Seems Work Blogging Had Something To Say As Well About RepuTrace

Just a suggestion, but maybe RepuTrace should learn that citizens don't like NSA needlessly spying on us, so we damn sure don't like private companies doing it. Found the item below over on Work Blogging.

RepuTrace(TM) - The Corporate Security Intelligence Tool for small to large businesses monitors internal and external threats on blogs, forums,message boards, chat rooms, consumer sites, videos and images.

http://www.reputrace.com/.

"Should you suspect an unsatisfied customer is spreading malcontent about your company, use CoreX to zero in on Web-based discussion forums. You can even monitor developments within your workforce in the event you have difficulties with disgruntled employees or just want to ensure your personnel are generally happy at work.

"RepuTrace also claims to be able to:

a) Find out what people are saying on blogs and chatrooms about a particular company or developments affecting a particular industry. But can they do dialogue?
b) Search all forms of consumer conversation connected with a company, product or brand to ensure it is perceived as desired. How about suggesting to those companies, less spying, and more quality in their products and services?
c) Track media outlets of all sizes and kinds to monitor specific news and information to give you a unique, global perspective.


http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2006/08/work-bloggers-beware.html

Seems Working Place Had Something To Say As Well About RepuTrace

Just a suggestion, but maybe RepuTrace should learn that citizens don't like NSA needlessly spying on us, so we damn sure don't like private companies doing it. Found the item below over on Work Blogging.

RepuTrace(TM) - The Corporate Security Intelligence Tool for small to large businesses monitors internal and external threats on blogs, forums,message boards, chat rooms, consumer sites, videos and images.

http://www.reputrace.com/.

"Should you suspect an unsatisfied customer is spreading malcontent about your company, use CoreX to zero in on Web-based discussion forums. You can even monitor developments within your workforce in the event you have difficulties with disgruntled employees or just want to ensure your personnel are generally happy at work.

"RepuTrace also claims to be able to:

a) Find out what people are saying on blogs and chatrooms about a particular company or developments affecting a particular industry. But can they do dialogue?
b) Search all forms of consumer conversation connected with a company, product or brand to ensure it is perceived as desired. How about suggesting to those companies, less spying, and more quality in their products and services?
c) Track media outlets of all sizes and kinds to monitor specific news and information to give you a unique, global perspective.


http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2006/08/work-bloggers-beware.html

Green Nuclear Butterfly Snooped by RepuTrace

To facts here:

1. Seems that Green Nuclear Butterfly has been visited by the sinister RepuTrace beast, just in the past week.

2. How successful can RepuTrace and CoreX actually be, if one lone blogger attacked just a week ago is already on the top of page 2 when you Google RepuTrace?

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RepuTrace Found On Consumerist Site

Seems that the folks over at consumerist.com have been visited by our willy RepuTrace beast as well. Wondering if they were SWOOPED down upon like a CoreX Blog Eagle, or if it was more of a dark and sinister Press Panther type of and attack. Maybe with their patented BRAND PROBE (is that similar to an anal blog search?), the folks at CoreX are actually alien beings, UFOs scouring the bloggosphere, visiting brand probes on innocent unsuspecting bloggers! Oh My GAWD! Quick, someone call Dick Cheney and the thought police.

http://consumerist.com/consumer/blogs/this-is-what-a-ghost-looks-like-2-211328.php
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Further proof that corporate America is watching The Consumerist. Just saw this hit on our sitemeter referrals:
Reputrace is a blog monitoring service. They promise clients the ability to watch, "consumer opinion, employees concerns, competitors strengths and weaknesses and emerging threats to a company's reputation, brand and products."

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CoreX Disclaimer, and Get Yourselves IP Blocker Widget

First, thought it would be amusing to share CoreX's disclaimer on their products. I find it rather amusing, since they admit to making copies of website/blog materials themselves for their clients future use.

CoreX does not sponsor, endorse, or express any opinion whatsoever on, nor does it monitor as to accuracy, the content of the materials to which you are to be linked. CoreX shall not be responsible or liable in any way for the content of such materials. By linking you to other sites, CoreX shall not be considered to have authorized you to copy or in any way reproduce and distribute the material in those sites. You must first obtain the permission of the copyright owners of those materials, to do so.

