12 Handy FTC Disclosure Badges [pics]
December 4, 2009
Filed Under: in Analysis, Featured Articles
Author: Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
Welcome back.
Earlier today, fellow blogger and friend Louis Gray came out with a set of eight highly useful badges to display in the event of a possible FTC disclosure situation.
The new FTC disclosure rules for bloggers can be confusing. While many people do their best to explain when they may have received gifts or food or books for free, it's not very easy to knowjust how to disclose, and when! That's why, with the help of talented artist Jeannine Schafer (@neenerbot), we prepared a set of FTC disclosure icons that will see you through practically any possible conflict of interest.
I’ll likely be using many of these for my personal disclosure needs, but there were a few categories that I felt weren’t adequately described by his badges, so I whipped up a few of my own to add to the collection.
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Feeling Guilty from Cover to Cover? |
Are Your Stomach and Conscience Both Full? |
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| Are You On the Take? (500 px | 250 px | 150 px) |
Sporting Some New Geek Cred? (500 px | 250 px | 150 px) |
Watching the Market A Bit More? (500 px | 250 px | 150 px) |
| Are You Shacking Up With a Source? (500 px | 250 px | 150 px) |
Did You Do Time for A Crime? (500 px | 250 px | 150 px) |
SiliconANGLE’s Contribution to the Meme
I have a few more, slightly more specific, badges for my specific use cases. You may or may not find them useful.
Mark,
While your (possibly) tongue-in-cheek set of badges made me laugh, I think then ones you displayed at the top of the article are absolutely, positively, the exact way to go about this kind of thing. Honesty is the best policy, right? Why not add some humour into it?
Not sure what I’ll use these for but in case someone else has a use, here you go!
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