Category Social Media Career

My New Job

Today I’m starting a new job. For months, I’ve been developing my brand and growing my network. Consistently writing blog posts five times a week, tweeting daily, and updating my Facebook and LinkedIn pages. I’ve networked at conferences and attended local AMA and Meetup events. I even started hosting a networking group for Raleigh bloggers.

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Why You (and I) Should Comment on Posts

This is something that I haven’t been very good at lately. I’ll read a lot of posts, and many times tweet them and save them to my Delicious page, but then fail to comment on them. You may think that if I do all that then what does it matter if I comment on them

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Ethics and Ghost Blogging

Yesterday, I wrote a post about the FTC Disclosure Guidelines for bloggers. In a comment, someone asked me about ghost blogging. What does the FTC think about it? Is it ethical? I wasn’t sure, so I looked into it and the answer is: jury’s still out. The FTC does not include ghost blogging in its

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