Anne Holland

Spent the morning winnowing down applicants for a new reporter position we’ve got open. Lots of highly qualified, experienced reporters applied. To make a shortlist, we started looking at the online component. Being able to cut and paste your article from Word into a CMS ain’t enough.We asked on our application for blog or personal site URLs, LinkedIn profile URLs and also for Twitter IDs. (Note: We did not ask for Facebook IDs, nor did we…

Whether or not the new class action suit against Huffington Post by more than 100 of its unpaid bloggers succeeds, glare of publicity around it could cause problems between all content sites and their unpaid contributors. Especially where contributors can smell the money and leap to conclusions of unfairness. I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve been in the paid content and intellectual property industry for 25 years… long enough to smell smoke where there could be…

Even if your marketing department obeys California law (which is not the same as Federal CAN-SPAM law) for all commercial emails… if any of your affiliate or other partners sending offers on your behalf break the law, then you may be looking at a not-so-fun court case. A few keys — it doesn’t matter where you are headquartered. You could be in Kalamazoo, but if you send email to people in California, then California state law…