Organizational Communication

http://www.bravotv.com/flipping-out/videos/needing-an-apology

One of my favorite shows has got to be "Flipping Out" with Jeff Lewis on Bravo, also one of my favorite television channels. Last season, there was quite the organizational conflict during episode 8 about how Jeff Lewis, and his business partner, Ryan Brown, were conducting business. Now to get the jist of things, Jeff is very obsessive compulsive and has an extreme talent for flipping houses. In the past he and Ryan were in a serious relationship together and during which they started a business together which they bought houses, fixed them up, and then sold them for profit. They broke up but remained close friends and "flexible" business partners, meaning they made refferals and still worked on particular projects together. As of late, Jeff was suspicious of Ryan deceiving business leads to believe that he was using his famous name, "Jeff Lewis", exclusively made famous from the television series, to essentially build his business . Jeff accused him of leading clients to believe he was apart of the business deal and was helping to design their property. Furthermore, Jeff found out that Ryan was paying money to Google so when people "googled" Jeff Lewis's name, Brown Design would come up first and lead them to Ryan's design website. All-in-all quite the technological breakdown in a new era by means of doing business. Reality television, blogging, entertainment magazines have brought about this entirely different segment of prosperty and lucrative means of a social study. The video expalins more properly the situation itself, but what other questions might this bring to the table for business? What do people think about Twitter pages and could they be the demise of any business by one miss-tweet? Or are these television series, google alerts and strategic technogogical forces a beast to their business sucess or more of a burden to carry on their shoulders that has the potential to bury their business productivity? Thoughts?...