As more individuals use social media and post online reviews, online reputation management is necessary to the success of a business. Corporate America has embraced media monitoring. With the growing popularity of social media, third-party reviews websites, blogs, and other digital platforms, maintaining a solid online reputation is necessary for businesses. […]
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Fired for Posting on Social Media
When posting to any social media platform, it might help to think of all of it as potentially public. Remember that anyone can take a screenshot or copy and pass on your post without your knowledge. There’s something about social media that enables users to say or do anything and think they can get […]
What’s Your Story?
Social media background checks are useful to learn more about a person. Many services offer high level scans of an individual – some focus only on social sites while others can collect content from across the web. One of the reasons I find social media background checks so fascinating is that it’s so much […]
HR & Social Media: Protected Class Guide
You can’t unring the bell … why put yourself (or your company) in a potentially sticky situation when it comes to hiring and the use of social media as part of the hiring process? HR departments are using social media as a tool for potential employee research, though this has been one industry that is […]
Hiring? Why Your Company’s Social Media Presence is Important
There’s been so much focus on individual social media profiles and the importance of making sure your social identity presents your “best self” when searching for a new job, yet there’s been very little talk of a company making sure their social identity is secure before advertising that they’re hiring. Social hiring […]