Comments on: Extreme Online Reputation Management: WVU, Mylan, & Governor’s Office Edition

By: kyle

kyle — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:06:18 +0000

university group will be meeting at the sears office with mike and steven and the attorney staff in irvine searsatty 8 – 5

By: BinneseNuarne

BinneseNuarne — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:55:40 +0000

Does anyone know of a good article spinning script. Looking to take my articles and PLR articles and spin them.

Steven Walsh

By: Justin Seibert

Justin Seibert — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:39:45 +0000

@ wvuWorried – Thanks for the update! Looks like if they stopped letting people comment on Mike Garrison’s blog for awhile, they’ve started it back up again. Are you saying they actually closed off commenting, meaning you could not physically enter one in, or just that new comments weren’t appearing for awhile?

There can be legitimate reasons for editing or even disapproving comments (e.g. profanity), which is very possible in this case given the emotions involved. Also, keep in mind that they’re letting through quite a few very anti-Garrison comments.

I hope that they’re being very, very selective in editing / removing, and censoring comments, though, given the lack of trust so many people are expressing.

Finally, as to your last question about the handling of the situation, well…. Again, talking about it on the blog is great – truly – but the purpose is dialogue and no one’s really come back to address any of the concerns.

If you want to see a great example of where a company started addressing folks through a blog and just got hammered, but is addressing those concerns and actually taking part in the conversation to improve things for everyone, I encourage you to check out eBay’s blog: http://www.ebayinkblog.com.

By: wvuWorried

wvuWorried — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:50:26 +0000

Here’s an interesting tidbit about Mike’s blog that you describe above–not only has he not responded to any of the comments, but the blog comments were apparently heavily edited/censored, with comments disappearing at a fairly fast rate. Today, the ability to comment on the posting was closed, interestingly enough after a post reminding us of the guidelines for commenting and describing the importance of debate and discussion, and how much our comments were valued! Can they manage this any worse?

By: Update - WVU President Mike Garrison Emails Employees | Direct Online Marketing Blog

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:47:16 +0000

[...] Extreme Online Reputation Management: WVU, Mylan, & Governor’s Office Edition | Direct Online Ma… on Governor Emails Entire State about WVU Football Coach LeavingDerrick McKee on This Particular [...]