Social media is by definition, public information. As a marketer and public relations professional, I have really enjoyed the fact that I can easily share, find and communicate with people. As a power user, I love that everything and everyone is at my fingertips and that I can so easily share amazing stories and experiences with people I would have never met otherwise. But….as a mother, friend and human being that cares, I have some concerns. Our Eroding Privacy My read more...
Tour of New Facebook Places, Better Communication, Less Privacy
When Facebook rolled out with “Places” last year, like many of their feature upgrades, it came with a feature called “Tag Friends with You” turned on by default. This feature would allow your friends to check you in anywhere, even if you weren’t there, and even if you didn’t want to be checked in. It turns out that the new Facebook Places brings this feature back, but you can’t prevent people from tagging you at all, you can only remove the tags from you own profile. While usually, Facebook tends to count on the trade blogs, like this post by All read more...
Lee Odden Could Get Me Shot! Social Media Rockstars Not Welcome Everywhere
It is always awesome to be included in a list. It is especially nice to meet smart and savvy people, and yes, it is even great for the ego. So that is why I considered it a real honor that Lee Odden included me as one of 25 Women That Rock Social Media on his very popular Online Marketing blog. But yesterday I was listening to NPR and State read more...
Don’t Feed The Trolls: Fostering Civil Online Dialogue and Exchange of Ideas
I have met some of the most generous and wonderful people online and have learned so much from them by mutually sharing ideas, successes and failures. People like Shel Israel, Katie Paine, Geoff Livingston, Shel Holtz, Beth Kanter, Todd Defren and many, many others (see my blogroll for an idea of more) have constructively moved the field of online communication forward and I have enjoyed read more...
Sponsored Conversations: FTC Guidelines Impact Companies and Bloggers
Is blogging or tweeting out an opinion about a product or service advertising? If you are being paid to do it, or if you have received the item in question as a freebie for a company, as of December 1, 2009, you are bound by the same truth-in-advertising guidelines as advertisers.
- Advertising must be truthful and non-deceptive;
- Advertisers must have evidence to back up their claims; and
- Advertisements cannot be unfair.
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