So one of the things I like about Twitter is that I can have an account for emailkarma and a personal account that is protected and only have a few people following it – people that I don’t mind knowing I’m out of town or out for dinner (Close personal friends for the most part). So It never ceases to amaze me when I get random people asking for permission to follow me – It simply proves no one reads the...

The Canadian Press is reporting that Industry Minister Tony Clement has put the Electronic Commerce Protect Act Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act (FISA) – Note the new name of the Act – back on the table in Parliament and that if all goes well the legislation could be in force by the end of the year. The bill was reintroduced with an updated name, but the text is expected to remain the same as the previously approved ECPA...

Tonight I joined a good friend and co-worker, and one of his friends (we will call him Dave for this story), for dinner and drinks after work. As per the norm with many conversations (I’m sure you can relate to this) the conversation eventually drifted to email where a recent event story came up. Dave told me about a recent phone call with an email list vendor where they were offering services to Help build a contact and mailing...

Over the weekend the team behind Gmail rolled out some significant changes to the web-mail client that could really negatively effect the client email viewing experience. Luckily the team over at Smith-Harmon (a group way smarter then I when it comes to email coding) have identified these changes, and have a functioning work around, to the doctype setting in the Gmail web-client. Note this change will only have a negative impact on images...

I was passed this great site today that goes the extra mile when providing instructions to their email members when they are opt-in to receive the weekly newsletter. Visitors are presented with a pop-up box promoting users to subscribe to the newsletters [however I was already working in the subscribe form when this appeared and pop-ups drive me crazy] asking two basic questions – Name and Email address. This is great, its a small...