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Online Reputation Management and Social Networking
May 24, 2010 | 
Author Have you given a thought on what social networking can offer your company or brand? Well, almost all big or small businesses and brands seem to have adapted to social networking. Many embraced it as a new fad in the communication scene, whilst some took it as a tool to market.
But do you know that social networking sites can boost up your online reputation and brand value as well? There are a huge number of social networking sites today like, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Ning which have transformed the style of communication and networking to a great level. Apart from millions of individuals and organizations; more than half of the Fortune 100 companies possess a Twitter account. These sites give the platform and space to share information and expand the network easily.
A recent study has even revealed that social networking has been a great help to build and maintain employee engagement and brand reputation. Twitter and Facebook are those management tools which have come up to pave a way for a forum or open dialogue, bringing your reputation in a more positive light.
It even tells what people have to say about your product or brand and what you are missing out. It may sometimes be a threat for your reputation, but by responding to allegations you can limit your damages quickly and can rectify things better. It is essential to understand what all is being said on social networking sites, a wrong statement can be a threat to your reputation. What all you say, remains influential to your brand. The positive use of these sites can reinforce your brand and online reputation is what we can take away from all this.
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Reputation Management For All
Is online Reputation Management vital for ordinary people? I mean for people who don’t own a business or website and need not have to worry about their online reputation. How important it is for them to have reputation management?
Most of the time people are not bothered if it really makes any difference or affects them in their daily life. But to be frank, it makes a lot of difference to have a perfect online reputation especially if your are a professional in any core area. The reason is today potential employers/companies will search for you on internet to get a first hand information before they hire you. This means somebody is looking at your online presence.
One search and your profile on Myspace or Facebook appears, and thus the details. As expected you should be on Twitter by now and they will see how often you tweet. All this makes a fine preliminary package for anybody to get an overview about you. So the fact is, either take it or leave it, somebody is monitoring your online reputation.
Call it ego surfing, but most of the searches on Google and Yahoo is done for peoples’ name and their email addresses, sometime that includes even phone numbers.
Why such searches are done? To get an overview of the person.
And who does this kind of search? It can be anybody; someone who wants to date you, or a person wanting to partner you for business or as said above an employer.
This shows how important it is to have an online presence and positive reputation, just one click and there you have a whole lot of information.
If searching for your name returns negative results on the first page of the search engine, you may need reputation management. It will only help you have a clear online image and get you onto new ventures.