Author: Megan Olendorf

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Megan is the Marketing and Events Manager at Avvo.

4 Tips to Track Your Social Footprint

Chatter across the Internet is abuzz these days over privacy issues.  At the center is Facebook, with its 400 million registered users,  who are very much divided over the social giant’s latest change that extends your actions and preferences across the entire web. While some people are threatening to quit Facebook altogether, others are suggesting […]

5 Common Life Events That Call for Estate Planning

Statistics show that 7 in 10 people in the US do not have an estate plan in place. Perhaps people do not like to think about death. Maybe they just don’t understand what estate planning is all about.  Or it could be that it’s just not something people make time for. Regardless of the reason, […]

Weekly Top Ten Celebrities Behaving Badly

1) Reports today indicate that Lindsay Lohan could be heading to jail. Currently on probation for DUI,  she has allegedly failed to fulfill requirements set down by the judge. Although her lawyer has denied this, she will be in court next month.  Meanwhile, the feud between Lindsay and her father continues. 2) Five years and […]

Top Five Ways to Avoid Foreclosure Fraud

This week RealtyTrac, a marketer for the housing industry,  revealed that foreclosure in the US has risen 16% over the first three months of the year. From Modesto, California to Miami, Florida – and everywhere in between – people are struggling to hold onto their homes.  In addition, another recent industry report showed the troubling […]

Weekly Top Ten Celebrities Behaving Badly

This week was a wild one for Lindsay Lohan and her family. Her father showed up uninvited at her apartment in LA with the cops in tow, causing a bit of a scene as Lindsay described on Twitter. And in an unrelated matter, Lindsay has also been named a suspect in the case of a […]

Product Recall Madness – How to Protect Yourself

Lately it seems that every day we hear about another product recall. From an E. coli outbreak in spinach salad, salmonella in peanut butter, faulty car parts, toxic children’s toys or contaminated medicine; it’s downright scary when we find out products we use may actually be dangerous. So how can you stay on top of the recall news and protect yourself from recalled products?