Disclosure, comment, review, pitch and use policies:

The FutureBuzz website and The Source blog is the company website and personal blog of FutueBuzz and Jillian Kingsford Smith, a social media writer, social media strategist and digital media marketer. The content on this site reflects my personal opinions.

Use:
© 2009 by Jillian Kingsford Smith. Copyright holder is licensing this under the Creative Commons License, Attribution 3.0.
Please note that the Creative Commons License does not apply to third-party images used within posts on this blog. Please see attribution associated with each image for licensing.

Disclosures:
Because I do consultancy work and write articles within the industry, there are inevitable conflicts. From time to time, I will use some of the organisations and people I meet as examples – always with their permission – and this may be construed as cross-promotion. If I am reviewing a product or service, I will make any previous dealings or paid promotions clear but please be assured, that the content of this site is intended to be for educational purposes, promotion of my own services or a medium to express my opinion.
When there is a potential conflict, I will call it out at the bottom of the post.

Affiliations:
• I am on the board of directors of The Stride Foundation for Female Athletes
• I am on the board of directors of Somerville Corporate Catering

Previous employers:
Prior to starting my own business in 2009, I held the following full time jobs:
• Skelton Sherborne: (previously Skelton Tomkinson or ST Group) – Director of Sales & Marketing
• Triple Eight Race Engineering / Team Betta Electrical – Communications Manager
• Department of State Development (QLD) – Principal Media Advisor
• Queensland Master Builders Association – Communications & Events Manager
• San Francisco Chronicle – Business Editor

Review policy:
I am happy to consider reviewing your product. Please be aware that the discretion to review remains with me and the outcome can not be vetted prior to publication.

In my role as a social media writer, I often review books on this blog and for various printed & online publications. Please contact me for further details and discussion on review and publication.

Comment policy:
• I try to maintain a free and open environment.
• I welcome comments on this blog. You comments should be appropriate to the post that you are commenting on
• By commenting you are granting the blog owner license to the content of the comment.
• I maintain the right to delete inappropriate comments.
• I will not remove a “negative” comment unless it is offensive.
• I will remove comments that are inappropriately off topic, comments that contain personal attacks, comments that are clearly spam (trying to sell a product without adding value to a discussion), and comments with excessive profanity.
• If you do not use your full name in a comment, I do require a valid email address.

Information for Public Relations professionals:
• Feel free to email information that you think I may be interested in based on reading this blog or my books. A Twitter DM is also a good way to reach me.
• Please do not call me on the telephone.
• I greatly appreciate personal pitches that you craft especially for me based on what I write and speak about.
• I do not appreciate broadcast pitches or press releases in areas that I do not cover.

Contact information:
There are many ways to contact me.

Thank you,
Jillian Kingsford Smith
Director
FutureBuzz

E-mail: jillian@FutureBuzz.com.au