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More Tuesday Tips: Avoid Blog Scandal
Go to La Shawn Barber's Corner to read about How to Avoid Blogosphere Scandal: Disclose! Her next post in this series will be on plagiarism... BIG no-no.
Good stuff.She writes on disclosure, "If we bloggers are going to demand transparency from the media and criticize other bloggers for failure to disclose, we must hold ourselves to the same standard. Why should we disclose financial relationships? Because people don’t want to be manipulated. If someone blogs in support of a candidate and encourages your support, imagine how manipulated you’d feel if you found out the blogger was on the candidate’s payroll."
Essentially that person on the payroll promoting said candidate was being deceptive as to who he really was and what his true agenda was. I have sadly come across a Christian blogger that made himself out to be something to others that I knew he was not.
I am obviously not paid to blog, but it made me think of the word integrity and an earlier post I made that was a prayer from my pastor. He wrote, " Lord, may my life be a reflection of You; a living demonstration of Your heart and ways. May the reality of my life be consistent with what I claim to believe. Reveal any hypocrisy or pretense in my walk; any area where I am leaving a better impression of myself than is honestly true. May my life create in others a thirst to know and walk with You."
Christian blogging is about bringing glory and honor to God. I pray I keep that in mind everytime I hit *post*. I am not encouraging anyone to be inappropriately transparent. ("Never be transparent at the expense of the Gospel." was advice given to me when I first started blogging). But let us not make ourselves out to be someone we are not.
(I know... I said I was taking a break... it's Challies fault.)
