I did enjoy being told that I was part of a powerful group of women, both economically and politically.
I promise to use my blogging power for good.
The roundtable discussion about blogging and branding and that was pretty interesting. I haven’t been involved in a discussion about getting paid for the work that we do…Oh wait, I do theatre (Mike Daisey explains it best)….Oh wait, I’m a mom… Oh, wait…, I volunteer at My Kid’s school…
That woman was right when she quoted her husband who said, “There is no way a group of men would be still blogging for free diaper bags“
OK, I was feeling good, now I’m depressed.
No, wait, I won’t get discouraged. Some mom bloggers get free stuff to blog about and then they write about so much stuff they end up being hired by marketing companies.
Now I am really getting off course. I’m a clown, not an ad exec
So anyway.
It was a fun work day first in the studio with the women clowns at a studio in the Fashion District then at the blogging mom event in Tribeca.
So after yummy Brooklyn supper on the the stoop of delivery from The Smoke Joint I sit here now here I write on my MacBook while My Kid who was very excited about the Bejeweled video game and bottles of Powerade Play sports beverage I brought back from today’s event is enjoying her bath with the blue robot bath bomb from LUSH and soap from Carol’s Daughter–OK I’ll stop.
Hey Kathie–
Strangely, my wife just wrote about this on her blog:
http://www.stephanieschwab.com/2010/05/18/brands-working-with-bloggers-its-confusing/
I haven’t gotten compensated dime one for http://www.clownlink.com, (other than a few affiliate ad sales from Amazon and a few google ad clicks here and there) nor for any of my other blogs (I have about 4 or 5) Strike that– my Yonkers arts blog somebody sent in $25 as a paypal donation.
The problem is really traffic– until you have enough traffic to make it worthwhile for brands to compensate you, they are not going to.
Anyway– I read you on a regular basis, but sadly am not a hot demographic.
Adam