Gold Lasso has released a new white paper on email rendering best practices.  Proper email rendering challenges every designer and this is a great resources to help understand the difference between designing for email and Web.  Included in the white paper are thirteen tips for email rendering best practices.  You can download your free copy at Gold Lasso's Learning Center. 

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Last night I received a message from Facebook regarding our Fan Page. The stats were rather vague but still helpful. Here are the stats that were reported:

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Brief Description Examples Using an Existing/Setting Up a New Opt-In Page Facebook Fan Page Information How to Setup Your Facebook Form Adding the Form to Your Fan Page Wall
Brief Description This document will help you setup or use an existing Opt-In form and add it to your Facebook Fan Page.
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Examples Here is a link to The Gold Lasso Fan Page to see an example.
Here is an example of the Form on our Fan Page.
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Using an Existing/Setting Up a New Opt-In Page This help document assumes that you already have an Opt-in or Landing Page in your eLoop account. If you don’t, please click here for instructions on how to set one up.
NOTE: If you already have created an Opt-In page and modified it outside of eLoop then you can simply copy the HTML from there to be used in Step 9 of the setup process below.
1.	Log in to your eLoop account.
2.	Choose “Data Collection” and then choose the “Opt-In pages” option from the top navigation bar.
3.	Choose the Opt-In Page that you would like to work with and click the edit button.
4.	Choose the “Page Edit” option in the bottom navigational bread crumbs.
5.	Select all and copy the HTML code from the box located at the top of the page.
NOTE: The copied HTML will be used in Step 9 of the setup process in the next section.
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Facebook Fan Page Information A Facebook Page is a public profile that enables you to share your business and products with Facebook users. When your fans interact with your Facebook Page, stories linking to your Page can go to their friends via News Feed. As these friends interact with your Page, News Feed keeps driving word-of-mouth to a wider circle of friends. (Information from Facebook)
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How to Setup Your Facebook Form
NOTE: You must be an Administrator of your Fan Page to be able to setup a form.
1.	Log in to Facebook and navigate to your Facebook Fan Page as an Administrator and click the “Edit Page” link.
2.	Scroll down to "More Applications" and choose the "Static FBML" (which stands for Facebook Markup Language) option.
3.	Click the "Add to My Page" button which will bring up a light box where you can choose your page, click the "Add to Page" button, and then choose the "Close" button at the bottom of the light box.
4.	Click the "Wall" tab at the top to return to your Fan Page.
5.	Click the Edit Page link under your Fan Page picture.
6.	Scroll down to the "FBML" box and Click "Edit".
7.	Type in a Box Title which will be the title of your Tab and Paste the eLoop code in the FBML Box. This information can be modified later by editing the FBML as in Step 6.
8.	Click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom and return back to your wall by clicking the name of your Fan Page at the top of the page.
9.	To add the form to your navigation, click the Plus Icon next to "Boxes" on the navigation bar located at the top of the page.
10.	Choose the FBML that you just created which will add it to your Navigation Bar. Once added you can simply drag the tab to the desired location.
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Adding the Form to Your Fan Page Wall If you make your form small enough, you can add it to the left side of your wall. Please see our example below.
1.	Go to "Boxes" (top navigation bar) and choose the box that you created above.
2	Click the pencil icon click “Move to Wall Tab”.
3.	Navigate back to your wall to see your form on the left side.
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Just received the following from the Yahoo! Postmaster team.

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With the exception of GoodMail's Certified Video service, LiveClicker is the only technology I have seen that allows marketers to easily bring full motion picture to email (excluding sound).  I liked LiveClicker's technology so much that I decided to partner them.  This partnership will allow Gold Lasso's clients easily leverage true video in email technology exchanging the simulated video control click-through image for something that's truly engaging. 

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