Managing your online reputation

The average HR professional might not rank themselves alongside comedian Frankie Boyle and footballer Ashley Cole, but their recent high-profile outbursts on the microblogging site Twitter are a cautionary tale for anyone operating online.

Whether it’s making unsavoury (and potentially discriminatory) jokes or swearing at the Football Association, it seems that celebrities frequently ignore the fact that a social networking site is a publicly accessible forum that can be searched and that could hold evidence of conversations or interactions from your past that you would rather not widely share.

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