The Journey. It’s Mine.

It is no secret that I currently blog for three networks. In each one of them I signed a confidential contract per each blog.

Unless the network itself decides to divulge internal information to the public (i.e. payment schemes, business models), I am not allowed to tell anyone of the “gory details” of what’s happening inside each one of those networks.

While I am not any network’s bonafide employee (networks bloggers are mostly referred to as independent contracted authors), I am bound by some invisible code of ethics not to bring any inside information to the public, much less tell one network of what’s going on in another (I am not really sure if any network blogger has the stomach to do this though).

There is no perfect blog network, what you seek for as a blogger you may not get in one, but in another and vice versa. So if you blog for several networks, suffice to say that you get the best of many blog networks’ world (or the worst! whichever way you like to look at it).

The old cliché that you cannot serve two masters may not actually apply to network blogging. Like many other things inside the box, I’ve learned that the whole world of blogging and earning from it - is the ultimate shift of all paradigm shifts. This world cannot be contained inside the box and into any shape for that matter.

[To make things even more interrelated, my blogging for one network, led to being hired by the other networks, as is usually the case in most network bloggers I know.]

So, going back to the question: where is your loyalty network blogger? My loyalty is to the blogs that I’ve committed to deliver my end of the bargain to and so by extrapolation since I blog for three networks, I am loyal to all three networks.

And by demonstrating those loyalties, I’ve learned to compartmentalize: blog network A = network A bloggers = network A management and so on…

But I have to admit that it isn’t easy, especially when you are “talking” to somebody who blogs for the same three networks as well…it is then that we get caught up in some non-permeable bubble, we cannot even bring it on record, especially not even online. Thank God, this rarely happens…

Anyway, I am just a blogger anyway and my life is less complicated, at least less complicated than bloggers who work behind their blogs together with the blog networks’ management team.

I really wonder how they deal with it when their loyalty is placed on the hot seat? Well, whatever they turn into, I just hope that they don’t turn into something that their old plain blogger-self will hate. He he.
OR…it is so obvious where their loyalty lies it’s not even questioned anymore.