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Your online reputation abhors a vacuum in Google search

Biznology

While your initial contract with me or another ORM shop will be expensive and lock you into a year, it doesn’t stop there. This results in not just a vacuum—which Google abhors—but in a black hole. A black hole is a powerful entity — it has such strong gravitational effects that nothing can escape. The China Syndrome, 1979.

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Size Matters: Digging in to Employee Counts and Social Media Discrepancies

DiscoverOrg

Certain types of companies have a large blue-collar contingent of workers who do not have much use for a professional social network. In fact, 25% of C-level execs aren’t on the networking site, either.) Locked-out users. I’m going to let you in on a little secret: It’s not the best way. I would know. Contently made Inc.’s

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Are Employers Ready for the Connected Generation?

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Organizations used to lock access to the Internet, then to social media and any other kind of possible distraction. Norms not designed to serve an information thirsty workforce, fully digitalized and addicted to social networks. The Internet police state was patrolling in full force.

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Success and the Social Initiative

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. In implementing social technologies in business, too often a project or an initiative is started without a clear understanding of what success looks like or what business goal will be pushed forward. Often the justification is simply an example of a competitor that is implementing something new.

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Implement the powerful CloudFlare CDN for free today

Biznology

So, outside of spending big money for a hyper-fast solid state server with gigs of memory and a direct onramp to the Internet backbone , you can take advantage of the efficiencies of networks offered by content delivery networks (CDNs). The goal of a CDN is to serve content to end-users with high availability and high performance.

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Search + Social = Online Reputation Management

Biznology

Millionaires, billionaires, and professional class do show up on Google search, but most of these results are from the news, third-party mention, Wikipedia, and generally anything and everything that Google can find. I have been doing online reputation management (ORM) for clients since 2003. Actually control. There’s the rub.

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Don’t They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Crucial

Webbiquity

The emergence of social media changed all that of course, so now that person can vent online to, essentially, the entire world. And search engines love social media, which helps expose that rant to anyone searching for the company’s name. Create accounts on social bookmarking sites like Wikio , Mixx , Digg and/or StumbleUpon.