NAPW Strikes Back!

A couple months ago I got an on-line invitation to join the NAPW. I don't remember the initials but it's a professional women's organization. I just got a message from their general counsel on my website asking me to take my post down. Read for yourself:

Hi Mr. Rice. I am the General Counsel of NAPW. I read your post on the repairmanjack forum about how our company mistakenly sent you a letter inviting you to join our organization. I apologize for that. In another time, something like that was just a humorous mistake. Today, it is an opportunity for people to write about it to the world. While that is absolutely acceptable, people have responded to your posting and called NAPW an "online scam."

This is absolutely untrue. We are the nation's strongest, fastest growing networking organization dedicated to professional women. We work incredibly hard to provide more and more opportunities for our members, but much of our hard work is undone when someone uses the term "scam" to describe our company. Most companies face issues like this today. We do our best to monitor this sort of thing and to get out in front of it. So I am writing to ask if you would please consider removing your post, or at least deleting the comment which calls us an "online scam." The problem today, as you probably know, is with managing a company's reputation as reflected through Google search results. Your posting is a top-50 result for NAPW and the use of the word scam in that post really hurts us.

I thank you in advance for your time and consideration, and ask that you please contact me to discuss this.

I don't really care either way, but I don't have the ability to delete a thread, only to edit my own comments. But how cool is that that my post is a top 50 result, eh?