Calling on All Experts in On Line Publishing - How Do I Defuse a Kafkaeque Situation ? 8.13.08
I am going public with a message I posted , a few days ago, on the 'How To - Blogger Help Group'.
I have not received any response to this cry for help.
Since - as you see below - I have been the recipient of what seems a very threatening Anti Sapm message, supposedly from GOOGLE, aimed at me and my Maximize Success blog, I am asking you out there who have expertise in this topic, for advice:
How do I defuse and Heal the situation ?
Here is my post on the Help Group:
- - - - - -
Hi All 8.9.08
I have received a threatening, anti-spam message concerning my blog, Maximize Success, which I have not been able to act on or to respond to in any
meaningful manner.
I need help in either taking the 'request review'
action the message demands.
Or in preventing the deletion of my blog,
which the message threatens.
-------------------------
THE ORIGINAL THREATENING MESSAGE
On July 31 I received an email, whose heart is the following threat
and criciticsm:
"Your blog at: http://maximizesuccess.
identified as a potential spam blog.
To correct this, please request a review by filling out the form at http://www.blogger.com/unlock-
Your blog will be deleted within 20 days if it isn't reviewed, and
you'll be unable to publish posts during this time.
After we receive your request, we'll review your blog and unlock it within two business
days.
If this blog doesn't belong to you, you don't have to do
anything, and any other blogs you may have won't be affected."
UNDEFINED ORIGIN OF MESSAGE
The email purported to come from Google and from Blogger, but gave no
return address:
"show details Jul 31 (9 days ago)
Reply
from Blogger <no-reply@google.com>
to coachdinnah@gmail.com
date Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:09 PM
subject http://maximizesuccess.
mailed-by google.com
signed-by google.com
hide details Jul 31 (9 days ago) "
ACTION STEPS I TOOK
I assumed that the message did indeed originate in Blogger, and tried
to click on the links identified.
NONE of them led me to any form that 'requests review.'
So I was unable repeatedly to generate REQUESTING a REVIEW.
Then I tried to find a Google and a Blogger HELP dept., to get relief
from .
I emailed 'info @" ;Support@; 'Customer SErvice @; Service @;
I received no reply from any of them, with the exception of a form
email sending me to the HELP ONLINE section of blogger.
I do not want my blog to be deleted.
I also want to protest the absurd claim that my blog is spamming,
given that I only publish my blog once every two or three months, at
best.
KAFKAESQUE SITUATION
I find myself in a Kafkaeque situation.
Some impersonal and unknown source accuses me of wrong doing; and threatens me with punishment.
And I have no means or avenue of defending my self and asserting my innocence.
Help me, please. I need help in resolving this ASAP.
Best
Dinnah Pladott"
---------- ---------- -----------
I repeat the same heartfelt call to all you who are now reading this online:
Help me, Please.
Help me defuse and heal this Kafkaeque situation.
Help me keep my blog from being deleted arbitrarily and anonymously.
HELP !!!
Dinnah Pladott
Copyright © 2007 Dinnah G. Pladott, Ph.D., All Rights Preserved
www.leadership-skill.com
www.astrocoach.com
www.myspace.com/coachdinnah
=================================
Kafkaesque Situation - How Do I Defuse it ?
Wednesday, August 13, 2008Celebrating Our Differences to Enhance Collaboration + Teamwork, Pt. I
Friday, February 15, 2008CELEBRATING OUR DIFFERENCES
for BETTER COLLBORATION + TEAMWORK, Part I
I have been disheartened and saddened by what has been happening during the last few months in the primary elections campaigns. This is going to be the first in several posts on this issue, and its implications to our capacity, as a nation, to build collaboration and teamwork, or to accomplish our declared goals.
Negative advertising, libelous attacks on candidates – we have seen them all in previous years (anyone remembers the scurrilous attacks on John Kerry ?).
It could have been a landmark election, in which two ‘minority’ candidates are running for the presidency. Instead, it is fast becoming the year when the very consolidation of the democratic party seems increasingly less probable – and that at time when it is most needed.
This is a year where it looks possible that the Republican Party can lose the presidency. A year when coming together in collaboration and teamwork are more needed than ever among democrats of different hues. But instead, wounds are inflicted by the followers of both of the groundbreaking candidates. In the name of ‘My View are Better than Yours’, the common ground is forgotten. Worse, the prospect for eventual partnership once a candidate is selected is being shredded as we speak.
NO ONE IS FREE OF BLAME HERE
Sadly, the fault – the acrimonious nature of the race – is equally divided among the adversaries. The so-called ‘old’ and ‘new’ guards, the Caucasian women and the Afro Americans, the idealistic and the pragmatists, the younger voters and the middle-aged ones, have all have cast the other side as ‘demonic’ and ‘the enemy of the people.’ They all violated their official principles. No one’s hands are clean.
ACHIEVEMENT of GOALS - How, What's Necessary, What Aides its Completion ?
Are we as a nation willing to truly stop casting those different than us – whoever they are - as ‘diabolical’ in order to freely attack and damage them?
Are we as a nation ready to give up the Lone Ranger mythology, and truly appreciate the power and productive effect of building alliances and teams?
Are we as a nation willing to sincerely and fully relinquish prejudices and bias, in order to collaborate and team up with others, across gender, race, ethnic origin, creed, or age?
Are we as a nation willing to access, and benefit from, the immense advantage that comes when we build such teams and partnerships, and include, rather than exclude, members with diverse viewpoints, backgrounds, race, cultures, education levels ?
My aim in this series of posts is to bring all of us from the level of abstract ideology and catchy slogans, back to some basic pragmatic questions:
*What can we do to discover the most effective means to expedite the Goal Achievement process?
*What role do Collaboration and Teamwork play in such a process?
*How do we weigh the needs of short-term objectives against the requirements of long-term goal(s)?
More specifically, how do we balance the desire to win a battle against the need to be victorious in ending the war?
*What price do we pay when we divorce ‘winning’, or ‘accomplishing our objective,’ from the manner in which we achieve that ‘win’ ?
*Do ethical principles, such as loyalty or trust, have any pragmatic value in accomplishing any goals? Do they play a practical role in the building of alliances and teamwork?
*How do we prioritize our use of assets, strategies and techniques, so that we accomplish our long term objectives as well as stay true to our declared values?
A discussion of these points will follow in the next few post.
Yours
Dinnah
Copyright © 2008 Dinnah G. Pladott, Ph.D., All Rights Preserved
www.leadership-skill.com
www.astrocoach.com
www.myspace.com/coachdinnah
http://facebook.com/profile.php?id=1062321913
=================================