Avoid Falling Victim to a Phishing Scam

A phishing scam is a name for an electronic criminal process of acquiring a victim’s sensitive personal information for the purposes of identity theft or credit fraud.  Typically, a phishing scam is carried out in email form, where scammers impersonate an official bank or company wit... «read more»

Create Your Personal Brand Online

Building your personal brand online means creating for yourself or for your business an official persona that can be recognized.  Building a personal brand opens you or your business to networking opportunities.  The Internet is an ideal place to establish oneself online—though it does take some... «read more»

Make Your Facebook Profile a Professional Networking Tool

Gen-Yers and Gen-Zers lookout – there’s some new kids on the social networking scene. Baby boomers and Generation Xers are quickly taking to Facebook, leveraging the sites many capabilities to do more than just connect with friends and family but to network professionally and create the social s... «read more»

Make Your LinkedIn Profile an Online Reputation Management Tool

With over 350 million users, Facebook may be the king of general social networking, but when it comes to professional networking, LinkedIn is definitely on top. Since it was launched in 2003, LinkedIn has become one of the most popular professional social networ... «read more»

Online Reputation Management for Attorneys

Proactive online reputation management is something that all professionals should be considering, no matter what field in which they work. Just take a look back through the archives of the ReputationDefender Blog. Over the past year, we have talked about the importance of reputation management for <... «read more»

Online Reputation Management for Contractors

While I’ve had my fair share of problems with construction, I think contractors get a bad rap. Sure, there are some unscrupulous builders out there who will overcharge you for a simple job and then drag it out from two-weeks to three months, but for the most part, general contractors, and other sk... «read more»

Recognize and Prevent Cyber Bullying

Whether it’s physical abuse, verbal abuse, or simply social exclusion, bullying has always been a problem for kids and teens. Unfortunately, the bullying that you may have seen or dealt with as a child is no longer the only threat facing our youth. As technology has evolved, so too have the means ... «read more»

ReputationDefender's Recommended Facebook Privacy Settings

Since unveiling its new and "improved" privacy controls, Facebook has drawn a lot of criticism. By far, the biggest complaint lodged against the company is that, under the guise of o... «read more»

Safely Shop Online

The danger of online shopping mainly centers on the fact that buyers and sellers are shielded from direct view.  The relative anonymity of the Internet creates a potentially dubious marketplace, where fraud is common and a healthy wariness is advised. That being said, the Internet provides to us... «read more»

Stop Junk Mail

There are a number of reasons (environmental concerns, security issues, general annoyance, etc.) that consumers don't enjoy the presence of unsolicited [junk mail (definition: junk mail)] in their mailboxes. To decrease the amount of junk mail your home or business receives on a daily basis, ... «read more»

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