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Business Reputation: Creativity and Happiness: Authentic Leadership

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:46:56 -0000

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1. For the exclusive Christian history is the story of a rising church or Christian culture and a dying pagan civilization.

2. For the cultural Christian, it is the story of the spirit’s encounter with nature.

3. For the synthesist, it is a period of preparation under law, reason, gospel, and church for an ultimate communion of the soul with God.

4. For the dualist, history is the time of struggle between faith and unbelief, a period between the giving of the promise of life and its fulfillment.

5. For the conversionist history is the story of God’s mighty deeds and of man’s responses to them. He lives some what less “between the times” and somewhat more in the divine “Now” than do my various brothers listed above. Eternity to the conversionist, like me, focuses less on the action of God before time and less the life with God after time and more on the presence of God in time. Hence the conversionist is less concerned with conservation of what has been given in creation, less with preparation for what will be given in a final redemption, than with the divine possibility of a present renewal.

In religious terms alienation is corruption to the perfection in history. It is eliminated in that moment when humanity and God are one.

An addict’s obsession/alienation is understood as the process whereby they struggle with and against being divorced or isolated so as to conform to the society around them.

mentioned the tensions and the walls of separation. "We made mountains out of molehills," says Narcotics Anonymous (1982, p. 93). Addicts know how to increase intensity of their lives. Relationships are often rancorous facts, thoughts of revenge rival any Hollywood movie, are embellished to make life-stories more interesting. Even a simple flat tire is used by the addict as proof that God, Himself, has singled out the addict for punishment.

making a difference in the lives of the people they serve,” leaders who had “a deep sense of purpose” and who recognized “the importance of their service to society.”

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Business Reputation: Creativity and Happiness: To Be Known!?

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:50:56 -0000

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Simply, we in community confront and engage objects in our meaning making efforts to organize and describe our lives. In this age, we have come to recognize that everything is made up of buzzing atoms or as patterns of energy or as chemical formulae that have no consciousness of human feeling or intent.

The bare description of the world for this ‘I’ is that it conspires with other ‘I’s, and not ‘I’s to create reality: a maker of reality not a seeker.

So the first element for which I will be known is to stand for tactics of transparency from which ‘I’ is speaking: authenticity.

One of the primary exercises I request, early in a coaching relationship, is for each client to write a short essay answering - what does he or she want to be known for. In the case of a corporate client I request that a process be established that produces a Character Statement that describes most of the same elements as in the case of the individual.

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Save money on web design, online marketing and training | 'mu:kaumedia

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:40:50 -0000

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Online reputation management tools - Reputation HQ | 'mu:kaumedia

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:36:19 -0000

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From what I can gather so far, Reputation HQ is a tool that’s designed to be used by a number of people in an organisation working collaboratively to monitor and respond to threats and opportunities to the organisation’s reputation.

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Social networking for the future of business communications

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:31:00 -0000

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The on-demand platform more easily allows viewmy.tv to supply customers around the world with social network consisting of standarised components rather than needing to be in the same location and servicing a client with a local account team.
Brandstation site owners have total control, being able to manage components and settings such as blogs, events, forums, teams, users, RSS feeds, email alerts, and also monitor and moderate user activities.

We have been customising our brandstation corporate social network platform for blue-chip companies who use it for internal and external communications, sharing information

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The AppGap » » RatePoint Provides Enterprise Reputation Management Solutions: News, views, and reviews of Work 2.0 tools, apps and practices

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:17:48 -0000

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There are several ways companies can engage RatePoint. They can place the RatePoint seal or review widget on their site as a means to get to a rating and feedback screen such as this one for the Marena Group. RatePoint also provides email marketing tools to make it easier for businesses to proactively and regularly ask customers for feedback.

Rate Point was launched in September 2006 and the initial release was available in June 2007. As Neal explained, maintaining valued perceptions by customers on service and product quality is pivotal in ensuring small-business success and growth of the customer base. RatePoint enables business owners to manage their reputation online and proactively mediate consumer complaints and feedback.

Gaining increased consumer input and user generated content is a good thing. However, what about false positives for the service provider, false negatives from their competitors, and overly emotional reactions from consumers with no opportunity for the service to provider to answer or often be aware of the commentary.

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Op-Ed Columnist - Running While Black - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:12:34 -0000

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Mr. Obama has to endure these grotesque insults with a smile and heroic levels of equanimity. The reason he has to do this — the sole reason — is that he is black.

Evidence? John McCain needs no evidence. His campaign is about trashing the opposition, Karl Rove-style. Not satisfied with calling his opponent’s patriotism into question, Mr. McCain added what amounted to a charge of treason, insisting that Senator Obama would actually prefer that the United States lose a war if that would mean that he — Senator Obama — would not have to lose an election.

Spare me any more drivel about the high-mindedness of John McCain. You knew something was up back in March when, in his first ad of the general campaign, Mr. McCain had himself touted as “the American president Americans have been waiting for.”

