3. Your Basic Playbook
1. Policies and Real Estate - risk
management
2. Listen. Really Listen - monitoring
3. Iron While Damp ¨C respond, and quickly
4. Ask for Help ¨C credible requests and
demands
5. What Are You Going to Do, Sue?
4. 1: Risk
Management
? Own the Real Estate
? SEO Efforts
? SM, Blogging, Press Releases
? Manage Risks
? Develop SM policies, training
5. 2: Are You
Listening?
Money
Monitor:
? Low End ¨C free, DIY Google Alerts
? Mid-Level ¨C monthly paid service
? Full Service ¨C hire someone
6. 3: Respond On-Site
Iron While Damp
Why?
? Fast, Same Place
Why Not?
? Attention, Credibility
7. 4: Demand
Credibility
Know the Limits
? v. hoster - CDA Safe Harbor
? v. poster - Is it Defamation?
Terms of Service
? Community or Industry Sites
? Gripe Sites
8. 4: Demand
What are you asking for?
? Take Down
? Nofollow or robot.txt
? More prominent response
9. 5: Litigation
There Will be Fallout
Calls More Attention
A Commitment
? Lots of Money, and Lots of
Time
No Guarantees
? Results Will Vary
10. Ones to Watch
Simorangkir v. Love
? Tweets re: drug
dealer, prostitute
? Less harmful on Twitter?
? Trial February 6th
11. Ones to Watch
Souza v. AMR
? Connecticut ambulance
worker
? Facebook comments
? Fired, but NLRB says that
was not justified for
comments
? Was SM policy and firing too
harsh?