If you are discovered and your identity revealed, you risk an embarrassing response from those who believe that your company is having employees post positive comments on blogs, says Mr. Bernoff of Forrester.
There's no denying that the group is a hardworking bunch that is more flexible than unwieldy organizations like the Red Cross, which has taken in $170 million since the storm but has come up with a somewhat embarrassing response, consisting of blankets, week-old hot dogs, and disgruntled volunteers. .
But last night both candidates, rather than offering the bungled and embarrassing responses they had at Netroots -- when O'Malley actually said "all lives matter" -- spoke in detail on the issue of police brutality against African-Americans, having done their homework.
It's a matter of affective scale — of a filmmaker's willingness (and ability) to go for the huge, embarrassing emotional responses, the sort viewers experience when they're scared out of their wits, moved to tears, charged up by the heroism of combat or even struck with awe at the beauty and terror of the natural world.
Washington's tepid response is embarrassing.
"In the end, the youngsters don't have to answer anything they feel is embarrassing, even though their responses to questions about drugs and sex are completely anonymous," added Kate Sherlock, a senior administrator for the project.
Assad and his supporters would remain fanatical despots and be embarrassed by the response of America and hopefully other Western nations.
The Police Department, as part of its response to an embarrassing ticket-fixing scandal in which as many as 40 officers may face criminal charges, is focusing on traffic courts.
The price range set by Deutsche Post surprised analysts, because its chances of getting close to that figure appeared to have dwindled in recent weeks after unfavorable investor response and the embarrassing disclosure of an internal document.
When Chen Wei and Zhai Yao were abruptly fired last year from jobs at a hip, glossy magazine, they could have quietly packed their desks and left -- it would have been the traditional Chinese response to an embarrassing situation.
The small number of conservatives who find him distasteful have largely been muted by their own lust for power; much of the liberal response has been embarrassing, consisting of etiolated horror at his uncouthness, sniggering at his spelling errors and an obstinate refusal to consider they might have done anything wrong in the campaign.