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Reputation Institute

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:31:44 -0000

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ESPN - Sampson joins Skiles' staff with Bucks, keeps quiet on Indiana ordeal - NBA

Wed, 21 May 2008 11:57:55 -0000

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Sampson said his reputation is "very important" to him, but only knows one way to regain it.

"Just be who I've been my entire life," Sampson said. "Sometimes you take hits that you have to overcome, but that's something that I just work at as I go forward.

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reputationXchange.com » Blog Archive » What It Takes

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:37:03 -0000

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Message - Grouply

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:18:29 -0000

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In the end, I do not feel as comfortable about
making introductions as you do. I rarely ever
ask for introductions from people with whom I
have had not business interactions with directly
- 95% of my introductions are requested from
people whom I know personally. I stick to
"trusted" contacts, and take introductions
quite seriously. I think it works better when
"A" knows "C"...

I forwarded an Introduction yesterday from one unknown to another
unknown who was to send it on to a third unknown - the usual "open
networker" chain of connections sort of thing. A little while later,
the second unknown declined to forward it. I wasn't expecting that.
Here's her explanation:

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Reputation and money: New insights into how the brain processes social, economic reward

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:58:46 -0000

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They wrote that their findings “indicate that the social reward of a good reputation should be incorporated into the neural model of human decision making in a similar manner to monetary rewards.” Thus, they wrote, experiments on decision making that use money-related games need to take into account that the subjects are exchanging more than money; they are also dealing in approval and reputation.

“Our findings indicate that the social reward of a good reputation in the eyes of others is processed in an anatomically and functionally similar manner to monetary rewards, and these results represent an essential step toward a complete neural understanding of human social behaviors,” concluded Sadato and colleagues.

In the social reward experiment, the subjects were told that strangers would be evaluating them based on information from a personality questionnaire and a video they made introducing themselves. The subjects were shown a picture of themselves, along with the word or phrase indicating how the strangers had evaluated them. However, the strangers did not really exist, and the researchers showed the subjects predetermined evaluations that allowed the researchers to manipulate the level of social reward experienced by the subjects.

In one paper, Norihiro Sadato and colleagues found that making money and making a reputation engage much of the same reward circuitry in the brain—a finding that they say yields insight into what drives complex social behaviors.

In the other paper, Caroline Zink and colleagues mapped brain regions that are active when a person is processing information on social status. The researchers said their findings could yield insight into why social status can so profoundly affect behavior and health.

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Signals in Social Supernets

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:57:33 -0000

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However, costs may discourage deception but not be high enough to guarantee honesty. The SNS LinkedIn requires that users provide the email address of the person with whom they wish to connect; this makes deceptively claiming to know someone costlier, but it certainly does not prevent all contact by strangers, especially for those with published email addresses.

The meaning of these links is also personally subjective. For some people, listing someone as a "friend" on a social network site is an indication of personal and positive acquaintance. Others are far more casual, willing to add friends indiscriminately (boyd, 2006). This has ramifications for the reliability of the profile itself. Viewers may trust the self-created content of a profile if they believe that its links are to people who know that user well, while links that they believe have only minimal connection add little credence.

On sites with higher costs for creating a link, the observer has reason to believe that the links represent genuine relationships. Members of aSmallWorld are careful to request connections only with others whom they are sure wish to be linked to them, since they can be banished for having a few link requests declined (Price, 2006).

Thus, one's display of connections signals one's trustworthiness (Donath & boyd, 2004). One of the most valuable contributions of SNSs is their potential to add trust to weak ties. Trusted weak ties are very useful sources of information, combining the heterogeneity that such ties generally have with the believability that comes with trust (Levin & Cross, 2004). Furthermore, SNSs can actually increase trustworthiness, by placing people within a context that can enforce social mores. SNSs make people aware that their friends and colleagues are looking at their self-presentation.

When people indiscriminately add connections, others who trusted their judgment can suffer and will eventually cease trusting them as a source for useful vouching. Site design influences this: Sites designed to make adding connections as easy as possible, emphasizing indiscriminate network growth, create networks that do little to increase trust or trustworthiness.

SNS users represent themselves with a profile, which includes a self-description, comments from other users, and the technology's defining feature, a list of links to chosen other members. The self-description can include pictures, affiliations, career goals, and other personal details. Alone, these are conventional signals, easily faked; even references to favorite obscure books and other displays of esoteric knowledge may have simply been copied from another's page. Yet the links to other members implies that they have vetted this description as true—although it is important to note that "true" means "true to the mores of our community," which can range from strict adherence to known facts to highly imaginative role-playing (boyd & Heer, 2006; Donath & boyd, 2004; Lenhart & Madden, 2007b).

Dunbar (1996) argued that while new communication technologies could increase the flow of information, they would be unable to change basic social structure and scale. He claimed that people would need to fall back on face-to-face interaction in order to establish trust, rather than relying on what he call the "mere ciphers" people encounter in the mediated domain (Dunbar, 1996, p. 204).

