When you are about to start a business, write a book, or go public on anything, you need to understand how important reputation management is.

Reputation management is defined as what the term states- constantly making sure that your reputation stays clean.

Starting out with a negative reputation is never a good thing if you are about to go public on something new that you are doing, such as again, starting a new business, writing a new book, hosting a radio show,...

There are plenty of reputation management companies out there that will remove anything on the internet that can tarnish your reputation. You most definitely need to hire one if you are about to go public on something you are doing.

However, you need to take some initiative in making sure your reputation is clean as well. There are some steps you can take in order to do that:

1. Do a Google search on your name and see if anything negative about you comes up.
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Actually not at all. If you keep a professional and friendly online presence, that in itself will help your reputation.

Even if there are some negative things written about you floating around out there. However, it is best to not take a chance on having that around anyway.

Just as it is important to take care of your own reputation management, you need to have a professional help you out with it as well.

I have this thing I do where I post on my main blog (http://www.darklock.com/) every Wednesday. But my server is being migrated to a new bigger and better VPS this week by my supremely awesome host (Bolt Web Hosting and yes that is an affiliate link), so I'm being cagey about messing with things until the DNS propagates and I know everyone's looking at the same server.

And I keep meaning to post more here on my WaFo blog, so I figured I'd come post something here instead of on my main...

I am a Chemical Process Engineer that went on the Computer Science path.

At the time I begun writing programs, I’ve started with punched cards and Third Generation Hardware (Discrete transistors and SSI, MSI, LSI Integrated circuits): mainframes and minicomputers.

A big step forward for me was getting access to Microcomputers, as M118 and later M218
These Microcomputers were equipped with 8” Single Side, Single Density floppy disk and CP/M (Control Program...