Tag Archive for ‘media’
LA Times mentions IFB
In a re-cap of all the good bits about NYFW happening ‘off the runways’ LA Times writer, Adam Tschorn mentioned Fashion Night Out, the return of 80’s celebrities, and well, an organization of bloggers:
‘Web-based solo-sailing stylephiles seem to be the new royalty of New York Fashion Week, getting into (and sitting front row at) [...]
What Do Companies Look For In a Blog?
While only you can measure your own blogging success, sometimes a different perspective can help you set your own goals.
PR and fashion companies have started to look to blogs to disperse content about their clients and labels, the advantage to this often comes in the form of pitches. While some bloggers look at pitches as [...]
Flipgloss Media… Good for Bloggers?
There is no question that the current advertising structure does not work…
Banner ads don’t produce much revenue unless you really push ad sales, affiliate marketing delicately teeters the line between editorial and sales content at the best of times. Flipgloss Media plans to change all of that. Funded by Forbes Media, FlipGloss.com is marketed as [...]
Beyond Boundaries: IFB to speak at conference
Thanks to the lovley people at FashionFreax and E.Factor, next week I will be on the panel at a conference in Berlin about working in a world without geographic boundaries. Though IFB is in English, our community is strongly international, and to be honest, I didn’t really think that was special as I always thought [...]
FTC plans to crack down blogger freebies…and what that means to you.
With the rise in power of blogs, also comes responsibility. By late summer, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans start monitoring blogs for non-disclosure of free products, sponsored posts and affiliate links. Since the rise in popularity of using blogs to research products, many readers have been unclear or even unsuspecting that the blogger may [...]
Fashion Bloggers Claim Your Media Credentials Today
Getting out into the real world and brings your blog to the next level… it’s intimidating, but Tierra M Wilson, breaks down how to get your media cred and how not to blow it.
Recently, I had an interesting conversation with a fashion photographer at a local fashion event. He was bragging about his full media [...]
All the pretty voices…noise or symphony?
There’s no doubt that we’re in the middle of a media paradigm shift. I’m not sure if I really want to write yet another commentary rallying the rising power of bloggers or the sheer numbers of new participants… all you have to do is open your eyes, and you’ll notice more and more bloggers using [...]
Elle says:’we’ve noticed that more and more quality, style-focused blogs are cropping up…’
Image via Garance Doré
Blog vs. print may be coming to a close, or maybe “independent blogs” vs. “media corporation blogs representing print magazines” may be coming to terms. I think. Scrolling through my rss feeder today, I came across Elle Magazine’s New Style Blogs article… It got me excited to see which blogs they [...]
It’s A Big World Out There
via Kingdom of Style
There seems to have been a recent spate of supposed fashion insiders/editors verbally attacking bloggers for our lack of journalistic skill, elegance or our materialism. It once again poses the question as to whether fashion bloggers and fashion editors can happily co-exist.
Firstly I must confess to being slightly dubious that these commentors [...]
dont be scared of it because it´s cool!
Post from Playground & Imperfection:
Continuing with the internet-influence-in-fashion&style topic, I should makea brief comment about i-D mag (for me the magazine with the most super-cool covers) october issue, which was dedicated to it under the idea of: “dont be scared of it because it´s cool!”.
Between the article, the most interesting for bloggers it´s “Modern technology [...]
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