Frequently Asked Questions

What makes MarCom Professional different from, say, LinkedIn or Facebook?
LinkedIn is great at what it does, but it is ultimately a low-content business network. Anyone in the world may join, find and establish contacts, reference others and get references. MarCom Professional is a high-content social professional network for the marketing communications profession. Facebook is a social network, not a social professional network dedicated to marketing communications.

In which languages can you post?
The site is designed for English language use currently. Whilst anyone can obviously write a post in French or German, we haven't yet introduced a method to flag this so that things like tag clouds don't end up a hotchpotch of languages.

Can I get paid to post content?
No.

I've invited others to join. Can I see who I've invited and whether they have yet?
You can't see who you've invited at the moment, although this is a good idea and we're going to add this soon. However, you do know when they've joined as they appear on your own pages as friends or colleagues (the latter if they work at the same organisation as you).

How long does it take to verify that I’m a marcom professional?
You may be verified instantly, for example if your confirmed email address matches that of a marcom agency already on MarCom Professional. Otherwise, if it takes more than 90 minutes it's because you applied just as the football was starting.

Why verify registrations to the site? Isn’t a diverse and active community the thing that’ll make this site a success?
We want a diverse marketing communications community. Verifying applicants means we keep out strange people who work in other professions, but primarily sploggers (spam bloggers) and headhunters.

What is an alter ego and what purpose does it serve on the site?
You can create an alter ego to add polemic or commentary you might not want to post under your real name. You cannot have an alter ego without having a professional identity on MarCom Professional first. You can then switch easily between your professional identity and alter ego by clicking the option to switch at the top of the page and entering your password when prompted. Publishing under your alter ego does not immunise you from adhering to our terms as we can trace the alter ego back to your main profile if we have to!.. although no-one else can. Also, we suggest that you don't set your browser to remember your password.

Can freelancers register and if so, how do you verify them as a genuine marcom professional?
They register as freelance, putting forward an existing member as referee.

How do you add links to posts?
Highlight the text you want to be a hyperlink and click the link icon (looks like a link in an iron chain). Paste in the URL or simply browse to another post on MarCom Professional.

How do you add pictures and video?
Start a new post and then click one of the two icons top right of the editor. You can hover your mouse over icons to see a description of what they do. Alternatively, you can also press CTRL-G to insert a picture / graphic, and CRTL-M to insert a movie.

If I want to report inappropriate content, how do I do this?
If you believe someone has breached our terms and associated code of conduct, please email conduct@marcomprofessional.com.

Is the site moderated? If so, by whom?
We're moderating the homepage at first, but we'll soon be introducing features to transfer some of this power to the community. Watch this space. Posts assigned categories (look to the right of the editor when writing and editing your posts) are automatically added to the category pages in reverse chronological order.

Which are the key markets for MarCom Professional?
The key markets correspond to our "Discipline Categories", which are listed on the homepage before you've logged in. You can also see all the categories with posts made to them by clicking on the "Categories" link at the top of the page.

Not only can members comment on my posts, I can allow members to edit them too. Why's that?
The network combines the best of blogging with the best of wikis, what some refer to as a bliki! It should all be intuitive, else Wikipedia explains blikis here. Choose not to allow others to edit if you want to treat the post like a blog, else allow others to edit if you want to work on the post with them collaboratively. You can easily access all past versions, and compare any version of a post to another.