<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e12948bd-d0bb-42cf-a0be-be9a99117448/BDC2DBB7-4682-4D00-A4B9-C6EA272A5A9B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.twittermoms.com/profiles/blogs/mommy-blogger-or-corporate?utm_source=blip.fm&utm_medium=300x250ad&utm_term=puppet&utm_content=momblogpuppet&utm_campaign=blip.fm-corppuppet" href="http://www.twittermoms.com/profiles/blogs/mommy-blogger-or-corporate?utm_source=blip.fm&utm_medium=300x250ad&utm_term=puppet&utm_content=momblogpuppet&utm_campaign=blip.fm-corppuppet" style="font-size: 11px;">www.twittermoms.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twittermoms.com/profiles/blogs/mommy-blogger-or-corporate?utm_source=blip.fm&utm_medium=300x250ad&utm_term=puppet&utm_content=momblogpuppet&utm_campaign=blip.fm-corppuppet"><DIV> The Federal Trade Commission is apparently considering requiring bloggers, as journalists are required, to disclose when they are being paid to write about a company's product or service. I say good! And <A target="blank" href="http://www.momdot.com/">MomDot</A> is asking all Mommy bloggers to spend a week in August ignoring all PR pitches.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twittermoms.com/profiles/blogs/mommy-blogger-or-corporate?utm_source=blip.fm&utm_medium=300x250ad&utm_term=puppet&utm_content=momblogpuppet&utm_campaign=blip.fm-corppuppet"><DIV> Did I miss anything? What do you think? Should bloggers accept free products? Let the debate begin!</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twittermoms.com/profiles/blogs/mommy-blogger-or-corporate?utm_source=blip.fm&utm_medium=300x250ad&utm_term=puppet&utm_content=momblogpuppet&utm_campaign=blip.fm-corppuppet"><DIV> 3) Bloggers should never accept money from a company to write about their product or service. Then you are an ad. Who wants to read that? Not me.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twittermoms.com/profiles/blogs/mommy-blogger-or-corporate?utm_source=blip.fm&utm_medium=300x250ad&utm_term=puppet&utm_content=momblogpuppet&utm_campaign=blip.fm-corppuppet"><I>About Lyn Mettler</I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twittermoms.com/profiles/blogs/mommy-blogger-or-corporate?utm_source=blip.fm&utm_medium=300x250ad&utm_term=puppet&utm_content=momblogpuppet&utm_campaign=blip.fm-corppuppet"><I>Lyn is the mother of two young boys, a social media nerd and the president of <A href="http://www.stepaheadinc.com" target="blank">Step Ahead Inc.</A>, a company which combines the best of traditional public relations with social media campaigns to maximize visibility for clients both online and off. She is the social media featured blogger for TwitterMoms.com and also blogs regularly on her company Web site. Follow her on Twitter at @webprgirl.</I></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BDC2DBB7-4682-4D00-A4B9-C6EA272A5A9B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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