This post is not about Thomas vs Simon B, this post is about the long term online impacts to personal and corporate brands.

A focus on online reputation and brands

I’m hesitant to publish this post, not because I don’t think it’s important, but instead, I don’t want to be caught in the cross fire between Thomas Hawk and Simon B of the SF museum. My focus is on the online impacts, not the specific quarrel these two have, around photographers rights, I wasn’t at the museum that day, so I really can’t comment on what happened.



[Your real resume is your Google Search results. You should spend as much time managing your search results as you do your printed resume]

First of all, please note that Thomas Hawk is a friend of mine for a few years now, he supported me at my first Lunch 2.0 at Hitachi, and a blogger dinner with the CEO of Hitachi Data Systems, and even took the picture I use everywhere (see right), I admire the man’s work, we will continue to be friends for many years. He acknowledged my stance on this, and we are having a respectful discussion as friends