http://www.protectonlinereputation.com Protecting Your Online Reputation Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:30:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Augie Ray, over at his blog, has a great post about the Return on Investment of Social Media Marketing. The most important part to people who follow the online reputation management industry is the part about how social media marketing effects risk management. Traditionally, few brands have wholly evaluated their marketing ... http://www.protectonlinereputation.com/risk-management-and-orm/ Facebook has become a massive phenomenon that is used by businesses almost as widely and religiously as it is by individuals. Its appeal stems largely from the fact that it has a lot of different elements to offer visitors which keeps them and their friends coming back for more. It ... http://www.protectonlinereputation.com/facebook-now-has-500-million-users/ If you need to create a blog for Internet reputation management reasons, there is no better system than Wordpress. They offer free blog hosting for anyone that can fill out some basic forms and utilize their platform. Wordpress blogs are clean-cut, easy to use, and attractive to look at. Free blog ... http://www.protectonlinereputation.com/free-blogging-space/ One of the most popular social networking websites that is available online right now is Gather.com. It's headquartered in Boston, Massachussets and is home to around 465,000 registered members. Like most social networking sites, it is free to join. It is a massive community of people who are able to ... http://www.protectonlinereputation.com/gather-and-hi5/ Viadeo is a professional social networking site that  is used in over 200 countries around the world and recent survey results have shown just how effective it has proven to be for professionals with 40% of people even securing job interviews thanks to social networks like Viadeo. Viadeo is an extremely ... http://www.protectonlinereputation.com/viadeo-proves-social-networking-is-effective-for-professional-networking/ Question and Answer sites can to some degree be considered social networking websites or social media sites. One user asks a question and other members who feel they can adequate answer the question do so. The original poster then has the chance to choose the most relevant or most accurate ... http://www.protectonlinereputation.com/using-question-and-answer-sites-for-online-reputation-management/ Digg is a site that has become very popular as a crowd-sourced news aggregator. What does this mean? Well, it is Internet democracy at its best. The front page is determined by voters--the articles with the most votes will make it to the front page. Each user can create a ... http://www.protectonlinereputation.com/can-you-digg-it/ Twitter quickly became an online phenomenon that almost single-handedly launched the mobile blogging or moblogging platform. Almost everybody from singing celebrities to their star struck fans use the site to communicate with those that matter most to them. In the case of the individual user it means connecting with friends ... http://www.protectonlinereputation.com/how-do-you-use-twitter/ Much of the brand reputation management industry is focused on reactive solutions to problems instead of proactive solutions. The article linked below discusses four little-known tools for managing brands online. The article also mentions an interesting study by AdWeek which purports to calculate the value of a facebook fan. The idea ... http://www.protectonlinereputation.com/tools-to-help-managing-brands-online/ Newsine is a social news website that enables registered users to post news articles and general interest stories. The articles posted can include links to your website or blogs making it a valuable tool in any social networking or even article marketing campaign. It can be used by companies to ... http://www.protectonlinereputation.com/why-you-should-post-to-newsvine/