Vendor management and personal data

Doc wrote about Vendor Management Systems to counter Customer Management Sytems.

One technique I picked up from Stuart is to register a domain (preferably your own name), and forward any email to it to your inbox. Then, when you need to give a vendor an email address, give them their name at yours, eg godaddy@kevinmarks.com. That way, if the subsequently get spam, or unexpected mail, you know who it was. This can confuse people on the phone though - "what's your email?" "earthlink@kevinmarks.com" "Don't you mean kevinmarks@earthlink.com ?" "Nope".

Dave wants a way to keep his movie reviews where he controls his own data. We have a way to do this with hReview - post the reviews on your blog, then get the vendors to read them. The smarter review sites, like Yahoo Tech are already doing this.

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