tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230990064500569489.post1126010692983435371..comments2023-09-24T04:12:33.881-04:00Comments on AE on the Verge: Should bloggers get press passes?Cindy Buttshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573258402483105450noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230990064500569489.post-80979819222500795482008-05-01T13:29:00.000-04:002008-05-01T13:29:00.000-04:00Great post! I've been trying to uncover more info...Great post! I've been trying to uncover more information about bloggers as press from a sports perspective, snowboarding. Reading this was a tremendous help, thank you!Shayboarderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10099997197915953313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230990064500569489.post-42614659512160351012008-04-24T14:45:00.000-04:002008-04-24T14:45:00.000-04:00Great post, Cindy!At my last job, where I was in t...Great post, Cindy!<BR/><BR/>At my last job, where I was in the department that ran the press room at our annual meeting, I would definitely have given press passes to bloggers. My criteria was that the blogger had to have posted regularly on our industry for at least six months--since so many blogs start and stop in less than half a year. Unfortunately, there weren't many bloggers in that industry then, but I bet there are more now. <BR/><BR/>I would probably have given bloggers more comprehensive guidelines than I gave our usual press contacts, since I wouldn't be able to assume that they had the same journalistic background that a traditional reporter does. Your recording questions are good examples; you might want to include in the blogger guidelines that taping outside of the officially sanctioned recordings of sessions is only permitted if you get the speaker to agree to be taped on tape. (That's our practice for Associations Now interviews, for example--if we're taping, the interviewee must agree to be taped on tape.)<BR/><BR/>Have you had any bloggers covering your meetings? How did those experiences go?Lisa Junkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01674796769077390758noreply@blogger.com