Tag Archives: Reputation Management

Follow Your ABCs When Repairing a Damaged Reputation

Online reputation management

Whenever and wherever controversy arises, an urgent question is presented: how does one rehabilitate or repair a damaged image? Seems to happen more frequently, doesn’t it, Mel Gibson? What’s that you say … BP? Whether you’ve spilled profanity or crude oil, and regardless if your brand presence is more Web-based or more traditional, you can follow these

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Online Reputation Management: Write A Better Blog-From Idea To First Draft (Part 2 of 3)

Online reputation management

This is part 2 of a three part series.  See part one here. Brainstorming & Research Once I have an idea, I pull out two of my favorite tools: a nice pen and paper.  Recently, I’ve been partial to large sketchbooks for the writing area they offer, but I’m also a fan of legal pads

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Online Reputation Tools: Using HTML with WordPress

Online reputation management

One of the reasons that Brand-Yourself is built on WordPress is because of the system’s ability to let you put content on the web–without having to worry about how it gets there.  Important, because unless you dedicate yourself to learning how to build a page, your end product may not get you anywhere.  Walter Feigenson

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10 Techniques for Password To Protect Your Online Reputation

Online reputation management

My mother is not the most technologically-adept person, but she loves to e-mail, share pictures, and send e-cards to everybody and anybody.  She drives me nuts some days, and not just because she considers me the tech support.  Her method of keeping track of her multiple account passwords is a Rolodex on which she writes

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How Disengaged Employees Hurt Their Online Reputation

News

Actively disengaged employees are the ones who are unhappy at work and show it. They act out, they complain, they are insubordinate and they likely have performance issues. These employees are toxic to the work culture and are begging to be fired.

I know of many ‘Quit and Stay’ employees and if you are one of them, chances are management is aware of your attitude and is talking about it amongst themselves. Especially if you are in the actively disengaged category!

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Best of Job Search Tips: Top 5 This Week

Job Search

Welcome to the first of many Top 5 This Weeks posts. I search the web daily to find articles to help folks find jobs. Here are my google reader stats for April: From your 96 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 5,683 items.

I’l bring the best to you each week.

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Is your personal brand proactive or reactive?

How To

As an employer, I am always looking for the right talent for my team, and one of the most important traits I look for in my employees is that they have a proactive approach to life and work. For me it is not only important that the people I work with are proactive, but also that their personal brands tell the people around them that they are proactive.

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Personal Branding Tips: How Foursquare Affects Your Personal Brand

How To

Foursquare is one of the newer social media sites that is growing quite quickly in popularity. It allows you to “check in” wherever you are (restaurant, shopping, museum, etc). It can connect with Twitter and Facebook so you can let all your friends know where you are and maybe offer up some good tips on the great things about that place. Since Foursquare is yet another social media outlet that reveals more information about you (where you are, what time, etc.) it is most definitely a personal branding tool for those who use it – whether they want it to be or not.

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Job Search Tips – Top 5 Posts About How Your Facebook Profile Affects Your Job Search

Job Search

The only thing certain is that technology probably won’t be regressing; however, we can learn how to protect our professional lives from being intruded upon by our social lives.

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Leverage Social Media for Your Career: Dos and Donts

Social Media Strategy

There’s a strange chilling effect with social media users these days. With so many people looking for work, no one wants to write or post anything that might hurt their chances at their next interview.

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