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SAN MATEO, Calif., June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Marketo, the fastest-growing provider ofRevenue Performance Management (RPM)solutions, today announced the launch of its 2012 Social Marketing Rockstar Tour (#MarketoTour). The 15-city rock-and-roll inspired tour will deliver social marketing automation strategies to empower marketers to easily implement and measure the success of social initiatives.

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Kicking off today in Hoboken, New Jersey, the summer series will span North America, Europe and Australia and will feature a compelling lineup of prominent B2B marketing thought leaders, sales professionals, corporate leaders and successful Marketo customers. The program will demonstrate how to create and amplify peer-to-peer conversations to improve the effectiveness of any marketing campaign. Attendees will learn how to:

"An incredible, worldwide business shift is taking place with digital technologies and social media at its core," explained Sanjay Dholakia, senior vice president, Product Marketing and Corporate Development at Marketo. "Marketers can no longer afford to think about 'social' as a separate type of activity. They need to adapt and broaden the reach and effectiveness of their campaigns and intractably intertwine them with social recommendations to reveal a new way to prove social marketing ROI."

Summer tour stops include Hoboken/NYC, Chicago, LA/Orange County, Boston, Toronto, Silicon Valley, Portland, Seattle, Atlanta, Washington DC, Denver, Minneapolis, Austin, Sydney and London.

Marketo's 2011 Revenue Rockstar Tours attracted more than 3,200 marketers, averaging more than 100 attendees per city. The tour also influenced more than $5.8 million in pipeline and more than $3.2 million in bookings, making it one of Marketo's most successful programs to date.

The four-month Social Marketing Rockstar Tour will also include private customer-only sessions before the headliner event. Customers can find more information and register at the Social Marketing Customer Rockstar page.

Companies interested in sponsoring should contact marketing@marketo.com for information.

For more information or to register, visit Marketo's "Social Marketing Rockstar" Tour page.

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Posted on: 8:24 am, June 21, 2012, by Nick Dutton, updated on: 08:03am, June 21, 2012

By Michael Martinez, CNN

(CNN) A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the laws author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation.

State Rep. Jeff Thompson, a Republican from Bossier City, Louisiana, says his new law, effective August 1, will stand up to constitutional challenge because it expands sex offender registration requirements, common in many states, to include a disclosure on the convicted criminals social networking sites as well.

Thompson, an attorney and a father of a 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, said he hopes other states will follow Louisiana.

Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been removing sex offenders from their web pages for years, but Thompson said the law is designed to cover any possible lapses by social networking sites.

I dont want to leave in the hands of social network or Facebook administrators, Gee, I hope someone is telling the truth, Thompson said Tuesday. This is another tool for prosecutors.

The new law, signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal earlier this month, builds upon existing sex offender registration laws, in which the offender must notify immediate neighbors and a school district of his or her residency near them, Thompson said.

The law states that sex offenders and child predators shall include in his profile for the networking website an indication that he is a sex offender or child predator and shall include notice of the crime for which he was convicted, the jurisdiction of conviction, a description of his physical characteristics and his residential address.

Several states now require sex offenders and child predators to register with authorities their e-mail accounts, Internet addresses or profile names to social network and other web sites, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. A few states such as Illinois and Texas even outright prohibit sex offenders, as a condition of parole, from accessing social networking websites, the group said.

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Louisiana state rep. Jeff Thompson sponsored a new law requiring sex offenders to list their status on social media sites.

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(CNN) -- A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law's author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation.

State Rep. Jeff Thompson, a Republican from Bossier City, Louisiana, says his new law, effective August 1, will stand up to constitutional challenge because it expands sex offender registration requirements, common in many states, to include a disclosure on the convicted criminal's social networking sites as well.

Thompson, an attorney and a father of a 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, said he hopes other states will follow Louisiana.

Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been removing sex offenders from their web pages for years, but Thompson said the law is designed to cover any possible lapses by social networking sites.

"I don't want to leave in the hands of social network or Facebook administrators, 'Gee, I hope someone is telling the truth,'" Thompson said Tuesday. "This is another tool for prosecutors."

The new law, signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal earlier this month, builds upon existing sex offender registration laws, in which the offender must notify immediate neighbors and a school district of his or her residency near them, Thompson said.

The law states that sex offenders and child predators "shall include in his profile for the networking website an indication that he is a sex offender or child predator and shall include notice of the crime for which he was convicted, the jurisdiction of conviction, a description of his physical characteristics... and his residential address."

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Louisiana state rep. Jeff Thompson sponsored a new law requiring sex offenders to list their status on social media sites.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

(CNN) -- A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law's author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation.

State Rep. Jeff Thompson, a Republican from Bossier City, Louisiana, says his new law, effective August 1, will stand up to constitutional challenge because it expands sex offender registration requirements, common in many states, to include a disclosure on the convicted criminal's social networking sites as well.

Thompson, an attorney and a father of a 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, said he hopes other states will follow Louisiana.

Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been removing sex offenders from their web pages for years, but Thompson said the law is designed to cover any possible lapses by social networking sites.

"I don't want to leave in the hands of social network or Facebook administrators, 'Gee, I hope someone is telling the truth,'" Thompson said Tuesday. "This is another tool for prosecutors."

The new law, signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal earlier this month, builds upon existing sex offender registration laws, in which the offender must notify immediate neighbors and a school district of his or her residency near them, Thompson said.

The law states that sex offenders and child predators "shall include in his profile for the networking website an indication that he is a sex offender or child predator and shall include notice of the crime for which he was convicted, the jurisdiction of conviction, a description of his physical characteristics... and his residential address."

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News - Friday, June 22, 2012 Tri-Valley Community Foundation goes mum, hires PR firm Board has met, no word on bankruptcy filing

by Glenn Wohltmann

The foundation is expected to go belly up by the end of the month, according to its board president and CEO Ron Hyde, who, "on advice of counsel," has stopped commenting to the press.

Hyde, who has been the board's chairman for years, stepped in to run the organization after former President Dave Rice was fired in April.

Since then there has been a consistent flow of bad news: A look by the Pleasanton Weekly at the TVCF's tax returns showed a pattern of overspending that began in 2006-07, when it brought in just shy of $1.36 million but spent more than $1.6 million, and a top-heavy organization that spent much more on itself than it did on the charities it was formed to help.

Beyond that, there were promises made that were impossible to keep and salaries that climbed to nearly $418,000 in 2009-10, the same year "other expenses" hit more than $1 million.

The foundation also claimed to support at least one charity that said it never received anything, and made claims that it provided more services than it actually performed for other nonprofits, including fundraising for the Veterans Memorial Building in Danville and the PulsePoint Foundation, which supports a smart phone app to help heart attack victims.

Hyde said last week that he expects the foundation to shut down by the end of the month. Nonetheless the board decided to hire Full Court Press, which offers, among other things, crisis communications aimed at "quieting the rumor mill (and) skillfully deflecting attention when necessary," according to its website.

Full Court Press founder Dan Cohen promised to address questions posed by the Pleasanton Weekly, then responded to specific questions by emailing, "We will share information with you and the public as soon as we are able. ... The board has been meeting and will continue to meet regularly to work on next steps."

Follow-up phone calls and emails to Cohen went unanswered. The Pleasanton Weekly has requested the foundation's most recent tax returns and has asked it to provide access to its records.

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