This is the class Dan Elder of CenTex Social Media by Topsarge http://www.topsarge.com gave at Geekfest 2011, (Central Texas College) on how to protect your reputation online.

1. Protecting your Repution online

4. Forty-five percent of employers surveyed that they use social networking sites to screen potential employees

6. Students

7. Job seekers

9. Remedy

10. Scan

16. http://www.socialmediasobrietytest.com/

19. e may be easier for hot mommas who also happen to be office holders. It will be too late to help Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, though. The former mayor of Arlington, Oregon, got in hot water with her constituents after a family member posted photos to her MySpace profile showing off her, umm, political assets in the town firehouse (where she worked as an executive secretary). Amazingly, the town of 500 voted to recall her from office shortly after the photos went public. Maybe they were afraid people would start setting fires, just to see what she was wearing when she showed

20. Lara Buys, who in 2006 was involved in a drunken driving crash that killed her passenger. She was due to be recommended for probation, but when pictures on her MySpace page surfaced of her drinking and partying after the crash, they were used to show her lack of repentance. She was sentenced to two years in jail. Joshua Lipton was involved in a crash that seriously injured a woman, and after that posted pictures of himself partying while dressed up as a prisoner. He too was sentenced to two years in jail.

22. Online out of Line http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK28bi5PxtI& Facebook Graduates looking for Work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukdyp9o6rg4 Drunk Posting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVu627Gt2xM Social media's potential impact on hiring practices (Lawyer) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZIxNQsuwIs online reputation management interview David Cannell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_PL5gzV2pw 4 Tips for Online reputation Mgt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdJGKkTi4jc Google Me on the Web