanta, announced today that the company's CEO, Stacy Williams, has been chosen as a finalist for the Search Engine Marketer of the Year award by the Technology Association of Georgia ("TAG").

TAG's 2012 Tech Marketing Awards acknowledge and pay tribute to individual achievements in the innovative use of technology to drive marketing strategies, generate new standards of excellence and achieve profitable results. The Search Engine Marketer of the Year award recognizes the most innovative marketer in Georgia whose SEO or Paid Search techniques combine art and science to achieve an outstanding ROI. Williams was chosen as a finalist from a field of over sixty nominees for the award.

"I'm thrilled to be considered as a finalist in the Search Engine Marketer of the Year category," says Williams. "Atlanta is home to some of the best and brightest tech marketers in the world, and I'm honored to be included among such a talented group."

The third annual TAG Tech Marketing Awards ceremony will be held November 15 at Defoor Centre in Atlanta.

About Prominent Placement

PPI is an award-winning Atlanta search engine marketing company that grows sales pipelines for clients nationwide by increasing online brand awareness. As a pioneer in search engine optimization (SEO) and paid search services, we consistently deliver ROI that traditional marketing channels can't touch, with a level of client service that raises the bar. Since 2001, PPI has managed SEO and paid search strategies for clients across the U.S., empowering businesses to focus on what they do best. PPI's customized solutions are backed by hard numbers, giving decision makers the confidence they need to make smarter decisions.

For more information about PPI's Internet marketing and SEO offerings, visit http://www.prominentplacement.com or call 404.373.9727.

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Santa Clara, California - Milestone Internet Marketing, Inc, a full-service Internet marketing agency, earned distinction last week from the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as one of the top local companies poised for growth. The Business Journal honored 75 companies that made the publication's annual Silicon Valley's Fastest-Growing Privately Held Company list.

Milestone's growth is attributed to the company's commitment to providing the best-in-class Internet marketing solutions that drive revenue and income for its lodging industry clients. By focusing on helping customers grow their online revenues, Milestone has earned the trust and business of more than 1,200 clients nationwide and continues to drive over $550 million in annual revenue for its clients. Milestone's growth is also directly impacting the local economy. The company continues to create jobs for Silicon Valley and has increased its workforce by 65% in the last 3 years, from 25 employees in 2009 to 70 employees in 2012.

"We want to take this opportunity to thank our customers, partners, and our employees, whose trust and confidence in our products and services has led to this significant achievement for the company," said Anil Aggarwal, CEO of Milestone Internet Marketing.

About Milestone Milestone Internet Marketing, Inc. is a leading provider of internet marketing solutions for the lodging industry. Milestone's portfolio of services includes Hotel Website Design, Search Engine Optimization, Pay-per-Click marketing, Social Media Optimization, eBuzz Connect Online Reputation Monitoring, etc. Milestone currently works with over 1000 hotels and drives over $550M in annual revenue for its clients. Milestone is a preferred vendor for several major lodging industry brands and works with some of the leading management companies. Milestone is also well known as a lodging industry educator for its Hotels to HTMLs internet marketing workshops and book. For more information, please visit http://www.milestoneinternet.com or call (888) 350-8396.

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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Oct 15, 2012) - The Fearless Group, a full-service communications agency headquartered in New York City, today announces that Brian Rice, a founding partner and head of its social marketing practice, will be a judge for the first 'Social Media Leadership Awards.' The Social Media Leadership Awards (SMLA) is a global competition created by Knowledge@Wharton, Social Strategy1 and sponsor Ernst & Young to recognize companies that have used or created best practices in social media to overcome major organizational challenges in any of 13 critical categories.

A VIP reception, workshop series and awards luncheon will be held during a two-day event on the Wharton campus in Philadelphia, PA on November 7-8, 2012. Some of the companies that submitted work for judging are SAP, Morgan Stanley, John Hancock, Vanguard, CME Group, Habitat for Humanity, AON, Ohio State University, and 1-800flowers.com.

Mr. Rice is a veteran entrepreneur and angel investor in the marketing services and technology sectors. In addition to his role at The Fearless Group, he is an investor and advisor to Optimal and ITagility, companies that power and innovate the use of social media in business. Brian is also co-founder of Gocella, a mobile marketing software suite built for small to large businesses.

As a judge at the SMLA competition, Rice joins a panel comprised of global business, social media, and academic leaders who will select and honor a winner from each category. One Grand Champion will be announced during the event's expert workshop series that takes place Thursday, November 8, 2012. Award recipients will receive global exposure through the digital properties and assets of the competition's founding executive partners and network of top-tier social media leaders.

