The Alberta provincial election in Canada is not officially in swing, but the incumbent Conservative Party may already have a slight advantage over its right-wing rival, the Wildrose Party. It appears the libertarian upstart...

Evidence of the castrations has emerged amid controversy that it was not included in the findings of an official investigation into sexual abuse within the church last year. The NRC Handelsblad newspaper identified Henk...

Who is in charge of managing reputation in a large company? Media/Comms? CSR? Marketing/Sales? Brand managers? HR? Senior management? The staff? The CEO? Non-exec directors? Someone with the word “reputation” in their job title?

Only the defeated are called to account for their crimes. This alone should justify a close examination of the methods and tactics of the victorious. So in war, so in business. After a major incident, crisis or issue affecting...

Online reputation management provides perfect examples of why truth should never be mistaken for reality. When someone posts a negative and untrue or unfair comment about you or your company there are now some fairly standard...

Many are noticing that CSR is now mostly called CR, especially in the larger companies. Why is this? The word ‘social’ is surely and not so slowly dropping out of the well-known phrase upon whose basis many thousands of jobs...

By Quentin Langley They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and that is why brands will pay a fortune for admired, aspirational, figures - David Beckham, Tiger Woods, Maria Sharapova - to be photographed using the brands....

Facebook, an opportunity for business that is more than just about a Page.

UK tabloid The News Of The World (#NOTW) is caught in the eye of a very public storm over allegations of phone hacking and use of private investigators.

In the past 12 months, the world has experienced major crises and scandals involving some of its largest, most powerful companies. Their downfall in the global spotlight unearthed much more than operations problems — it...

So, now you can get insured against being brandjacked. The implication is that it mostly protects you against a staff brandjack, rather than aggressive external brandjacks by groups like Greenpeace. The risks of staff...

The relative value of reputation among other corporate characteristics is climbing fast. Many commentators are starting to ask where exactly this apparently exponential rise might stop. On the furthest edges of business theory...