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Don’t miss visiting some of our other sites too, including our flagship home site Home Ever After, our freebies site And Freebies for All, our giveaway linky headquarters Product Reviews for Mom, and a few more up and coming blogs and other sites:

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• I Love Powershell
• Ice-Simmons Empire

If you haven’t made your party post yet, there’s still time!  Don’t miss this great opportunity to promote your blog(s) and meet fellow bloggers.  Have a great time hopping through the blogs listed at the Ultimate Blog Party 2010! 

I just wanted to remind all mommy bloggers (and female bloggers) that the Ultimate Blog Party 2010 at 5 Minutes 4 Mom is coming soon. 

This year’s Ultimate Blog Party will be held from April 9-16, 2010.  You can head over there now to get UBP 2010 info and UBP10 badges for the upcoming blog party.  As a woman blogger, trust me when I say this is one blog event you DON’T want to miss!

Alright ladies and gents, we knew the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines were coming for nearly a year, and now they’re finally here.  This is an urgent (and legally necessary) read for all bloggers, because it effects your reviews, sponsored posts, PR, news articles, and more.  I hate to be the one to tell you that the new Guides are in fact 81 pages long, but they are.

Grab a cup of coffee, because this pdf will take a while to read. 

Click here for the full 81 page pdf of the FTC’s “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising”.

Here’s a snippet from the headline from the FTC that hit our screens on October 5, 2009:

FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials

Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the FTC Act.

The notice incorporates several changes to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, which address endorsements by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities, as well as the disclosure of important connections between advertisers and endorsers. The Guides were last updated in 1980.

Read the FTC’s full article here:  FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials

Update: The 2 Purex Insiders have been chosen! Stay tuned for the names to be announced.

As you may know, I’m a Purex Insider.  This means I get to test out their new products, handle their promotions, and be a brand ambassador for Purex to people worldwide.  Now, Purex is expanding their group of 200 Purex Insiders, and told me I can choose 2 people to add!

You can find out more about the program at the Purex site here.  Representing a high profile brand like Purex can be a huge boost to your PR resume, which translates to better clout with potential advertisers. 

I mentioned this earlier today on Twitter and got quite a response.  I can only choose two people and it will be a very tough decision to narrow it down to only 2. 

If you are interested in being considered as a Purex Insider, please leave a comment below.

(Please don’t leave a comment if you have in the past, currently are, or plan to participate in a PR blackout.  PR blackouts are not supported by our company, IS World Media, and we can’t nominate a blogger who is closed to PR opportunities.  This is IS World Media’s policy only and does not reflect the ideas of any products/companies that we promote/review.  Thank you for understanding.)

Feel free to link to this post for your readers – they might like to sign up as well!