I have been using SocialSpark for a little over a month now and at first it was cool. We could check things out and actually take opps. Now I’m lucky if I manage to find one that is one I’m willing to wait over a week to do. I think the problem is more that SocialSpark is new and everyone is so excited about it that they jump into it and don’t look back. For me the dynamic pricing is probably the most frustrating part of it. If you reserve an opp at $5 that morning it could be 11 or 15 by that afternoon, just because there are no slots left for it so no one can take it. The other problem with this pricing is that an opp that is $15 when you wait for a slot, may only be worth $5 when you do it. Now if you have never done paid blogging before you may not get why this is an issue. Some advertisers want a lot put into a post and sometimes all of that work is not worth $5 to a blogger, but it may be worth that $15 that the blogger first saw.

My other issue is with sponsorships, Right now I’m waiting on two, one of them is no longer available in the marketplace, but it says I’m still waiting. I guess it would just have been nice to know in the first place that I had to wait for it instead of thinking I had it and it would start up the next day.

Other then that I love social spark I love being able to check out the profiles of people on the network who I may not have known write the blog I read. Some are just fun to read what they have going on. I love how some people have things done like this profile for Mummifiedx5. I think her heading says it all.

The other fun part about socialspark is that you have access to so many blogs, you can find some great blogs to read and learn about the people who write them. They also have a way to sort them by category so you can look for blogs that have to do with travel, sports or music if that is what you want to read about.

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If you read this blog a lot you may already know that I own a forum for bloggers called blogger love. I did some research into why my forum was not getting many members and I found that most people think it’s a singles site for bloggers, not an information forum. So I am not on the hunt for a new domain name. I want to get the new one sometime in June so that I have a few months for the redirect to work it’s magic and then I’ll be letting the blogger love domain go.

I’m excited about the change, I hope it will help bring more traffic and get more people interested in blogging and learning more. I felt that some of the forums that are around seem to make people feel unwanted and stupid for asking questions. I hated seeing it, not just when I got that type of response to my questions, but looking at others. Thats just not how things should be done. So I opened my own and I have met some great people on there.

Anyway, I’m still trying to think of some good short domain names that are actually free to buy and I don’t have to pay hundreds of dollars for. I’ll come up with something, but if anyone reading this has any suggestions let me know.

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I just finished reading an article on Yahoo titled 5 Ways your computer use can get you fired. The first one listed is blogging. Apparently someone was fired because they had an unapproved blog. I found this interesting as I plan on working within the next year as I will have my degree. I do plan on letting anyone I interview for know what I do online as it is on my resume. I also have an interior design blog, the only one I think could cause an issue. Hopefully I can work it so that I can keep the blog and still get a job.

The blogger that was fired worked for CNN, so I do understand why the company fired them at the same time I still think it sucks. The employee though should have known that working in a media field they would be considered a competition and should have gotten permission. Yes we all have a right to do things but when you start covering public people as this blogger did you may be overstepping your work boundary’s.

I believe if it had been a more personal blog, that kept out work related issues or people, the blogger may not have been fired. It just seems strange that you could get fired for blogging.

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