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Maintain Your Good Reputation

Florian Schütz — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:47:35 +0000

There is no doubt about the importance of a good reputation. It is important for your private life as well as for your job and career. In this context, the Internet can both be helpful and damaging. On one hand, negative information about oneself can hardly be deleted from the net, because there is no right to be forgotten on the Internet. On the other hand, the own professional development can be supported in a positive way with the help of the Internet, for example through appropriate measures of self-portrayal.

But how can you maintain your good reputation? The good reputation is not limited to the Internet, but also applies to the professional life and even to your love life. Regarding the love life, a good reputation certainly is beneficial.

An important statement has been currently made by U.S. scientists, more specifically by anthropologists from the University of Missouri:

„If you wish to have a good reputation, then help more people. Don’t help one and the same person too often.”

This means, don’t always help one and the same people, but frequently and regularly help many different people. An exciting approach that can easily be applied in your professional life. Whoever gets along well with colleagues at work and has a strong professional network probably has got greater career prospects than a mere lone fighter. Advantages such as trust, backing and more freedom from stress included.

However, it is also important to remain authentic. Those who say things about themselves that, by a quick check in a search engine such as Yasni, turn out to be untrue or exaggerated score a classic own-goal in terms of their good reputation. Once on the net, personal data cannot be easily removed.

If you find unwanted information about yourself on the net and would like to remove it, contact the source of publication first, instead of search engines such as Yasni, Google, Bing, or Yahoo. You can find a declaration on deleting “False/old results” right here.

(Screenshot: timeslive.co.za)

Time management instead of time trap

Florian Schütz — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:12:06 +0000

Social networks – they don’t always necessarily cost your job, but definitely a lot of time. We are active on the net and chat, write, post, read, inform, comment, like, tweet, pin and whatever else there is. And in addition to contacts, creativity, and a certain desire to communicate you definitely need sufficient time in order to manage and maintain all your presences on the web.

For some of us time is a scarce resource and, therefore, precious. The best solution would be time management, because time is one of the few resources that cannot be recovered. Thus, you should also establish a strategy for your network activities to sort tasks by importance and urgency so that networking won’t become a time trap and you won’t get bogged down in all those different networks and profiles.

How can you keep having fun with networking despite limited time?

For example, know how to limit your daily time for networking and be brief – true to the motto that sometimes less is more. Or deactivate your chat. Dedicate most of your networking time to people who are particularly important to you, because a good network can be worth its weight in gold both for the career and for the private sector.

The digital inheritance is waiting

Florian Schütz — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:31:46 +0000

Hardly anybody likes to deal with the issue “death”. Often one puts off making a will for as long as possible. By now there is a classical will for your digital inheritance. At least online we can live forever nowadays because the Internet hardly – or very, very slowly – forgets anything.

In our digital world we no longer just pass on money or houses but also data, accounts, and online activities. This can be quite expensive because most of the online registrations are liable to costs and are not automatically terminated with the death of the user. The heirs are obliged to take care of the digital inheritance. During their (online) life most Internet users give very little thought to what should be done with their digital inheritance after their death.

Therefore, it is advisable to regulate one’s digital inheritance in a will and to leave all access data, logins, and passwords with a notary as well as a power of attorney.

How about you? Have you already given any thoughts to your digital inheritance?