The 13 categories of submissions and awards judging are:

Knowledge@Wharton is the online research and analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Social Strategy1, http://www.socialstrategy1.com, is a leading social media monitoring and analytics firm. For more information on the Social Media Leadership Awards, visit, http://www.smlawards.com or follow "@sstrategy1" and @smlawards on Twitter #smlawards.

About The Fearless Group

The Fearless Group is a full-service communications agency dedicated to solving clients' marketing and communications challenges. Fearless is anchored in the belief that safe advertising isn't. The agency is media-neutral, agile, fully integrated, and structured to deliver exceptional value and marketing efficiency. Fearless was launched on April 1, 2011 by a group of diversified marketing professionals to deliver a new modern marketing platform and consulting practice. Fearless is headquartered in New York City and can be found at http://www.thefearlessgroup.com.

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BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Oct 15, 2012) - Moontoast, a leading social marketing, social commerce and analytics company, today announced that its Co-founder and CTO Marcus Whitney and VP of Products Errol Apostolopoulos will be presenting at two top marketing conferences this month, ExactTarget Connections and FutureM respectively.

Details are as follows:

Who: Marcus Whitney, Co-founder and CTO (@marcuswhitney) What: "Email + Facebook: Better Together" -- Panel discussion on the ways in which brands can supercharge email efforts with Facebook and turn "likes" into sales When: Wednesday, October 17 at 9:40 a.m. Where: ExactTarget Connections, Indianapolis, Ind., October 16-18

Who: Errol Apostolopoulos, VP Products (@errol33) What: "Small Start-ups Can Work with Big Brands" -- A collection of case study presentations on what it takes to win -- and work with -- the world's top brands When: Tuesday, October 23 at 5:30 p.m. Where: FutureM, Boston, October 23-26

Members of the media and analyst communities interested in speaking with Moontoast at either event should contact Juli Greenwood at juli@scratchmm.com or 617-515-8412.

Follow Moontoast Blog: http://www.moontoast.com/blog Twitter: @moontoast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Moontoast LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/moontoast-llc

About Moontoast Moontoast is an emerging leader in social marketing, social commerce and social analytics. Moontoast's Social Activation Engine enables brands to effectively focus their social efforts on relationships, relevancy and results through a library of social engagement and commerce applications distributed on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, blogs and affiliate websites. Brands can directly measure social and transactional results using Moontoast's patent-pending Social Analytics Suite. Gartner Research has named Moontoast a "Cool Vendor" in Music and eCommerce, and Billboard Magazine called Moontoast a "Top Startup of 2011." For more information, visit http://www.moontoast.com.

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On Monday, a judge will oversee pretrial hearings for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo prisoners who are accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks. One of the key issues Army Col. James Pohl will decide on is whether or not there will be any public testimony by the prisoners regarding their torture and detention in CIA custody.

Guantanamo pretrial hearings this week weigh in on censorship versus state secrets. (Photo by The U.S. Army via Flickr) The defense lawyers are asking to abolish a "presumptive classification" process that treats any discussion of what happened to the defendants their time in secret CIA detention as a top national security secret. Mohammeds defense attorney, David Nevin, called the war court system a "rigged game, reports the Miami Herald. According to Nevin, attorneys and defendents "are forbidden to discuss between themselves anything from what Mohammed says the CIA did to him to his 'historical perspective on jihad.'"

The ACLU is at the hearings this week and will give a statement arguing that the censorship of torture is a constitutional challenge. In a press release, the ACLU cites the government's most recent filing (PDF):

The government has effectively claimed that it owns and controls the defendants memories, 'thoughts and experiences' of government torture. These chillingly Orwellian claims are legally untenable and morally abhorrent.

"The government has effectively claimed that it owns and controls the defendants memories, 'thoughts and experiences' of government torture."ACLU

The chief war crimes prosecutor, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins claims that the defendants' exposure to the CIAs detention and interrogation program is classified to safeguard genuine sources and methods of intelligence gathering that can protect against future attack." In addition to the "presumptive classification," the government is pushing for a related requested of a 40-second delay in the audio feed of the commission proceedings, for censorship purposes.

The ACLU filed their motion (PDF)in May in response to the protective order and proposed audio delay:

The eyes of the world are on this Military Commission, and the public has a substantial interest in and concern about the fairness and transparency of these proceedings. This Commission should rejectand not become complicit withthe governments improper proposals to suppress the defendants personal accounts of government misconduct.

The prisoners were in the custody of the CIA for up to four years before being brought to Guantanamo in 2006. After being captured in Pakistan in 2002-2003 their detention was concealed from the International Red Cross, whose mandate is to monitor treatment of prisoners around the globe. The CIA's own declassified documents disclose that Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in an attempt to get him to give up al Qaida's secrets.

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