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The Ethics of Press Trips, Reviews and Affiliate Links – Scott Tharler

Ethical Voices

I first met him when I pitched him for a client, and we soon discovered we both went to Syracuse around the same time and had friends in common and wanted to talk about ethics. Scott discusses a number of important ethics topics including. The ethics of press trips. The ethics of reviews and selling products you review.

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James Shields, the re-discoverer of Bulgaria.

Maxim Behar

I was almost ready to leave James Shields, the newly appointed Managing Director of AMOCO Bulgaria at his temporary set-up offices at the – then–only 5-star hotel in Bulgaria Sheraton, when I just looked into this person's eyes. There, I saw only kindness, depth, and a desire for serious work- in 1996, in Bulgaria, this was quite rare.

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Tripadvisor and how to get fined for negative reviews

Norton's Notes

Tony and Jan Jenkinson, had been on their way to Oxford to visit family, when they stopped off at a Blackpool hotel to split up their journey. The couple then felt they received a poor quality of service at the hotel and in turn wrote a negative review on Tripadvisor. So everything sounds pretty standard so far, right?

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Growing my blog has been all about…

Communications Conversations

And, they had ponied up the money for my hotel room. One example: Writing this post four-plus years ago about how the Sons of Anarchy lived by the PRSA code of ethics. Fun post to write. One week later, I get a call from Scott asking if I still wanted to attend BlogPotomac (a popular social media event in DC at the time).

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Maxim Behar talk with Desi Banova in "Here and Now" on Nova TV

Maxim Behar

Maxim: On PR and the dissertation I'm writing and hopefully I can finish by the end of the year. Then I wrote Bulgaria's first Standard for Business Ethics. Clement Ohridski". Host: Wow, bravo on what? And because I got this invitation at the last minute, I was very much wondering what to bring him as a gift.

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Maxim Behar: Better put yourself in others’ shoes and then judge

Maxim Behar

There are 4 billion opinions, and when you write something on social media, potentially 4 billion people worldwide can read it, regardless of the language, because it can be translated in a second. On Twitter or Instagram, it is a bit harder to recognize the people you are writing to; there are ways. I've told this story many times.

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Maxim Behar in Kamen Vodenicharov's show "The Evening of." on 7/8 TV

Maxim Behar

In 2002 I was responsible for coming up with the standard of the country’s business ethics. Many people have asked me what business ethics is. However, if we make them transparently that means it is ethical. Kirill Asenov writes “One question gives me no peace. It is to make profits transparently. Seychellois travel.

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