Breaking News! During the 5pm hour of the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Internet Reporter Abbi Tatton reported new guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission urging bloggers to disclose their relationships with advertisers and companies for whom they review products for.
As part of the segment, Abbi showed a variety of blogs that currently do it right and you guessed it! She showed my blog, specifically a post I did about Bella Monica Gluten-Free Pizzas. If you look back at all of my posts about food products, you'll see that I clearly identify that I was sent the food items by the company and did not pay for them myself.
The new FTC rules will go into effect on December 1, 2009, however they do not mandate how a blogger must disclose the relationships. They only say that it must be easy to understand and clearly visible.
Check out Abbi's segment now!
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Posted by: tea | 11/03/2009 at 02:13 AM
Nice work!
Posted by: CinnamonQuill | 10/08/2009 at 02:29 PM
Thank you for sharing this!
Posted by: Kim The Food Allergy Coach | 10/08/2009 at 09:03 AM
Hey that's great...Congratulations!
Posted by: Pam | 10/07/2009 at 03:11 PM
Kudos to you for being so transparent with any free products you receive to review. It definitely makes your blog more trustworthy! Very glad to hear that others will now be held to the same high standard. Congrats for the inclusion in the CNN story.
Posted by: Ellen Wilcox | 10/07/2009 at 12:38 PM