You can establish and monitor your real name’s Google presence, but you won’t get complete control, especially when others with your name try the same tactic. Using a pseudonym/alias/author’s name in conjunction with pages you control can be much more effective. More »
If you’re not actively building your identity and establishing a presence online, you’re letting search engines cobble together information, good or bad, and write your public story. You need to establish and maintain a healthy online identity. More »
Recently, a lot of folks have noticed their Twitter pages superseding their blogs in Google search results for their name. Tech journalist Marshall Kirkpatrick has an easy HTML workaround to keep Twitter from becoming your primary online identity. More »
These days performing a vanity search of your own name isn’t just about vanity, it’s good to know how future employers and dates that Google-stalk you will see you. WebMii can help you get a picture of your online image. More »
We’ve always emphasised the importance of monitoring your online presence, and now Google’s jumping in with their own tips for managing your reputation through search results. More »
These days, if you want to know more about someone, the first thing most of us do is Google them. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that monitoring your online reputation is extraordinarily important. More »
With three real-world but anonymous examples of people who wanted identifiable and possibly perceived as negative information about themselves removed from web sites, ComputerWorld consulted experts but came up largely emptyhanded. In only one of the cases were the efforts successful, and the steps involved were complicated and time consuming. In the case of a journalist who shared a name with a reviewer on film review site Rotten Tomatoes who didn’t want their name associated with the word “Rotten,” more online activity and not less was recommended: Apparently, the journalist’s best course of action would be to do what reputation mavens recommended in the first place: Create enough positive, search-engine-friendly content to push the “rotten + journalist’s name” search result to Google’s second page of results.
Check out our guide to using web tools to manage your online reputation. Have you ever tried to chase down a negative personal reference online, and how did it work out? Photo by Joe Goldberg Deleting your digital past — for good [Computerworld]
Marketing expert Seth Godin says job hunters who are “remarkable, amazing, and spectacular” probably shouldn’t have a resume. Bold statement! Godin writes: Having a resume begs for you to go into that big machine that looks for relevant keywords, and begs for you to get a job as a cog in a giant machine. Just more fodder for the corporate behemoth. That might be fine for average folks looking for an average job, but is that what you deserve?
