For years people had to sit ideally by as anonymous users on the internet would smear their name online. As in the case of  Mark and Rhonda Lesher, after an unfounded rape allegation caused at total of 25,000 comments on 70 different threads on the site Topix.com. The couple were cleared of all charges in January […]

anonymous posters · cybersmear · online defamation · online libel · online reputation mangement · ORM

Gutter King’s Owner Gary Kulp filed a lawsuit against Google in hopes of revealing the public identy of one of the Google Place’s reviewers. According to the lawsuit, they are hoping for Google to reveal the identity of a reviewer “Norma Lee” who claimed that she is a part of a small firm who conducts […]

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When you’re hunting for jobs, and the hiring managers are googling your name you certainly don’t want results for drug dealsers or child molesters to come up. But that’s just what happened to co-founder of Brandyourself.com, Pete Kistler. According to co founder  Patrick Ambron: “Everybody was applying for internships,” Ambron said. “Pete literally applied to thousands of […]

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Ah the glorious stupidity of our youth. Do you ever think back at your childish shenanigans and think “What if that had been posted on the internet?”  Some people don’t have the luxioury of having dodged that bullet. People like John R. who recently graduated from the University of Cincinnati. Now he’s out there looking for […]

hiring managers googling you · job search privacy · online reputation management · ORM

CoMMingle has launched a service that assists hotels, spas and retaurants in managing their reputation. They are combining outsourcing human resource services with  Revinate’s technological applications to ensure that they are responding to guests feedback. As DJ Vallauri, Lodging Interactive Founder and President put it: “Implementing reputation management software is good, but combining that technology […]

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