Managing Your Online Reputation

Every day we live more and more of our life out online. We communicate with our friends on facebook, we post pictures to our profiles while tweeting, yelping, blogging and more. All of your casual online activities leave a string of information and content spread across the web! the question is what will people find when they "google" your name?

Online your reputation is constantly at risk as both friends and foes can easily create and publish content, images, reviews and post that will eventually turn up in most general searches of "your name"

Properly management of your online reputation has become a vital activity to help you ensure a stress free happy life while maintaining job security or find a new job.

A recent study by Microsoft showed that 80% of all job recruiters checked out applicants online profiles and 70% of those recruiters eliminated job candidates as a result of the information they found.

So keep a close eye on your reputation and dont be afraid to "google" you self from time to time. If you dont like what you find here are some services that offer reputation management services

Reputation Management Services:

Reputation Defender (top in industry) Launched in 2006 this subscription based services scans the internet and generates monthly reports sowing every reference to you on the web. Their MyChild application also notifies the user when their children's names are used on the internet as well. They have an assortment of other services that help push preferred content to the top of search engines while deleting deleting harmful personal information.

Naymz (best free service)With over 1.8 million users this service has the largest community. The profile you create on Naymz is very similar to a linkedin or facebook profile with some added features to help you present your name and information properly.

GoGostat (best for the parent) This online application helps parents monitor their children's facebook by alerting parents when their children make inappropriate changes to their facebook page. This service has both a free and paid version that monitors photos, profile posts and friend ads to ensure your children are safe online

Brand-Yourself (best for the job seeker) This simple service allows you to create a personal web page and online profile that they optimize to show up high on Google searches. This service allows you to present your self the way you want to be seen.