This document discusses social reputation and managing your online presence. It notes that the internet is permanent, so what you post online can impact your offline life and career. It recommends having a social media strategy that presents the image you want for your personal brand. It warns of potential pitfalls like oversharing details, inappropriate photos, or complaints that could be seen publicly. Employers and colleges often check social profiles, so the document provides tips for maintaining a clean, professional online reputation on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

1. SOCIAL REPUTATION
The internet is forever.

3. Are You Social?
Social Media Icons via webtoolkit4.me

4. The Social Breakdown

5. The Social Breakdown

6. The Social Breakdown

7. The Social Breakdown
Infographic via go-gulf.com

8. Social Reputation
• What is a social reputation?
– Your reputation online, on social media and
IRL (in real life).

9. Social Reputation
• Why is it important?
– We live in a 24 hr/day media world
– The internet is forever
– Delete does not = erase
– Social/ Online Reputation impacts off-line life
and job relationships
– Email to Instagram, you are leaving a
permanent social footprint

10. Social Reputation
• Social Media Managers
– Each member is a social media manager
– You represent yourself, your company and
your charities
– What you tweet, post and pin becomes your
social reputation
– Your reputation becomes one part of the
Junior League of Stamford-Norwalk’s
reputation
– Potential Members, Supporters and Donors
are watching

11. Social Reputation
• Social Strategy
– How to you want to be perceived?
– How do you want to represent your
personal brand, company and charities?

12. Social Reputation
• Social Tactics
– Visual content is the most read and
shared on all platforms
– Share YOUR story, a personal
connection is important
– Different platforms require
different content

13. Social Reputation
• Social Platform Content
– Personal network of friends and
family
– Business network for connecting
and sharing content
– The network for real time
information
– Your digital billboard – defines you
and your brand

14. Social Reputation Management
• The Rule of Cocktails
– Don’t share, say or do anything you wouldn’t
share, say or do at a cocktail party (think
Grandma’s 80th birthday party, not 5 year
college reunion cocktail party).

15. Social Reputation Management
• Avoid The Snooki Effect
– Currently, Snooki is a new
mom. She would like you to
think of her as this woman.

16. Social Reputation Management
• The Snooki Effect
– The internet is forever so when
you “Google” Snooki you find
this gal.

17. Social Reputation Management
• The Snooki Effect
and sadly this will be on
the internet FOREVER..
Think before you
tweet, pin or post.

18. How Can you Protect your
Reputation?
• Facebook
– Don’t Hoard Friends
 Do you really know all 987 of those FB
friends? Make sure you “know” the people
with access to your page.
 Do you trust your FB friends to keep any
inappropriate picture of you (from college
spring break) in a box where they belong?

19. How Can you Protect your
Reputation?
• Facebook Mistakes
– The Forgotten Friend
 Did you “friend” a colleague, boss or client
and then COMPLAIN about them?
 Welcome to the reply all button of 2012!

20. How Can you Protect your
Reputation?
• Facebook Mistakes
– Saucy Photos
 Keep the cleavage covered
 Just say “no” to party pictures
 Control tagging of you by “friends” by
removing tags or changing tag preferences
in the settings.

21. How Can you Protect your
Reputation?
• Facebook Mistakes
– Over Sharing
 We’re all very happy about your new boyfriend /
husband/ baby/ house/ job/ etc. etc. etc. but
PLEASE do not show us EVERY SINGLE photo of
the event/person.
 We’re all very sorry to hear about your gluten
allergy/bad boyfriend/pregnancy heartburn/ weird
looking mole but again, please do not share every
detail with us.
 Don’t drink and Facebook/Twitter (Pinterest is
fine).

22. How Can you Protect your
Reputation?
• Twitter Mistakes
– Keep it Clean: NSFW is a bad thing.
 It’s great to be funny and maybe even
shocking on Twitter, but try to keep it clean.
A Twitter stream of F bombs and trash
talking will stay with you forever (this is a
good rule for all Social Media platforms).

23. How Can you Protect your
Reputation?
• Twitter Mistakes
– Tweet at appropriate times
 In a really boring meeting? Skipping work
for a beach day? Ditching class because
you didn’t do the reading? DON’T TWEET
ABOUT IT!
 Think your boss, client or co-workers won’t
check your social stream? Think again.

24. How Can you Protect your
Reputation?
• LinkedIn Mistakes
– Keep it professional
 Are those morning workouts really paying
off? Please don’t post your bikini as your
profile pic. Bikini babes are not
professional or appropriate.

25. Who is looking at your social
reputation?
• Everyone is watching
 Potential/Current Employers
 Potential Colleges
 Potential Contributors/Investors
 Family & Friends
 Your children
 Lawyers

26. Who is looking at your social
reputation?
• Recruiters & companies are researching
you
 78% of recruiters check search engines
 63% of recruiters check social media sites
 8% of companies have fired someone for
abusing Social Media.*
* Info via kbsd Digital Marketing

28. Rules of Managing your social
reputation
• Follow these rules to monitor your socialreputation
 Know your friends & followers.
 Remember the Cocktail Rule.
 Avoid the Snooki Effect.
 Don’t over share.
 Avoid The Social Media “Reply All”.
 Remember employers & schools will ask for your social
media handles and check them.
 Google yourself, know what is out there.
 Have a Social Media plan for your image.
 Have a Social Presence (being digitally non-existent can
be detrimental ).

29. It takes many good deeds to build a
good reputation,
and only one bad one to lose it.
-Benjamin Franklin

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