The Facebook Free Ride is Over
Remember Facebook--the free platform you can use to post whatever you want, in whatever format you want, for free? Remember all the limitless possibilities for engagement it promised brands? Yeah, well stick a fork in that memory because it's done; Big Brother Facebook just announced some new rules that require you to get their approval before doing any kind of contest or promotion.Huh?I'm still wondering if I'm reading the post on Inside Facebook wr

The Recession Isn't What's Wrong With Blogging
I read this post yesterday and feel like I'm living in some kind of parallel universe since them. There are scads of comments but not one person seems to be concerned with the following passage:"I still remember that in 2008, I got a really incredible contract via my ad service company (I have a company that takes care of selling ads on my blog) with a large pharmaceutical company to write six posts for them to try educating readers on the benefits of their product. The deal was to net me $8,000 for those six articles and the only thing I had to do was to

The Other Side of Social Media Policies--Employee's Rights
I'm always reading about employees being fired for stuff they say online or how you have to watch what you say if you want to keep your job or find a new one. But until today I'd never realized that it's actually employers who may have to watch how they react to things their employees share online.According to the Human Resource Executive Online, employees are actually covered by a n

Social Media Salary Report: Ladies, It's Not Pretty
Those of you who frequent this blog know I'm obsessed with social media salaries--I post about the lack of social media salary and title data quite frequently. So you know I jumped at the chance to participate in Forum One Network's Online Community & Social Media Compensation survey for 2009 because by doing so I w

Report Finds Most DC-based Associations Still Cautious Towards Social Media
I just read about a new report called "Social Media and Advocacy Analysis 2009: Social media and advocacy tools employed by America's leading trade associations, pressure groups and cause organizations," prepared by Marc Ross, Christine Stineman, and Chris Lisi of 2ndSix, Tribe Effect and Chris Lisi Communications. The report is a little confusing to me; basically they looked at what seem to be a totally random selection of 102 of "America's leading trade associations, issue advocacy groups and cause organizations" to rate each on the extent to which they were each using 14 differe