Benjamin Franklin said it best: “it takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.” The problem with this statement is that it is true – especially when it comes to managing our reputation on the social web.
With the amount of hours we spend devising and executing campaigns to target perfect customers, to generating more demand and to converting more potential buyers into revenue, it makes it particularly hard to witness our efforts when they are stifled by the wrong types of messages. Whether it is customers, competitors, and even ex-employees, when people go out of their way to tarnish a company’s reputation, it makes it difficult to build a positive brand image.






Google is currently undergoing a complete rebranding of its two most successful products: Picasa and Blogger. If you have been using Google’s Picasa photo uploading sharing site or Google’s Blogger blogging platform, get ready to see major rebranding changes. The two products will soon be featured under the names “Google Blogs” for Blogger and “Google Photos” for Picasa in an effort to retire the non-Google name brands and get all the Google products under the famous Google name.














