Head in the Sand?

Sure you have been hearing a lot about Facebook, myspace, linkedin, ZoomInfo and many others and you have probably gotten at least one invitation to either join or verify your informatiion on these sites. While it is very easy to stick your head in the sand and ignore these websites, you would be smart to at least establish a basic presence online. What is your online life? Do you have one? One reason you want to get out there sooner rather than later is because it is highly unlikely that you are the only person in this world with your exact name. If you get out there and add youreslf to these sites, including at least a basic current profile, it will be more difficult for others to confuse you with a similarly named person. If you have the same name of someone who has received a lot of bad press, and someone searches on that name, how are they going to know that you are the professional and not that axe-murderer? By adding yourself to the sites and keeping your profile current, you are helping to make sure that the real listing for the real you comes up in the search results.

A few places to stake your claim include:
www.LinkedIn.com
www.spoke.com
www.claimid.com
www.zoominfo.com
www.myspace.com
www.facebook.com
www.multiply.com

Just a suggestion - but you might want to type up the basic profile info in Word and then cut and paste it into the different websites. It will save you some finger strain! Go ahead - Get Out There!