Archive for the ‘Transparency’ Category

Online Identity in the News Week of 3/2/09

Each week we post stories from around the web and media that detail how identity affects society and its importance. As always, feel free to post links you have found in the comments. Here is the roundup for the week of 3/01/2009: Background Checks Are The Final Step Before Hiring For ...

Online Identity in the News Week of 2/23/09

Each week we post stories from around the web and media that detail how identity affects society and its importance. As always, feel free to post links you have found in the comments. Here is the roundup for the week of 2/23/2009: Consumers Are Unwilling to Sacrifice Convenience for Security, Despite ...

Online Identity in the News- Week of 2/16

Each week we post stories from around the web and media that detail how identity affects society and its importance. As always, feel free to post links you have found in the comments. Here is the roundup for the week of 2/16/2009: Facebook's Zuckerberg Calms Privacy Fears Over TOS Change Anything you ...

The Issue of Online Identity, Anonymity and the Movement Toward a Safer Social Web

The Internet Safety Technical Task Force led by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University recently released a 278 page final report examining the extent of the threats children face on social networks. The report was the culmination of a year of meetings between dozens of academics, ...

2008 Looking More Like 1929 Outside NYC Job Fair. Time To Invest In Yourself!

Recently, I was walking down 6th Avenue in Chelsea and stumbled upon a tremendous line of people snaking around several blocks. I figured it was the line to try out for the next edition of American Idol, but I was wrong. It was the line to get ...

What to Look For In 2009…or What Companies Will Survive the Coming “Economic Storm”

In recent weeks, we have seen a ton of commentary from people we hold in extremely high regard when it comes to managing and running successful startups or businesses. Jason Calacanis seemed to be the first to tip with this, and then we had this, this, this, and the one ...

The Problem with LinkedIn: Why “Peer Based Verification” Has its Limits

Meet Janet Jones. She is the Chief Marketing Officer of BeenVerified, she is a former marketing executive at Goldman Sachs and a Harvard Business School alum. Why don't you check her out on LinkedIn? Better yet, why don't you check out who is in Janet's ...

Protecting the Integrity of your Organization - A Story of Janet , Exxon Mobil, and Twitter

Earlier this month, The Houston Chronicle published a story about someone named “Janet,” who has been posing as an employee of Exxon Mobil online. The story focuses on her Twitter posts, where she claimed to represent the company. Ironically, “Janet” seemed to be very effective at communicating positive messages about ...

Top 10 Problems with Sharing Personal Information Online

We are in the process of taking a good hard look at the way personal information is currently shared online. When we speak of personal information, we are referring to your name, age, date of birth, education, work experience, credit score, address, professional licenses etc. etc. etc. Basically, the things ...

Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Talks About Privacy

Some interesting stories coming out of South by Southwest today, but none more appropriate for us here at BeenVerified than the media frenzy surrounding the chaos of Zuckerberg's keynote interview and his admittance that Facebook messed up when it comes to user privacy. The Wired Magazine article, "SXSW: Zuckerberg ...