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Poll: What is the FTC impact on blogs?

I am curious on what you think the impact will be on blogs? Are sponsorships a thing of the past or will bloggers fight back? Please enter your vote and add a comment as you see fit!
Thanks,
/Colin

FTC Blogger Regulations: 3 Smart Opinions

At the Inbound Marketing Summit, I was able to get some time from Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer, Aaron Strout of Powered, Inc, and Michael Schneider of Allen & Gerritsen. Some very good and interesting opinions in the video below:

For your information I am providing a few resources below.  First, here is [...]

Permission TV Relaunches as Visible Gains

A short video interview with Matthew Mamet speaking of the re-launch of PermissionTV as Visible Gains and their focus on Sales 2.0! Their leadership in buyer-led  video technology is VERY compelling and I can’t wait to see more and follow their success!

/colin

Sales 2.0 on Permission TV

Last week I had the honor of sitting in on PTV Live with Matthew Mamet of Permission TV.  It was great fun and I especially loved the conversations that they shared with me on their product vision.  Stay tuned for some very exciting things coming from Permission TV this fall!
Here is the video from Matthew [...]

New Social Media ROI and Statics Resources added

On the planning tab above I keep an active list of great resources for anyone that needs to additional information to justify a new marketing or social media program or for general research purposes. I have made some new updates to the list that I think are pretty interesting:
SOCIAL MEDIA ROI RESOURCES

Dell’s $3million on [...]

CES Observations

This is my first trip to CES and it has been both incredible and exhausting. I am not passionate about TVs or audio which tends to have a lot of focus here, but there have been a few things that really interested me that I wanted to highlight.  Please feel free to look at [...]

A Backstory from my New Job

I wanted to share a quick backstory about how I ended up working at Chris Brogan’s New Marketing Labs. I think that it is a good lesson in networking.
To be honest, I was not on any sort of aggressive job search in any way. In fact, what I was trying to do was [...]

Thank you Prospero and Mzinga!

After 3.5 years as a part of the Prospero / Mzinga team, I have decided to move on. It has been an incredible adventure through which I have learned a lot, stretched my capabilities, and gained many wonderful friends. As a start-up/small company professional, I felt it was time to find another wonderful [...]

Children and Social Media

Recently my daughter asked me when she could get a Twitter account.  That conversation and a recent study from the MacArthur Foundation prompted me to interview my kids about social media (see video below).  It is great how they really understand how they can leverage social media…  enjoy!

/colin

New Social Media Agencies Added

A warm welcome to the following social media agency and consultants that have recently joined the Constructing Social Builders Index.  Over the past month the list has grown to 56!  Amazing!  Here are the latest members, if you are looking for help with your social media initiatives, please check these great organizations out:
Social Media Consultants:

Jason [...]