Tag Archives: reputation

Online reputation management

December 16, 2007 – 7:15 pm

Andy Oram wrote a post on Friday that triggered some thoughts of my own about reputation management, and how public sector communicators can approach this issue. Oram attended a Yale symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace and has since been providing thorough coverage and analysis.
What I found interesting about his first post (he has posted [...]

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Transparency in government

December 7, 2006 – 10:35 am

Late last week Gallup launched their Worldwide Corruption Index, a poll ranking 101 countries according to perceptions of corruption in business and government. New Zealand ranks equal second with Denmark, behind the squeaky-clean Finns.
This comes on the heels of Transparency International’s assessment of NZ as equal first in their annual Corruption Perceptions Index, this time [...]

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Social media and reputation

November 13, 2006 – 12:05 pm

I have just finished reading a white paper on Social Media written by Trevor Cook and Lee Hopkins. It is a very good introduction to how new media is changing our working environment.
What really got me, however, was a quote in the front of the paper that, given my recent comments about reputation management [here [...]

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Eraser Inc

November 8, 2006 – 7:06 pm

Wired magazine has reported on a new startup, called ReputationDefender (note the lack of a space between the two words, a sure sign that this company is certified Web 2.0™), whose mission in life is to:

…act on your behalf by contacting data hosting services and requesting the removal of any materials that threaten your good [...]

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