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Protecting your identity online is more than just worrying about what you put on your credit cards.  There is now an entire field of marketing dedicated to protecting something more precious than your bank account, your online reputation. Online reputation management is now an entire sector of marketing. It helps companies and individuals take back control of their online identity.

Because there is no internet police, literally anyone can write anything about you. The problem with most internet information is that it can have completely no basis in fact and still be designed to look like it is true.  Most of the information online does not have anything solid or particularly scholarly to back it up. While that is what makes the internet great, it is what also can make it a very frustrating way to receive information.

For example, the company Next Day Blinds has run into this. Despite having won numerous awards from customer service, it is still easy to hurt their reputation. If someone, or even their competition writes something online that is untrue about them is can cause Next Day Blinds review to come up in a search engine.  That might cause someone searching for the company to click on Next Day Blinds review.  Even if Next Day Blinds review are very few and far between.

This is just an example of how the internet can be unreliable and why managing your online reputation is so important. This is especially so if you are one of the many job seekers right now in America. Because you can bet that most employers are probably doing an internet search on you. It’s important to go ahead and Google yourself to see what kind of results come up. That way if you don’t like them you can try and change them.

When I attended a special opera event at the Buxton Opera House, I was approached by a volunteer asking if I’ve ever attended the Buxton Puppet Festival which the opera house presents every year. Of course, I have not. I don’t live here, I only come here on special requests from the Opera House for a particular fund raiser. The volunteer was so excited to find out that I’ve never been the the Puppet Festival and asked me if I had time for her to tell me all about it. Her enthusiasm was overwhelming, so I couldn’t deny her the chance.

This up coming August will be the Puppet Festivals sixth annual event. It’s in conjunction with Funny Wonders. In addition to the puppet performances, there will be workshops for all age held at the Opera House, at the Paupers Pit and all around town. At the Opera House, there will be two favorite puppet performing, Presto Puppet Theatre will be returning with the retelling of Aladin and the Lempen Puppet Theatre present a touching Fable, Journey of Turtles.

Funny Wonders Young People’s Company will present ‘The Silk Road’. A culmination of an on going project that started over a year ago.  Apparently, the company travelled to Japan and collaborated with another puppet theater and what they experience will be brought back here and has inspired the performance of ‘The Silk Road’.  Later, after that performance the Japanese puppet master Nori Sawa will hold a workshop for children and adults. As for the Paupers Pit and the Old Hall Hotel, there will be daily programs of puppet shows. Then there will be two unique events outdoors in the Pavilion Gardens.

The volunteers energy never waned when she told me all about the Puppet Festival. As I returned to one of the Buxton Hotels, I couldn’t help remember how much I loved a good puppet show. I’ve never really attended a professional show, only the ones my siblings put on to entertain the family during summer breaks. I think I’ll have to come back next month and revisit fond memories.