Blog ethics

On July 14, 2005, in In English, Seminars, Weblogs, by Hans Mestrum

We had the Blogstorm some days ago. Miel did some excellent work in summarizing what was discussed. He wrote three postings:

:: BLOGSTORM OGILVY – BLOGS AND MARKETING
:: BLOGSTORM OGILVY – WHEN SHOULD COMPANIES BLOG
:: BLOGSTORM OGILVY – ETHICS, MARKETING, BLOGS

I like them all, especially the last one. Very authentic, with a personal touch and describing some nasty questions. He discusses the following items which we addressed in the discussion:

- I’m a company, I have a product and I want to ‘do something’ with blogs. How does that work?
- I’m a marketeer, I don’t have a blog but hey, I can pay others to blog my content. How does that work?
- So, ok. I’m an honest marketeer (heheh), and I have a product I want some people to blog about. Now what?
- I’m a blogger, and I hate marketing blogs. I hate those stupid characterblogs. It’s fake, it doesn’t feel right. I’ll protest.
- To the hater/blogger
- To the marketeer
- Never forget
- How about editorial advertisement? What with content-placement

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