We here at Stalked by RepuTrace also suggest, as you trace the venom consider installing a IP address blocker widget, so that you can block PESKY RepuTrace visits to your blog, one IP at a time, such as this one: 67.68.42.48

To Defeat The Enemy, You Must Know The Enemy

What a catchy slogan RepuTrace has, "trace the venom" which is what we are doing with this blog as we gather steam. Trace the venom is our battle cry as we locate the assorted victims being STALKED by RepuTrace.

The RepuTrace is a willy and devious creature, capable of taking on many ghosted forms as it creeps and slithers from blog to blog, so beware of the beast. Some of its other forms beside CoreX include the following:

Use these tools to locate valuable information that would otherwise be like finding a needle in a haystack:

RepuTrace™ Monitoring RGM™, consumer opinion, employees concerns, competitors strengths and weaknesses and emerging threats to a company's reputation, brand and products.

BlogEagle™ Swooping in to grab what people are saying on blogs and chat rooms about your company or developments affecting your industry. Were these guys smoking big old fatties when they came up with this one? Can hear them now, "WOW DUDES, how about we like call this program BlogEagle? You know, like SWOOPING in, kind of like I did when I Bogart this joint."

PressPanther™ Diligently tracking media outlets of all sizes and kinds to monitor specific news and information to give you a unique, global perspective.

BrandProbe™ Is vital to business. It searches all forms of consumer conversation connected with a company, product or brand to ensure it is perceived as desired. Never mind that said company might be ripping people off, raping the environment, or worse, hiring illegal aliens to replace American workers.

As Elmer Fudd would say, be verwe verwe quiet, we're hunting RepuTraces! Trace the venom.

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RepuTrace Tidbits From Around The Web, First Installment

Dave February 19th, 2007 in PR, reputrace, transparency
http://www.prworks.ca/index.php/can-you-be-kinda-sorta-transparent/#comments

My comments in red.

I’ve been called out for seemingly conflicting points-of-view on transparency. The post I wrote about the Sunsilk wig-out calling for full transparency from those uploading supposedly consumer-generated videos to youtube, etc. seems to counter what I espoused as being a valuable feature of the Reputrace product–masking your IP address from bloggers you may be monitoring.

Sounds like Dave is conflicted...he wants openness and honesty from others, but it's OK if he or RepuTrace is out snooping around the web.

I see the two as very different. As a snooper, sure you do!

If you are creating content and making it available to the world, my personal opinion is that you should disclose if you have a vested interest (commercial, personal) in people reading, listening to or viewing your content. Corporate America, and even President Bush don't...how about if everyone, including RepuTrace starts being a bit more honest?

However, I don’t think you have to be completely transparent when monitoring blogs. Given that we may be monitoring blogs on behalf of our clients or companies, we should have the ability to review content without announcing to the blogger that "I’m here and I’m watching you" by leaving a record of our IP address/domain in the blogger’s dashboard. I don’t necessarily want to be forced to engage the blogger until I’m ready to do so. In order to make the right decision on what to say, when and how, I’ll need to read the blog, poke around back entries, links, etc. So, you want to be a snake? Or, you have no balls, like most bullies, only willing to attack when you can beat your victims into submission?

When I do come up with a response (or not), I’ll be doing it with full disclosure. The only difference is, I make the call on when to alert the blogger to my presence. See my comment above.

Is it OK to lurk without being transparent? If I mask my IP address/domain from a blogger am I being less than transparent? If I’m not obliged to list the blogs that I monitor through my feed reader or the Technorati searches I’m running, why do I have to let every blogger know who I am when I visit their site if I don’t want to? If someone is masking their ISP, they usually have a LOT TO HIDE.

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Victims Of RepuTrace Stalking Unite (CoreX)

Recently, I became aware of a sinister corporate beast slithering through the bloggosphere as various bloggers and their words came under the scrutiny of the RepuTrace! In the coming days and months as this blog is discovered, let the victims of RepuTrace's vile and sinister stalking of bloggers be brought into the light of day as we share our stories of how this blight appeared on our blogs. A visit to their site paints a disturbing picture of a company, and a software meant to stalk and silence our voices one blogger at a time, one environmental activist at a time.

The goal of this blog...to have those bloggers who have been snooped by RepuTrace to link here, so that this blog replaces RepuTrace at the top of the search page every time someone tags the word RepuTrace. Together, we can drive RepuTrace off of the first page. If you are a victim of RepuTrace, leave your blog link in a comment! If you want to tell your story, let us know.

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