The self-descriptions in online profiles are mostly conventional signals—it is just as easy to type 24 or 62 as it is to enter one's actual age, or to put M rather than F as one's gender. Conventional signals are kept honest through the outside intervention of laws and social mores.

conventional signals

termed assessment signals

Signaling theory, developed initially in economics (Spence, 1973a) and biology (Zahavi, 1975), models the relationship between signals and qualities, showing why certain signals are reliable and others are not. For a signal to be reliable, the costs of deceptively producing the signal must outweigh the benefits. The core of signaling theory is its analysis of the types of signals and situations that bring this about

An emphasis of this article is on ways of achieving reliable information about identity and affiliations. There are situations where ephemeral, hidden, or multiple identities are desirable. However, minimal online identity has been easy to create, while it is harder to establish more grounded identities in a fluid and nuanced way. A primary goal of this article is to understand how reliability is encouraged or enforced.

The argument begins with an introduction to signaling theory. The next section uses this theory to examine how the fundamental structure of SNSs can bring greater trust and reliability to online self-presentations, how specific site design decisions enhance or weaken their trust-conferring ability, and how seemingly pointless or irrational behaviors, such as online fashion and risk taking, actually signal social information. The final section examines the transformative possibilities of social supernets—not only whether SNSs may bring them about, but if so, in what ways they might change our society.

It makes reputation possible—individuals benefit from the experience of others in determining who is nice, who does good work, and who should be shunned for their dishonest ways. Using language to maintain ties and manage trust, people can form and manage more complex and extensive social networks.¹

It shows how the costs associated with adding friends and evaluating profiles affect the reliability of users' self-presentation; examines strategies such as information fashion and risk-taking; and shows how these costs and strategies affect how the publicly-displayed social network aids the establishment of trust, identity, and cooperation—the essential foundations for an expanded social world.

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Business Reputation: Creativity and Happiness: Crowdsourcing gains credibility - Alert Given More Say

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:27:15 -0000

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The Super-Cool 'Your Reputation Preceeds You' Thread - Page 25 - The Student Room

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:21:21 -0000

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What's the point of honourary mentions? You're only going to honourary mention people that you like, and they probably know you like them, and therefore it's pretty bloody pointless. Especially as the point of the thread is to talk about the people WHOSE REPUTATION PRECEEDS THEM.

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UBS says needs 3 years to repair reputation: report | Reuters

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:14:38 -0000

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"We shouldn't fool ourselves," Peter Kurer told the Financial Times in an interview. "We can't pretend that there has been no reputation damage. Experience says it goes away after two or three years."

UBS, the world's largest wealth manager, has written down around $37 billion in assets and cleaned out most senior management -- including chairman Marcel Ospel -- after asking investors for emergency cash two times in as many months.

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PC World - Business Center: Expert Advice for Securing Your Site and Your Reputation

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:37:27 -0000

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To find out how a company can protect its site and its good name from being hijacked, I talked with Jeremiah Grossman of WhiteHat Security at last week's RSA security conference here in San Francisco. Grossman has made a big name for himself over the last couple of years by getting the word out about common Javascript vulnerabilities in Web sites.

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How much is your reputation worth? | Inman News

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:24:29 -0000

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Rocketboomer founder Andrew Baron is making techie headlines today with his plight to sell his Twitter account and its 1,500 followers. Baron listed the account for sale on eBay.Bloggers expect Baron's stunt will spark some debate about online credibility and privacy, and that Twitter will almost certainly delete the account once it's been sold.

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Oldude59's blog | Performancing.com

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:39:38 -0000

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ReviewJournal.com - Living - HUMAN MATTERS: Living authentically wiser than obsessing about reputation

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:14:34 -0000

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How do I shape, manage and protect my reputation? Largely by not aiming at my reputation! My goal, rather, is authenticity. I strive to live authentically. Or, as author Richard Bach says it, "Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true."

Live authentically. Live with integrity.

My favorite Aesop's fable is about a father and son leading a donkey. They overhear the criticism, "Why waste a donkey; someone should ride it." So the son rides, and the next criticism is, "Lazy boy! Making his father walk!" So they switch places. Sure enough: "Despicable father! Forcing his son to walk!" They both get on the donkey. "How cruel to so burden the poor beast in the hot sun!" So the father and son resolve to carry the donkey, who bucks and kicks in terror, falls off the bridge into the river and drowns.

I have lots of reputations, good and bad

You know, Steven, I think people really see you as ..." I'm often intrigued, surprised, even startled, whether the sentence ends in something positive or negative

what my general reputation is

When I was asked to resign as basketball coach at my son's school because a boy -- his parents, actually -- suggested I had a prurient interest in the rebounding drill, and when my bishop, already predisposed to antagonism toward me, decided to "investigate" the claim, well, I was deeply invested in my reputation. This is the sort of accusation that can permanently damage my ability to make a living, even when swiftly exonerated, which I was.

So, in cases of egregious slander, yes, I really care about my reputation.

There is a short list of folks in my inner circle with whom I care greatly about my reputation. My children top that list. My best friend, Paul. A former graduate school professor. Erin. Kim. There are a few more, but the list is surprisingly short.

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