Comments on: Crowdsourcing II :: DOs and DONTs of Online Reputation Managment

By: What is your online reputation? « Online PR course blog

What is your online reputation? « Online PR course blog — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:42:41 +0000

[...] instructor Robert French responds with his [...]

By: paul

paul — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:47:12 +0000

I’ve just had some very party pictures sent to me by a friend – he’s asked me to post them on my site but I declined but when I explained that his reputation was at stake he realised why. Some things are best kept between friends!

By: Greg Smith

Greg Smith — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:40:50 +0000

Another great, informative post. From recent personal/professional experience, I would add, that you should also “think twice” about the effects you can have/create. In my case, I pulled the material witnin two hours of it appearing. My motto for 2008 is now “shut up” (well, not entirely).

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:53:01 +0000

Hey Sebastian,

Great to hear from you. Always enjoy getting to know students at other universities. We’re particularly fond of all of you at Leeds Met.

Look forward to reading your blog, too.

Take care.

Robert

By: Sebastian Davies

Sebastian Davies — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:46:16 +0000

Thanks alot for the comment. Enjoyed reading this blog, as online reputation is one thing im going to be keeping a very close eye on.

No relation to the other Davies blogger though.

Look forward to hearing from you in the future.

S.Davies

By: Reputation Management for Digital Natives :: Conclusions : my PRception

Reputation Management for Digital Natives :: Conclusions : my PRception — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:46:45 +0000

[...] a special shout out to everyone who contributed to the crowdsourcing initiative: Richard Bailey, Robert French, Karen Russel, Heather Yaxely, Jeremy Pepper, Bill Sledzik, Joe Cascio, Ryan Shell, David Parmet, [...]

By: Les Potter

Les Potter — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:53:53 +0000

Robert:

I am happy to find this excellent treatment of an important subject. Lead on!

As a fellow educator in PR, I admire what you are doing with your students here.

Les Potter
Towson University, Maryland, USA

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:12:53 +0000

Hey David,

No, not trying to put you on the spot … although, I’ll certainly admit it could look that way. I kinda’ went overboard on the backlinking. Just trying to help Christi.

I read your comment there and agree, completely. Whether on or offline, the conversation and treatment should be civil. Sure, discussions can be pointed, but they don’t have to be mean spirited.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Robert

By: David Phillips

David Phillips — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:17:42 +0000

Lol… so you are trying to put us on the spot. I have responded to Chriti’s blog and offer only one rule: Don’t be anti-social.

In the social groups you need or want to be associated with – for all time – don’t be anti-social.

We are, above all, human, a very special sort of social animal. Its part of human DNA. It applies online – don’t play the odds with human DNA.

Perhaps there is one other rule which is to forgive transgression – we all transgress.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:03:20 +0000

Well, I thought I posted a reply to this earlier today. Seems like dummy me closed the browser when I was interrupted by the phone. Sorry ’bout that.

Christi: Thank you. I hope they do post, but they are kinda swamped with projects right now. Let’s hope for the best. I fear pinging anymore people as I’ll be told to stop and go away.

Alice: Thank you. As always, a pleasure when you stop by to say hello.

Now, about those poor goobers that just don’t know when to stop, I doubt there is any hope for them.

Really, to me, the only hope for someone that has really goofed up is to try to make sincere amends with full apologies and admissions. No caveats need be offered. They actually look like excuses. Simply (a) fess up and (b) offer a sincere and humble apology.

Now, for those that transgress with a photo or video, seek out the only possible options. If it is in Facebook or MySpace, for example. Take it down. If others posted it, ask them to take it down.

Facebook does offer these options: http://tinyurl.com/yodd4f

On the other site, MySpace has an empty “Issues with images” page: http://tinyurl.com/yvpe9p

Google offers this information on “Removing my content from the Google index”: http://tinyurl.com/k5789

This link offers similar information for content and images: http://tinyurl.com/2tpg8p

Can’t find any related info at Yahoo, but imagine it is there somewhere.

So, I would explore all options to remove the offending information whether you posted it, or some else did. The later seems to be much more difficult.

How’s that for a starter?