Sunday, December 13, 2009

A Wicked Web We Weave

Being high profile in an industry has it's advantages and disadvantages.  We have built our business completely on networking and content distribution.  Just recently I did a post about "The Next Generation of Dealer Services Scams" which was a play on words for a company name.  I knew there would be some rebuff from it but the biggest came from someone who tried to remain anonymous.

It turns out, with a little research, that this person who wished to remain hidden has ties to individuals putting on a training seminar for social media, but he did a poor job covering his tracks.  By using Google I was able to determine their real identity and previous social media interactions.

When we create online persona's we have to be careful of all of our interactions.  We cannot say one thing in a social media setting then and then try to sell a different version in our business.  This is what happened in this interaction.  Once I was able to track down this person I found that he was antagonistic in all of his interaction with others online but bills himself as a Neuro Sculpting practitioner.

Just makes you wonder what their real agenda was..



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