Online Reputation Management
As the popularity of social media increases, so does the need for online reputation management. > Opportunity to engage in meaningful, real-time conversations with stakeholders
> Ability to increase competitive edge (and mitigate risk) by monitoring the opinions being propagated about you, your company, your competitors or other members of your network > Opportunity to understand the source of opinions and perceptions impacting your brand and respond according to influence > Chance for early detection and response to potentially damaging content Check out Social Networking and Reputational Risk in the Workplace.pdf - Deloitte's 2009 Workplace Survey.
Just a few of the reasons analyzing, influencing and monitoring online reputation is important for individuals and organizations include:

> Ability to identify and uncover potential opportunities, markets, selling points based on user-generated content
> Improve the organic search engine rankings by leveraging keywords and phrases found in user-generated content
