A quick note on three tools that some of you already know about for managing your e-dentity, i.e. having better control over the information that comes to the top of the list when someone searches for your name on the Internet.
– claimid lets you create and organise the articles you write into bookmarks, which you can then tag and organise as you see fit. You can also add articles where people are talking about you. Not bad, but there’s room for improvement… For example, I’d like it to be able to automatically bookmark the articles I publish on my blog, so that I only have to use the manual mode for collaborative blogs where I write occasionally. (example: my claimid)
– ziki lets you aggregate rss feeds from all the places where you publish, whether articles, photos or bookmarks. It’s a shame, as with claimid, that you can’t manually add an article you’ve published on a multi-author blog. You can also search ziki for people using the same keywords as you, for example.
Another point to note is that ziki has started to buy sponsored links with the names of its members: you type your name into Google and an ad referring to your ziki appears at the top of the list. Very practical. You might think you’d get the same result running a blog under your own name, but in spirit it’s a good idea (obviously if it bothers you, you can ask them to suspend this service on a case-by-case basis). Example: my ziki.
– Naymz (which I’ve just discovered) is a bit like ziki except that you feed it links to sources (blogs, boomarks del.icio.us) or profiles (linkedin, openbc…). It displays these links but not the content. However, it doesn’t just work with Google and optimises your presence in other search engines. Example: my naymz profile.
Handy networking tools, aren’t they?
Usefull social networking tools…
