Comments on: Software Tools for Managing Your Online Reputation

By: Pierre Far

Pierre Far — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:29:32 +0000

It’s important to realize that you should set up alerts/monitors for your brands/keywords and also for your domain names. A Google Alert for your domain name will pick up new links in real time and so you can be one of the first to respond if something requires your attention.

Another thing, set up an alert for your username(s) of the accounts you have on forums, twitter, etc. You’ll be surprised what you pick up with those!

Pierre

By: Stefan Deak

Stefan Deak — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:00:21 +0000

Although the concept of online reputation might not be entirely new I haven’t been able to find much about it.

I would anticipate that it will be an increasingly more important part digital self-management as a whole in a near future.

Also it is going to be very interesting to see how a younger generation used to be rather outgoing online will perceive online reputation and what actions the will take to preserve, build or destroy it.

The first thing that came to my mind was Naymez, but that doesn’t seem to involve much of management. I suppose you could use Rollyo as well.

I found this link at Mashable http://mashable.com/2007/09/10/online-identity/, never tried the services though.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:36:09 +0000

We monitor several places for client reputation, I put them all into a bunch here
http://linkbun.ch/jyy – it came from the Chinwag mailing list

By: Wagner Fontoura

Wagner Fontoura — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:14:49 +0000

In Brazil we have http://www.blogblogs.com.br for this monitoring in blogs.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:05:26 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. In addition I can recommend keotag.com for niche searches using one RSS as well as a search RSS from Summize. Add to that Google / Yahoo alerts and blog aggregator alerts and you should be pretty well covered.

By: Dean Hunt

Dean Hunt — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:03:09 +0000

It is pretty easy to set this up without this tool, but it is pretty useful.

One thing you can do is create an “about-me” or “media” page, and link to all the mentions of yourself that you like.

That will boost their search engine rankings, and thus drop down any negative or incorrect mentions.

There is also a tool to monitor forums, but it is a paid tool.

Give me a shout if you want the URL, I will dig it out.

Dean Hunt

PS: If you look at the tutorial Rich provides on the site, you will see from the screenshots that DeanHunt.com is in HIS feed list. (Blush)

By: Andreas Gohr

Andreas Gohr — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:57:56 +0000

Well, there’s http://www.egosurf.org/ – probably not quite what you had in mind, but it’s fun to compete for scores

BTW. My score is 8697 currently.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:57:55 +0000

Hi Chris,

Our reputation monitor (http://reputation.distilled.co.uk) does a very similar thing only it aggregates the feeds into one RSS feed and lets you filter by relevance, add negative keyphrases etc. There’s a 1 month free trial

By: Joel Falconer

Joel Falconer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:53:53 +0000

My system is far from comprehensive, but I have a Summize RSS feed looking for @jfalconer, a few FriendFeed feeds that target my name and my stuff, and a regular Google Alerts service that isn’t only handy for finding my name online: it’s good for finding those content scrapers too!