While professional journalists such as Kristen V Brown attend meetings where unionizing is discussed at professionally run internet based news sites there exists a darker, seedier underbelly of the internet.
Many sites that are starting out essentially rely on volunteer labor.
Volunteers not only write much of the content you consume on a regular basis, but form the backbone of the economic engine of growth for those websites.
Despite the lack of formal employment, or employment protections young people looking to break into journalism flock to these sites and submit articles for the hope of exposure.
Thus, as the news and media profession (and thus economy) moves online it’s time for basic employment protections for those volunteers who labor under often callous leadership of these websites.
The more predatorial of the sites prey on college students eager for exposure even as they mock them in slack chats and other “team chat” sites where often unscrupulous, older “staff” or “management” heap abuse on the young, unchecked by inexperienced “President’s” and “CEO’s”.
Congress regulates interstate commerce and should act to protect not just our nations citizens, but people worldwide from predatory practices.
Crowdify.Tech is a new intry into the social media “sharing” niche.
I have been advised by the entrepreneur developing the project that the status updates (on your profile) and “tasks” (equivent to requests for social shares) need to be “tech” related.
Whey I inquired how strict that rule was i was informed by the entrepreneur that they neither planned on providing customer service nor would be offering any explanations.
So it seems strictly tech related is the rule as a humorous blog about a mutual friend selling his business seems not to have been worth discussing.
To my thinking this defeats the purpose of beta testing, as exchange of information between testers and the site should be welcome, but I guess that’s their policy at present.
I was reporting that the “tasks” allow you to type more than 140 characters with no warning. Once you hit update you are presented with a finished and oddly truncated, “task”.
As there is no beta testing forum, nor way to make these bugs and other issues known to the developers directly on the website I made what I was discovering known to the entrepreneur through Facebook chat, as he had indicated on this blog he welcomed such input.
It’s easily corrected, but a character limit warning when you are creating the task would be nice.
There are some issues with the programming associated with the Crowdify.Tech website itself at present.
Neither Facebook nor facebook pages can be hooked up at present.
The “Support” link does not work, nor are any of the other links live.
Crowdify will combine unique features into one package, a marketplace for tech, meeting place for in person meetings, and a free bitcoin wallet according to their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.
Internet cyberbully and EmpireKred leader Gareth Davies (@me_gareth) feels one unsolicitied email is spam, and uses that as a pretext to attack the facebook pages of businesses.
— Michelle D Harris – Social Media (@michelledh) March 2, 2014
Gareth has attacked a business page of a new contact on Linked.In for sending him an email.
Gareth Davies has been suspended by Twitter for doxing (tweeting private information) a customer of Empire Avenue’s (now EmpireKred) and violent threats.
Additionally Gareth Davies was warned by Twitter for violent threats.
Why would anyone in their right minds invite their friends to EmpireKred when such a vicious predatorial animal is present as a leader of EmpireKred?
Value your friends safety and cybersecurity, it’s clear EmpireKred does not. They classify this behavior as “social media interactions” even though they are clearly prohibited by EmpireKred’s own Terms of Service.
Save your friends! Don’t invite them to EmpireKred.
Nance Larson, identified as “staff” by the Empirekred website and is an Admin in the “Welcome Wagon” forum (and Leader) participated in the doxing of a then Empire Avenue customer.
According to Nance Larson,
Satire is harassment when he types and puts my head on Nazi uniforms. That's wrong.
“You never know just how you look through other people’s eyes.”
Unless they blog about it.
Sadly Nance Larson does not define US, State or local laws on the state of satire or parody.
Nance Larson is also a major, major plagiarist.
At the time of this post she was attacking other players (customers) of Empire Avenue in the (eav) elders forum.
She later unilaterally deprived a paying customer of his benefits because he shared a social media blog she didn’t approve of.
It’s clear power went to Nance Larson’s head, and the depiction of her as a nazi or communist (apparently if you don’t think and act to Nance Larson’s approval she will punish you) is entirely appropriate.
She went mad with power, I believe.
How others see what being a customer of Empire Avenue (now EmpireKred) is like.
Keith Gill, AKA Digitalkeith has been moderated by Instagram for cyberbullying.
Want to expose your friends to these people? Email them an invitation.
Twitter allows you to drill down to a targeted audience that will largely find the target audience you choose if you take time to set the parameters for an ad run.
Rather than a general run, take the time to FOCUS, and the results can be there.
This will potentially largely avoid the problem of the fake accounts known to be prevalent on Twitter.
I think with my finetuning I avoided the fakies and fiverr RT buyers and hit a real audience.
At least I hope so.
So you can see the quandary for a large agency contemplating a large ad run. Can they hit their target audience on twitter, with proper finetuning, or will they hit a sea of fake accounts that have no intention of engaging, and no intention of doing anything but looking for the next fiverr gig from Keith.
Empire Avenue is powered by fakes, spammers, and desperate “gurus” I used to admire until I saw their true colors show on this platform. Here I am, thinking I’ve been failing at blogging because I’m not getting tons of engagement, when it turns out I’m apparently just not bribing people.
One such spammer and plagiarizer, Nance Larson, is on staff.
Celebrity Troll Nancy Abt and her “support group” have an astonishing record of cyberbullying, doxing, trolling fathers and their kids and issuing threats on Twitter.
Who is the support group engaged in this activity with Nancy Abt?
According to court documents, Chris Sandys, Gareth Davies, Nance Larson and Keith Gill.
One common denominator between the “support group” is that they are all leaders at EmpireKred.
Nance Larson is also on staff at EmpireKred.
When I removed Nancy Abt for trolling on facebook from my content, she set about bullying her friend on Facebook and on Twitter to teach a lesson of some sort.
I should say that she removed herself. I explained to Nancy Abt why I wasn’t comfortable with her mean trolling attack and asked her to delete it.
When she refused she gave an ultimatum. So ultimately I removed her, and her friends who hang out with abusive people from my content.
She falsely claimed I had stolen her design (it’s a Victoria’s Secret Original) and made an astounding number of false allegations on twitter as she attempted to get whatever revenge she was after.
Twitter has honored my DCMA takedown, and this tweet has been deleted.
Somehow Nancy Abt had access to an apparently undisclosed Twitter office, the “escalation department.”
This does not seem to be available or offered to regular consumers and might explain my difficulty of reaching responsible parties at Twitter such that I had to involve the SF DA’s office and CA DoJ as Twitter was largely unresponsive.
The San Francisco DA’s office twice opened files and the CA DoJ opened an inquiry into twitter’s handling.
One can only wonder why such people remain on Twitter.
One can only wonder at Valerie Gray’s seeming close association with Nancy Abt and gullibility at believe an astonishing liar.
WanderinPoet 
You must be logged in to post a comment.