Corporate Trust versus Social Media

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The explosion of Social Media based technology has seriously complicated the tasks of managing reputational risk and maintaining corporate trust. Without an adequate Social Media coping strategy, the perceived integrity of an organisation can be seriously compromised, globally, within hours.

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how do you deal with an ambush?

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So how do you deal with an ambush?

What do you do when you are in a meeting and someone suddenly springs a ‘surprise’ that has obviously been carefully planned but deliberately concealed from you and your colleagues?

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My Friday afternoon Web 2.0 brainwave

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All I have to do is create a new mash-up, using my blog, predictive text and Twitter.

This amazing new product will be able to let everybody know what I might do, before I do it.

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Dog day afternoon

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today has been one of those days when the observation of human behaviour re-inforces my sincere appreciation of dogs.

Dogs are creatures of habit but still welcome new opportunities.*

Treat a dog well and they will appreciate you.

Dogs are consistent.

We could learn a lot from dogs.

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40 seconds: Earning trust

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Should trust be earned – or assumed until disproved?

Should we always automatically think the best of people and organizations until something happens to make us question our trust?

Or do we need to spend more time on personal due diligence and take more care before dispensing our valuable trust?

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