My advice: Don't Drog Blunk.

Seth Godin has an interesting blog post about customers getting banned from businesses for bad behavior.  Example:  If a passenger gets rowdy on a flight to Timbuktu, might they find themselves blacklisted on future flights?  Until Seth's post, I had never thought of that possibility.  And further to my ACLU / CRM post, might the offending passenger find himself unable to buy a ticket on all airlines who share customer data?  Hmm ...

Like most of us, I'm not sure I like the idea of having a black mark on my permanent record because of one unfortunate incident -- which may or may not be my fault.  I can recall vividly an occasion where one airline bumped me from an intentionally overbooked international flight and left me stranded overnight in a crowded airport.  Jerks!  I'm sure if I had had a blog back then I would have written about it.  Thankfully, I'm above that now.

We all have stories like this.  And now we all have blogs.  Will we [as customers] ever pay the price for telling those stories?  Seth thinks so.

My question is, "How might such stories be held against job applicants?"  Everyday I hear stories about candidates getting Googled by prospective employers.  And now that I am experimenting with ZoomInfo's PowerSearch -- an absurdly powerful research tool which serves up cached /archived pages on people -- it seems like unfavorable or regrettable web pages are like tattoos:  Easy to get.  Hard to remove.

My advice:  Don't blog mad -- or drunk.  Increasingly, the web has a tendency to remember such things about customers and candidates.
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Comments

[Mike true]

The second commenty is the ads.
They look pretty scary

[Octavio Isaac Rojas Orduña]

Gee!

I know about the implications of what I write on my blog, but I feel uncomfortable knowing that, appart of Google, there are more powerful tools to look into my life.

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