So last week I was knee-deep in lobbying in Sacramento against CA AB 178 and then spent the rest of the week in San Francisco at the Web 2.0 Expo.  So I didn’t have a lot of time to read my RSS feed.  So some of this stuff is a bit old, but don’t shoot the messenger.  If you were on top of your game you wouldn’t rely on this, so just remember that beggars can’t be choosers!

• Another guest post by me at Marketing Pilgrim on a new Social Media masters program being offered in the UK.
• You can save 5% when flying JetBlue to Affiliate Summit East in August.  I took them up on this discount for ASE last year in Boston and it totally turned JetBlue into my favorite airline!
• The face of Ebates.com, Paul Nichols, has left them to start his own consulting company.  Good luck Paul!
• Scott Jangro asks us all:  Is there room for two affiliate marketing organizations?
• Of course he asks because Affiliate Voice officially launched.  President Melanie Seery announced it on her blog.
• ShareResults came out with the BAMroll last week (The Big Affiliate Marketing roll).  Very cool idea.
• I wrote up my recap of the Web 2.0 Expo last week for the New Edge Media blog.
• Speaking of NEM, I’m no longer of their employ.  Wanna hire me?  Of course you do…  Email me!

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The troops are mobilizing and the fight against CA AB 178 is on it’s way.  I’ll be doing my part next week, going up to the Capitol in Sacramento to help put a face to the problem for our legislators.  This week has just flown by.  I can’t believe all the news that’s gone on!

• Last summer I wrote an article about PHP affiliate link masking.  This week I was turned on to a more concise way using a jump script.
• Brian Littleton of ShareASale wrote a great post on how you can help re: the #advertisingtax facing California and several other states.
• Jamie Birch said it best on why you should hire an outsourced program manager.  So follow his advice and hire me and  New Edge Media
• Marketing Pilgrim announced a free webinar on the 31st about social selling and sales in web 2.0.  I won’t be able to attend (sad for me) but it’s free so you can totally sit in.
• Speaking of webinars, Commission Junction is webinar happy and just finished up a webinar on coupons yesterday.  Evan Weber posted a recap at CostPerNews. They’re hosting another webinar on brand hijacking on April 14th.
• Salesforce.com integrated Twitter results into their data.  Very cool.
• Join the Facebook group to help advocate against tax laws affecting your state.

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Some regional goings on this week that are important and affect your life as an affiliate marketer!  Or, if you’re a different kind of marketer, well, I don’t have much for you this week

• Live in NYC?  Become a Big Brother or Big Sister and get a free pass to Affiliate Summit East in NYC this August.
• Live in California?  We need to fight against California Assembly Bill 178, which is proposing online taxation very similar to the New York law from last summer.  The Performance Marketing Alliance and Beth Kirsch are leading this grass-roots effort to squash the bill and I’ll be as involved as I possibly can.
• Help a Marketing Pilgrim out and take this twitter survey.  Paul Bennett is trying to see attitudes relating to branded corporate Twitter accounts.
• TweetDeck, my favorite Twitter application, is now integrated with Facebook.  You have to go download the beta release though, it won’t be pushed to you automatically just yet.

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