On Wednesday night, 25 members of the Reputation.com Team laced up their running shoes and braved a chilly San Francisco night to race in the 2010 JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge. The event, which pitted 257 San Francisco Bay Area companies against each other in a 3.5 mile race around the “City by the Bay,” is a fundraiser for the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, which focuses on improving economic development and education opportunities in poverty-stricken communities.
In 2009, the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge raised more than $600,000 for the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. This year’s crowd of 6,732 runners was 25 percent larger than last year’s San Francisco race, ensuring that even more money will be raised for a great cause.
Some Reputation.com employees even decided to take the race a step further by running the course in a pair of fine leather Rockport shoes. Rockport was generous enough to reward our five intrepid runners with their own free pair of shoes. (Thanks Rockport!) Take a look at our stylish runners below.
This year’s JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge was a great event and Reputation.com was proud to be a part of it. We look forward to bringing back an even bigger team next year.
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WordStream.com recently put out an interesting infographic on Internet privacy. Check it out below and see how much of your information is out there on the web.
In today’s Quick Hits, we look into Google’s growing privacy scandal, the new social media rules for politicians in Maryland, a fake social networking profile that fooled 300 military and security personnel, and the comments that Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans posted to his Facebook, the day after being fired.
The Google Wi-Fi data privacy scandal just got even bigger. Attorney generals from 37 states and the District of Columbia are now joining Connecticut Atty. Gen. Richard Blumenthal in investigating whether Google’s Street View program was collecting information about users’ online activities, along with e-mail addresses, passwords, and personal WiFi information. The private data was allegedly captured via Google’s Street View vehicles program.
On Tuesday, Maryland lawmakers voted to establish social media policies for political candidates. Starting two weeks from now, an authority line (a declaration of approval that lists their campaign treasurer) must be included on social networking sites run by campaigns. “Maryland is definitely at the forefront of this,” said David Lieber, state policy counsel for Google.
In order to highlight the dangers in social networking sites, researcher Thomas Ryan performed a simple experiment. He created profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter of a fictitious Navy cyberthreat analyst, “Robin Sage,” and established connections with some 300 people in U.S. military, intelligence agencies, information security companies, and government contractors. Even Google expressed interest in hiring the fabricated “attractive, somewhat flirty cybergeek.”
The day after being fired for his role in a reality TV show, former Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans took to Facebook to vent. “I don’t get the big fuss!… If the City doesn’t like it there won’t be a series Period! Does someone want to believe the streets aren’t like that? LOL”. Apparently, Evans’ relationship with a fellow officer also played a part in his dismissal. He posted on his Facebook, “It’s a shame when its problematic for two single adults to date. Shame on me for not hiding it! Or being married with a girlfriend on the job like so many others.”
Yesterday, Jan Hoffman wrote an incisive and sprawling article on cyberbullying for the New York Times. The article focuses on the various difficulties school officials face in determining the proper punishment for cyberbullying, particularly if the harassment occurs off of school property. It also features a number of specific examples of cyberbullying in schools and the pain that each event caused its victims.
In a special column to CNN, social media researcher and privacy activist Danah Boyd explains why Facebook’s real privacy problem isn’t its complicated privacy settings, which it has improved, but rather the company’s continued inability to foster a culture of “trust and informed consent.” As Boyd explains, Facebook’s current model does not respect user’s rights.
“Changing things and then forcing users to opt out is manipulative. Instead, they should be seeking informed consent — actively working with users to help make sure that they understand what’s at stake in their choices. It is unacceptable for a company like Facebook to trick people into ‘consenting’ to make their data more visible than they might think that it is.”
Scott Duke Harris at the Mercury News has an interesting story on Internet manners and the way that Facebook and other social networking websites have changed the way people think about sharing information. Harris mainly focuses on the “TMI” dilemma, whereby people knowingly (or unknowingly) share too much information online, leading to embarrassment later.
The article offers one very interesting example for how TMI plays out on Facebook. One user posted this message as a public status update: “This goes out to any girl that ive ever been with. I got tested today for Herpes and i came out positive.”
Washington Post blogger David Weigel was forced to resign this past week after disparaging remarks he made about conservative politicians were made public. The catch, the remarks were posted on a on a private e-mail list for Washington D.C. journalists called Journolist. Of course, they weren’t really private at all, which is why Ezra Klein (the famed political blogger who started the list) decided to shut it down after Weigel’s resignation.
In a separate column discussing the situation, Klein wrote “insofar as the current version of Journolist has seen its archives become a weapon, and insofar as people’s careers are now at stake, it has to die.”
Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb has an interesting and well-written op-ed explaining why some people, including himself, use location-based social networking websites such as Gowalla and Foursquare. If you’ve ever wondered why someone would willingly share their precise global coordinates with friends — and sometimes strangers — Kirkpatrick’s article may answer your question.
Lastly, Rob Cottingham of the popular web comic Noise to Signal takes a funny look at the viciousness of some Internet commenters. Cottingham suggests that “civil behaviour ought to be the expected norm of online community, not the welcome exception.” We can definitely agree with that.
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