The mainstream marketplace, where we have traditionally been banned from advertising, is now open due to sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter – if it’s done right.

Since children’s use of social media network sites are continuing to increase and the adult industry continues to lead in the use of technology, it is important for ASACP to consistently update its Best Practices.

Recently, I was asked to be part of a piece in mainstream media about “The Industry” to comment on the “true” face of an industry that has way too many assumptions made of it by the civilian public.

Kelly Shibari of HourGlass8.com has been at the forefront of designing adult marketing strategies for social networking sites, says XBIZ.

It’s not that adult performers don’t want to be chatted up. It’s not that we’re bitchy on a regular basis either. It’s just that we’re entertainers with a high sex drive – but we’re still entertainers.

Adult industry social network NaughtyTweetNetwork has merged with social media consulting firm Hourglass8 Media to form NaughtyPR.

The following Tech In Twenty podcast is the reason why I agreed to go on their show – it’s smart, savvy, and doesn’t throw a bunch of assumptions around disguised as fact.

Every now and then I am fortunate enough to be interviewed on a non-adult-industry show.

I’m a big fan of a trade publication that appears on tables at many of the adult webmaster conferences. With what happened at TPF in terms of the lack of understanding of social media, I think it’s important to reproduce some of the stories from AdultWebLife (with MikeB’s permission). If you’ve been attending adult conferences and are not reading his publication, then you only have yourself to blame when people mention things like social media and you’re drawing a blank.

I just returned from the annual webmaster’s conference in Arizona that is The Phoenix Forum. I’d been told for the past 2 years that TPF was an amazing conference, one of the biggest in the country, and that not only were the parties amazing, but the information provided would be valuable. If you’re going to go to one conference a year, TPF was the one not to miss. I have to say that I was sadly disappointed.