Online Reputation Management for Individuals

March 6, 2008 by Jonathan 

Online Reputation Management for Individuals: “”

(Via Online Marketing Blog.)

I’m a big proponent of online and , it’s one of those topics that you can talk on and on about, but not really accomplish much. If you’re new to the and online personality management arena, check out the post that I’m linking to up at the top of this post.

It covers a lot of the basic issues as to why you need to manage your online persona, and how to do it using free or mostly-free tools. It doesn’t take much, but doing just a little bit of in house ‘public relations’ on yourself is a good thing.

Surveys are now saying that over 65% of HR personnel and recruiters use the to search and find information about potential hire, and yes I’m talking about searching and for you to see what you’re like.

I participate in a lot of and other online sites where personal information about me is public, and much of that is planned and choreographed by me.

That’s not to say it isn’t true, but that it is certainly meant to put me in the best possible light.

One thing that I did recently not directly related to my own personal brand was to go ahead and register the .com versions of my siblings names. They aren’t using them now, but I’d hate for them not to have the chance to take advantage in the when someone else grabs their NAME.com. Just something to think about!

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  2. The Basics of Managing Your Online Identity
  3. Lessons In Social Media
  4. Learn To ‘Social Media’
  5. Google Alerts for Personal Branding Management

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One Response to “Online Reputation Management for Individuals”

  1. Jason Whitmen on March 6th, 2008 10:00 am

    I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

    Jason Whitmen

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