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Why monitoring external factors is key to corporate reputation

Onclusive

Corporate reputation has surpassed profitability in its importance to business success—today’s customers, employees, investors, and other stakeholders have many choices, and they are leaning toward companies with a stellar public image. In the age of social media, managing corporate reputation is a complex undertaking.

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The Marketing Power of Wikipedia: 8 Tips for PR Pros

MaccaPR

As PR and marketing professionals – and consumers – we often forget about the sheer power and influence that Wikipedia has on our daily lives. Wikipedia is a permanent part of our public culture. All jokes aside, Wikipedia does have a distinct influence on the business community. Wikipedia is just plain popular.

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Internet Defamation: How Executives Can Handle Disparaging Online Content

Melissa Agnes

But neither are their executives, who are just as vulnerable to online reputation attacks. Business leaders – especially those very visible in the public and online – are easy targets for disgruntled customers, former employees and ex-business partners, among others, whether on Facebook, Twitter, other popular websites or blogs.

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Time for PR to Take Back Reputation Management

David PR Group

As an old-school public relations consultant, I remember the days when “reputation management” was strictly a PR term. But then sometime in the past few years, reputation management was stolen from us by the search engine optimization world. If you don’t believe me, ask Wikipedia (cue groans.) Ouch, right?

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Wrap Up Post from Issues Management Workshop at #CPRS2014

Melissa Agnes

However, as we saw with the case of Phonedog vs. Kravitz there is risk in allowing employees to tweet from their own accounts, or tweet from accounts that have their name + your organization’s name in the handle. Can You Sue Former Employees for Social Media Accounts? Source: Wikipedia).

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Time for communicators to help manage Employer Brand social channels

Communications Conversations

” According to Wikipedia, an “Employer brand” is the reputation of an employer, and its value proposition to its employees, as opposed to its more general corporate brand reputation and value proposition to customers. This is especially true if you’re trying to recruit younger employees.

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The Challenge of Running a Purposeful Organisation

PR in High Definition

Some might argue that SW Airlines’ purpose statement doesn’t provide benefit to global and local society, only global and local travellers – after all, according to Wikipedia , the aviation industry is responsible for 3.5% Employees will leave. You’ll lose the halo effect of a good reputation. of all climate change.