What rights do employees have to use blogging and social networking Web sites on their own time? Few to none, as Ellen Simonetti, a former flight attendant for Delta Air Lines, found out.

Simonetti had been blogging for nine months when, out of the blue, she received a phone call from her employer. For posting “inappropriate pictures” on her personal blog (which made no reference to Delta) she was abruptly terminated, and her eight-year career as a flight attendant came to an end.

After her firing Simonetti filed a lawsuit against Delta, which is still pending. She also became a widely-recognized spokesperson for fired bloggers everywhere and a defender of Internet free speech.

On your program she can discuss:

•    How bloggers and social networkers can avoid her fate.

•    What to do if you are fired or penalized because of your off-duty, online activities.

•    Other cases of employees who have been fired because of their personal online activities.

•    Insider information about the airlines, and why customer service keeps getting worse.

CREDENTIALS: Ellen Simonetti has appeared on the Montel Williams Show, Today, the O’Reilly Factor, NPR, and many other nationally-broadcast radio and TV shows. Her story has also been featured in Time, People, USA Today and the New York Times. She is the author of DIARY OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL FLIGHT ATTENDANT: The Queen of Sky Blog (Blog Based Books, 2006).

AVAILABILITY: United States, Canada, by arrangement and via telephone, satellite or webcam
CONTACT: Ellen Simonetti, (512) 320-0521 (TX); mediaqueen@gmail.com; www.queenofsky.net; www.myspace.com/queenofsky; www.queenbook.com