How the LinkedIn Bloggers group, established in 2005 and operating since then on Yahoo Groups, will now be operating on LinkedIn Groups. A place to learn and share about social media and professional networking.

A view from a blogger outside the USA about the FTC’s new “guidance” on disclosure One of my first thoughts on learning this week of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announcement on endorsements and testimonials was that as I don’t live in the US it does not apply to me. One of my next

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Wednesday this week, October 15, is Blog Action Day and the focus this year is on Poverty. I’ve posted elsewhere about this but the subject is worth the risk of a bit of repetition. Just under an hour ago the word was that some 8,000 blogs have signed up for this event. Actually, I thought

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I was delighted with the announcement last week of the new Advisory Board for IBNMA – the International Blogging and New Media Association. Not just because I’m one of the people on the Board, although that is indeed an honour and a privilege, but because I see the appointment of the Board as evidence that

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Here’s a challenge for some PR folks: they have figured out that their interests and their clients might be better served if they could get their story picked up by bloggers they are not bloggers themselves so they just send stuff to bloggers the way they send stuff to mainstream journos their story doesn’t get

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