Watchdog Nation founder Dave Lieber is given five minutes to explain his simple method of protecting yourself for the rest of your life. This happened in February 2011 at the Granada Theater in Dallas, Texas as part of Ignite Dallas 3.

For Apple product users, watch it here.

Visit Watchdog Nation Headquarters

Like Watchdog Nation on Facebook

Watch Watchdog Nation on YouTube

Twitter @DaveLieber

Are you tired of fighting the bank, the credit card company, the electric company and the phone company? They can be worse than scammers the way they treat customers. A popular book, Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong, shows you how to fight back — and win! The book is available at WatchdogNation.com as a hardcover, CD audio book, e-book and hey, what else do you need? The author is The Watchdog columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Visit our store. Now revised and expanded, the book won two national book awards for social change. Twitter @DaveLieber

Watch the archived tape of the radio/TV interview with Watchdog Nation founder Dave Lieber, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Watchdog columnist.

Here’s the link with host Brian Parker on www.onthehorn.com radio … or, if you can see the video box below, hit play.

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK

=

Dave Lieber

“Every city needs a Dave Lieber.”

That’s what one judge said when awarding Dave, founder of Watchdog Nation, one of his two national writing awards at the 2009 conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

Lieber, The Watchdog columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, one of Texas’ finest newspapers, won second place in the Herb Caen Memorial Items/Notes category and honorable mention for general-interest columns in newspapers with more than 100,000 circulation.

The general-interest columns were about a retired airline pilot who lost much of his life savings through scams, a government-sponsored research project that enrolled patients without their knowledge and a Baylor Health Care System employee whom hospital police believe stole $1.4 million. The notes columns were watchdog shorts about various items.

One judge commented, “Dave Lieber’s columns quickly and easily create a sense of outrage in a reader. He writes about rip-offs, scams and jerks who take advantage of the most vulnerable people in society. He exposes wrongs and wrong-doers. Every city needs a Dave Lieber.”

Another judge stated, “Members of the Fourth Estate play many important roles in society. Among them is that of ‘watchdog’ — the reporter/writer/editor who is adept at ‘afflicting the comfortable, and comforting the afflicted.’ Mr. Lieber fills that role very well.

“Mr. Lieber does not engage in the frequent chest thumping that accompanies many of the ‘I am on your side’ investigators who spend far too much time telling you how great they are rather than focusing on the problem.

“Mr. Lieber gets quickly to the point about who was wronged and how — and he does it covering topics of wide general interest. It’s a safe bet that businesses around Fort Worth read his articles faithfully — and with some trepidation.”

The columnists’ society (columnists.com), with 300 members, held its 33rd annual conference in Ventura, Ca. The group honored Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle with its Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award.

Full winners list here.

Subject: 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards – Winner Social Change

Watchdog Nation has received the following communiqué:

We are writing with some fabulous news. Your book — Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong — has been named the Winner in the Social Change category of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Congratulations!

Your achievement will be published at www.IndieBookAwards.com.

Additionally, your book will be listed as a Winner in the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards catalog which will be distributed at Book Expo America in New York later this month to thousands of attendees including book buyers, library representatives, media, industry professionals, and others.

Once again congratulations from all of us at Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group and the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

Here is a complete list of the 2009 Winner and Finalists for Social Change:

• WinnerDave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong

  by Dave Lieber

  Yankee Cowboy Publishing

• FinalistAn Unlikely Family: Voices of Ethiopian and American Youth Who Are Turning Tragedy Into Hope

  by Ben Beisswenger, Christopher Beisswenger, Margaret Eldred, Zoe Dmitrovsky, Meron Foster, Carolynne Krusi

  Anemeone Publishing

• FinalistAudrey on Nantucket

  by Audrey Obremski

  BookSurge

• FinalistAutism ABC

  by Dr. Sherry L. Meinberg

  BookSurge

• FinalistBusiness Revolution through Ancestral Wisdom

  by Tu Moonwalker and JoAnne O’Brien-Levin, Ph.D.

  Outskirts Press

• FinalistGreat Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World

  by Ken Beller and Heather Chase

  LTS Press

• FinalistNegotiating with Giants: Get What You Want Against the Odds

  by Peter D. Johnston

  Negotiation Press

• FinalistNo More Mr. Nice Guy

  by James Alston

  BookSurge

• FinalistSaints in the City

  by Andie Andrews

  Outskirts Press

• FinalistThe Thinking Person’s UFO Book

  by Gordon Chism

  Avenue Design, Inc.

• FinalistThe Third Basic Instinct: How Religion Doesn’t Get You

  by Alex S. Key

  BookSurge