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What is Responsible Blogging to You?

The Federal Trade Commission has recently taken an interest in regulation of blogs when it comes to bloggers receiving products and writing about them. A lot of discussion has taken place about what it means to blog responsibly.

The State Of Paid Review Blogs

Posts for pay, reviews for cash or whatever you want to call them are a part of the blogosphere and have been for quite some time. The amount of attention that it gets is often directly related to the amount of other news that is happening in the space at the time.

Women Prefer Blogs/Facebook To Twitter

Women keep their personal lives and business lives very separate when it comes to social media, according to the 2009 Women in Social Media Study by BlogHer, iVillage, and Compass Partners. While women consider blogs great sources of information, especially regarding purchases, the vast majority of women use social networks solely for keeping in touch with family and friends.

Is The Blogher Conference Sexist?

To those organizers I challenge them to look in the mirror and realize that you’ve now become the same evil and sexist pigs you started out with the goal of overcoming.

BlogHer's Guide To Political Bloggers

Our customer BlogHer just launched their new BlogHer Guide to Political Bloggers.  Neat stuff, built on top of Cerado Ventana.  (But i'm biased :-)). Check it out. From the BlogHer page:

Bullying & Cyberbullying

Bullying is a serious issue. It makes people feel bad, makes them do things that they might not necesarily want to do, and forces people's hands. Cyberbullying is worse - it takes all those things, puts them online in blogs or journals or social networks, and ramps it up a level via emails, Twitters and text messaging, and instant messages.

BlogHer: How to Build Your Audience

Elise Bauer, Simply Recipes and Learning Movable Type Three things to thing about, with respect to building traffic:

Factiva Social Media Roundtable

Some random notes and thoughts during Factive's Social Media Rountable.

MIMA Summit Starts Today

The Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association annual Summit starts today.

BlogHer - Gender Has Nothing to Do With it

If you read any of the posts that people wrote from or about the BlogHer conference in the US last week, you'll probably arrive at the same conclusion I did - a terrific event filled with people who have interesting points to make and thoughts to share.