Well, the results have come in and I’m very happy to say that Future Conscience has one the Rookie Blogger of the Year contest that was being held by Tycoon Blogger! Have to say a big thank you to everybody who voted for us, with 23% of the vote we certainly have been encouraged to continue doing what we’ve been doing – just even more so!
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Tag Archive: ethical blogging
Ethics Newsline posts a Blogger’s Code of Ethics
Ethics Newsline, which is a part of the two decade old Institute for Global Ethics, has recently thrown their hat into the ethical blogging ring with a post by Rushworth Kidder. This post attempts to formulate a universal code of blogging ethics.
Ethical Blogging Series Roundup
The series on ethical blogging here at Future Conscience has proved to be quite popular. I’ve decided to do a quick roundup of the posts done so far; mainly so that new readers are able to catch up on what’s been done already. Here’s what we’ve covered so far.
Ethical Blogging: Promoting your site
Building a successful website really requires two core things: good content and good marketing. Without good content, nobody is going to want to visit your site more than once. But without good marketing, nobody will visit your site at all.
Ethical Blogging: Climate change, blogging for the common good
Those of you paying attention might have questioned why we didn’t have an ethical blogging post yesterday – being Wednesday and all. Well, the reason is that I wanted to save the post for Blog Action Day ‘09, an annual event where bloggers unite to bring attention to an issue of global importance.
Ethical Blogging: Affiliate Marketing
For this week’s entry on ethical blogging I’m going to take a lot at an aspect of monetisation that is proving very popular: affiliate marketing.
FTC looks to punish dishonest bloggers
ReadWriteWeb has reported on recent guidelines released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that will allow them to fine bloggers who do not disclose their connections to companies and affiliates when endorsing a product.
Ethical Blogging: Sourcing Images
Another Wednesday, another post on ethical blogging! For those who are just coming to Future Conscience, I have recently started a series of posts on what we feel are some good blogging practices. Today I’m going to take a look at a very important aspect of blog posts: images.
Ethical Blogging: Monetisation and Advertising
The second post in our ongoing Ethical Blogging series – this time I’m going to take a look at the idea of monetising websites, and in particular the use of advertisements.
Ethical Blogging: Why do you want to blog?
One of the things that every blogger has in common is that first moment of inspiration, that point where we say to ourselves ‘I’m going to start a blog!’. So I wanted to look at what makes a good basis for starting a blog. What are the ethical ways to start blogging? More importantly, are there any unethical reasons for wanting to blog?
