If you're active on the web for very long, you will screw up. It's inevitable. How you handle it can make you or break you, though.
To show you what I mean, let's look at three different examples: one from last year in which a company dealt swiftly and expertly with a problem of their own making and two from this year where just the opposite was the case. I think the end results will be more than enough to convince you to be very proactive the next time you screw up.
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Well not long after Spivot redoes their site to do a much better job of respecting the rights of bloggers, myLot comes along and shows us just how bad Spivot could have been.
Check out one of the latest posts from Emergiblog on myLot (nofollow applied to that link). Not only do you have a scary layout of giant ad/excerpt/giant ad/tags/giant ad, but the "view full article" link opens the post in a myLot frame, not in ... Keep reading »
When I asked "Does an RSS Feed Imply Republish Rights?" I never thought I'd see as blatant a case as Spivot. (You'll have to type www.spivot.com into your browser to get to their site, because there's no way I'm giving them a link.)
They're building a business on making it easy for people to find your content ... and then read it on their site. In fact, you have to work hard to even find a link to ... Keep reading »
