Campaign Monitor is an excellent service for email marketing, sending newsletters, maintaining email lists and more. I’ve used them quite a bit over the last several years.

This morning, I woke up to the news that Campaign Monitor was hacked — the victim of “a deliberate, planned and complex intrusion.” It doesn’t seem that any of my accounts were specifically accessed, but I have to give the Campaign Monitor team extremely high marks for handling a lousy situation as well as anyone can expect.

Read more about all this over here on the Campaign Monitor blog — which serves as a textbook example for companies on how to address a crisis with honesty and transparency.

That’s a bad idea in this economy, according to an article in today’s Newsday, which provides four other bad cost-cutting ideas to avoid.

Some interesting thoughts from TechnoMarketer Matt Dickman.

… is this weekend in Britt, Iowa. There’s free mulligan stew in City Park and you can celebrate Polka Mass (!) at St. Patrick’s. Enjoy!

“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
—Leonard Bernstein