Washington Post: Clintons Paid Staffer Personally to Maintain Email Server

Ex-State Division staffer Bryan Pagliano, who this week invoked his earlier than a congressional committee, was paid personally by Hillary Clinton and her household to take care of her personal e mail server, in line with certainly one of her presidential marketing campaign official.

The official advised anonymously that Pagliano was paid $5,000 personally to assist Clinton retain management over the e-mail system she was utilizing for personal and public communications whereas serving as Secretary of State.

Nevertheless, the official stated, the choice additionally made positive taxpayers weren’t financing the personal server being utilized by each Invoice and Hillary Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, together with Clinton aides.

Pagliano, like Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin, hung out working concurrently for the State Division and privately for her, having served because the IT director for her 2008 presidential marketing campaign and for her political motion committee.

The Clintons not solely paid Pagliano the $5,000 to arrange the server, however after he began working for the State Division in Might 2009, the Clintons continued paying him to take care of the server, which was situated of their house in Chappaqua, NY, the marketing campaign official and one other individual, additionally talking on the situation of anonymity stated.

Staff like Pagliano can search outdoors employment, so long as the revenue does not equal greater than 15 % of their authorities salaries, and their outdoors work doesn’t intrude with their State Division duties or create a battle of curiosity, the Submit studies.

Nevertheless, in August, the State Division stated it has no proof that he knowledgeable the company that he had outdoors revenue. This week, a special official refused to make clear his state of affairs.

State stated Pagliano left the division in February 2013, when Clinton left, however he stays a cellular and distant computing contractor for the company.

Pagliano’s lawyer, Mark MacDougall, on Monday advised the Home Choose Committee on Benghazi in a letter that his shopper can be invoking his Fifth Modification rights towards self-incrimination. MacDougall wouldn’t touch upon the information about Pagliano’s paychecks.

State Division spokesman Mark Toner advised reporters this week that there are evaluations and investigations happening concerning the server and who else knew concerning the server.

On Friday, Clinton advised that she “was not considering rather a lot once I obtained in,” and she or he “didn’t actually cease and assume — what — what sort of e-mail system will there be?”

In the meantime, the server crashed throughout Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, and by early 2013 Clinton was trying to improve her server’s safety, sources briefed concerning the server stated.

The Clintons turned changed Pagliano with know-how dealer Tania Neild, whose firm, InfoGrate, is in Bronxville, N.Y., about 20 miles from Chappaqua. She in flip alerted Denver-based Platte River Networks to a contract, however Platte spokesman Andy Boian stated the corporate stated it didn’t know it will be working for Clinton till February 2013.

Washington Post: Clintons Paid Staffer Personally to Maintain Email Server

Three Paid Marketing Tools That Are Worth Every Penny

As a small business, Curve deeply understands the importance of keeping costs down. There are hundreds of different paid marketing platforms out there, from social media feeds to brand analytics platforms. How do you know which ones are worth the money?

Here are three paid marketing tools that we highly recommend to any marketers, social media managers, or entrepreneurs looking to build their online profile.

Note that Curve Communications is not affiliated with any of these companies. We just love them!

Litmus

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If you’re using an email newsletter to connect with your fans, how confident are you that your emails are showing up properly? This is a huge problem especially if your email newsletters are designed from scratch in HTML, but even pre-made templates might not be perfect on every single platform.

Litmus takes the guesswork out of it for you. You can send a preview email from your email-marketing platform like Constant Contact or Mailchimp to a special email address provided by Litmus. Litmus will then display your email on several dozen different browsers and devices, from iPhones to Outlook to Gmail.

Why is it worth your money?

The time and labour cost it would take to manually send these emails to different devices would be tremendous, especially if you’re managing several emails a week. Litmus cuts this process down to a single streamlined task, and provides a lot of other value-added services like HTML assistance, live editors, and useful webinars.

While the price is still steep, Litmus is invaluable if email marketing is a major part of your marketing plan.

Price: Plans start at $79/month, free 7-day trial available

Edgar

Edgar is a brand new social media automation platform. So new, in fact, that you have to request an invitation to be a part of it, but it’s definitely worth the extra effort. Edgar is all about helping you share evergreen content: articles and blog posts that can be posted year-round and aren’t time sensitive.

Let’s say you have a sale you want to promote twice a week. Normally, you would have to copy and paste the text of the tweet and manually schedule it every week.

However, if you used Edgar, you can schedule any promotional tweets to go out on Monday and Wednesday at noon. Next, you just write a couple of tweets (let’s say five) about your sale and label them as promotional. Edgar will then automatically rotate through the five promotional tweets without your input. If you want to add more tweets to the queue, change the times, or remove older tweets, this can be easily done through the dashboard.

Why is it worth your money?

First and foremost, Edgar helps you save an incredible amount of time. Manually scheduling hundreds (or if you’re like us, thousands) of tweets a month for different clients and accounts eats up a tremendous amount of time. We still look for great articles to share on our Twitter feed every day, but the process has been greatly simplified due to Edgar.

Price: $49/month

Hootsuite

When it comes to having full control over all your different social media accounts, Hootsuite is the undisputed champion. While Edgar is fantastic for helping you schedule your posts, Hootsuite does all that (although it requires more manual tweaking), and it helps you monitor and track hashtags, mentions, DMs, and anything else you need to be a social media superstar.

In Hootsuite, each account has its own page, and each page has a customizable feed so you can focus on what’s important. Have an account that’s used primarily for tweeting out marketing content? You can prioritize your scheduled tweets and anyone using #Marketing (or any other hashtag) on your feed.

What about a tech support account that focuses on responding to customer questions? You can prioritize Direct Messages and Mentions to make sure you can easily monitor anyone trying to contact you.

Why is it worth your money?

Hootsuite is invaluable for any company that has to manage (and track) social media accounts across different departments and product lines.

Hootsuite isn’t limited to just Twitter. Hootsuite is also compatible with LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Foursquare, WordPress and Mixi. If you’re looking for one social media tool for your business, we strongly recommend using Hootsuite Pro.

Price: From $8.99/month for a Pro plan. A free user has limited functionality, with only two social media networks and very basic post scheduling.

Have any other paid platforms you love using? Continue the conversation below.

Three Paid Marketing Tools That Are Worth Every Penny