Tag: REPUTATION

For everything we do now -- from scheduling a mover to choosing a restaurant for a first date -- we turn to the Web. Yelp, Twitter, Facebook, Citysearch and even Google immediately pull up reviews and hear what the collective voice of the Internet has to say. In fact, when scheduling a doctor, your author crosschecks what her insurance provides with what the consensus says; negative reviews are ...

If you are a relatively good person and are finding it impossible to get a job -- or a date -- you may want to Google yourself. Approximately 70-percent of employers look up job applicants online. 50-percent admit information they have dug up on the Internet has resulted in them not hiring a person. The threat to your reputation and livelihood is real. Luckily, there are steps you can take to ...

The Web can be a place for reputation resurrection. Just ask disgraced former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget or now disgraced former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer. No, Spitzer will not be writing a relationship advice column. His new column, called 'The Best Policy,' will be appearing weekly on online news and commentary site Slate. In it, he'll address the economics and financial ...