Tag Archives: Reputation management

Social media disclaimers

November 11, 2007 – 2:56 pm

I have been wondering why it is that we are all working ourselves into early graves trying to transform government, the achievement of which will largely be driven by Internet based technologies, and yet we continue to disclaim the content we post to our websites?
It strikes me as being analogous to saying to someone who [...]

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Wikipedia and public sector edits

August 19, 2007 – 12:35 pm

The blogosphere has been running hot this week with posts about a tool that allows you to track all of an organization’s edits of particular Wikipedia pages.
The data-mining tool, WikiScanner, which compiles and mashes up information that has always been available, matches IP addresses with the edits stored in the history pages in Wikipedia. The [...]

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Eraser Inc, Part 2

May 26, 2007 – 1:16 pm

I posted about ReputationDefender in November last year, a startup whose mission was to remove potentially embarassing content from the web so that you could protect your online reputation.
At the time the company launched their services were confined to asking companies to take down the offensive material but, it seems they have (in true [...]

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Channel selection: comms & the Internet

May 20, 2007 – 4:01 pm

My experience over the last two or three years in New Zealand government has taught me that one of the biggest hurdles that public sector communicators face is convincing senior management of the seismic shift in the public affairs function that the Internet is causing. All too often we encounter attitudes like, Yeah, but it’s [...]

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Social media and your CV

April 22, 2007 – 2:02 pm

There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere over the last fortnight about the blog as the new CV. It was started by a post by Adam Darowski, The Blog is the New Resume and subsequently picked up by Joshua Porter, who expanded upon the idea.
These posts are both well worth reading, [...]

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The town hall meeting lives

April 12, 2007 – 3:44 pm

It is often all too easy (and regular readers would assume – correctly – that I have been guilty of this) to overlook traditional communications channels in favour of the newer, more ‘exciting’ social or new media.
This was brought home to me at the Crisis Communications workshop we held in March when it emerged that [...]

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Reputation mismanagement: automated social media

April 4, 2007 – 9:21 pm

Every once in a while you come across an idea or a product that is so obviously the result of unimaginable hours of hard work and intellectual brilliance completely detached from any semblance of reality. When I read this story in the Sydney Morning Herald, I had to check the dateline a couple of times [...]

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