Category Archives: Reputation

Protect Your Social Investment from Hackers

On July 4, 2011, a group of hackers by the name of Scriptkiddies gained access to Fox News’ @FoxNewsPolitics Twitter feed, tweeting several notices that U.S. President Barack Obama had been assassinated in Iowa. In one day, we saw how a simple prank can turn into a national security threat involving the Secret Service.
Posted on July 15, 2011 By Evan Kraus
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Western Views of the Arab Spring

The Arab Spring may have bloomed – but its impact continues. APCO Insight, a global opinion research consultancy at APCO Worldwide, recently looked at how events in the Middle East are shaping the views of Western opinion leaders and influencing their decisions about business, politics and the economy, as well as where they seek information in the media.
Posted on July 14, 2011 By Virtual Vantage Points
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The Fall of the News of the World has Political Ramifications too

As in every other western democracy, the internet has been wreaking havoc in the press in Britain. But there is no doubt that the papers are still extremely important in shaping and leading opinion in the United Kingdom and that has been reflected in sustained efforts by party leaders to be close to editors and proprietors of the major newspaper groups.
Posted on July 7, 2011 By Adrian McMenamin
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The World May be Ending, but Murdoch Still Stands to Gain

The News of the World, the largest-selling English language newspaper in the world, is to close its doors after 168 years. Not because of lagging sales, or loss of readers or even the inexorable march of Twitter. The flagship of Rupert Murdoch’s News International empire is being shut down because alleged bad behavior in the news room has made the paper a very big liability in a very high-stakes game of media brinkmanship. In the dog-eat-dog world of tabloid journalism, the ‘big story’ is everything and the NOTW – no stranger to controversy – was the ‘big dog’ when it came to landing those stories. Tabloids have long been attacked for lapses in moral and ethical judgment, but the NOTW raised the bar in 2006 when the paper’s royal correspondent was prosecuted and jailed for hacking the mobile phones of ‘persons of interest’ to the paper. But outrage soon subsided and normal service was resumed.
Posted on July 7, 2011 By David King
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Why is Communication Around Data Security So Important – and so Difficult?

Data security is key to a company's reputation. Jonathan Winer, who formerly developed data protection policies at the U.S. Department of State, discusses the what makes data security such a big issue for companies, and consumers. Video after the jump
Posted on May 16, 2011 By Jonathan Winer
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What Are the Opportunities for Associations To Break Through the Clutter?

In my last post, I identified how policy elites evaluate organizations and explained how association leaders should catalog information about their organizations that will be meaningful to legislators. Here are five opportunities for associations (and corporations) to raise and burnish their profiles with Capitol Hill offices.
Posted on March 7, 2011 By Bill Dalbec
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