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Should Chris Brogan get paid?
Ok, so if you don’t know who Chris Brogan is here’s the scoop. Chris Brogan is an artist who has a not so artsy day job because he needs to ‘put food on his family’. The ‘day job Chris Brogan’ shows businesses and individuals how to effectively use social networking to create useful relationships and is widely considered a good source for honest, educated opinions on the modern ways of communicating.
The logical result of following his own advice makes Chris Brogan one of the best known ‘news you can use’ bloggers out there and because he has taken the time to build a real relationship with hundreds if not thousands of us we live vicariously through his adventures. So that’s why I’m adding my two cents to the recent criticism levied towards him.
chrisbrogan - simply this: folks are mad I did a sponsored post for Kmart. Pitchforks at 11.
I haven’t read the sponsored post in question. The very fact that they paid Chris Brogan to write a piece about their brand gives me hope that they won’t just collapse and let Wal-Mart have almost total dominance in the cheapest necessities category of business as competition is a healthy thing.
So why are (his) people angry that Chris Brogan got paid to blog about K-Mart? After all he is a blogger who works in the business and marketing field, giving useful advice for free and never too busy to reply to a serious email or tweet. He’s not some kind of anarchist grimly struggling against authority and many of the usual suspects in Chris Brogans blogosphere salivate over the chance to get paid to blog. Chrisbrogan.com is not a hangout for hippy-esque finger pointing types who consider getting paid by a business to be ‘selling out to the man’, far from it!
I think it’s a situation similar to what Jim Morrisson talked about, and lead to his dissolution of the public. People, who feel powerless, will try to kill their leaders/gods/shamen etc. A lot of people are suffering as the recession drags on and perhaps some of them are lashing out in their fustration at people who have demostrated empathy such as Chris Brogan.
in a spiritual sence, if I have learned enough from David Wilcock to make a reasonable guess here, the universe is presenting Chris Brogan with a choice, to counter the negative forces with a positive approach (perhaps by simply not letting the criticism bother him and forgiving those who have nasty things to say) or to amplify the negativativty by feeling sorry for himself or vengeful or withdrawing to lick his wounds.
Anyway, I’m glad Chris Brogan got paid for doing what he’s good at. Below is what he is a genius at! (and if you paid him for that he wouldn’t have to pay the bills by writing copy for K-Mart!).
Row_Bot Fine Art by Chris Brogan
Originally posted 2008-12-14 17:18:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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