August 24, 2010 | Barry Wise | Identity Theft, Online Reputation Management
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InformationWeek reports SB 1411, which has been approved by the California Senate and the Assembly and now awaits the signature of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, makes it a misdemeanor “to knowingly and without consent credibly impersonate another person through or on an Internet Web site or by other electronic means with the intent to harm, intimidate, threaten or defraud another person.”
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Tags: california, cybersquatting, Identity Theft, Social Media
May 25, 2010 | Barry Wise | Identity Theft, Intellectual Property, Online Reputation Management, Social Media
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What BP has done isn’t funny. The Wall Street Journal reports a Twitter user with an account dubbed BPGlobalPR is posting satirical entries about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and already has more than twice as many followers as BP America’s actual account. I’m sure BP doesn’t think its “satirical” or funny.
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Tags: bp, Identity Theft, satirical account, Social Media, Twitter
January 5, 2010 | Barry Wise | Online Reputation Management, Social Media
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I wish I was exaggerating. But Google real time search will be the biggest online reputation management (ORM) nightmare of 2010. They make it so damned easy.
I’m going to show you how it works. This isn’t earth shattering. All the bad people out there have figured it out. But you need to know so you can defend yourself (somehow):
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Tags: google search results, ian lurie, Online Reputation Management, orm, portent interactive, realtime search, Social Media, Twitter
December 16, 2009 | Barry Wise | Online Reputation Management, Social Media
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Whether you’re ready to embrace it or not, social media is changing the way we communicate and make decisions. Today’s technology has impacted our daily lives and routines in a big way. If you don’t wake up to Facebook, you probably know someone who does. And good luck trying to escape the world of Twitter – it’s even invaded the nightly news.
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Tags: diy, guest post, Online Reputation Management, orm, outspoken media
April 30, 2009 | Barry Wise | KnowEm News, Online Reputation Management, Social Media
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Do you know who it is you’re actually following on Twitter? Facebook? MySpace? Due to the recent explosion of interest in Twitter, thanks in no small part to Ashton (@aplusk) and Oprah (@oprah), celebrities and regular folk are flocking to Twitter. But how do you know if the person you’re following is actually a celebrity, and not just regular folk? You can’t, and Twitter is still very quiet about any plans to stop Twitterjacking: the act of impersonating someone else on Twitter.
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Tags: facebook, knowem, myspace, Online Reputation Management, orm, Social Media, social media identity theft, streko, Twitter, twitterjacking, username check
April 27, 2009 | Barry Wise | KnowEm News, Online Reputation Management, Social Media
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Lately I’ve noticed a lot of people are asking this question about the KnowEm Username Check service. KnowEm was recently reviewed by a columnist in the Washington Post (he did a good job; the article is worth reading), and several users’ responses to the article raise this very question.
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Tags: automated signup, check usernames, commercial service, knowem, review, Social Media, username check, washington post, websites
