http://www.internetonlinereputationmanagement.com The ins and outs of Internet Reputation Management Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:34:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A man was charged with extortion for reportedly promising to attack a New York-based insurance company's online reputation if they didn't pay him $200,000. This seems to have backfired in a major way for this man... The 52-year-old defendant was charged with one count of extortion through interstate communications. Authorities say ... http://www.internetonlinereputationmanagement.com/digati-accused-of-digital-harrasment/ Walmart, that behemoth of a grocer that everyone loves to hate, has settled a lawsuit concerning gender discrimination for roughly $12 million. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. agreed to pay about $12 million in back wages and damages as well as hire more female applicants for warehouse jobs to settle a sex discrimination ... http://www.internetonlinereputationmanagement.com/walmarts-image/ Everyone roundly agrees that Tiger Woods messed up--that subject is not up for debate. A common discussion going around right now, though, is how much damage he has done to his reputation. His endorsement deals have been pulled, he's stopped golfing, and the only thing he is in the news ... http://www.internetonlinereputationmanagement.com/not-out-of-the-woods-tiger/ Slowly each industry is realizing that corporate reputation management reaches them too. No industry is immune from its reach, because in every industry there is some degree of competition. This means image and reputation are important to every single business in every single industry. Eventually, every industry is touched. “I had ... http://www.internetonlinereputationmanagement.com/online-defamation-touches-doctors/ Social Media has been used by individuals on the Internet in these last couple of years to connect with each other. Businesses, meanwhile, have used social media too. The ramifications have been, unexpected, to say the least. Businesses have not been able to use social media to sell, as they ... http://www.internetonlinereputationmanagement.com/social-media-and-its-ramifications/ Microsoft has apparently been conducting polls concerning how often employers look to search engines or social networking profiles for information on their prospective employees. The numbers are shocking, too, it appears that far more employers use this method to research their candidates than is traditionally recognized. It makes sense, why ... http://www.internetonlinereputationmanagement.com/more-polls-on-social-networking/ Search engines play a massive role in the business reputation management industry, as everyone knows. They are the tool which misanthropes use to ruin peoples reputations. Similarly, they are also the conduit through which business reputation management professionals fix others' reputations. There is a fascinating post, pasted below, that describes how ... http://www.internetonlinereputationmanagement.com/how-search-engines-work/ When someone Googles you, they will often find your blog, forum posts, or the occasional article with your name in it--but if you are a non-celebrity, the vast majority of them will be met with social networking sites first. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Ning, LinkedIn; these are just a few of ... http://www.internetonlinereputationmanagement.com/social-networking-and-its-effects/ ComputerWorld, BusinessWeek, and TIME have all recognized that one of the leaders in the Online Reputation Management industry is Reputation Hawk. This company is one of the most respected and, pardon the pun, reputable, in the industry. Why? I have looked through a number of customer reviews and found that ... http://www.internetonlinereputationmanagement.com/reputationhawk-com-fixes-online-reputations/ This article gets  a lot of things right concerning reputation management. Especially the part about getting out in front of online defamation problems by continuously growing your search engine presence. This can, in many cases, be done by an individual. However, to do it right, a professional reputation management firm ... http://www.internetonlinereputationmanagement.com/getting-out-in-front-of-problems/