Broches: Reputation Management for High Profile Individuals and Brands

In our last post, we had the chance to speak with “Internet Man of Mystery” Alex Broches about using a surge in buzz to boost your positive reputation. Today we take a look at the flip side of the coin: what does an individual or business do once they have built a strong online presence [...]

Alex Broches: Building a Reputation Amid Increased Attention

Reputation911 has spoken in our other blog posts about the importance of using reputation management to build a strong, positive reputation so that when the spotlight is on you or your business, you will not suffer reputation damage. Yet a crisis is not the only time when a spotlight shines on you or your business. [...]

Privacy and Facebook Facial Recognition

Back in June, Facebook shocked the world when it announced its acquisition of Israeli-based facial recognition software startup face.com. The company’s technology was already used by Facebook to help suggest photo tags but the acquisition led to many questions from Facebook users and privacy advocates. Users want to know whether people who aren’t friends will be [...]

“We Know What You’re Doing” Website Will Help you get Fired

Yesterday the web exploded with chatter about a new social networking privacy experiment taking place at WeKnowWhatYoureDoing.com. If you are unfamiliar with the site, it is a tool that collects and displays publicly shared Facebook statuses in four categories: “who wants to get fired,” “who’s hungover,” “who’s taking drugs,” and “who’s got a new phone [...]

Social Media and Privacy

Pew recently released some interesting findings about social media, which show that more people are taking control of their online reputation management. Deleting Friends One interesting stat shows that 63% of respondents have deleted people from their “friends” list, up from 56% in 2009. 67% of women say they have deleted friends, compared to 58% [...]

Social Media Reputation

Today is the final day of Privacy Awareness Week 2012, so hopefully you have picked up on many tips for improving your online privacy and managing your online reputation through our blog posts or the articles we have shared and re-tweeted on Twitter (@Reputation911.) All week we ran a blog series that dealt with cleaning [...]

Twitter Clean Up

As a follow-up to our popular post, Clean up Your Online Profile, we have created a blog series about cleaning up online profiles. Today we will provide tips for a successful: Twitter Clean Up The major social media networks have often been described in this way: Facebook is what you use to keep in touch [...]

Marketing with LinkedIn

As a follow-up to our popular post, Clean up Your Online Profile, we have created a blog series about cleaning up online profiles.  Today’s post focuses on cleaning up your LinkedIn so that you will achieve effective: Marketing with LinkedIn The internet has completely changed the way we socialize, with Facebook and Twitter being some of the [...]

How to Use Social Media for Online Reputation Management

Social media can be used in more ways than just communicating with your friends and family. Some social media sites create personal pages and get more traffic than the average website. Using the same search engine optimization strategies as optimizing a website, you can repurpose certain sites to help you take control of your first [...]

Internet Privacy: 3 Ways to Keep Your Information Safe Online

From Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn to blogs, everyone leaves a digital trail as they browse the web. Most of the time, you don’t realize how much of your information is freely available online until it is too late: sites such as Spokeo, MyLife aggregate all your information online and any website where you login [...]