Reputation Security Think Tank
The beauty award this year goes to the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), followed by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development and Unicef. The lowest reputation scores, however, were received by International Olympic Committee and NATO. Not surprising at all ! [...]
I just stumbled across an old video on YouTube and I think it is worth sharing. The video is about the origin of the Public Relations industry in the US and why the modern democratic societies need to be manipulated.
As it turns out, the free public mind is one of the greatest threats to many corporations and political regimes as it could easily destroy their long-term goals, ideologies and operations. [...]
It is official! Hillary Clinton is finally appointed as the new Secretary of State. Congrats!!!! Let me tell you, this lady is everything, but a loser and will do everything just to get to the power of the state. It seems like she is absolutely capable of taking every political position you can think about of – a first lady, a senator, a president wanna-be, a vice president and if all this fail why not a head of international affairs. [...]
There is a new documentary coming up this weekend on MTV about Britney Spears. It is called Britney: For the Record and it aims to rebuild her reputation after months of a total meltdown. It is expected to be a heart-breaking story about her emotional collapse and the way she completely lost her way to the top. Funny enough, MTV was blamed a year ago that it deliberately helped destroying her image by letting her on stage of the MTV Music Awards 2007. [...]
There is a new widget that caught my eye the other day and I have been playing with it ever since. It’s called Tell-a-Friend and its general purpose is to help users to share any type of information without leaving the website where it is installed. Nothing new, you may say, but the point I want to make is that this tool actually enables visitors to access their friends with much greater speed and scope. [...]
The high volume of recent smear campaigns has led to the need of a special acknowledgment.
Spin Hunters is eager to rate the most popular cases of reputation attacks in the last year. Whether this will be the hysterical speculations over the upcoming election or the intensive rumors about the crush of a big financial institution, it is up to you decide. [...]
In today’s volatile market the biggest threat that a corporation could face is losing its permanent contracts. The slowing economy is putting extra pressure on the sales departments, seeking millions of ways to uphold a basic financial stability. They have to stretch their creativity and skill sets to maximum degrees in order to keep the corporate liabilities and active workload forces.
Getting a new client is a tough job, especially when the whole market is at a complete standstill. [...]
In the this post I am planning to discuss some of the steps you must follow when you find your company in the middle of a reputation crisis. Keep in mind that these rules are just valid for very big corporations and if you have to deal with personal matters you need to adhere to slightly different plan of action. I am going to write about this topic at the beginning of next week so keep following the site. [...]
A lot has been said about the info sec trolls over the past couple of years and somehow it seems that there is a lack of any serious means, aiming to tackle this issue. It’s not that this matter is exclusively related to the Information security industry, but let just be honest here – have you ever seen more aggressive and offensive creatures in the Web?! I seriously doubt it! For instance, you will never see, doctors speak about other doctors with such intense anger and hostility. [...]
One of the biggest UK financial groups, HBOS, got the media attention last week by claiming that its structures had been targeted by a precise Black PR campaign. The news broke out with the allegations that the low record share prices of the group are being triggered by false speculations, disclosing that the bank was about to collapse and had sought an emergency funding by the Bank of England. [...]
